The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-01
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ficisls have brought us an agreement
under which our conditions will be
even more miserable than now. Be-
lore the strike, and during the strike,
The International officials told us
that it is a strike against sweatshop
conditions, long hours and low wages.
Now Schlesinger states at the shop
chairmen's meeting, that this is moi
q strike for higher wages and shorter
hours, but for the sterilization Of the
industry
How can an industry be stabil-
lied, through an agreement that
wipes out the minimum wage scale,
the 5-day 4O-hour week, and the
right to the job?
"Dressmakers: The schedule which
the commission will have to study is
q camouflage through which they
have abolished the minimum wage
scale This means wage reductions.
The International officials are
ready to send us back to the shops
without any price settlements. They
are promising us pie in the sky and
in the meantime, they are forcing us
to pay dues and taxes for this wage
cut settlement, which is the greatest
dcfeat for the dressmakers.
We must not return to the shops
before we have won better conditions.
The members Of the International
can get better conditions just as the
dressmakers of the United Front re-
ceived increases in wages and union
conditions in every shop before they
have returned to work.
our officials say that $4,000 dress
makers have gone down ON strike and
that only handful have answered
the call of the United Front Strike
Committee Then why is it that
few thousand strikers Of the United
Front Strike Committee have won
higher prices before they returned to
work and we, the $4,000, as our Of
ficialS say, cannot accomplish this?
Do you know why it is so? Because
the dressmakers striking under the
United Front Strike Committee are
fighting for union conditions, be-
cause they, the workers, have the full
say and they have rank and file con-
troll Of the strike, while our strike is
nothing but nnaneuver with the as
sistance of the bosses to collect dues
and taxes from the workers.
"We must follow the example Of
the strikers of the United Front
Committee. They are no different
than we are. We, too, can win bet
Ter conditions if we fight for them,
just as they did. We must not re-
turn to the shops without increases
in our wages. We must fight the
wage cut agreement. We must not
reckon with the fact that the Off
;ials will declare this shameful
agreement accepted. Under this
agreement we will have to endure
more starvation and more slavery
than prevailed before the strike. Let
us continue the strike in every shop
until we will win union conditions.
Organic. Mobilize. Every dress
striker of the International who feels
discouraged as a result of the shame
full sellout.
Let us come out onto the streets
and protest against the treacherous
settlement. Let us unite with the
strikers Of the united front commit
tee and form one picket line, one
strike for union conditions. Let us
elect our own shop strike committees
in every shop to continue the strike
for maintenance of the minimum
wage scale, a 25 per cent increase in
wages, for the lower paid workers.
Let US elect rank and file leaders.
'Dressmakers: Come today at 70
noon to the garment center, to the
huge demonstration against the SELL
out shameful settlement. Come and
demonstrate your readiness to fight
for the higher wages and union con-
ditions
Forward to the struggle against
wage cut settlement. Forward to the
struggle for union conditions. For
ward to the demonstration today at
u o'clock in the garment center"
The Sen-Out in Operation.
Through the day in the strike halls
of the International the Schlesinger
gang was busy putting over the SELL
out They gave the betrayal new
name. This time it is called the
Scientific System" which means re-
organization to suit the bosses,
through system drawing lots TO see
who will work and who will not
The agreement of the International