The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
DRESS STRIKE SPREADS TO ESQ
SHOPS; MASS DEMONSTRATIONS MON

stration. Negro and white workers,
Italian, Spanish, Jewish and English,
workers of all nationalities and re-
gardless of race, have been called
upon to rally with the striking dress
makers for smashing and unmis-
taxable victory.
Announcement was made yester-
day Of the formation of defense COM
mittees to protest picketers against
A. F. of L. thugs. In addition, block
and building committees also were
organized. A competition has also
been launched among the various
strike halls to stimulate walkout ac-
tivities. Results will be given out
from day to day as to the number of
strikers added by each hall
50 Bosses Plead For Settlement.
Up to late yesterday more than
eighty bosses have applied for settle
ments Their appeals have been laid
before the Strike Committee for
study and action.
The strike committee decided yes
terday that the question Of settle
ment should be left over until the
strike executive committee meets
Monday. Plans for settlement, how
ever, should be submitted to the Cen
trail Strike Committee at once. The
effectiveness of the strike is shown
by the fact that 80 bosses are already
asking for settlement.
Organization Committee in Action.
The most enthusiastic, and at the
same time the most businesSlike
meeting of the organization commit
tee was held yesterday afternoon.
| Determination to win was written on
the faces of all the workers on the
committee.
It is a truly rank and file COM
mittee. Workers from the shops,
unemployed dressmakers, Negro and
white, American, italian and Span
ish workers, most Of whom have been
active since the beginning of the
strike, composed the committee.
One after another they took the
floor and discussed the problems of
strike strategy confronting them
Many of them are veterans Of many
strikes. Many are participating in
their first struggle. Yet it was hard
to tell who we're the old warriors
and who were the new. They all
spoke like veterans.
Organizations MobiliZing in Support
of Strike.
The Central Strike Committee Of
the dressmakers decided to spread
the strike in the various sections of
the city and to mobilize the labor
and sympathetic organizations in
emergency conferences.
All workers clubs, Two. branches,
Italian, Spanish and other fraternal
organizations, unions and other SYM
pathetic organizations located in the
respective localities, are called upon
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the conferences to be held during the
next few days.
In Bath Beach the conference will
take place on Friday at 48 Bay 28th
ST.. at $50 p. m.
The Harlem conference will take
place on Sunday, 2 o'clock in the
afternoon at POLL 3rd Ave.
The Brownsville conference will be
held on Sunday, Feb. 14th, at the
Workers Center, 1918 Pitkin Ave,
Brooklyn, 8 o'clock in the afternoon.
These conferences are called as
emergency in mobilization for the
dress strike, and all working class
organizations are called upon to send
at least two delegates.
A number of entertainments were
held for the strikers and these we're
also attended by hundreds of unem-
ployed workers. Meetings were con-
Quoted for young workers and details
for picketing we're outlined. The
Strike Committee sent out its rally
ing slogan yesterday: "On 10 the
picket line, workers! Spread the
strike! And fight, fight until the
bosses Of the dress shops in the
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