The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Furriers in
Drive on New
Code of NRA
Mass Meet At Cooper
Union to Open Fight
on Overtime
By S. VIOLIN

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the fur manufacturers and their as
sociations have combined with the
Joint Council of the A. F. Of L. in
a renewed vicious attack against the
Fur Workers Industrial Union. The
fur bosses have decided to make
another attempt to break the In
dustrial Union because the fur
workers, under the leadership of the
union compelled the bosses to live up
to the agreement and fought for
the maintenance of union condi-
tons in the shop.
The union has collected from the
manufacturers thousands Of dollars
in back pay for the fur workers for
violating the agreement. The UNI
employment fund which was estab-
lished in the industry whereby the
manufacturers have to contribute
weekly has completely enraged the
bosses.
The militant struggles against
contracting, against overtime, for
the mobilization for a 30-hour week
to be instituted in the fur trade, in
the struggle for equal distribution
of work which means the drive for
the closed shop, conducted under
the leadership of our union, haunted
and robbed the bosses of their sleep.
Declaration of War
The fur manufacturers with the
assistance of the Joint Council of
the A. F. of L. have declared war
against the fur workers, just as they
did in 1926 when the left wing led
the workers in the struggle for a 40
hour week and other improved con-
ditions. 1t did not matter much that
the Joint Council is completely bar
ren of membership.
The bosses have thrown them
selves very energetically into the
drive for membership for the Joint
Council by forcing the fur workers
to become members Of the Joint
Council, threatening them with the
loss of their jobs if the workers
resist these instructions The fur
workers are answering with strikes
against the firms which dare to
mention registration. About IS shops
are striking at present against reg
istration and for union conditions.
The Joint Council of the A. F. of
L. gets the full financial support
from the bosses and the yellow
Forward" which SANDERS and lies
about the militant activities Of the
fur workers. But the Joint Council
has no moral support nor standing
in the eyes of the fur workers. And
so the Socialist Party and the Love
Stoneites are used as a moral cover"
to deceive the workers. The bosses
also hope to suppress the militant
struggles of the fur workers through
underworld thugs who are hirelingS
of the bosses and the Joint Coun-
Gil.
Delivered Heavy Blows
However, the fur workers through
their militant struggles have deli
vered heavy blows to the bosses and
their Joint Council. The Council
mas completely failed to register the
workers with their union" in spite
of their agreements with the asso-
Citations. . ,.a
The best example of the treachery
Of the Joint Council is seen in the
signing of the code" The code
just signed permits contracting and
oVertime-the two main evils in the
fur trade.
The Code just signed gives the
bosses the right to determine which
Is first and second scale; there is
no mention in the Code of the IN
employment Fund; not word about
equal division of work which gives
the bosses the authority to discharge
and discriminate against fur work
ers. This is the kind of a Code the
Joint Council has helped to work
out behind closed doors.
THE FUR WORKERS WILL
GIVE THEIR ANSWER AT THE
COOPER UNION MEETING, To-
NIGHT, MONDAY, MAY 18th.