The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
A Neav Smoke Screen

A sharp attack on all TANKS has been launched in
" the past week against the militant Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union The bosses, the A. F. of L.
officials with its socialist leadership and the capitalist
government are jointly conspiring annihilate the
section OF the union, is being made the main target
OF their blows
Twenty-eght leaders and active rank and file
members of the Needle Trades Union including Ben
Gold, Louis Hyman, I. Potash, A. winogradsky and
j. Schneider have been indicted by the Federal Grand
Jury on frame-up charges Of restraint Of and
terrorism"
AS smoke screen for this effort to crush the In
dustrial Union the Grand Jury beatedly raises the
issue racketeering indcng also real racketeer and
criminals, the rs fur firms, members of two fur
ployers' trade associations and several A. Of L. fur
union officials
1t is significant that the Indictment against the
real racketeers about result of the initiative
Of the Industrial Union which, as far back last
August, produced evidence OF series Of atrocities
against the fur workers which had been perpetrated
by the fur bosses and the A. F. of L. fur union officials
The union demanded action against the bloody terror
Among the many outrages which the socialist leaders
Of the A. of L. fur union and the bosses jointly had
eheSuCtuB "eLC GAS pOluollB anu VI N1OIIlS
LANCER organizer of the fur dyers and dressers and
the gangser attack the headquarters OF the union
aimed at killing the leaders of the union and resulting
in the murder of fur worker and the wounding of
many others. For months the local and federal gov
eminent agencies silent until last week, when
the indictment handed down included those who had
been vctimzed by the gangsers and rackeeers, well
as those guilty Of perpetratng the crimes
has, heen met
" the Industrial Union7 Why also at this time does
the A. F. of L. fur union desperately seek to get an
injunction against the Needle Trades Union to deprive
the majority Of the fur workers in the city of Jobs
in Associated fur shops while vainy attempting to
force the A F. of L. workers into their company union
Behind the Federal indictment and the injunc-
ton move, is the alliance Of the bosses, the A. F. of
L. fur union officials and their socialist and Love-
stoneite friends to strike fatal blow against the In
duSrial Union, to finally smash the heroic resistance
Of the fur workers and pave the way for lowering the
workers standards
The Industrial Union is thorn in the side OF
the bosses 1t alone has exposed every treacherous
manoeuvre to destroy the living standard of the fur
workers and has fought to finish for improving the
conditions Of the workers 1t has fearlessy exposed
the Blue Eagle as an instrument directed mainly
against the fur workers conditions and against their
fighting union. BY indicting the Industrial Union
leaders, the government hopes to weaken the case
against the racketeers and divert attention from the
main issue of failing the criminal elements responsible
for murderous crimes against the working class.
The fur workers have met the bosses In battle be-
fore and have out victorious Today rs per cent
Of the shops controlled by the Associated Fur Manu-
facturers who led this attack, recognize the Indus
trial Union in fact. The OF fur workers
members Of the Industrial Union and nowhere else
the bosses get the workers whose toll assures their
profits.
The solidarity Of the fur workers and their loyal
support to their union 10 be tested In the coming
counter offensive which the union must organize to
effectively defeat the latest attacks On Thursday
thousands Of needle trades workers should turn out to
ST. NICHOLAS ARENA to mobilize their strength to
smash the frame-up and establish the right of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union TO exist