The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-02
Fur Workers Force.
MIRA. to Halt AL.
Contract With Bosses.
Forced Registration Is to
Cease; No LOckOuts;
Won By Militancy

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. l.
Fur manufacturers were ordered to
halt all pending negotiations for an
agreement with the A. F. Of L. and
were told that agreement already
concluded would not be considered in
force, in a temporary decision rem
dered by the National Labor Board
last night.
The Board has held hearings dur
ing the past week on the Industrial
Unions demands for a referendum
10 determine the fur workers ver-
dict on the union they choose to Join.
The demands grow out Of the recent
renewal of war against the Indus
trial Union by A. F. Of L. and the
fur bosses involving loek-outs and
terror against the fur workers to
compel them to join the A. F. of L.
The National Labor Boards deci-
sion comedies the Industrial Unions
demands that all workers locked out
FOR refusal to join the A. F. Of L.
shall be reinstated in their shops,
that no further lock-outs shall be
declared against the workers and
that all forced registration Of fur
workers cease Immediately.
The decision on the referendum
mas been withheld by the Board.
Following the announcement of
the ruling, the Fur Trimming Man
ufacturers Association consented to
abide by the decision but the A. F.
Of l.. Joint Council and the Associ-
ated Fur Manufacturers refused TO
state what their action would be.
Bosses, A. F. Of L. Oppose Vote
At yesterdays hearings before the
Board. both the Associated Fur
Manufacturers Association and the
A. F. of L. Joint Council opposed
The referendum. The fur bosses
through their representative declared
they would defy the Board to force
them to carry through its decision.
Dretel, a fur boss caused con-
siderable merriment when he de-
cIared during the hearings that
the Industrial Union is mo good
for the employer" but it does rep
resent the interests of the work
crs. 1t is the only union you can't
buy and / have bought the other"
he said.
Yesterday at the Rand School a
small group Of $50 met to "cele-
orate" the A. F. Of L. settlement
with the fur bosses. The meeting
was gloomy and pessimistic in at
mosphere and soon dispersed. They
were not informed of the decision.
Workers Demonstrate Against ALL
While the hearings were in in
Washington, 5000 workers demon
strated in the fur market Wednesday
against the intimidation and terror
ism Of the fur bosses and the A. F.
of L. a resolution adopted at an
open air meeting demanding that the
N.R.A. and the police stop their aid
to the racketeering Joint Council
wa sforwarded to Washington. An
other resolution was forwarded to
the Board in the name Of 900 fur
shop chairmen calling for the annul-
nent Of all agreements made by the
fur bosses with the A. T. of L. The
resolution warned that strikes would
be called whenever the workers were
foroibly made to register with the
A. F. Of L.
The victory for the Industrial
Union which the decision represents
abs been won by the organized
strength and power and the militant
mass action Of the fur workers with
the guidance of the courageous and
fighting Communist leaders of the
Industrial Union. The fur workers
10 not propose to rest until a re-
ferendum is won to settle finally and
certainly that the Industrial Union
is the only union representing the
fur workers.