The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-07
DAY Of VICTORY
FOR N. 7. Will
$500 Cheer For Rank
and File Committee

Continued from PAGE One)
ing that they controlled "only Is
to 20 per cent of the field" As a
matter Of fact, they control perhaps
s per cent, but they never were so
modest before; they are laying the
basis for the end of the farce. They
don't like the contract.
Even the 200 or ESQ organized
contractors (there are $500 in the
fielA) are anxious to bring the fake
strike to an end. for fear that If
they kcnn on locking out the work
ers, to force a company union on
than with Schlesinger at its head,
other contractors may get the trade.
The locked out workers were in
d:gnant at the bosses a2d the ILGW,
unwilling to fight for either. In
ma1v locked out and open shops.
workers crowded into the offices Of
the N.T.WLU., at 1871 West 2Sth
St., which was beehive Of activity,
a swarmine throng Of workers all
day, to hold shop meetings, send
committees to their bosses, and in.
form that they now had real union
to deal with. Many bosses settled
Immediately, on union conditions.
The right wing gangsters did not
picket They invaded the shops they
haI lost, or those the Industrial
Union has gained during the last
several weeks of its organization
drive, and they came out faster than
they went in. The workers rose
against the thugs in mass, threw
everything at them, fists flew, wom-
en- foueht hardest of ALL and it was
reported at the meeting that even
1T night, the right wing gangsters
in Arlington Hall were still bandag-
ing themselves. and licking their
wounds.
Fight Against Hunger.
Several battles with the right
wing thugs took place when the
N.T.W.I U. committee met the gang
sters. These fights, the police in
terrupted. arresting some Of the In
dust-ial Unionists. These struggles
it was that the capitalist press rep.
resented as "Reds fighting pickets."
But there were no pickets.
The N.T.W.I.U. is fighting for
rank and file control, a real strike.
shop settlements, with union condi-
tons. The workers locked out and
otherwise. know the Industrial Union
is fighting against unemployment
which must settle over the industry
if the LL.G.W. company union and
speed up program goes through.
Cheering wildly the reports OF
every gain in the days struggle,
$500 rank and file dressmaEers
filled Cooper Union to capacity last
night, and held overflow meetings
in the lobbies.
BESIDES rank and file dressn.ak-
ers who described the manner in
which they drove the right-wing
aarrtters from their shops, the
frerkers 81 the mass meeting were
IIyinr Potash, orEar.zstional direc-
tor II the Industrial vnion, I'm
r,crr III. Borochoyieh, Tom Di Fazio,
Tor the Italian dress,nnkers.
Jchn schmiess, Of the Trade Union
Un,sy Teague, and Hen Cold, who
was arrested in Boston several days
arc for "profanity" in urging I'M
egu'syed 1oston workers TO organ
i-e ur cr the TU.U.L.
Iia zeynote Of each speaker was
he elimination Of the militant
=, = sre2as workers not TO permit
h. II CIV to send the locked out
~. Ds ac,; under a betrayal
:. "T m the fake strike
81. led BY the Indus
r. vas the militant So
e.h I'd throughout the hall.
~ . effort will be made by tae
fas,.et. I'll Union 70 see that the
loo ID out workers do not go back
IKE sheep when The bosses, the
LLc.W. takers and Governor
Roosevelt arrive ~ their treaeher-
Gus settlement, which is planned to
18TH decentralization Of the dress
- said Potash.
g, on behalf Of the T.U. U
cd the determination
thc dressmahers not only
tie gangsters from the
an'zed BY the Industrial
!. b1t also from the dress mar
a resolution adopted unanimously