The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
HCW Heads Betray
Workers ithOrders
to Go Home and ait
Industrial Union Will
Aid Locked Out
Workers

NEW YORK-The International
Ladies Garment Workers Union
viii do absolutely nothing to fight
the lockout Of $4,000 dressmakers
and the threatened lockout of thou
sands more, according to statements
made yesterday by Charles Zim-
norman Inc Lovestoneite, julius
RoChman, and Antonini, all officials
of the union.
The orders to go home and wait
till the bosses open the shops we're
given to 700 shop chairmen at a
meeting in Webster Hall. No ques-
tons or discussion were allowed.
Several workers in the audience who
attempted to question the I. L. G..
w. U. officials we're forcibly
squelchsd by strong arm men sta
tiored around the hall
This betrayal would leave the
workers absolutely helpless in the
face OF IRE lockout. what can
we tell the workers" many shop
chairmen were heard to remark
as they left the hall.
The lay down and take il" policy
Of the I. L. G. w. U. bureaucrats
was first promulgated publicly at a
meeting of union functionaries
Monday night at which HICKMAN,
dressmakerS manager of the joint
board, stated that the policy of the
L L. G. w. U. Will be to put out
no demands but wait until the
bosses call the workers back to the
si1cos.
The union has taken several halls
for the strikers. The bosses, in
locking out their workers yesterday,
urged them to the International
halls. and not to the halls hired by
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union This shows a deliber-
ate plot by the bosses and the In
ternationsl officials to force workers
to accept the lockout, and the wage
cuts that will follow, with the min
imun of protest.
That their scheme will not sue
coed was shown yesterday when
many iocked-out shops reported
to the Industrial Union that they
are formulating demands TO an
sweT the lockout with strikes for
bstler conditions.
The N.TWI.U. urged the locked
out workers to demand shop meet
ngs to discuss the raising of de-
mands, and if the IL.G.W.U. Off
Gals refuse, to call such shop meet
ing1 themselves. The Industrial
Union urges the workers to demand
the minimum wage scale and i'm
mediate wage increases.
IL.G.W.U. workers were urged to
come to the headquarters of the
union, 131 w. 29th St. with com
plants, for advice and help.
About 5000 locked out workers
attended the mass open air meet
ing held yesterday afternoon at
the corner Of 36th st. and 9th Ave
Left Wing Opposition Calls Meeting
NEW YORK.-The I. L. G. w. U.
Left Wing Opposition has called an
open air demonstration today noon
at 36th st. and 9Th Ave, to protest
against the orders of their union
officials to go home and wait till
the lockout is over.
A delegation to the International
Union headquarters will be elected
to demand that the workers be or
ganized against the lockout and
demands be adopted for the mini
mum wage and wage increases.
At one O'Clock the workers will
attend q mass meeting at the
Irving Plaza. 18th st. and Irving
Place, to hear the report of the
delegation.
The Left Wing Opposition de-
mands that the bosses pay for the
loss Of time in view of the fact that
lockout is violation of the agree
ment.