The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-17
AMALGAMATED
MEMBERS CHARGE
HILLMAN SEIL0UT
Give Gases in Recent
Strikes ; Demand No
Secret Settlement

NEW YORK.-The Rank and File
Committee in the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers have issued a
statement sharply criticising the Hill
man leadership for treacherieS in
the present strikes and recent strikes.
The membership say in their state
ment:
Before we were called out on
strike, we were promised that we
would have a real strike against She
bosses for better conditions in the
trade and for % per cent increase
in wages.
a. Why was the strike declared
before the season started, when most
Of the shops were closed?
%. Why was the Is per cent in
crease in wages not mentioned in the
leaflet?
g. When the workers of Krasny
shop came down on strike, why were
they sent back to the shop by our
officials to finish out the work?
a Why did the boss of the Gar
field, N. j., Mr.. j. Victor, receive the
strike committee with open arms and
tell them that everything is ar
ranged with our manager Bernstein
and that they can go up to the shop
to have meeting with his workers?
IS. When the strike committee
came to South River, where the
workers were in a bloody battle a
few months ago with the bosses,
gangsters and police, the same boss
Berman, in front of whose shop a
9-year old child of q, striker was
killed on the picket line, this same
Berman, slsed the committee up to
his house and told them that every
thing is arranged with our manager
Bernstein. He explained that he had
not started the season, but he called
in the workers and told the commit
tee that they could go to his shop
to register the girls in the union?
"6.-Jack Reisler, boss of the R.
and p. shop in South River, N. J. in
sisted on reading the leaflet first to
make sure that there was no provl-
sion for an increase in wages and
sent the committee to the shop and
helped Bernstein to-register the girls
in the union.
~. Why do the officials keep the
cutters separated from US? This is
done in order to send the cutters back
to work, after which our officials will
tell us that on account of the cut
tiers, they are compelled to send us
also back to work,
"8.-The strikers must ask Hillman
why he betrayed the tailoIs in their
strikes, why he helps the bosses cut
the wages, and why ne helps the boss
es throw the workers out of the shops
THE strikers must ask what kind
of a settlement our officials made
with the bosses that they are so
eager to drive the workers into the
union, and why strike when a settle
ment is already made?
Don't let the officials of our local
and the Hillnan gang betray our
strike. We must fight against our Of
ficials for making deals with the boss
es to establish the Analgamated con-
troll in the shops, to permit the boss
es to carry through wage cuts, in re-
turn for which the bosses will collect
dues and taxes for the FIillman ma
chine.
1.-THE Rank and File Committee de-
clsres that the conditions in the trade
arr ursearalNe, and in order to inn
prove our conditions. we must have
real strike led by the workers, and
not by the bosses.
eve demand that the union gives
out leaflet for the Is per cent in
crease in wages to all shops in town
and out Of town. We demand that
the union calls every shop to a shop
where each shop should elect
a strike and settlement committee.
No settlement should be made without
the shop committee and must be APP
proved by the workers of the shop"
NEW YORK. The Sixth Avenue
Grieyance Committee Tuesday after
noon through a committee of siv
forced the Active Employment Ag-
ency, 9Th Ave. and 24th st to give
back the SO fee paid by James Slade.
and for which he had never received
"'nployment.