The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-17


ing the workers away from left wing
leadership knowing we'll that the In
duStrial Union will not yield an inch
in the struggle until the demands Of
the strikers are won.
The National Recovery Administra-
ton moved to head the strike yes
terday when Hugh S. johnson, who
reported "as not upset" about the
strike, instructed DR.. Leo Wolman,
chairman of the New National La
Dor Board to step in. Wolman au-
thorized Grover Whalen, ex-New
York City Police Commissioner, no.
toriouS for his part in clubbing and
falling the unemployed, to act as
mediator in the situation. A meet
ing is to be held in the Hotel Penn
sylvania at noon today when four
Of the leading manufacturers, con-
tractors and jobbers' associations will
meet to discuss the strike. 1t is op-
emily admitted in the capitalist press
that the strike will be quickly ended.
Whalen will move to break the strike
and help in the sell-out Of the dress
makers by getting official recognition
by the non-union jobbers for the IL
CIV and the promise of putting over
the slave code proposed by the bos-
ses.
The dressmakers must be vigilant
and refuse to accept any mediation
plan but rather demand broad rank
and file strike committee to negotiate
with the bosses without any inter
mediary. Whalen has long since
shown his hatred and bitterness
against the working class. Nor can
the workers trust the ILGWU off,
Gals who have repeatedly sold out
their interests in the strikes of 1880
and 1882. Only unity and broad rank
and file strike committees will pro-
tect the dressmakers' interests.
That the ILGWU officials, the
bosses and the government are
working together is obvious from the
open statement in the New York
American that the only purpose Of
the strike is to force the bosses to
recognize the union and that the
strike is not being taken seriously
by the bosses. A cynical headline in
Women's Wear yesterday indicates
clearly that the strike is not being
controlled by the workers Of the
ILGWU but by the bosses, the police
and the NRA officials. The headline
declares: Dress Industry Employers
Unruffled as ILGWU Strike Ar
rives on Scheduled Time. The Off
Gals of the ILGWU have already
secretly agreed to the slave code
which will be put over on the dress
makers at the coming hearings in
Washington. They are now in collu-
sion with the NRA to sell out the
present strike in return for recogni-
ton and the chance to get per capita
dues from the union members to
insure their control
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union is mobilizing the
dressmakers to resist any attempt to
break the strike or betray their de-
mands and will fight for unity and
for winning some real improvements
in their conditions.
At the strike halls of the ILGWU
yesterday workers from open shops,
who came to register, we're told that
they must pay their dues at once and
join the union. Workers of the K.
and M. shop at 300 West 18th St.,
reported that on registering at Web
ster Hall they were told that pressers
must pay $40, operators IS and fin
iShers and examiners must pay $3.50
each. This outrageous and criminal
action on the part of the ILGWU Of
ficials in Fleeing the miserably paid
open shop workers will be vigorously
exposed and fought by the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
The K. and M. shop is only one of
many similar instances.
Immediate plans for spreading the
strike and achieving unity of all
dressmakers were announced yester-
day by the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union.
In addition to the meetings in the
garment center at noon today and at
Cooper Square at 3 p. m. there will
be huge picketing demonstration in
the dress center Friday morning and
demonstration at Union Square at
2 p. m.
On Saturday at 1890 a. m. at
Irving Plaza conference of all shop
chairmen of the I. L. G.. w. and In
dustrial Union shops is called.