The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-20
DRESS STRIKE RECORDS
NEW VICTORIES; LABOR
CONFERENCE ON TODAY
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derouS cheers went uD from the
workers in tire hall as tbs line of
victims of the Schlesinger thugs filed
in.
The new adherents of the United
Front Strike were filled with JOY at
the reception. Tears trickled down
the cheeks of these men and women.
They had outSmarted the company
union officials and we're now in tne
midst OF their fellow workers fig!ltin-
for the common cause.
OF the many shops that came out
yesterday with the United Front.
there was one shop in particular that
carried with it the whole bitter his
tory of repeated labor betrayals. This
shop was composed of young italian
girls. Their parents had labored for
years under the vicious sweatshop
system. For days these girls had re-
NAMED silent as efforts we're made
by the United Front strikers to call
them out. Finally they burst forth
with their stories. They had been
reared by toiling parents with dis
trust OF union officials. The spirit of
these parents had been demorahzed
by experiences Of the past. And thus
they had feared union organization.
Yesterday these girls went out on
strike. They joined the dreSsmakers
under the leadership of the United
Front Strike Committee. With the
hope OF freedom from the sweatshop
conditions Surging in their veins, and
the spirit of youth blazing anew in
their breasts, they marched cour-
ageously through the hall of the
United Front Strike Committee as
roars of jubilation echoed and re-
echoed through the building.
Another drama that foretold the
doom Of the Schlesinger plot was
reenacted in the garment district
yesterday. The company union Of
ficials, aided by the Zimmerman
clique, issued call for a demonstra-
ton in an effort to patch together
their dwindling ranks. Here and
there, men and women went out, but
the demonstration took on the as
poets Of funeral cortege. 1t was
evident on the faces and movements
of the participants that resistance
teemed within the ranks. The DEM
onstration was what Schlesinger's
artistic friends would call COM
plete flop.
On the heels Of this the United
Front Strike pushed its offensive and
made a display of its increasing
power. The committee of so. rank
and file members Of the Interns-
tional, elected at the mass meeting
at Cooper Union Thursday, carried
through huge demonstration in the
garment center in support of the
United Front Strike.
Mass Picketing.
The tremendous outpouring of
workers amazed even its own enthus-
iastic sympathizers and the workers
in general. The demonstration began
with mass open air meeting at Seth
st. and 9th Ave, and later formed
into a parade led by the committee
of So With placards and banners.
singing working class battle songs
they marched in solid ranks through
out the garment center. Hundreds OF
members of the International joined
the ranks.
Following the parade a huge meet
ing was held at the United Front
Strike Auditorium. The committee
of so decided on the following:
/. To go before the strike COM
mittees of the International and TIE
United Front to demand unity in
strike and unity mass meeting OF
all strikers, also a shop conference
Of shop strike committees.
2. To call unity demonstration
Of the strikers on Union Square
Tuesday at IL a.