The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09

andS of workers In the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
Committees of workers from
numerous shops in the buildings
affected by the strike were formed
at the call of +the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union which
demanded from the owners of the
buildings union elevator and build
ing service and informed their
bosses that they would have to pay
for the time lost by the workers
during the strike.
In a conversation with Arthur l..
Hrackham, chairman of the strike
committee Saturday morning, ].
Winogradsky, manager of the Fur
Workers Industrial Union, pre-
sented the program adopted by the
union Of calling all fur shops in
the buildings affected on SYM
pathy strike. After inquiring
whether this was the left wing
union, Hrackham informed Vino
gradsky that the strike was tenn
porarily settled and thanking the
F. w. I. u. for their active CO.
operation, stated that the members
Of the F. w. I. U. were the most
active people in helping make the
| strike success.
Another glaring example of this
policy, was the failure of the lead
ers of Local 32B to make possible
the joint action of their union
with the Independent Building
Service Employees Union.
Unity of All Workers Refused
Four weeks prior to the strike,
a special meeting of the Executive
Board of Local Number l of the
Independent Building Service En-
ployees Union was called. At this
meeting the question of general
strike was discussed, and the line
of the Independent in the event of
such strike was definitely for
INFLATED.
A proposal for joint action by
Local 32B and the Independent in
organizing the industry, in the con-
duct Of local strikes, and the de-
velopment of general strike on a
joint basis, was made and commu-
nicated to Local Sab by mail A ba-
sis for complete freedom of choice
OF union under all circumstances
was offered as solution to the
question of jurisdiction in joint &C
ton.
j. J. Bambrick, speaking for the
A. F. of L. union, at Joint meet
ing of the Executive Boards of
both unions stated that such a
basis was not acceptable.
A proposal for the establishing
of complete unity in the industry
as means of helping toward the
complete victory for the strikers
was repeated to Local 32B on the
first day of the strike by dele
cation of Local l. At this time
the delegation was not heard by
the Executive Board of Local BIB
The regular business meeting of
Local l, Manhattan, of the indie
pendent, held in Labor Temple, 247
East 84th Street, on Monday again
took up this question.
A committee was elected to draft
and present TO Local 32B, a pro-
posal for the merging of the two
union into one, for the betterment
of the workers in the industry.
The basis suggested for such a
proposal was:
ID That members of the In
dependent shall transfer their
cards for the cards of Local Sab
without payment of any initiation
fee.
a. That there shall be no dis
elimination by Local 32B on &C
count of race, color, religion or
creed.
80 That members of the hide
dependent shall transfer their
have full rights as members of
Local SOB to vote and to hold Office.
"a That full democracy shall
prevail in Local BIB at all times.
The negotiations and arbitration
conducted by the leaders of the
union preceding the issuance of the
strike call, and after the strike, the
conduct of the strike itself and its
termination resulting in a partial
victory once more proved the con-
tention of the Communist Party
that the N. R. A. with It's Regional
and National Labor Boards were
formed specifically to aid the
bosses against the workers, and to
stop strike struggles, and where
they could not do this, through
arbitration. to rob the workers OF
the demands they could have won
through strike.
If the Building Service Employees
National Union is to become the
organization that will organize all
the building service workers in New
York the lessons of the strike must
be brought home to every member
of the union and to every worker in
the industry.
The next step for the building
service workers is not to wait until
the arbitration board is set up and
starts functioning, but to lose no
time in Strengthening their union
with a broad participation of the
rank and file members in the leader
ship to spread the strike to broad
en- out the influence Of the union:
to proceed with an organization
drive to unionize every building
throughout the city and to unite all
the workers in the trade into one
powerful, militant union controlled
by its membership and fit to meet
the real estate owners in battle to
win every demand originally put
forth in the strike