The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-06

es Workers Industrial Union be-
gins a three day session.
A year and a half ago, the
veterans of years of the most
heroic struggle against attacks
by the bosses and by the state
and city governments, against
+ betrayal by as corrupt a gang of
A. F. L. labor bureaucrats as ever
existed, a struggle that was fought
with the most heroic determination
and vigor, eliminated in the for
nation of a new industrial union
covering the whole needle trades
field.
There followed months of organ
ization and reorganization, of weed
ing out of trade union practices
and right wing cliques which had
no place in a fighting union, months
of shop struggles and consolidation
of forces, months during which the
bosses agents led unions" that
| had become company unions, and
with the aid of the bosses and the
police, entrapped some of the nee
die trades masses into slave con-
tracts, with worse pay and horribly
worse conditions. Only the indus
trial union gave hope to the work.
ers, and throughout the whole per-
iod was their constant bulwark
against torrent of exploitation.
On the Eve of Great Events.
Now, with the field open for the
greatest organization campaign in
their history, the second national
convention of needle workers, the
first under the new shop delegate
system of organization, opens with
every branch of the trade repre-
scented, with a huge delegation
right from the shops, with the I'M
employed represented, and they will
proceed to make history. 1t is a
very different thing from the fake
conventions recently held by Schles-
niger and Hillman.
Bringing the Masses In.
In fact, it has already begun.
Yesterday when Ben Gold, general
manager of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, started
to address an open air meeting in
the fur market, on Seventh Ave-,
thousands gathered around to hear
him tell of the new hope for a VIM
ming fight on speed-up, sweat shop
conditions, long hours, and piece
work and slave contracts. The
crowd grew so large and enthusiasts
tic that it blocked traffic in the
whole block, and the police had a
hard time opening a lane for the
cars to move.
Yesterday, also, the unemployed
needle workers of all trades. fur
riers, mems clothing workers, mil
linery workers, cloakmakers and
dressmakers and all others, gath
cred in Bryant Hall, heard the pro-
gram and policies of the industrial
union explained, endorsed them en-
Enthusiastically, and elected IS of
their number as delegates to the
convention.
Turn From Amalgamated.
A good meeting of mems clothing
workers, sick of Hillman's betray-
ais, class collaboration, and all his
schemes to Stabilize" the industry
(schemes which always work out in
the tailor's doing little more work
for little less money, and in one
man doing two mems work. took
place yesterday at the Workers
Center, and also elected delegates
to the N.T.WI.U. convention.
The meeting tonight, to which
every needle worker and other in
terested worker is invited, will hear
Louis Hyman, president of the Mt.
VIII. report on the progress of the
union since the first convention.
tombstone for T.U.U.L.
The national office of the Trade
Union Unity League, to which the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union belongs, will be represented
by Jack tombstone who will report
on the situation of the needle work
ers, as part of the general class
struggle, and make recommended
tions to more completely coordinate
these different fronts of the class
war
Saturday there will be recep-
ton for the out Of town delegates
at New Star Casino.