The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-04
EXPOSE SECRET PACT BETWEEN
BOSS, INTERNATIONAL co. UNION
Made During Fake Strike Last Year; Sells Out
Workers on Every Side; Prepare Real Strike!

to accept whatever prices the boss
offers them)
mo reSettlement of prices on
either minimuns or averages. (This
means that if the dress manufacturer
succeeds in tricking the price COM
nittee into a settlement of prices
which results in a weekly wage lower
than the minimum or the average
provided by the union agreement,
then the workers have no right to
re-settle any of these prices.)
No Back Pay.
3.-In case of discharge for any
reason, no back pay if reinstated
CThis is intended to discourag dis
charged work from pressing for a re-
instatement because the case is usu-
ally dragged on for weeks with the
impartial chairman. The worker has
very little opportunity of being rein
stated in this manner anyway
4.-Reorganization due to perma-
nent curtailment of business or fund
amental change in character Of
business. CThis treacherous provision
completely wipes out the right of the
worker to the job, and gives the dress
manufacturers the right to discharge
any workers on any f1insy eXcuse)
5.-Change in system of work shall
be agreed upon between the union
and the association. (ThiS is an
opening to allow the company union
officials and the boss association to
agree to changes for the benefit Of
the dress manufacturers as for in
stance, changes from week work to
piece work. The shop committee and
the shop as a whole is entirely left
out of consideration. Their right to
have a say in the consideration of
such changes is entirely wiped out.
N.T.WI.U. Statement.
The executive council of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union de-
clared yesterday:
THE exposure of this treacherouS
agreement reveals nothing new to the
dressmakers trapped in the company
union ULG.W.U0 shops. These
dressmakers know that they cannot
make living under the conditions
forced upon them by the bosses and
their agents Shlesinger, Dubinsky,
etc, and that these company-union
officials have completely sold them
out to the bosses.
This outrageous agreement proves
black on white what every dress
maker already knows that the 1929
fake dress strike was engineered by
the dress bosses and the Shlessinger-
Dubinsky gang in order to enslave
the dressmakers, worsen their condi-
tons, discourage them from a real
strike and force them to pay tribute
in dues and taxes to the grating
gang in the IL.G.W.U.
Revolt Is Rising.
THE dresSmakers and the Needle
Trades workers as a whole are open
ing their eyes to the tricks of these
agents of the bosses. The cloak
makers are modifying their forces
for a revolt against the attempt to
the cloak manufacturers and the
Shlesinger band to force upon them
piece work and further reduction in
wages. The dressmakers in the COM
pany union shops are rallying to the
strike preparations now conducted by
the N.TWI.U. They are realizing
more than ever before that the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union is the only organization that
seeks to improve their conditions"
he Industrial Union proceeds with
the dress strike preparations. On
Thursday, November 9Th, there will
take place preliminary dress strike
preparation shop conference. At this
conference the drssmakrs will review
the steps already taken in the prep
arations for the dress strike and lay
down further plans for the mobiliz-
ing of all dreSsmakerS for the coming
strike in the dress trade, for 7-hour
5-day week, for week work, for I'M
employment insurance and for the
other dress strike demands.