The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-18
How the Dressmakers Can Achieve Victory

and to place themselves at the head of the mas,
strikes which are springing up against their will
Gin order of course the more easily to behead
them).
In number of cases they even come out
hypocritically with speeches about the necessity
Of unity i'll the ranks of the working class.
In the United States the Musteites and the
Lovestoneites especially have some experience i'll
this matter In this light special attention must
be paid to the fact that in the strike of the dress
makers, not only Schlessinger but also his Love-
stoneite leutenants i'll the person of thinner
man, have come out openly and without any
equivocaton against the united front. The ex-
PLANTATION of this must be sought not in their
unwilingness to resort this time too, to hypo-
critical slogans more correctly maneuvers) of
the united 'front.'" but in their fear to mis-
calculate
1t is not unknown to them that the Needle
Trade Workers Indus. Union has grown consider
ably during recent time, that its political influ-
ence far surpasses its organizational framework
that this union has become serious factor in
the industry, and that it is impossible not to
take it into account at this time,
They fear that their calculation and tricky
maneuvers may be upset this time In a word,
they are afraid to play with fire, at this time
knowing full well what tie sentiment is among
their own membership 1d how tremendous is
the urge among them for actual unity and Joint
strike
Tho lesson received br Stetsky at the hands of
the furriers is still fresh in their memory Pre-
cisey because of this, being compelled under the
pressure of the masses to assume the pose of the
defenders of the interests of the workers against
the bosses, the Schlessingers and Zmmermans
prefer to delay in every manner the moment of
the declaration of their fake strike fearing that
they may be swept off their feet. That they may
be submerged by the movement and that the
United Front Strike Committee may succeed in
Transforming the fake strike of Malone SchIes-
singer Zimmerman into militant strike in one
extended united front of all dressmakers against
their triple alliance
This is why they have preferred to change the
game of United Front" so dangerous for them
into more secure collaboration with Mulrooney
For them Mulrooney is a more agreeable and
sympathetic partner With him, they believe it
is impossible to lose the game but it is possible to
win great deal-to strange the strike and to
deliver serious blow to the United Front Strike
Committee and to the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union
The calculation is seemingly simple one but
the Schlessingers and the Zimmermans have for
gotten about one detail They have omitted from
thelr calculation one more factor, namely the
masses of the members in the Schlessinger union
This factor, the membership of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union still following
trustngly the leadership of the Schlesingers and
zlmmermans. must be seriously accounted for by
the United Front Strike Committee
For the extension of the strike declared by the
United Front Strike Committee for the drawing
into the strike of the membership of the SchIes-
singer union against TIE will and despite the re-
sistance of the Schicsinsers and the thinner
mans, for TIE creation Of a united front from
below, for the destruction of the barrier sep
arating the membership of the Schlesinger union
from the workers who have already begun the
battle, who arc proceeding under the banner of
the united front-all forces means and WAYS
must be mobilized, all the workers who are fol.
lowing the United Front Strike Committee and
all the members Of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union MP TO the last man, must be
reused.
Thi- barrier must be broken at al crsts in the
Interest NJ yct"~r l., this strife.
The slogan OF a bread united frcnt the slogan
of general and joint strike of all workers re-
gardless Of political and trade union affiliation,
of the white and the Negroes, the adult workers
and the new American elements the italian and
Spaniards the united strike against the bosses
and against their strike breaking agencies, must
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