The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-22

THE General Executive Board of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union, l3l west
2Sth St, New York, has issued statement on
the Toronto Convention of the Amagamated
Clothing Workers which reads in part as fol-
lows:
"The convention that has just been held IN
Toronto. Canada, is convention of agents OF
the bosses who planned their betrayals OF the
interests of the workers. The officialdom OF
the A.C.W., the bosses and the government,
are united against the workers. They are COM
hned in one apparatus for the enslavement, for
the exploitation Of the workers.
THE Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union calls upon you to participate in the Sec
ond National Rank and File Convention, which
will take place on June 6, and s, in New Star
Casino, 10th Street and Park Avenue, N. Y.
Unlike the A.C.W. convention which was COM
posed of the agents of the bosses and their
henchmen, the convention of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union will be composed OF
true representatives of the workers in the
needle industry, will be composed of represen-
tatives from the shops
Merger
THE ACW is operating in trades which
are outstanding examples of the spe -dy CEN
tralization mergers of manufacture $, chain
store maganates. mail order houses end depart
ment stores, that are taking place in the in
dustry. Wall Street is spreading out its control
to the needle industry The mergers of Jaffe
and Cohen and Lang, the merger of Fashion
Park in Rochester, the merger of Hart, Schaff
ner and Marx and Levy and Adler, the planned
merger of Sears Rocbuck, J. C. Penny, Mont
gomery Ward are the outstanding examples
of the concentration Of control of the mems
clothing trade into the hands of few Wall
Street bankers and is leading directly to the
control by the rulers of this country J. P.
Morgan & Co. The shares of this company are
being sold and quoted on the Stock Exchange
in Wall Street just as the stocks of other in
dustries, while the production end of it is di-
vided in large factories as we'll as in small
contracting establishments.
"These giant combinations backed by Wall
Street capitalists, are forcing the brunt of the
crisis upon the workers to increase the exploit
tation, speed-up, piece work, standard of pro-
duction,' long hours, wage cuts, reorganization,
discharges, child labor and unemployment.
Same As Unorganized.
"The Hillman- Beckerman social-fascist eli
que of the A.C.W. has reduced the working
conditions of the organized to those of the I'M
organized, to those of the sweat-shop period.
These agents of the bosses are openly boast
ing about their role as efficiency experts for
the bosses, of their success of Hillmans COM
pany unionism which pays both the bosses and
the Acknowledgement clique. Through this
company union they forced upon the workers
piece work, Standards of production the check
off and discharges in order to relieve the manu-
facturers of 'superfluous labor created by the
increased speed-up in the shops making hun
dreds Of thousands of workers permanently I'M
employed.
"Whe the workers in the A.CW. are faced
with misery and starvation the officialdom of
the A.C.W. and the funds of the Amalgamated