Archive Transcript: Pamphlets
The Union Hosts are Marching on!
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East, West, North, South
The Union Hosts are Marching on!
In the Cotton Dress Factories
Through Fight to Victory
With The I.L.G.W.U.
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The Fight is Now on for Union Recognition!
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For nearly five months, the cotton garment manufacturers, your bosses, fought tooth and nail to defeat President Roosevelt's executive order for a 36-hour week in the cotton garment industry advanced by the Union. They, your employers, who talk so sweetly of "voluntary cooperation" and of "aiding in recovery plans," did not hesitate to seek an injunction to restrain the Government of the United States and the Union from enforcing the shorter work-week, but they failed in the end.
The Union fought for the shorter week in order to create jobs for the unemployed in the cotton garment trades. As a result, the 36-hour week is today the law in the industry. But the Union does not intend to leave the enforcement of this law to the cotton garment manufacturers alone. The Union knows too well that, if it were left to them, the cotton garment manufacturers would use every device and loophole to defeat and nullify the 36-hour law as well as any other work-rule which affects favorably wages or any other work condition in their factories.
The Workers Demand Union Shops and Union Agreements
To make sure that the cotton garment employers would observe:
- The 36-Hour Week;
- A Decent Living Wage;
- Freedom to below to a Union of Their Own Choice;
- No Dismissal From Jobs for Union Activity;
- Shop Committees to Fix Labor Prices;
- Collective Bargaining, and
- Abolition of Spy System in the Factories -
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The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has now put the question squarely up to the cotton dress manufacturers demanding:
UNION SHOPS
UNION WAGES
A FAIR DEAL
The old IRON HEEL in the cotton garment factories must go! The new Union Deal based on American Ideals and the American standard of living must take its place!
The Struggle is on throughout the breadth and width of our land. From Milwaukee, Wis., Twin Cities, Minn., Chicago, Decatur, and Collinsville, Ill., Cleveland and Kent, Ohio, Baltimore, Md., St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., Fort Wayne, Ind., Dallas, Tex., Seattle, Wash., San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal. Come stirring messages of strikes, stoppages, and settlements in cotton garment factories under the Banner of the I.L.G.W.U.
FOLLOW EXAMPLE OF THE 150,000 CLOAK AND SILK DRESS WORKERS
Cotton garment workers! Less than two years ago, 150,000 cloak and silk dress workers in the East and in the Middle West were in about the same deplorable condition as you are in now. But these men and women struck courageously for their human rights under the colors of the Union and they are, as a result, today among the best-paid and best-treated organized workers in America. FOLLOW THEIR EXAMPLE. SHOW YOUR METTLE- BELIEVE AND DARE AND DO!
THE INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION KNOWS NO DEFEAT! MARCH UNDER ITS BANNER TO VICTORY, MEN AND WOMEN IN THE COTTON GARMENT FACTORIES OF AMERICA!
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.