The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Needle Union Calls
for One United
Picket Line
Mobilize All I'm ion
Forces to Win Victory

NEW 1Ohh."II UuodIluD VI
dressmakers, assembled at a
monster mass meeting at the
Hippodrome last night, ratified
the call of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union to come
out in general strike against mis-
cradle Sweatshop conditions.
Today at 10 a. m. workers in union
and open dress shops will down their
tools and leave their shops marching
in close ranks directly to the many
strike halls throughout the city.
Although the International Ladies
Garment Workers officials have re-
jected the demands of the Industrial
Union for one united strike against
the bosses the rank and file dress
makers are determined TO achieve
this unity on the picket line and will
march solidly together on the picket
lines continuing their demand for
unity in the fight.
Wide publicity is being given the
IL.G.W.U. strike call in the capital
list press. Chief Of Police Bolan as
sured julius HICKMAN. president OF
the Joint Board of Dress and Waist
Makers Union, and David Dubinsky
president of the International, Of
full cooperation" at conference
held at N. r. A. headquarters yester-
day between Bolan, Inspector Lyons
Of the radical squad, Grover Whalen
and the International officials.
The conference lasted Tor two
hours and was concerned with prob
lens that might arise in the event
Of a strike" 1t is clear that the
strike of the ILG.W.U., while osten-
sibly called for the elimination of
the sweatshops," has the full coop
Grafton of the bosses and the police
Grover Whalen, who was respon-
sible for the falling of Foster, Minor
and AInter, unemployed leaders in
the March, 1880, demonstration,
when he was chief OF police of the
City of New York, declared today
that he doubted whether the NRA ad-
ministration, which he heads, would
do anything to stop the impending
strike.
Whalen's statement and the police
chiefs offers Of cooperation indi-
cate clearly that no real opposition
by the government and the bosses
will be put up against the ILG.WU
officials policy on the strike
MIRA officials and the rnanufac.
turers recognize that the sentiment
among the workers for a strike 10
improve their conditions cannot be
readily curbed. They are looking to
the establishment Of code for the
dress industry to force the workers
to accept their slave standards.
The hearings on the code have been
set for Aug. % in Washington. The
price of accepting the code placed by
the IL.G.W.U. officials will be rec
ignition of the officials and chance
for these misleaders to gain sole con-
troll over the dress industry. Recog-
milton Of the officials by the National
Dress Manufacturers Association
means assurance to the bosses that
the workers will be sold out and
forced to accept the starvation stand
ards set by the code.
Unless dressmakers are on guard,
the plans of the ILGWU officials will
be to end the strike on the ground
that the code for the industry must
be accepted. The dressmakers will
be forced to accept the mediation Of
the Woll- Whalen committee or a
special Dress Code authority which
will be set up and their hopes for
winning decent working conditions
as a result of the strike will again
be destroyed through the treachery
Of the ILGWU officials. =
The dressmakers are urged by the
Industrial Union to demand broad
rank and file control of the strike,
bearing in mind the experience in
the strike Of 1892 when the dress
makers were misled by false promises
Of scientific scale" and were forced
to accept the present miserable
sweatshop conditions in the industry.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union in its strike call Is
sued today urges all workers OF un-
ion and non-union dress shops in all
sections of the city to answer the
strike call today at 10 am. for the
demands of the union.
The call states:
"Dressmakers Of all nationalities,
right wing, left wing, members &
the Industrial Union, must be unite1
in this strike and on the picket line
for the same demands.
Every attempt Of the Interna-
tional officials and the bosses to split
the ranks OF the workers must be
defeated! All attempts Of the In
ternational officials to place the fate
of the dressmakers in the hands OF
the government commissions must
be rejected?
"Only through struggle on the
picket line will we win better condi-
lions in the shopsl"