The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21
NEEDLE WORKERS
HUGE MEETING
PLEDGES ACTION
Demand 40 HourWe eek;
Smash Out Gorillas

tCOHLlHU6G ITOHt I Hye OIIGJ
the needle trades workers are fight
ing militantly under the leadership
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union. In New York thou
sands Of dressmakers are rallying
to the union and fighting through
shop strikes to unionize the dress
trade. In Boston the mass of the
cloakmakers have responded to the
strike call of the Industrial Union
and are fighting a brave fight for
the 40-hour week and union condi-
lions. In San Francisco the needle
workers are rallying to the Indus
trial Union to fight against the at
tempt of the A. F. of L. and the
Chamber of Commerce to smash the
Industrial Union.
"The fake cloak strike and fake
settlement with the company union
introduced vicious speed-up and
slavery in the cloak shops. Thou
sands Of cloakmakers are unem-
ployed at the height of the season,
while those, who are employed are
forced to toll many hours overtime
ct starvation rates. The wave of
unrest among the betrayed cloak
makers is rising.
Kaufman and Underworld.
The furriers are almost all I'M
employed with little hope of find
ing employment in the near future.
The cynical solution offered to the
starving furriers is the bringing
back of the infamous Kaufman
underworld machine by the A. r. of
L. and the fur bosses. The hope
of the furriers is in a general strug-
gle together with the. entire army
Of unemployed workers, under the
leadership Of the Trade Union Unity
League.
"The mems clothing workers, the
cap and millinery workers, are
forced to work under the most mis-
cradle conditions; speed-up, reduc-
ton Of wages, reorganizations. long
hours AMI unemployment is the lot
Of these workers under the mislead-
ership of the fake progressive
Musteites, the Hillman's and Ear
itsky's.
Criminal Conspiracy.
Every dressmaker now clearly
understands that a criminal con-
spiracy and sell-out were hidden be-
hind the fake strike-lockout ar
ranged by the enemies of the needle
trades workers. Every dressmaker
now understands that the fake
strike-lockout was vicious deal be-
tween the bosses, the state author
tiles and the company union, aiming
to extort money from the workers
to fill the Golfers of the company
union and to break the fighting
split of the dressmakers.
1.-THE criminal farce is over. Hill
quit and Schlesinger. the social
fascist betrayers of the workers,
Lieutenant Governor Lehman, the
banker and servant Of the bosses,
concluded the fake strike settle
ment.
what did the workers find in the
shops? Instead of the promised in
cretses in wages, they are forced to
toll for the same starvation wages
and even worse than those that pre-
vailed before the fake strike. The
promised forty hour week became a
sham and mockery and instead
the dressmakers are forced to work
forty-eight hours and in many cases
even more. Instead of the prom
ised unemployment insurance fund,
many of the locked out dressmak-
ers are walking the streets together
with the many thousands of other
needle trades unemployed workers.
Instead of the promised union shop,
the returned dressmakers again
meet with the same slave-driving
greedy contractor, the same mock
cry, the same speed-up, the same
sweat-shop.
WHdt FlCtOIy.
"This is the great victory an
nounced by the yellow trumpets of
the reactionary Forward and by
the lying capitalist newspapers.
Down with such a victory!
1.-THE company union is now seek
ing to force its betrayal down the
threats Of the dressmakers by
means Of reign Of terror. The
underworld of New York, paid and
directed by the company union,
seeks to intimidate and club the
dressmakers into submission.
But the time has passed when
the mass of dissatisfied dressmak-
ers could be dubbed into submission
by sanssterism.
"The capitalist police and courts
are modified to defend and protect
ganssterism. The police give free
dom and protection to the gang
sters while workers are being
dubbed and arrested. The boss
controlled judges are freeing gang
STEERS and falling workers. The city
and state governmental officials
are partners to the conspiracy
against the dressmakers; they are
partners to the betrayal and sell-out
Of the dressmakers. Down with the
police and court protection Of gang