The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
69DressShopGroups
Urge Left Wing Vote
In Local p Elections

our gains anQ Drlng DdCk UIle sweat
shops. In such a situation we need
in the administration of our local,
workers of our own kind. We can
entrust our interests only to honest,
militant, class conscious workers
who will work hard to attend to our
complaints, solve our problems with
us and build our union.
"Only the Left Wing candidates
can serve us. They have conducted
a constructive campaign. They have
raised the real problems confronting
us. Their program is for us and for
our interests and they mean what
they say. The Left Wing workers
were in the front trenches during
the strike. They are fighting in the
shops and in the union against wage
cuts, against discrimination and
against the treacherOus scientific
schedule They are fighting for the
enforcement of the agreement, for
unemployment insurance, for demo-
cracy in the union, for unity in our
ranks, for real class struggle union
controlled by the dressmakers.
Defeat the fake progressive Zim-
norman administration, VIII C h
means defeat of fat prices and
scientific schedules
"Vote for the Left Wing cardi-
dates and save the union and the
union conditions"
The Left Wing of Local %, which
has 27,0O0 members, has also issued
a stirring appeal to the entire mem
bership of the union, urging it to
support the left wing candidates.
"Vote for the control of our
union by the dressmakers! Vote
for the enforcement of the agree
ment in every shop!" reads this
appeal, which continues by expos
ing the treachery and conSpira-
torial denagogy of the Zimmerman
administration. In calling for the
support and votes of the member
ship, the Left Wing candidates
have pledged to the dressnakers:
/. To fight against the scientific
wage cutting schedule and against
flat prices. Immediately to take up
a struggle to enforce in every dress
shop the minimum wage scale and
all other provisions of the agree
ment and to make every effort pos
sible to collect back pay for the
1900 complaints neglected by the
Zimmerman administration.
2. Mobilize all dressmakerS
against every attempt of the N. R.
A. Code Authorities to change our
agreement for the benefit of the
bosses. We will fight for the aboli-
ton of the so-called wage-differen-
tials and sub-normality clauses of
the code.
3. To organize effective jobber
committees to stop the competition
between the workers of one con-
tractor and another of the same
jobber.
4. To initiate at once an organ
lied demand for the immediate
establishment of an unemployment
insurance fund at the expense of
the dress jobbers and manufactur-
ers.
5. To carry on an uncomprornis-
ing struggle against all discriinina-
lions practiced against Negro and
Spanish speaking dressmakers; to
give greater attention to the con-
ditions Of the finishers, examiners,
pinkers, etc.. to unite the Negro
and white dressmakers for our COM
mon interests.
s. To observe the fullest democ-
racy in the union, permit the
wideSt expression Of opinion and
criticism and to fight unconpro-
misingly against the policy of ex-
pulsions, suspensions and eliinina-
tons practiced by the fake pro-
gressives and the reactionaries of
our union.
Z. We will strive to our utmost
to do away with the division in the
ranks of the dressmakers and bring
about that unity which is necessary
to maintain our union conditions.
8. We pledge to build our union
and our local as militant instru-
ment to safeguard and defend the
interests of all dressmakers.
A VOTE FOR THE LEFT WING
CANDIDATES IS A VOTE FOR A
MILITANT CLASS STRUGGLE
UNIONi
Left Wing Candidates
The left wing candidates who will
be voted on in the elections which
take place tomorrow Thursday,
are.
For Local Manager Secretary:
Morris Starnper.
For Executive Board members
vote for these Is only: