The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
ny MORRIS STAMPER

One year ago on the eve of the
elections IN Local %, Zimmerman,
as the leader Of the Lovestone group
in the dressmakers' union, printed a
series Of articles in the Jewish DAY
in which he criticized Dubinsky and
the administration of the Inte-na-
tional. It was evident that this
seeming attack on Dubinsly was the
fake platform on which the Love-
stonites would run for election in
the local.
Through this demagogy the COM
bined bloc Of the Circle and Love-
stonites misled many workers into
believing that they really stand for
program of struggle against the
reactionary machine and are ready
to fight in defense Of the workers
interests.
Now one year has passed and the
dressnakers have had the experience
Of being ruled by this combined fake
progressive bloc. 1t must be clear
that while power was shared between
the Circle and the Lovestonites, and
BluStein was the official head of
Local %, in reality Zimmerman was
the leader and spokesman.
A Years Record
What is the record with which
they are coming before the members
to ask for reelection? At the end Of
1882 when Zimmerman helped carry
through the sellout against the dress
makers by asking the workers to &C
cept the wage cut fake schedule
agreement concluded without the
knowledge OF the workers, he told
the workers to go back to the shops
and continue the struggle.
When they returned to the shops
and found their wages slashed, they
came back to the union to continue
the strike. For days, and very often
weeks, they were told to hang around
Bryant Hall. Their shops were not
declared on strike.
Seeing that they could not get any
assistance from the union they re-
turned to work under the conditions
dictated by the bosses.
Along came the fall Season. The
left wing group of the Local, seeing
the rapid deterioration of the con-
ditious of the dressInakers, came for
ward with a proposal that the local
call a conference together with the
Industrial Union for the purpose OF
planning joint organizational drive
in the dress trade. The thinner
man Blustein administration, which
had been mounting phrases about
unity of the workers, just as brazenly
rejected this proposal for united &C
ton as did HICKMAN and Dubinsky.
Instead of uniting with the workers
they united with the professional
gangsters who had been preying on
the dressmakers for years.
Their Organization Drive =.
They undertook socalled organi-
cation drive. Strawberry and his
gang were the all powerful leaders
and organizers Of this drive.
The drive surpassed any previous
campaign in its corruption and open
use of the underworld. 1t became
SC open scandal, that some mem
bers Of the executive board were
compelled to openly state at the
board meeting that, whereas IN the
past the union used these elements,
today they are the bosses and the
union is mortgaged to them.
This was the fruit of zimmerman
leadership in Local %. The workers
were dragged from the shops and
money extorted from them for the
right to 60 back TO work under the
same sweat shop conditions. zim-
norman, just like HICKMAN and Du-
binsky, while allying himself with
these elements OF the underworld,
carried on a most vicious campaign