The daily worker., 1932-01-28
The Coming Dressmakers' Strike
Will Be Won!

their wages and lowered their hours. This had
its effect on the furriers in the company union
so that rebellion broke out. Today Kaufman is
routed, being supported only by gangsters and
the police.
Knowing that the workers are beginning to
rebel against the conditions in the shops, the
leaders of the reactionary dressmakers' union
are moving to bring in agents of the bosses to
prevent the workers from striking.
To this end they have also brought in the
politician, Dudley Field Malone, to assist them
in negotiating with the bosses to prevent strike
or to maneuver a fake strike. The purpose of
this move is clear: the manufacturers, con-
tractors and jobbers are determined to lower
the wages of the workers still more. They are
determined that the cost and burden of the
crisis shall be borne by the workers. They know
that the workers are in a rebellious mood and
therefore have called into open collaboration the
socialist officials of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union.
Allied in this move and leading in the fight
against an improvement of the conditions of the
workers are the Lovestonaites with Zimmer-
man at their head This fellow who boasts of
his activities in Paterson, in breaking the silk
strike is now at the front in trying to prevent
the dressmakers from conducting a successful
strike. His function is to use radical phrases,
the workers have in their struggles against the
bosses-the United Front of the workers against
the bosses and their labor official tools But
the workers are showing him that his demagogy
will not help. The workers are showing the
contractors and jobberS that all their maneuvers
will not help. They are turning to the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union and the
United Front to lead them in the coming strug-
gle. Nothing can beat this United Front under
the leadership of the revolutionary union The
strike must be won-and the company union
must be destroyed by the workers leaving its
reactionary ranks and joining the only union
of the needle industry-the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union.
This strike will be determined strike. It is
strike that must be we'll prepared The de-
mands put forward by the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union and the United Front must
be thoroughly discussed in every shop The de-
mandS must be brought forward in the COM
pany unions by the revolutionary opposition
The workers in the company union are in as
desperate condition as the other workers. They
are Sealizing the need of struggle on the basis
of the United Front. Discussion in every shop
in the marketS-and then organization in the
shops on the basis of the United Front to pre-
pare for the strike are basic This United Front
must embrace all the workers in the shop
whether they belong to the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, the company union
or are unorganized workers 1t must take in all
workers-eSpecially the newer elements in the
trades, which have had little or no experience
in organization Special efforts must be made
to win over the Negro workers. who are still
suspicious of the white workers, and Justly So
because of the treachery practiced against them
by the company union and the leadership of the
A. F. of L. The young American, Italian and
Latin-American women and girls, who know
nothing about organization must be brought
into the United Front, and all Of them be rapid
ly recruited into the Needle Trades Industrial
Union, the only union that defends and fights
for their interests
With proper preparatino, with the election of
good rank and file United Front Strike Com
to lead the strike, with the support of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union this strike will
be won despite the treachery, and the terror
which the company union under the leadership
of the Lovestonites are already using in the
form of gorillas and gangsters against the work.
ers.
When the strike begins, the manufacturers and
the company union officials will bring In the
police and gangsters to terrorze the striking
dressmakers They hope that through the state
machinery, with the use of police detectives
injunctions and JAIL they will be able to break
the strike of the dressmakers They tried to in
the miners and textile workers strickland they
failed. They tried 1t in the food and shoe work.
ers strikes and they failed again. And they
will fail in the dressmakers strike, for the mill