The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01


union to hire plug ugles to slug
and beat up painters who dared to
get up in union meetings and say
that they thought a union was or
ganized to fight against wage cuts.
Zausner tried to get all the paint
ers to come down to the little party
on Madison Square today to hear
Norman Thomas sing paesns Of
praise to the National Labor Board.
He told them to keep away from
the big parade. He even threatened
to fine every member of the union
so who would rather join the united
front march than the Socialist" tea
party.
DUT the boys down in Phil zaus-
ID ner's union told him to go to
hell They're going to march under
the banners of the United Front
May Day Committee. They want
what all workers want-a united
front
Workers in the other A. F. of L.
unions should do likewise.
THE following little news report
! culled from the Washington
Herald some time ago shows what
kind of Shiny snakes these A. F. Of
L. leaders are Who are against a
united fighting front on May Day:
WASHINGTON, April 1O.-All
walters in the exclusive Broad
moor Apartments, 1901 Connect
cut Ave, NV, staged a waIk-out
last night after the steward, r. S.
Goetz. discharged the headwaiter,
Clarence E. Walker, cOlored. There
were Ia walters, all col0red. Chas.
E. Sands, secretary of the Hotel
& Restaurant Employees Alliance,
Local ISL, American Federation Of
Labor, granted permission TO the
BrOadmoor to borrow walters
from other hotels"
Strikebreakers, pure and simple
that's all they are, these A F. Of
L. officials. And yet the Socialist
leaders ask the workers to march
with them.
EVERY time delegation of seamen
L or Iongshoremen go to see a ship
owner to demand higher wages they
are met with the inevitable wall;
Times are tough. We're not making
any money"
Here are few facts, fellow work
ers of the Marine workers Indus
trial Union and the LILA, that you
can use to stop the mouths Of the
belly ing shipowners:
r. Stanley Dollar, head of the
Dollar line, received nearly 100000
in commissions for purohssinr YES
sells from the U. S. Shipping Board.
Stanley and Harold Dollar, along
with H M. Lorber and Herbert
Fleischhacker, cleaned up over s14,-
100000 from three government-sub-
sidized lines between 1928 and 1882
Seven million dollars net profits
were made by the Admiral Oriental
Line, owned by the Dollar interests
from 1929 to 1882. Only $500 was
originally invested by the company.
EEr-TBERS Of the International
ladies Garment Workers Union
are becoming convinced that Messrs,
HICKMAN and Zimmerman are not
interested in fighting for better con-
ditions in the shops
The recent dress stoppage wiped
away many illusions that the dress
makers had regarding these gentle
men. HOFFMAN and Zimmerman
broke up the stoppage and sent the
workers back to work under the
same old miserable conditions. The
stark reality of the shops does not
compare with the smooth talk OF
these so-called leaders.
Following the stoppage, as re-
suit of the militant united front
activities of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union, several shops
have decided to come down on strike
to maintain the wage scale, which
was abolished by the fiat price sys-
tenn and the scientific schedules.
Now Mr.. Zimmerman has joined
with the jobbers in a campaign to
exterminate the shops that have
signed up with the Industrial Union,
at the same time becoming an un-
official organ for the bosses associ-
alton.
Last week the IL,GW.U. leaders
declared a so-called strike against
the Foremost Sportwear Shop, 2
iobber who had an agreement with
the Needle Trades Industrial Union
and whose contractors are 1:oi@
trial Union shops.
The Industrial Union proposed
that the workers of two contractors
shops under control of the Inter
national fight jointly for better con.
ditions.
Zimmerman and HICKMAN stated
bluntly that they were not interested
in such joint action. Their chief
concern was to force the workers
into the International and the mem
bers of the Foremost firm into the
bosses association.
We must end this sneaking bust
ness of HICKMAN and Zimmerman
in the dress trade. Join with the
left wing group in the I.L.G.WU
Fight side by side with your brothers
and sisters of the N.T.WI.U.
United the dressmakers will wiz
union conditions.