The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-18
WEINST0NE HITS
TAMMAN YRUL.ERS
Exposes Roosevelt and
Walker in Fakery
Continued from Page One)

York City. These chiefs of Tam
many Hall are the direct agents of
the big bankers that have taken
control of this industry and are car
rying through a ruthless policy Of
speed-up, low wages, long hours,
etc, and that are driving thousands
of workers in the trade into a con-
dition of permanent unemployment
Under the guise and bluff of
wiping cut sweatshop conditions,
these capitalist politicians are en-
trenching the power of the banks
and big industrial manufacturers in
the industry and are seeking to
strengthen the control of the bosses
union over the workers in order that
the workers may docilely accept
these new conditions of bitter ex-
ploitation and oppression,
''The employers know that Schles-
niger and Dubinsky are only miser-
able vassals of the manufacturers,
that they are the instruments for
carrying through the piece-work
system and the whole process of
squeezing out the last drop of blood
from the workers in order to in
crease the profits of the manufac-
turers.
"The policeman's club and the
whole authority of the capitalist
state machinery is being put behind
the manufacturers. The forces of
reaction are being united to prevent
the resistance of the workers, The
workers understand that ,nly
through struggle, only by organl1a-
ton Of the unorganized workers,
which can be accomplished through
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union. can these new chains Of
slavery be broken.
"The strike conducted by the
Schlesinger company union was a
fake from beginning to end. 1t was
not intended to improve the condi-
tons of the cloakmakers, and the
three-year agreement, which has
been signed with such jubilation by
the capitalist class, by the employ
ers, is a proof of the fact that this
strike was only a further step to-
ward tying the workers, hand and
foot, to the bosses plans for in
creased production at the expense
of the workers. The united front
of the bosses, Of the state and the
labor bureaucrats, shows the need
for establishing the unity of the
great masses of needle trades work.
ers in a powerful industrial union,
which can be accomplished only by
following the leadership of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. This united front, represent
ing the concentrated power of big
capital and the banks, can be broken
and the workers organized only on
the basis of the industry as whole
and not according to the old forms
of craft union organization. Only
an industrial union, uniting the
workers in the shops on the basis Of
shop committees can overcome these
forces that are conducting a war of
destruction against the cloakmak-
ers' slavery.
"The pretenses of these Tammany
Hall officials that they are inter-
csted in the welfare of the needle
trades workers is hollow mock
cry. Governor Roosevelt is follow
ing the footsteps of Governor Smiths
Commission that is responsible for
rutting over reorganization and for
beginning the bloody war of de-
struction of the cloakmakers' union.
"The needle trades workers must
take up the struggle against their
enemies on the political and econ
cmic field by conducting, and by
joining with the Communist Party,
in a broad election campaign to
fight against the capitalist politi-
clans, against Temmany Hall, the
republican party and socialist party,
by organizing the needle trades
workers to expose these capitalist
strikcbreaking and company-union
politicians. Only in this way cen
the needle trades workers establish
Union conditions, organize the I'M
organized, overcome the terrible
speed-up and fight against the in
creasing unemployment and general
misery of the workers in the indus
try"