The daily worker., 1931-12-14

wanting to exploit the urgent desire
for unity to smash the united front
struggle of the workers.
Their fake unity nanouever burst
like bubble when it came to a show
down. When it came to the ques-
ton Of pledging themselves to work
for unity and struggle for better con-
ditions, Stetsky and with him the
entire right wing leadership, left the
conference.
They have not changed They are
the same agents of the bosses!
And what about the recent exper-
fences in the dress locals? A group
of rank and file workers who are
suffering as result OF the break
down of union conditions in the dress
industry, organized themselves into a
united front committee for the pur-
pose of uniting the dresSmakers to
fight for better conditions.
1t was denounced as Communist
manouever" and met with barrage
Of attacks on the part of the COM
pany union.
The Industrial Union endorsed and
gave its fullest support to the united
front movement. When at the last
membership meeting of the dress de-
partment of the Industrial Union
committee Of IS was elected to go
to the members of Local % with pro-
posals for unity, for a united strike
to include all workers, right wingers,
left wingers and unorganized workers,
the company union agents, despite
the mass protest of the members of
Local %, refused to admit this COM
mittee to speak to the workers, and
with the aid of the police drove the
committee away from the hall. In
stead, they elected a so-called frank
and file" committee, whose main
purpose it will be to cover up the
treacherouS deeds of the Interna-
tional officials and who are already
conspiring with the bosses to put
through fake strike along the same
lines as the fake strike in 1880 which
has brought about the present mis-
cradle conditions in the dress trade.
Lovestone- Anarchist Combine.
The latest manouever Of the anar-
chist-Lovestone combination in Lo-
cal % in admitting the committee of
the United Front to the membership
meeting was but another effort to
defraud the workers.
In news item which appeared in
the "Women's Wear" on Monday,
Dec. 7th, which speaks of the last
meeting of Local az on the dispute
between Zimmerman, Blustein ad-
ministration and the International,
the following statement appears:
''The next day the leaders of Local
"a sought to assure Dubinsky," it was
stated, that the Communist were
admitted to the Bryan Hall meeting,
only to minimize them as nuisance"
Recognizing the resentment of the
workers against their action at the
previous meeting, they now sought
to outmanouever the workers by ad-
nitting the committee, while at the
same time relegating the purpose for
which the committee came to their
hand-picked committee of Is which
was organized for the sole purpose of
misleading the workers, giving the
impression that they too stand for
rank and file control, with the intent
Of using this committee as cover for
the treacherous deeds of their allies,
the leaders OF the International.
The seeming conflict between the
leaders of Local % and the Interna-
tioral was just another gesture, for
already there are indications that
they are working at high speed in
order to patch up their so-called
differences" and joining up their
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