The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Dressmakers Urged to
Vote Full Left Wing
Slate Today

/ Of SO dress shop groups to the mem
bership Of Local % of the Interna-
| tional Ladies' Garment Workers
Union to vote for the entire Left
Wing slate. the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union yesterday
issued a declaration ito all dress
makers Of Local %" which relent-
lessly pointed out the resctionary
policies of the present Zimmerman
leadership.
The Local % elections will take
place today.
The NT.WIU. declaration is
sweeping in its exposure of the I'M
derhand methods used by thinner
man to fool the dressmakers. 1t
poses "a few important facts from
which the dressmakers can and
must draw logical conclusions"
Sisters and brothers." the decla-
ration reads, You are in the midst
of struggle between the dressmak-
ers on the one hand, and the united
Dubinsky- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of
f1cials, calling themselves the pro
gressive group" on the other hand.
In this struggle the fake progress
sives have stopped so low as to call
thousands Of left-wing dressmakers
Hitlerites and Ku Klux Klaners.
ITO all the questions and prob
lens raised by the left wing dress
makers against the Zimmerman ad-
ministration, Zimmerman answered
with one cry: Dual Unionism.'
"Dressmakers ask: Zimmerman,
why have you given the bosses q
present thousa-d s of complaints and
why have v permitted the i'm
partial chair n and the bosses to
throw these complaints into the
waste basket?
The answer of Zimmerman is,
Dual Unionism, and you are agents
of the Industrial Union
"Dressmakers ask further: Why
have you, Zimmerman, allowed the
bosses to maintain fiat prices and
why are you silent about your new
wage cutting scheme, the scientific
schedule?
Zimmerman again answers with
his old hypocritical song, Dual
Unionism.'
I'VE therefore ask you, thinner
man:
why are you silent about the fol-
lowing facts:
THAT you as manager Of Local %
have sent messages to the leaders Of
the Industrial dual Union.
Why are you silent about the fact
that you have pleaded with the lead
ers Of the dual Industrial Union to
have at least one conference with
you,
why don't you tell the dressmak-
ers that at this conference you SOL
EMMY promised to help the dual
Industrial Union, If we only called
upon the former members of our
union forced into the International,
to support you,
"At a conference with one of the
leaders Of the Industrial Union you
declared that the Dubinsky- Hoch-
man clique are traitors, that the
International does not serve the
workers interests, and that you have
purposely disclosed facts about their
betrayals in the Day so that the
Industrial Union might make use
Of these facts.
at that time you we're already
manager Of Local 10.
Why are you silent about these
facts?
we never took seriously a single
word you said, but when you are
foaming at your mouth with poison
against the Industrial Union we
consider it important and necessary
to unmask you and disclose to the
dressmakers your treacherous face.
you have made deal with the
Hochman-D ubinsky clique You
conferred with Vladeck and other
socialist leaders. You also conferred
and tried to make q deal with the
Industrial Union. You are pre-
pared to combine with anybody and
everybody in order to maintain
yourself and your unprincipled
clique in Office. But with the dress
makers you refuse TO unite!
I'VE rejected with disgust your
offer for deal with your clique. The
Industrial Union does not make any
deals with cliques. Even your DEM
agogy does not cover up your
treachery. BY means Of demagogy
one cannot maintain himself in
union office very long.
"Dressmakers. The few facts that
we disclose speak for themselves.
Maintain the gains you made ir
your last strike Don't rely on I'M
principled demagogues. You will be
able to force your bosses to respect
and observe your achievements only
through your own united forces. You
won victory only thanks to your
united militant struggle. Keep up
this struggle in every shop for union
conditions.
Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union,
ISL W. 2sth ST., N.Y.C."
The Left Wing Group in Local "a
yesterday issued four-p page leafet
as q. final call to the dressnaksrs,
in which it stressed the following
points:
Vote for Stamper as mansgerl
vote for all the Left Wing can
didates
Vote to enforce the minimum
wage scale in every shop!
vote for a militant class struggle
unionl"
The leaf1et also called on the
workers to defeat the Zimmerman
fake progressives, the wage cutting
Scientific schedule fat prices and