The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
TAKE Control
GAYS N.T,W,I.U.
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''onal Ladies Garment Work.


re Industrial Union is arranging
meeting Of dressmakers at
'ui3n for Thursday. Feb. g..
a. p. NJ, 10 expose the fake strike,
10 fH her mobilize The workers for
TIC -fre'e 10 organize the open
sh-~9 % the trade, and prepare the
gre fer a genuine general dress
st-'ite uedor the leadership of the
IR3gs trial Union.
Desnita the complete cooperation
with the I.LkW. of police. socialist
party leaders, Hunter College girls
and Columbia University students,
the flad2ing preachers from Union
Theological Seminary, and thou
sands Of bosses, practically no work
ers struck yesterday in answer to
the call of the Schlesinger union.
Workers left those shops where they
were locked out by the bosses, who
were, as both the Dress Manufac-
turers Association. the I.L.G.W.
chiefs, and the capitalist press says,
'In sympathy with the movement"
That none Of the workers is opposed
to struggle is proved BY the hun
dreds who crowded into the Indus
trial Union offices, 1g1 W. zSth St,
to declare their shops really on
strike. But they just don't trust
the 1,L.GW.
Several thousand workers chased
out OF the shops when the bosses
slammed the door in their faces and
told them they were con strike"
gathered in the Seventh Ave. area.
Schlesinger himself, after making
extravagant claims to $4,000 on
strike" admitted yesterday to the
press that "only 1900 have register
ed" in his company union meetings.
In many places the bosses, by ar
rangement with the I.L.G.W., rang
the five alarms to clear the shops.
The Industrial Union, in a state
ment issued yesterday estimates the
number out Of the shops as between
5000 and 1000.
Some Real Strikes.
"Out of this number several hun
bred of the locked out workers have
reported to our headquarters and
we have declared their shops to
strike until the employers will be
ready to sign an agreement with our
union and grant union conditions tc
the workers" said the Industrial
Union. In some cases ell in the shoJ
came up to the N.T.W.LU. in . body
"The failure of this strike lockout
proves that the dressmakers recos.
nize the object of this maneuvel
was not to bring about better con.
ditions for the workers in the trade
but to establish the company union
by means of which to continue the
present sweat-shop conditions in The
dress shops says the N.T.WI.U
1.-THE Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, which has been con-
Quoting an organization drive
against open shops for the past few
weeks, will intensity its activities il
this direction and will also adopi
all measures to combat any attempt
on the part Of the I.L.G.W.U. com
pany union to intimidate by strong
a- nittees those workers EN-
~ contractua
relations with our union"
lilly modified
e organization drive
!, real workers union,
Joseph Beruchowitz, man
-cr OF the Joint Board.
l7rflet is being prepared which
will be distributed today. Leaflet
sere distributed yesterday present
ing the program Of the Industria
Union for real gains and for rnioi
based on the shop delegate system
All members are called to 131 Yves
18th st. this morning for strik'
luty.
Police To Club Let's.
Some 200 of Whalen's thugs wer,
around through the area as window
dressing for the fake strike and I,