The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-17
BOSS TELL OF
Evils Will { He.
ASKS FOR WORSE
Gitlow Repudiated at
His Own Meeting

NEW YORK.-One D.., section of
the organized needle trades bosses
has filed with the governors chair
man, Ingersoll, a complaint that adj
mits great deal of what the work
ers themselves and their union, the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union have been saying all along.
Samuel Klein, executive director
of the Industrial Council of Cloak,
Suit and Shirt Manufacturers, Inc,
states that his outfit signed with
the Schlesinger company union, the
International Ladies Garment
Workers, under the impression thai
Schlesinger would bring all the
shops under his control. What's a
company union good for, if it
doesn't fool the workers? And Mr..
Klein complains that As per cent
of the coat and suit trade was either
non-union or had no union, even
company union, conditions. Klein
didn't concern himself with large
numbers of shops that are controlled
by the N.T.WI.U., he was concerned
with a failure on the part of his
agent, Schlesinger, to carry out his
contract. Agents have failed in
their contracts before, and Klein
knows what to do.
He warns Schlesinger, through
the impartial chairman" that the
supposedly powerful structure of
unionism Che means company union
ism-IL.G.W. brandt is merely a
house of cards, in imminent danger
of complete collapse"
Let's Cat Out of Bag.
Without realizing how he is back
ing up the charges Of the Industrial
Union, he points out that he knows
Of ~ non-union shops, where long
hours, piece work, and unwholesome
conditions prevail He tells of
many hidden shops, ostensibly in
dependent, but really underwritten
by big manufacturers, where the en-
tire force can be fired at a moments
notice, simply by Diminishing the
contractor. He tells of favorable
conditions to the employers, granted
the dressmakers by Schlesinger, af-
ter signing the agreement with the
cloakmakers, and Of competition
developing there.
Industrial Union Speaks.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union yesterday stated:
"The facts revealed by Klein
have been known to US and the
workers in the shops for a long
time. The company union can not
organize the workers, and does not
even want to abolish the horrible
conditions. But we wish to warn
the workers to beware of Klein's
motives. What he is doing is to
demand still worse conditions from
the I.L.G.W. He will get them. The
company union will easily grant
them.
"The industrial union is the shield
of the workers. 1t is holding
great mass meeting, Wednesday
night, at $50 in Cooper Union,
where the whole situation will be
explained to the workers and their
forces prepared for great growth
of the N.T.WLU.
Today the industrial union calls
all unemployed needle workers to
attend a meeting at 131 West 28th
St., the union office, at p. m.
District meetings will take place
tonight as follows. Thirty-third st.
to 18th st. west of Broadway to
Seventh Ave-; 10th St. to 18th st.
east of Broadway; and 18th st.
South. This last meeting will be
held in Manhattan Lyceum. The
other two are to take place in 131
West 18th st.
Reject Gitlow.
Yesterday morning there was a
very successful mems clothing work
ers meeting. The Lovestone meet
ing, also for mems clothing work
ers, brought out about $50 of them,
and the Lovestoneites felt elated.
They let two or three of the mill
tants speak, intending to give Git
low the floor at the end, with no
comeback to his attack on them.
But when Gitlow was introduced,
the workers howled him down. They
refused to listen, and he had to
leave the hall at his own meeting,
without a chance to SANDER the in
dustrial union, which the great ma
jority of the workers were support
ing.