The Daily Worker

Conference on July 5
Will Rally All Unions
To Help the Strike

BULLETIN
It was announced late yesterday that representatives of the striking hatters will meet today with the bosses to present their demands.

By DAVID GORDON

The hat finishers of Local 8 and the trimmers of Local 7 affiliated with the United Hatters of North America, American Federation of Labor, are ending their fourth week of strike. During this entire period the national office, with Michael Green at the head, has refused to donate a single cent for strike relief to the 2,000 that are out.

The strike is 100 per cent solid. Every organized shop is out. The pickets have engaged actively in organizing two of the unorganized shops. The Hat Manufacturers Association retaliated with bringing in of scabs in the unorganized shops and with the securing of an injunction which limits the size of the picket lines to two persons.

The chief activity in giving spirit, enthusiasm and personal sacrifice comes from the rank and file leadership and membership. The hat bosses have refused to discuss prices with the men. The chief demand is for the $9 day.

In this situation, with the strike entering into its fifth week the strike committee of Local 8 decided to issue a call to the labor movement of the city of New York to aid it by donating financial relief. This is the burning need of the 2,000 striking hatters today. The conference is being held at Beethoven Hall, 210 E. 5th Street, on Thursday July 5th at 8 p. m.

The conference being called by Local 8 should receive the support of every A. F. of L. local union, every rank and file group within the A. F. of L. locals and of every A. F. of L. member in the city of New York.

The New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief located at 1 Union Square calls upon all the local union and rank and file group supporters to elect delegates to this conference and to come to this conference with substantial donations to the strikers. The A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief also calls upon all locals of the A. F. of L. to support this strike.

This is an opportunity afforded the A. F. of L. locals to join with New York labor as a whole in not only giving relief to 2,000 striking A. F. of L. workers, but in so doing demonstrate its protest against the injunction issued against the strikers and help compel the hat manufacturers to come to terms in favor of the strikers' demands.

The New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief calls upon all locals and rank and file groups to do the following:

1. Elect delegates to the Hatters' Strike Relief Conference, Thursday, July 5th, 8 p. m. at Beethoven Hall, 210 E. 5th St., New York City.

2. Decide upon a donation to give to help the Strikers Relief Fund, or (and)

3. Take up a collection in the local or in the shops where members of the local are employed.

Show the hat manufacturers that the labor movement is united to support the strike of the hatters. Show all the manufacturers that the labor movement will refuse to be split up in any of its struggles, that we will present a fighting front of unity in the interests of the workers in the fight for higher wages and against injunctions. The A. F. of L. unions must be in the front ranks the rest of the New York labor movement to help organize a huge conference next week in support of hatters general strike. The fight must start at once.