The fight between the left and right wings of the garment workers, strikeleaders, which resulted from disagreements about the manner of conducting the strike, the “rights” directly charging the “lefts” with sacrificing the interests of the 35,000 workers at the dictation of the Communist Party, came to a climax, when, at a meeting of the General Executive Board of the International Garment Workers Union a state of emergency was declared and orders issued outlawing the present strike leadership, the International Union, as the parent organization, taking over exclusive management.
With the ousting of Louis Hyman, Julius Portnoy, Charles Zimmerman and Joseph Borouchovitz on charges of “accepting direction of the strike from the Communist Party,” the General Executive Board of the International promptly set up its machinery of provisional committees to take over the various local unions comprising the Cloakmakers’ Joint Board as well as the Joint Board itself. The first steps of the new bodies will be taken today to bring the strike and lockout of 16,000 cloakmakers to an early conclusion.
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