The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
Uncover Racketeering OF
Millinery Officials
Open Trial of Zaritsky Called by Workers
Exposes Open Shop Plot With Employers

: year in year out In return for the
high wages, they would help the firm
to cut the wages of the entire shop
as often as it found convenient.
Thus the entire shop, for years
| found themselves in the throeS of
rnerciless grafters who received the
hemtiest support of the union and
the firm was able to cut wages re-
/ peatedly and imposed other miser-
able conditions on the workers.
An Open Trial
The .racketeers got a notion that
they could get along very well with
out zaritsky's union. 1t has been
disclosed now that the firms moving
the shop from New York to Yonkers
was but a scheme concocted by Zarit-
sky's proteges to throw out the work
ers from the shop and make scab
shop there They waited for con-
venient hour to carry cut their devil
ISL scheme. A quarrel in the ranks
Of the perpetrators, however, resulted
in the leak. The workers in the shop
forced the union office to arrange an
open trial Of the plotters. At the
open trial, workers hurled the bitter
truth in the face of zaritzky. They
openly blamed the president and his
aides for the plan. The office, these
workers stated in their denunciation
of the labor burocrats, nursed the
eleven plotters in the spirit of graft
and corruption and the union Off
Gals, on many occasions, utilized
these low creatures to suppress the
workers in that shop and to place
them at the mercy of B. Greenberg.
The Shops Decisions
The shop decided that the chief
initiat9rs of the plot must go. A
second decision arrived at by the
shop was that a committee Of the
shop should go to the office Of the
Workmen's Circle to have them eX-
PEELED from that organization. 1t
remains to be seen whether or not
the Workmen's Circle, which has be-
come a nest for scabs, will comply
with the demand of the shop.
Because the firm did not succeed
in its scheme Ito turn the shop into
a scab shop it signed an agreement
with Zaritzky's union The workers
of the shop were not consulted as to
the demands to be made on the firm,
for the new agreement. The Off
cials brought signed agreement
and they had to vote for it, And the
agreement is eloquent of the New
Deal spirit incorporated in the In
dustrial Recovery Act for which both
Zaritzky and his mentor Hillman, are
so enthusiastic.
The New Agreement
One point of the agreement says
that 40 hours work should be the
weeks limit. But since. in conse-
quences of the piece work system es-
tablished in the new agreement, the
workers would have lost 80 per cent
of their former wages, the union Of
flee permits them to work 80 hours
a week and their loss in wages is
q little less.
The second point states that strikes
are prohibited; and every contro-
versy between capital and labor must
go~to the arbitrator (the notorious
DR.. Abelson). Now, in case the boss
breaks abe agreement with the union
a special provision is made for that
too According to the third point
the union has a right to take out an
Injunction against the firm should
the latter act in violation of the
agreement. In other words, Mr.
zaritzky deprived the workers of the
shop of their only effective weapon
the strike, to guard themselves
against the worsening Of their con-
ditions and told the workers to rely
on capitalist justice.
Well, is not our president an ORTIZ
odox follower of the nationally
known racketeer, S. Hillman? This
experience teaches the workers Of the
shop that they must form good
committee of honest and class
conscious workers, representative Of
all branches of the shop, to defend
their conditions.