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312  THE COMMUNIST

as an organ of the Socialist Party and its unions, writes on December 5th.

"The main objective sought by the union in the strike is to set up impartial machinery for the regulation and 'policing' of the dress trade similar to that in the cloak industry." (Emphasis mine.- A.B.M.)  Note that the Times itself uses the term "policing."

And no longer do the "socialist" I.L.G.W. betrayers conceal the fact that the fake dress strike has been planned together with the bosses and the bosses' state.  The same news story in The Times reports that "to prevent a long-drawn-out strike after the expiration of the agreements December 31, President Schlesinger called a number of conferences last month with representatives of the employers' associations, at which the union succeeded in obtaining an agreement in principle for their cooperation in reorganizing the industry.

"The employers said they would cooperate with the union and with any state or public agency in the readjustment of conditions in the industry... provided the union showed in the strike that it was really in control of a majority of the workers and was able to exert effective pressure on unorganized shops."  (Emphasis mine.- A.B.M.)

The meaning of the latter part of this is clear: the employers will do their part of the job, but the I.L.G.W. must deliver the goods; it must drive out the left wing Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the one obstacle preventing the complete delivery of the workers into the hands of their exploiters.  And it requires no subtle powers of exegesis to uncover the naked fascist meaning of the phrase: "effective pressure on unorganized shops."

And Governor Roosevelt?  Finance capital's chief representative in the state government again stands ready.  And here too the company union chiefs lost all shame.  At the Cleveland convention they see to it that a telegram is received and read from Lieutenant Governor Lehman (the same who had previously been so generous with the cash), in behalf of Governor Roosevelt, in which he hints very broadly that the state will play its part as it did before.  But lest some of the slower-witted delegates and representatives of the capitalist press fail to get this hint, Julius Hochman, vice-president of the I.L.G.W., takes pains to dispel all ambiguity.  He informs the world that "it is believed that at the psychological moment Governor Roosevelt will intervene with a proposal for the regulations and 'policing' of the industry similar to the one which brought the cloak strike to a satisfactory conclusion."  (Times, December 5. Emphasis mine.-A.B.M.)