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concern • . Labor must become Old Gold's New $250,000
industry conscious."
Cartoon Contest Has
In his attempt to aid the em-
Started
ployers Hillman gave his approval
out on strike. Immediately after- to speeding up the workers, con- For Full Details Read Page 3,
(CONCLI'VED FROM PAGE ONE)
doning the profits of the manufac-
ward, Ilillman attended the con- turers though wages failed to keep
Section I; It Can Make You
solidating the union and maintain- vention of the United Garment pace. Rank and file opposition grew.
Rich for Life.
ing protective standards. More- Workers at Nashville, Tenn. The The quiet, square-chinned presi-
over, in the twenties, reactionaries U.G.N. leadership, fearing the dent of the Amalgamated made
It makes no difference how
and some outright racketeers man-
speeches couched in steadily sharp- busy you are, you should enter
aged to infiltrate its ranks. There younger and more progressive del- er terms directed against the left- this new, bigger, unusual Old
resulted factional fights and oppo- egates, decided to play safe by dis- wing groups within the union. The Gold Cigarette Contest which is
sition to the officials' policy of col- franchising a great bloc of mili- The Amalgamated began to lose
laboration. Revolt of the rank and tants who they expected would members, and Hillman's denunci- advertised in our newspaper to-
file led to mass expulsions of mili- oppose them. The ousted delegates ations, punctuated by quick. sharp day. Read the details on page 3,
Section 1. It makes no difference
and there
tants, the sabotaging of strikes by called a rump convention
new union, the gestures, took on a nem bitterness. whether one is poor or rich, young
the bureaucracy, and fierce Red- laid the base for a
Employers
who
had
slandered
the
baiting. Local scabbed on local; Amalgamated Clothing Workers of A.C.W. commenced to praise Hill- or old, man or woman—onyone
the more progressive workers left America with Sidney Hillman as man: "Ile has never made demands can enter this contest and win a
the I. L. G. N. and joined the president. The Amalgamated soon on an industry that it could not fortune in money-5100,000 is
the First Prize.
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
meet economically, and he has been
Everyone has again a chance.
Union affiliated with the Trade
known to make concessions where
the opportunity to
Union Unity League. By 1932, the
the realities of the situation proved Everyone has
membership had dropped to 40,000.
irresistible." Yet the more Hill- win one of the 1,000 cash prizes.
Aside
from
the
fact that you may
Throughout the factional strug-
man charmed the employers, the
gle, David Dubinsky, the present
more members the Amalgamated win a prize, enter this contest
president of the union, sided with
because
it
is
very
interesting and
lost. In the end, a large portion of
the old guard. As a director of the
the Amalgamated seceded from the will help sharpen your mind. This
employers' organization for the
new
Old
Gold
Contest
is the most
union and joined the progressive
garment industry remarked some
Needle Trades Workers Industrial interesting contest offered at any
time later, "Mr. Dubinsky has been
time to the American public, with
Union.
a Most vigorous and effective op-
Hillman was also intrigued by prizes totaling a quarter of a mil-
ponent of the Communist or Left
lion dollars.
what
he
considered
the
business
Wing element in our industry —
The first prize, $100,000 in
opportunities open to the A.C.W.
Mr. Dubinsky's local was the 'last
Like the railroad brotherhood, the cash—a fortune—will make the
outpost' in the resistance to the
winner rich for lifetime. You can
Amalgamated
setup
banks
in
Chi-
Communist invasion of the indus-
cago and New York City, "to ad- win this fortune without labor-
try." Yet years before, David
vance the class struggle." The ious mental effort. Neither high
Dubinsky had been persecuted as
banks lent money to employers out education nor specialized talent is
a revolutionary. Born in Brest-
of their combined resources of 20 at all necessary. This new con-
Litovsk, Poland, in 1892, he had
million dollars. But banking neces- test will be conducted exactly like
been arrested for political activity
sitated adoption of big business the previous Old Gold contest with
at the age of 15, and only a year
methods: when it came to cutting the same faithful attention to
later, in 1908, was sentenced to
wages of employees, Hillman, like every detail that safeguards the
18 months in prison for the crime
any other bank president, reduced interest of each individual con-
of participating in a bakers' strike.
pay 10 per cent—and neglected to testant. Such cash prizes in a con-
Exiled to Siberia, the young So-
notify the workers in advance. He test have never been offered in any
SIDNEY HILLMAN
cial-Democrat served five months
and then managed to escape. He succeeded in recruiting a larger began to sympathize with the em- newspaper. You now have the op-
ployers' need for cheaper labor; in portunity to get rich for life if
came to the United States in 1911
than the U.G.W., but the depression he abandoned strug- you will enter this contest and
and immediately joined the I. L. membership
opposition
from
the
parent
union
gle as a means to protest wage win.
G. W. But Dubinsky's revolution-
You win by supplying the miss-
ary zeal faded, particularly after prevented it from affiliating with levels and instead accepted drastic
pay cute which he hailed as vie- tog conversation for the blank bal-
his election as president of his the A.F. of L.
Scarcely
less
than
a
year
old,
the
tories,
since,
he
pointed
out,
each
Ions
in a group of 45 interesting
local in 1921. In its place, Dubin-
sky adopted many of the tenets of Amalgamated called a strike of reduction could have been far more cartoons that comprise the con-
stringent.
Sidney
Hillman
was
25,000
men's
clothing
workers
in
test. To guide you in writing the
Gompersisms. As the I.L.G.W. dis-
integrated, as employers grew Chicago. The strike was unsuccess- transformed into a labor leader in- missing conversations you will find
bolder and began to lower wages ful, but it helped inaugurage a distinguishable, in many respects, suggestions below each cartoon.
Besides the first prize of $1 .00,-
and repudiate contracts, Dubinsky campaign of organization and edu- from the A. F. of L. executive
000 there are 999 other cash
and the other officers feared to re- cation resulting in the successful councilmen.
strike
of
1919
which
finally
con-
As
was
the
case
with
the
I.
L.
prizes totaling $150,000. You may
sist, lest the union be smashed
completely. Their caution only solidated the A.C.W. as a national G. W., the enactment of the NRA win $50,000, or $25,000, or $5,-
aided the owners further to weaken union. The Amalgamated had won awakened the smoldering militancy 000, or $2,600, or $600, or $250,
the union. In contrast to the offi- major gains for its membership; of the Amalgamated's rank and or $100, or $60, or $25. Read all
cials' nervous reluctance to ersist not only did it establish a 44-hour file. The union's large membership the details on page 3, Section 1,
the campaign against the I.L.G.W. week, but it also raised wages had dwindled considerably and was and you will learn what you have
the Needle Trades Workers Indus- throughout the industry. When the too poor to call a convention in to do to enter the contest in order
trial Union conducted strikes union was formed in 1914, only 16 1933. To Hillman, the NRA which to win one of the prizes.
throughout the depression and won per cent of the workers in the in- he had been active in framing,
The whole family can enter the
$1 to $3 weekly wage increases for dustry were earning $20 a week represented "the realization of a contest—father, mother, children,
or over in 1920, and some received dream," The Amalgamated re-
8,000 workers in the industry.
relatives, friends and neighbors.
as
high
as
$65
a
week.,
cruited vigorously, raised member-
David Dubinsky was elected
without an exception.
The Amalgamated, vigorous, ship in a year's time to 125,000. Everyone
president of the union in 1932. A
No expert knowledge is necessary.
year later, when the N.R.A. was militant, class conscious, an advo- A strike involving 50,000 workers
Get
acquainted
with all the de-
passed, the I.L.G.W. energetically rate of industrial unionism, donated won new agreements and better tails and rules now on page 3,
recruited members, and after the $100,000 to the 1919 steel strike. conditions throughout the industry. Section 1, of today's Jewish
Hillman had returned to his old
independent Needle Trades Work- Some yearn later, the A.C.W. sub-
Chronicle. Fill in the Official En-
ers Industrial Union disbanded for scribed $167,000 for foodstuffs, idea that without strong organiza- try Form in English on page 3,
clothing,
and
machinery
to
be
dis-
tion in the basic and mass-produc-
the sake of greater unity in the
Section 1, immediately and send
Industry, membership of the inter- tributed by the Russian Red Cross. tion industries, the labor movement it in to Old Gold Contest together
national rose to 210,000. The union It advocated recognition of the was doomed and the Amalgamated with your answer and three wrap-
won important concessions , Soviet Union, endorsed Eugene along with it. Some of Hillman's pers of Old Gold Cigarettes. This
strengthened, too, by the spread of Debs for president, and favored former progressive tendencies re- will immediately enter you in the
industrial unionism. David Dubin- labor's independent political action. appeared. The Amalgamated which
sky, conscious of the influence of It launched an ambitious educatin- had been admitted to the A.F. of L. Contest.
progressives in the rank and file , al program, developed a plan to in 1933, eagerly supported the in-
began to show greater willingness give workers in the industry unem- dustrial bloc within the Federation. Sidney Hillman succeeded in or-
to cooperate with the militants. He ployment insurance, built coopers- When all attempts to influence the ganizing the textile mills, he re-
apartment houses, set up sick s stubborn reactionaries of the ex- alized that he would be delivering
supported the C. I. 0. from its in- two
ception, though at first hesitantly. benefits for the membership. It I ecutive council failed, Hillman a telling, far-reaching blow against
progressive
policies enabled it to
one of the principal mainstays of
He also joined Sidney Hillman,
L. Lewis
in the open shop.
setting John
up the
C.I.O. and
IIis others
support,
again with some hesitation, in organize over three-quarters of the joined
men's
clothing
workers.
In
contrast
to
Dubinsky's,
was
firm
forming the American Labor Par-
(Copyright, 1937)
Sidney Hillman, in this period, and wholehearted from the first.
ty in New York, which though it
supported Franklin D. Roosevelt in had more and more tended to be- Active in forming the American
the 1936 presidential election, made come what he considered a "sane " Labor Party, he backed it vigorous-
ROSH HASHONAH
it clear that it did not accept the progressive. So long as the mem- ly. With renewed confidence in the
Democratic platform. Rather, it bership of the Amalgamated re- Amalgamated's strength, he pressed
GREETINGS
stood for independent political ac- mained militant, Hillman was rea- the employers for a revised con-
dy enough to allude to his revolu- tract and negotiated a 30 million
TO ALL
tion by labor and its allies.
As it became clear that the A.F. tionary past, to his desire to see dollar wage increase for the work-
capitalism
displaced
eventually
by
ers
in
the
industry.
of L. executive council would pre-
fer to kill the labor movement than some sort of socialist order. But as
Hillman still refused, however,
grant even the smallest concession a false feeling of security and per- to press strenuously for a national
to the C.I.O., Dubinsky's support petual prosperity began to influ- Labor Party. He continued to place
certain
portion
of
the
of the C.I.O. grew increasingly ag- ence a
undue confidence in Roosevelt. But
gressive. His union, one of the A.C.W. membership, Hillman also his advocacy of industrial union-
most progressive in America, voted showed signs of shifting his posi- ism was both understanding and
large financial grants to the or- tion. Socialism was saved for eve- progressive. To him was entrusted
ganizing campaign in auto, steel, ning discussions, for quiet philo- the campaign to organize textile
MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH.
and textile. Instituting liberal edu- sophical debates that did not affect workers, probably the most for-
cational, cultural, and social pro- union policies. Hillman became con- midable task yet undertaken by the
vinced
that
the
Amalgamated
jects, the I.L.G.W. membership al- should assist big business by help- C.I.O. He was fortunate in having
so revealed a clear understanding ing to reorganize the clothing in- the aid and seasoned advice of
of the danger to the working class
scientifically in a manner Francis J. Gorman. president of
from Fascism. The union contrib- dustry
the United Textile Workers. Slow-
uted generously to the defense of that would guarantee high profits. ly, carefully, Hillman planned the
must act as a unit in each
the People's Government in Spain. "Labor
industry," he proclaimed. strategy of the campaign: it would
Sensitive to pressure, Dubinsky re- given
in the process, learn to look require determination, patience,
alized he must keep in line with 'and,
great financial resources. If
the wishes of the rank and file, upon industry as a matter of vital
and that he mast take his place in
the progressive union movement.
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the union sent Hillman to New
York to aid eloakmakers who were
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and
Not unlike Dubinsky in back-
ground and approach, though a
stronger personality, Sidney Hill-
man had been president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers s
since its formation in 1914. Born
in Zagare, Lithuania, he entered
while still a child the rabbinical
school in Kovno, Russia. At 15, the
boy had definitely decided that his
sympathies would never permit him
to become a rabbi; he left school
to work in the revolutionary move-
ment. During the 1905-1906 revo-
lution, he was among the workers
who seized Zagare in the name of
the people, and was a member of
the proletarian committee that
governed the town. When the
Czarist police entered Zagare, Sid-
ney Hillman was forced to flee.
Three times in 1906 he was ar-
rested because of his political be-
liefs, and on the last occasion
served six months in the Dvinsk
jail. In 1907, he left Russia, mak-
ing his way to England where he
remained for a brief time before
he took a boat to America. He
settled in Chicago, became a clerk
for Sears, Roebuck Company, and
then a cutter for Hart, Schaffner
and Marx, the leading men's cloth-
ing manufacturers.
The first great strike of men's
clothing workers occurred in 1910
as a result of a walkout by 16 girls
In protest against a wage cut in a
Chicago pants shop. The workers
sought aid from the only trade
union then existing in the indus-
try, the United Garment Workers.
Their appeal was received with In-
difference. Nevertheless, the strike
spread, and pressure on the union
grew until the U.G.W. was forced
to grant the strikers a limited and
grudging assistance. The strike
compelled Hart,. Schaffner and
Marx to sign an agreement which
set up an arbitration committee of
three composed of one arbitrator
selected by the workers and one
by the employers, with the third
chosen by the two already ap-
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