The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-18


Union Jan. 10 at the call Of the
United Front Committee have
adopted the following resolution deal
ing with the present situation in the
dress trade, strike preparations and
strike demands:
THE agreements in the dress in
dustry have expired With the be-
ginning Of the season in the dress
trade the bosses have undertaken a
nlerciless wage-slashing campaign.
The prices for labor on the garments
have been reduced to one-haf and
in many instances even lower. The
hours and working conditions in the
dress trade today have reached a
state where the workers are faced
with actual starvation even while
employed. The speed-up and long
hours are increasing from day to day
with resultant mass unemployment.
In the few shops where the workers
until recently have enjoyed to toler-
able conditions, the bosses have in
stituted lockouts SO as to reduce the
conditions of these workers to the
general low level in the trade.
THE United Front of the dress
makers, which several months ago
started a campaign to unite the
ranks of all dressmakers, members
of the International, members of the
industrial Union, as we'll as unor-
ganized workers, for real strike I'M
der rank and file leadership, as the
only solution against the ever-in-
creasing misery of the workers in the
| trade, has worked untiringly to wipe
out the artificial division in the ranks
of the workers and to unite the
dressmakers for struggle.
In line with the resolution adopted
at the last Cooper Union meeting,
the United Front Committee has
sent a committee to Local % of the
international and to the Industrial
Union, calling for unity in the COM
ing strike.
The leaders of the international
who are responsible for the present
division in the ranks of the workers,
who through their policy of collab-
grafton with the bosses have brought
about the present conditions in the
trade, have rejected our proposals for
united strike.
Instead they have united with the
bankers and capitalist politicians
Dudley Field Malone, Lieutenant
Governor Lehman, and have already
planned out another fake strike con-
spiracy similar to the fake strike Of
1880, which has reduced the condi-
tons of the dresSmakers to the pres
emit level.
I'm this fight against the united
front rank and file strike the Love-
stoneites, who are parading as the
progressives, have become the bull
Wark of the socialist and reactionary
machine and are being put forward
as the most bitter fighters against
the united front Of the workers.
THE Industrial Union has enthu-
siastically acceted the proposals OF
the United Front Committee for a
united strike under rank and file
leadership, not only in words but in
deeds. The Industrial Union today
together with the United Front Com
naittee, is carrying on an organiza-
ton campaign on a united front
basis, the sole aim of which Is to
improve the conditions of the work
ers in the shops, irrespective Of their
affiliations, and broaden the base for
the coming strike.
"AS a result of this united front In
action, several hundred workers have
already returned to their Jobs under
improved conditions, prepared to an
sWer the call for a united front
strike under rank and file leader
ship.
I'VE, the workers assembled at the
Cooper Union meeting, enthusiast
tically endorse the organization drive
carried on by the united front COM
mittee and the Industrial Union and
authorize the united front commit
tee to hereafter carry on all prep
arations for the coming strike jointly
with the Industrial Union.
I'VE further decide that the united
front committee and every dress
maker present shall continue to ex-
ert every effort in order to bring the
members Of the International into
the united front strike and to call
on all honest workers of the So
called rank and file committee Of
Local % who have the Interests of
the dressmakers at heart to repudi-
ate the actions OF their leaders and
to join with us in the preparations
for the united front strike.
I'VE further endorse the decision
of the united front committee for a
shop conference to be held on Jan
80, and call on sll the dressmakers
from the International shops, Indus
trial Union shops and open shops to
Immediately elect delegates from
their shops to make this a real mass
conference of all dressmakers that
will intensity the strike preparations
and crystalline the strike demands.
Outstanding Demands
I'VE further propose the following
draft of outstanding demands for
discussion before this meeting, the
coming conference and the workers
of the entire industry:
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