The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-11
1900 REPULSE
POLICE IN The
CLOAK MARKET
Adopt N.T.W.I.U. Line
of Shop Strikes for
Union Conditions
Demonstration Sat.
Another Fur Shop Out
for July Increase
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK.-There will be an
important meeting of all Commu-
nists in the needle trades at the
Workers Center today at s p. m.
The district secretariat excuses
from all work conflicting in time
with this meeting.
NEW YORK.-A tremendously
enthusiastic meeting of 5000 in the
cloak center yesterday repulsed po-
lice attempts to break it up, and
cheered the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union program to
throw out the International Ladies
Garment Workers company union
business agents from the cloak
shops and start shop struggles
They showed themselves over
whelmingly for a fight to restore
union conditions.
The meeting was called by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. When ]. Levinson, rank
and file cloakmaker, rose to speak
the police rushed the meeting, ar
rested Levinson, and took away
the platform. The crowd instead
of dispensing as ordered by the cops
pressed closer. Workers rushed
from all around to join it. They
raised j. Kolkin, an industrial union
organizer, on their shoulders, and
cheered his speech. Then Weiz-
berg, another industrial union or
ganizer was lifted up. The police
could not break through the chain
of workers around the speakers,
and gave up the attempt to smash
the meeting.
Furriers Strike For Increase.
The fight of the furriers follow
ing the program of the industrial
union for July increases goes on.
The trade paper, Women's Wear,
after boycotting news of the indus
trial union for months, had to
admit yesterday that it is leading
the struggle for July increases.
Gluck & Weingold yesterday de-
clared the shop on strike for a
July increase, over the heads of
the international Fur Workers Of
ficials who nominally Control" the
shop. The industrial union called
on all to support these strikers and
follow their example.
There is fight going on inside
of the fur company union, between
the Kaufman Yellow Forward
Music group and the Stetsky-A. F.
L. group. Stetsky is manager of
the N. Y. joint council. His group
has exposed the plans of Kaufman
for a fake stoppage like those
Schlesinger uses.
Saturday at noon there will be
great demonstration for mems
clothing workers before the Anal
gamated offices, 18th st. and Union
Square. All workers, and all needle
trades workers especially are urged
to be there to fight the worsening
of conditions, the low wages and
unemployment which Hillman has
established in mems clothing. The
demonstration is called by the Nee
die Trades Workers Industrial
Union, which will send speakers,
and it prepares for the great
Cooper Union for mems clothing
workers coming July Is.
Unrest and dislike for Hillman's
policies is apparent in the Anal.
gamated. Two candidates, Lepow
for general secretary-treasurer Of
the N. Y. joint board, and Leder-
mann, for business agent of the
board, received great majorities in
the primary voting of Local 8
(pressers) and Local 5 Operators
of the Amalgamated. The machine
simply counted out Ledow, but had
to let Ledermann stay on the ballot
These candidates were running or
the program that the Amalgamatec
10 tOOl VI IUS DOSSSS 1OT ldClll-
tating reductions and speed-up. II
calls for struggle in the shops
against the check-off, to return, to
wage scales before the reductions
for shop committees to start shor
struggle for that purpose, and for
unity with the N.T.WI.U.
The industrial union now has
strikes. One is the Beverly Sport
Wear knit goods shop in Brooklyn
where workers walked out wher
the shop committee of IS were
locked out. Police have been uset
here, and leaflet is issued agains
police brutality.
The other three were all started
by lock-outs and are: II. Rosen
berg, Joray Dress, and Adelman s
Levine. All workers are asked t,
come out and help picket thes'
{! shops.