Salute to the Cloakmakers

...Democracy, to be real, is founded on free will, sell disciplined in the Interest of the whole community of indl-vidual...

...In the presence of 1,200 veterans of the 1910 strike who formed the core of the great assemblage in Madison Square Garden, the union and its loaders pledged themselves anew to carry on in the spirit of their great pioneers and re-dedicated themselves to the cause of those men and women of more than a generation ago who by their toil and sacrifice, by courageous struggle and devotion to principle had made possible today's mighty ediflce of their organization...

...We must join with them to help bring reality to the ideal that sll men are created equal...

...We must help build that which Is new, and yet it free, or we shall live in dread of destruction from the selfish lusts of another totalitarianism...

...Only through free cooperation can we build a futur* and *n-sur* peace In a world wher* the quality of justies must guide our decisions...

...The cloakmakers have remained the hack bone of the powerful International and have stood consistently in the forefront of progressive trade unionism, in recent years, under the direction of Israel Feinberg, they have registered new and impressive gains in wage and work standards and have taken the lead in the development of social security benefits within industry as shown by their recent establishment of old-age pensions financed by the employers and jointly administered by the union and manufacturers...

...While under modern condition!, the rang* *f government sctivity is necouarlly expanded, the goal of democracy should be the minimum of governOur great task today is the establishment of a United Nations federation of the world in which the democratic liberties of the free peoples of the world are assured under a single government...

...The Communists who won two seats instead of one in the House of < ..minims will be shouting for an immediate utopia in a land rsvaged by war...

...The history of human civilization has been the progress of the Individual towards the maximum of human liberty within the range of th* ?.ci ties of Others...

...The Communists present a problem which must be met...

...Even if the Labor Party rudely refused to accept ? marriage of convenience you will continue to And the "comrades" running their candidates in districts where the Labor Party could win if the forces were not divided...

...If we had followed their "corkscrew" line, we would have lacked the planes and guns which enabled the grim people of Britain to hold alone snd which later enabled the heroic people of Russia to defeat the Nazi hordes...

...They will forget that if the workers of the usa and Britain had followed their advice between September 1939 and June 21, 1941, the people of Russia might have been unable to hold the Nazis at the gates of Moscow...

...The New Leader extends congratulations and best wishes for continued success...

...To the cloakmakers and their leaders, the advance guard of honest, militant and forward-looking American trade unionism...

...Salute to the Cloakmakers TUK celebration this week of the 36th anniversary of the Cloakmakers Union, oldest affiliate of the International Indies' Garment Workers, was an event of importance not only to that great organization but to the entire labor movement...

...Watt servatives...

...The alternative is an awful one Domination by dictatorship, whether by an individual or an oligarchy, is the invitation to war against the soul «f msn snd the existence of mankind...

...The oW balances of power become s sham and delusion when confronted with the potential power ef any single nation which may harness such power behind greed and imperialism...

...It was an historic event in a national sense, for the great assembly of 20,000 cloakmakers in Madison Square Garden on Tuesday served to emphasize not only the impressive progress made by the garment workers since the great cloak strike of 1910 but also the achievements of American labor as a whole since the signing of the famous "peace protocol" that ended the strike and laid the foun dation for the development of the ILGWU to its present membership of 326,000 workers organized throughout the land...

...We fervently believe that this pledge will be maintained in the future as it has been in the past...

...The accountability of •ach Individual for his own thoughts, words, and deeds is the mark of civilisation...

...They will try to dictste domestic and foreign policies to suit their ideas...

...Into this structure would be blended the sovereignties of all nations and the free will of the people of each nation would be given full opportunities for expression subject to their obligations to their neighbors...

...Long before the advent of t(e New Deal the cloakmakers had had biased the way for the great social and labor reforms achieved in the past twelve years...

...With atomic bombs the world cannot • isk the awful consequences of a war anywhere...

...Histery overwhelmingly teaches us that lust fee power breeds only eomprtitive last for power We must support our trsde union friends in Britain and help develop a real liberalism to work toward a true brotherhood of men of every creed, race, color and nationality...