The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-12
NEEDLE WORKERS
BUILDING UNION
Cut Initiation, Dues,
Announce Quotas

(Continaed from Pare Oue)
where a report of the development
Of the campaign, the number of new
members taken in during the past
week. and the convention problems
of the union will be discussed.
Workers of open shops and company
union shops are urged to organize
shop committees and elect their
delegates to the Council.
The Needle Trades Workers r.
dustrial Union has issued the fol
lowing statement on the opening of
its organization drive.
"Your Needle Trades Workers In.
dustrial Union, the only revolution
airy union in the needle trades, which
remains true to the fundamental
principles of the working class and
carries on an untiring and stubborn
struggle against the bosses and their
socialist and A. F. of L. fascist
company unions, against the brutal
exploitation prevalent in all needle
trades, against unemployment, dire
need and starvation-the Industrial
Union fights for better conditions
for the needle trade workers, has
begun a national campaign for TO-
600 new members who must be en-
rolled in the union by the time the
convention opens on June in New
York City.
an order to make it possible for
all needle trade workers to ioin the
Industrial Union, the initiation fee
has been greatly reduced. Employed
workers can join the union for 1925
and unemployed workers for $1.35.
viii Give Power.
with the support of the addi-
ticn2l ten thousand union members.
your Industrial Union will become
a powerful mass organization which
Will possess enough strength to un-
dertake and develop militant strug-
oles throughout the country against
the inhuman sDeed-up system, piece
work, contracting, wage cuts, UNI
employment, company-unionism. ter
ror of the bosses and their capitalist
state and against all other miserable
conditions from which the needle
trade workers suffer.
with the support of the addi-
tional ten thousand union members
your Industrial Union will be in
position to compel the bosses to re-
establish the 40-hour week Give
days work, two days rest, to in
crease the wages and to develop a
mass movement and initiate mass
struggles throughout the country
Jobs or wages for the unemployed
other union conditions and strict
union control.
with the support Of the add
tional 10000 union members your
industrial union will become a for.
tress for all needle trade workers
throughout the country who are be.
ing ruthlessly exploited, terrorized
and starved by the bosses and their
socialist and A. F. of L. fascist
company unions.
Unemployed needle trades work
ers, and those needle trade workers
who are employed, in the company
union controlled shops and open
shops, of the cloak trade, dress, fur,
cap and millinery, mems clothing,
shirts, underwear, overalls and all
other needle trades are urged to join
the Industrial Union at once.
Join the Industrial Union in thou
sandsl Build, strengthen and mol1
your union into a powerful mass
organization and a powerful fight
ing weapon to defend the interests
of oil needle trade workers. Let
the slogan of all needle trade work
ers be:
"Join the union and become an
active member of your Industrial
Union. Don't postpone it -. Do It
today"
Elect your shop committees which
are to join the Shop Delegates
Council, the rank and file leader of
the Industrial Union.
Nominate rank and file delegate;
to the Red International of Labor
Unions Congress which will be held
in July in he Soviet Union.
Elect rank and file shop delegates
to the historic convention Of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. which will be held June 6, 7
and 8 in New York City.