The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
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TIE pOgrOm pouches OF LarlISKy
and his henchmen, and devising
new methods for maintaining in
power the reactionary Zaritsky
machine.
The conditions of workers arc
being steadily undermined by the
competition of the open shops, III
which tens of thousands of I'M
organized workers are working
under miserable conditions. The
demands Of the workers for a cam
paign to organize the open shoE
centers, a campaign against the
speed-up system, unemployment,
ETC., were completely ignored. Dur
ing the entire period of the two
years since Zaritsky has taken
over the reins of the administra-
ton of the 1927 convention, our
union has been steadily going
downward.
Zaritsky's Administration - An
Orgy of Destructiveness.
They expelled Local 43 with
membership of close to 1000. They
employed scabs, guerillas, and the
police to break the strikes of Lo-
cal 43 and united with the bosses
to destroy the local. They pro-
voked a lockout against the Chi
cage Cap Makers to force piece
work in the trade, expelled the
Chicago Strike Committee and
gave up the general strike few
weeks before the season, thereby
reducing Chicago to an open shop
center. Later they expelled 200
members which reduced the local
to the insignificant number of IS.
They expelled the Millinery Local
of Women Workers of Chicago,
and made the field free for open
shoppers of that city. They made
all efforts to force piece work and
the forty-hour week on the New
York Cap Makers, which was frus-
trated only thru the efforts of the
left wing. They presented tens of
thousands of dollars from the I'M
employment insurance fund to the
bosses, and are now secretly plan
ming to do away with the I'M
employment insurance fund. They
broke up the fighting Local 7 of
Boston, organized a company To-
cal instead and took out an in
junction against the old local, and
withdrew the charter of the Mill
merry Workers of Boston which had
laid the basis for the organiza-
ton of the unorganized Millinery
Workers. They expelled Sails
berg, Miller, Weissman, Feingold
and Anna David and many other
loyal fighters for the workers.
They fought against the Toronto
workers because thew insisted on
enforcing the terms of the agree
ment and made the grounds fertile
for small contracting shops in
New York and elsewhere to spring
up like mushrooms over night.
Zaritsky's administration made
it possible for unemployment to
become rampant and has done
nothing to alleviate the suffering
of the unemployed. Reorganiza-
tions in the shops had become
daily occurrences. They established
reign of terror and discrimina-
ton especially in locals "a and /,
took away from the membership
the control of the union, which be-
came the property of small
clique, and supported the Sigman-
Schlesinger company union with
thousands of dollars from the hard
earned pennies of the workers.
The convention by giving its
official sanction to this destructive
work has demonstrated clearly to
the great mass of workers of our
trade that they can expect nothing
from this clique of union bureau
Gratis who are dominating our
union.
The responsible ID e e G ties
chosen by the rank and file of the
various locals, who were elected
from the convention by police,
delegates from unorganized cap
and millinery centers, and minority
representatives of right wing To-
Gals therefore met in conference
with the determination that the
Hat, Cap and Millinery workers
must be organized and must have
a union to defend their interests;
that the workers of our trade
must curb the greed of the bosses
and thru militant struggle i'm
prove their conditions in the shops
and organize the tens Of thousands
of unorganized exploited workers
in our trade.
The conference adopted a plan