The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-09
NEEDLE WORKERS
PLAN TO B u IL D
AND TO BATTLE.
General Dress Strike
in New York Soon

tional Ladies' Garment Workers,
and proposed:
"That we carry on immediate
struggles with the aim of prepar-
ing the workers ideologicalIy and
organizationally and to organize
for strike in the dress trade in .
New York at the most immmedi-
ate opportune moment for the
establishment of union conditions
in the industry as whole and to
bring all workers in the dress
trade into the N. T. w. I. u"
This was adopted with great en-
thusiasm by the general convention
when presented Sunday by Weis-
berg, reporter of the drive confer
ence.
Other trade conferences were held
in intermissions Of the convention
Saturday. They reported Sunday,
through Hertz for mems clothing;
Jack Schneider for fur workers,
Boruchowitz for cloakmakers, Sylvia
Blocker for headgear and Caroline
Drew for white goods.
All these trade reports outlined
general tactics to be used in organ
izing their particular fields, all con-
demned the Lovestone proposals and
all admitted that not enough work
had been done so far.
Seat Jobless Leaders.
Resolutions were adopted seating
William z. Foster. Robert Minor,
Israel Amter and Harry Raymond,
the delegates of the 10000 unem-
ployment demonstrators in New
York March 6, and now serving 3
years for that, as fraternal delegates
to the convention.
Greetings and resolutions demand
ing their release were sent to these
four, as well as to all needle trades
workers in prison and other class
war -~;-"ners. Resolutions were
adopted greeting and pledging com
plete support to the Chinese Soviet
Congress and to the Indian masses
fighting British imperialism. In the
latter resolution, the N. T. w. 7. U.
calls on the Indian workers to repu-
diate the false leadership of Gandhi;
needle workers have had in the past
lot of experience with false lead
ers.
Applause For Communist Party.
When Alexander Trachtenberg Of
the Central Committee of the Com
munist Party appeared to extend
its greeting and support, and ad-
wise to fight harder against right
wing tendencies, to the N. 7. w. L.
u, the entire delegation, with the
exception of the few Lovestoneites,
rose spontaneously and sang the
"Internationale." The convention
endorsed the Communist Party cleo
ton campaign.
Greetings came from the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, through Sam
Darcy, and from the Workers Inter
national Relief, through Marcel
Scheerer; both met with hearty ap-
plause.
Many kilograms of greetings from
unions, workers fraternal bodies,
ETC., were received and read. A cable
was read from the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union of the
U. S. S. R., urging the American
needle workers to adopt correct poll
cies against the reaction and ex-
pressing confidence and solidarity
With them.
Convention Organized.
The convention was organized
with Louis Hyman permanent chair
man and for vice-chairmen, Hope, a
Negro worker, and Croft. Hope was
frequently called to the chair for
long periods during the deliberations
of the convention.
Free Discussion.
The discussion was full, free and
untrammeled, except by necessary
time limits of seven or ten minutes,
due to the great size Of the assem-
bly, and the desire of many to take
part in it. The discussion was
fnarred to some extent by the eager
ness of many delegates to spend
their time to take a smash at the
Lovestone clique, whose small num-
bers aud outrageous program did
not deserve the attention they got.
But if discussion of the program
suffered from this, the Lovestone
clique surely did get a trimming
they are not likely to forget!
A big convention committee, in
Guiding the whole G. E. B. and 9TH
ers from the floor, was in charge of
the order of business and made
nominations for other committees, to
which additions were freely permit
ted from the floor. Large commit
tees. such as resolutions, 81 men,
bers;. constitution, 81 members; fl
nance, 9 members, were elected.
Great Activity.
The convention proceedings were
unusually orderly and businesslike
for such large gathering. But in
addition they were completely dem
ocratic and simply boiling with en-
thusiasm and activity.
Full Report.
The G. E. B. report and the pro-
gram adopted at the convention give
thorough analysis of the situation
in the needle trades and review both