The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
How Ladies' NeckWear
Local l42 Is Managed
By Socialist Tuvim

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blacklisted-and seldom gets his
job back
Folakoff is still the business agent
and Mr.. Joseph Tuvim is still "in-
Vestigating' why the girl was fired.
The Socialist" Tuvim never does
anything when a worker is fired for
complaining to the union about
non-union conditions in any shop.
He has too much experiece in this
field. Firstly, he knows too well
how to serve the bosses. While a
member Of Local % of the Sheet
Metal Workers Union, he was also
the manager of a bosses racket,
the Contracting Roofers Credit
Assn of Brooklyn, Inc" This
racket was organized for the sole
purpose Of collecting defaulted
money from bankrupt firms after
they were reorganized.
Having had this valuable expe-
rience on how to serve the bosses,
Tuvim is using it in Local 142 Of
the Ladies Neckwear Union.
There are three bosses associa-
tons in the ladies neckwear indus
try in N. Y. One is known as the
Major League or the Big Six. 1t
controls almost the whole industry.
Tuvim takes personal care Of this
associations shops. No one else in
the union has the right to step into
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not lived up to in these shops.
Tuvim knows this very well, but
somehow the bosses always like to
deal with him.
NCn-uniOn workers are en-
ployed in these union shops.
Wages are far below the scale.
Union members are being fired
while nOn-uniOn workers are en-
PIoyed.. 1t is in this way that
Tuvim is taking care of the Big
Six
Here is what a member of Local
% has to say about Tuvim in the
Jewish Forward"
They Cthe members) point him
and say: This shows how Won can
trust socialist, when he is being
bought. He is as had as the rest
Of the officials"
The membership of Local 142 was
at that time not organized. The
workers were ready for organization
before the IL.G.W.U. attempt to
organize them. There were manv
shops where workers had formed
groups on the @. T. The bosses
knew it. Fearing the possibility
that the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union might organize them.
the bosses sent them to the JIG.
WI. instead. Dubinsky, who knew
Tuvim's past activities, chose him
to head the newly-organized local.
Local 40 has a membership of
$500. The dues run from so cents
week for men, to IS cents a week
for girls. The members are not in
formed of what their officers are
doing with their money and their or
ganization. No financial reports are
being issued Tuvim's policy is the
same as that of the old grafters Of
Local 28-the less the members
know about the organization, the
better off they are. When the mem
bers kicked out the old Local %
grafters they discovered that
$4,000 had. been "n1isused." The
case is at present in the Supreme
Court.
The newest cog in TWINS
machine (which he is quite expert
in building) is new appointee.
business agent named Ernst Rath-
koper, a man who was defeated in
the last election when he. received
only IA votes out Of $500 members.
But the Dubinsky clique wants this
man, as it wants Tuvim. Both are
supposed to be paid by the ]. L.
@. w. U.-but the members of the
local have to pay back every cent
which the International puts cut
for it.
TWIN will have to answer the
following questions of the members:
Why does he not call REGULAR
membership meetings? Why does
he not issue quarterly financial
reports? Why aren't shop meetings
held regularly? Why does he sup
port a big Office force of his own
friends and favoriteS? Why are
workers heino fired uhan thew co,,o