The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
DnESSMAKERS,
COME TO COOPER
union TONIGHT!
Those LockedOut Cheer
for Industrial Union

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they have concluded their fake set
cement!
"You must take the situation into
your own handsl
you must take up the struggle
in an organized manner.
Elect Immediately strike COM
mittee in every shop. Form a rank
and file strike committee of all
dressmalSers who have been locked
out of their shops which together
with the Industrial Union will carry
ON strikes against every shop where
the workers were either locked out
or taken down by company union
guerilla committee through error!
No Money to Fakers!
DO not pay single cent to the
traitors-the company-union agents!
Every cent that you give them will
help them to carry through their be-
trayal of you workers!
"You must carry on a struggle
against you bosses through your
strike committees and force them
to settle on the basis of the de-
mands and agreement of the Indus
trial Union!
you must take part in the Cooper
Union Mass Meeting tonight, right
after work, where a full report on
the present situation and plans for
further struggle will be decided
uponl
"Dressmakers! Forge your wea-
pons. Mobilize and unite your
ranks The Schlesinger company
union agency must be wiped out.
Now is the proper time. Forward
to the struggle.
Demonstrate for N.T.W.LU.
The fake strike of the I.L.G.W. is
a flat failure. Not only are there
about 4,000 on the street, but most
of them are locked out by employ
ers who stopped the machinery,
rang the fire alarms, or simply told
the workers to go. 1t is a lockout.
Masses of workers in the street at
36th and Seventh Ave-, during the
noon hour, were being photographed
and movie toned" by capitalist
news agencies for fake strike propa-
ganda. They Immediately staged
demonstration for the Industrial
Union, denouncing Schlesinger and
his company union.
The ILGW has no pickets out, the
workers refuse to mass picket for
the takers. A large gang of hired
gori.l however, visited the shops
where the N.T.W.I.U. has already
Won union conditions, among others
the Colony Dress Shop, at Is West
18th St, and the Lamjay Dress Shop
at $50 West 28th St. The workers
drove the thugs from the place.
At many campany-unionized shops
and open shops, where workers were
locked out, they came to the Indus
trial Union and Immediately a real
strike began in those places, with a
considerable number of victories al
ready won.
Takers Meetings Avoided.
The LL.G.W. tried to hold strike
meetings" yesterday. They claim
1000 attended their affairs. At all
Of them the Industrial Union work.
rrs penetrated, and distributed calls
to the Cooper Union meeting. Most
Of them, particularly one in Irving
Plaza, where a few dozen were
gathered, had pivifully small num-
bers.
The workers are willing to strug-
gle, but they know that the fake
strike is not their fight-it is the
bosses fight. They will follow the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial.
Union and win a real victory.
Twelve N.T.WLU. workers were
arrested when committee of the
union mes committee of the COM
/ any union thugs at Broadway and
~ St, and the retreating ganssters
called IN The police for protection.