the entire United States, the men’s and women’s clothing manufactured in
1914 had a value of $932,099,000. In New York alone, $542,685,000 was
produced. The rest was produced by the Jewish clothing centers in
Chicago, Cleveland, New Jersey and Philadelphia.
The figures for the period of the war and since will be staggering.
Clothing in the regular trade began to mount in price, until at the end
of the war in 1918, it had attained an increase of 200 per cent and 300
per cent. Until well into 1920 the monopoly held up the price. This was
done in face of the declaration by the manufacturers of _cloth_ that the
whole profiteering persistence was due to the manufacturers of
_clothing_. Russian-Polish Jews, in this country only a few months, drew
$50 to $80 a week. Threats of strike were used to get a five per cent
increase in wages, which was met by a 20 per cent increase in the cost
of clothing. The American public paid.
If, however, these statements were merely an attempt to arouse
indignation that for once the workers got more than they earned, the
attempt would be a failure. It is pretty hard to find anyone to regret
the workers getting hold of a bonanza. The high wages weren’t of much
use, as it proved, but people at least had the satisfaction of handling
them.
These statements are made to show that during the war the Jewish unions
waxed fat, a fact which has a bearing on their Bolshevik attitude today.
Not all the wage was the gain of the man who earned it—there was the
union to pay. Girls in the fur trade in New York earned $55 a week, of
which they paid in $27.50 a week to the unions. Other workers paid in
like proportion. There was great talk of what would be done. In Russia,
of course, they had the government’s gold vaults immediately upon the
success of the revolution, but in the United States the preliminary
funds would have to be supplied by themselves. A great revolutionary
stroke was planned of which the written evidence still remains.
There are two divisions of Jewish wealth and power centering in New
York. The first is German Jewish, represented by the Schiffs, the
Speyers, the Warburgs, the Kahns, the Lewisohns and the Guggenheims.
These play the game with the aid of the financial resources of the
non-Jews. The other division is composed of the Russian and Polish Jews
who monopolize the hat, cap, fur, garment and toy trades. (By the way—it
is the Russian and Polish Jew who controls the American stage and movies
also.) Between them their grip and influence is far from negligible.
They may sometimes have internecine quarrels regarding the division of
the profits and eager publicists may zealously call attention to these
quarrels as evidence of the lack of unity among the Jews, but in the
Kehillah and elsewhere they understand each other pretty well, and on
the question of Jew vs. “goy” they are indivisibly one.
Between these two forces the attempt to hold up prices was continued
until late in 1920. The heads of the Jewish clothing associations
announced that the price of clothing would not be lowered. Solidly
behind them were the associated Hebrew labor unions, so-called, which
threatened dire things if the prices came down. The first great store to
reduce prices in New York was Wanamaker’s, a non-Jewish house. In fact
there was no reduction of prices among Jewish manufacturers and
merchants, generally, until in the month of November less than a dozen
Jews were called into the presence of a non-Jewish financier, after
which a belated effort was made to save the buying market by sensational
reductions. The Jewish controllers of the clothing business had just
previously stated that not only would prices not go down, but the 1921
prices would go still higher.
There is a distinction between what the Jewish coalition _would_ do and
what it _could_ do, but its will and its power never so closely
correspond as when the non-Jewish element is asleep, and never are
Jewish will and power so widely divorced as when the non-Jewish mind is
alert. When the non-Jewish financial mind made itself felt in November,
1920, the bottom dropped out of Jewish trade prophecies and policies.
The only thing to fear is not the alert Jew, but the consequences of
sleepiness among the Christians. _The Jewish Program is checked the
moment it is perceived and identified._
Ordinary people who for five years have been paying high tribute to the
clothing trust are entitled to know who comprise that trust. But that is
a trifling affair compared with the political uses to which the clothing
trust has been put in this country. The clothing trust, being composed
exclusively of Jews, most of whom have formed the ax-head of Jewry in
the fight against certain Old-World governments, is today the heart and
center of a movement which, if successful, would leave not a shred of
the Republic, its institutions, nor even the liberty, which is every
American’s by inheritance.
What is the strength of these people? How are they banded together? What
are the facts concerning them?
In New York City alone there are 2,760 Jewish cloak and suit
manufacturing concerns; 1,200 Jewish clothing manufacturers; 2,880
Jewish fur manufacturers; 600 Jewish skirt manufacturers; 600
manufacturing tailoring establishments; 800 Jewish merchant tailoring
concerns.
These employers have organized themselves into associations such as the
following:
Associated Boys’ Clothing Manufacturers of Greater New York.
Associated Fur Manufacturers.
Associated Shirt Manufacturers.
Association of Embroidery and Lace Manufacturers.
Children’s Dress Manufacturers’ Association.
Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Protective Association.
Cotton Garment Manufacturers of New York.
Dress and Waist Manufacturers’ Association.
East Side Retail Clothing Manufacturers’ Association.
Ladies’ Hat Manufacturers’ Protective Association.
Mineral Water Dealers’ Protective Association.
National Association of Separate Skirt Manufacturers.
National Society of Men’s Neckwear Manufacturers.
New York Association of House Dress & Kimono Manufacturers.
New York Tailors’ Verein.
Shirt Manufacturers’ Protective Association.
Among the employed Jews, the unions are numerous but all gathered up
into one central organization. For example, the International Fur
Workers’ Union of the United States and Canada, is made up of the
following:
Feather Boa Makers’ Union.
Fur Cap Makers’ Union.
Fur Cutters’ Union.
Fur Dressers’ Union.
Fur Dyers’ Union.
Fur Floor Walkers’ Union.
Fur Hatters’ Union.
Fur Head and Tail Makers’ Union.
Fur Lined Coat Finishers’ Union.
Fur Nailers’ Union.
Fur Operators’ Union.
Fur Pluckers’ Union.
Muff Bed Workers’ Union.
In the garment industry, the organizations include every operation in
the process of making clothes. There are separate unions for buttonhole
makers, vest makers, pants makers, coat cutters, coat operators, coat
pressers, coat tailors, coat basters, lapel makers, knee pants makers,
clothing turners, overall workers, palm beach workers, shirt makers,
vest pressers, and even a washable sailor suit union. These together
comprise the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
In children’s clothing we have another complete organization:
Children’s Jacket Makers (three unions).
Children’s Jacket Pressers.
Children’s Sailor Jacket Makers’ Union.
Children’s Cloak and Reefer Workers’ Union.
Children’s Dressmakers’ Union.
In women’s wear, there are unions organized around every garment known
to the wardrobe, some of which are:
Amalgamated Ladies’ Garment Cutters’ Union.
Bonnaz, Singer and Hand Embroiderers’ Union.
Buttonhole Makers and Button Sewers Union.
Children’s Cloak and Reefer Workers’ Union.
Cloak and Suit Tailors’ Union.
Cloak and Suit Piece Tailors and Sample Makers’ Union.
Cloak Examiners, Squarers and Bushelers’ Union.
Cloak Makers’ Union.
Cloak Operators’ Union.
Cloak, Skirt and Dress Pressers’ Union.
Ladies’ and Misses’ Cloak Operators’ Union.
Ladies’ Tailors Alteration & Special Order Union.
Ladies’ Waist and Dressmakers’ Union.
Skirt and Cloth Dressmakers’ Union.
Waterproof Garment Workers’ Union.
White Goods Workers’ Union.
Wrapper, Kimono, House Dress and Bath Robe Makers’ Union.
These unions comprise the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.
The reader will have an idea, after reading these lists, that the
employes represented in these unions are women. The majority are men. It
may require something of an effort to remember that, but it is
essential. These organizations control an essential business which
_before the war_ produced over One Billion Dollars’ worth of goods a
year, and since the war has probably received for its products each year
the amount of a big fat Liberty Loan; and these unions have received 30
to 40 per cent of that for wages and propaganda funds.
_Now, let it be said at once that these Jewish unions are not to be
confused with the regular Labor Union Movement, as we know it in the
United States._
They are not Jews who have gone into the American trades unions. They
have started unions of their own which are Jewish in membership, control
and purpose. It is true, of course, that the regular trades union
movement which heads up in the American Federation of Labor is under the
presidency of a Jew, Samuel Gompers, but the membership is mixed, the
large majority being non-Jews, and the purpose is not racial.
These Jewish unions comprise a body by themselves and are to be reckoned
with, not only as labor union groups, but as racial and political groups
whose purposes can be determined by the character and utterances of
their leaders, as well as by the actions authorized and approved by the
unions themselves.
Now, _this Hebrew union movement is a part of the New York Kehillah._
Jewish leaders have sought to counteract THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT’s
account of Kehillah activities by saying that the Kehillah is such a
little weak thing. Admittedly, however, the Jewish clothing trust and
the Jewish garment workers’ unions are among the biggest and most
powerful aggregations in the country. Not even a Jewish leader would
have the temerity to deny that. Well, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union are
affiliated with the Kehillah.
More than that: this Kehillah, which Jewish spokesmen with cool contempt
for truth would have the public believe was weak and unimportant—_this
same Kehillah, in its Executive Committee, constitutes The American
Jewish Committee_.
Is the American Jewish Committee a nonentity? Ask any President of the
United States, any Senator or Governor.
The American Jewish Committee heads up in District No. 12—New York
City—and the Committee for District No 12 is also the Executive
Committee of the Kehillah.
The men who represent before the world the combined organizations
mentioned in this article _are_ the Kehillah, and they _are_ the
American Jewish Committee, and besides, they are the men whose failure
in candor has left such an impression of dissatisfaction throughout the
masses of the Jewish people.
Who are they? Who are these men with whom the Kehillah is said to be
such a puling thing?
Louis Marshall, of the law firm of Guggenheimer, Untermeyer and
Marshall. Mr. Marshall is not only head of District No. 12, but he is
also head of the American Jewish Committee. His headship of the A. J. C.
makes him Jewish leader of the United States. His headship of District
No. 12 makes him head of the New York Kehillah. Quite an important man?
Yes; and an important place, in spite of lying Jewish spokesmen.
Who are the others? Eugene Meyer, Jr., formerly of the Capital Issues
Committee of the United States war government.
Who else? Judah L. Magnes. Judah L. Magnes is the organizer and active
leader of the New York Kehillah. The two bodies are linked up again.
They are linked up by the Kehillah’s constitution which is able to
decree that its executive committee shall be the American Jewish
Committee as far as District No. 12 (New York City) is concerned.
There are other names on the American Jewish Committee which also
constitutes the executive committee as the Kehillah—Adolph Lewisohn,
Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Felix Warburg, and so on, 36 in all.
In the current annual report of the American Jewish Committee this
relation with the Kehillah is acknowledged in a note at the foot of page
123, just as in the constitution of the Kehillah its relation with the
A. J. C. is acknowledged and explained.
Now to recapitulate.
The Hebrew labor unions, both of employes and employers, which are in
complete control of the garment industry of the United States, represent
one wing of Jewish aggression in the realm of political revolutionism.
It is not a small wing in itself. Certainly it does not become smaller
by its connection with the Kehillah nor the Kehillah by its gain of
these workers. The two unions mentioned above number over 337,000
members. That figure is conservative. Besides these there are associated
with the Kehillah the members of 1,000 other Jewish organizations, such
as synagogues, charitable societies and educational bodies, and 100,000
individual members who belong on their own account.
Link this organization with the powerful American Jewish Committee, and
at once the protest of the editors and the spokesmen that the Kehillah
is a weak, unimportant body becomes a deliberate falsehood.
And as for those “Gentile fronts” who are ready victims of Jewish
propaganda, and who, without personal knowledge, are describing the
Kehillah as a large and nourishing charitable society (bad teamwork
there!) let them read in the next article what some of the Kehillah
leaders are trying to do to the United States.
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Issue of April 16, 1921.
L.
Jew Trades Link With World Revolutionaries
There are more Bolsheviks in the United States than there are in Soviet
Russia. Their aim is the same and their racial character is the same. If
they are not able to do here what they have done there, it is because of
the greater dissemination of information, the higher degree of
intelligence and the wider diffusion of the agencies of governmental
authority, than obtains in unhappy Russia.
The power house of Bolshevik influence and propaganda in the United
States is in the Jewish trade unions which, almost without exception,
adhere to a Bolshevik program for their respective industries and for
the country as a whole.
This fact is proving most embarrassing to the Jewish leaders at the
present moment. It is bad enough that Russian Bolshevism should be so
predominantly Jewish, but to confront the same situation in the United
States, is a double burden of which Jewish leaders do not know how to
dispose.
Yet it is difficult to see how the International Jew can be absolved
either from the necessity of being confronted with it, or from the
necessity of bearing sole responsibility for it. Russian Bolshevism came
out of the East Side of New York where it was fostered by the
encouragement—the religious, moral and financial encouragement—of Jewish
leaders. Leon Trotsky (Braunstein) was an East Sider. Whether he was a
member of the New York Kehillah is not known. But the forces which
fostered what he stood for centered in the Kehillah, and both the
Kehillah and its associated American Jewish Committee were interested in
the work he set out to do, namely, the overthrow of an established
government, one of the allies of the United States in the recent war.
Russian Bolshevism was helped to its objective by Jewish gold from the
United States. And now that it is found to be numerically much stronger
in the United States than it is in Russia, the fact causes no little
embarrassment.
Denial is useless, for the thing is too blatant and has advertised
itself too long. What amazes the student of the Jewish Question in the
United States is the stupidity which permitted Jewish Bolshevism to
flaunt itself so openly during the past few years. The only explanation
that seems at all adequate is that the Jews never dreamed that the
American people would become sufficiently awake to challenge them. The
present widespread exposure of Jewish tactics in the United States has
doubtless come as a surprise to the Jewish leaders, and this cannot be
accounted for otherwise than that they thought they had gained too
strong a grip on the American mind to make a challenge possible.
It remains to be seen whether the Jewish leaders shall be able to
control the Frankenstein that their false policies have created.
Following exactly the program which the Jewish leaders approved for
Russia, the organized Jews of New York are exhibiting a zeal and a
directness which Jewish leaders would like to curb for the present, if
we are to judge from some of the complaints that the Bolshevik Jews are
making.
Benjamin Schlessinger, president of the International Garment Workers’
Union, whose membership numbers 150,000, and which is a part of the New
York Kehillah, is one of the complainants. His union, of course, is not
the regular American labor union formed for the betterment of working
conditions and wages; it is a revolutionary union for the complete
change of the social system, involving also a change of government. In
an interview printed in the _Jewish Forward_ of April 8, Schlessinger
complains against the manner in which Jewish judges have recently come
to interfere with Jewish strikes:
“‘And Jewish judges come to their assistance. They issue injunctions;
and it is said that they do it to save the Jewish name, so that it shall
not be said that “all Jews are Bolshevists.” So the injunctions become a
Jewish affair....’
“‘We have a gigantic wide-branched Kehillah in New York. In all corners,
Jews! All over, what you see and what you hear—Jews. And, of course,
also dress; politicians and greater ones.’
“But only _we_ may say this. And I understand Schlessinger....
Schlessinger explains it this way: Several reasons are given why judges
like (here a Jewish judge is named) twist the law.... The real purpose
is to break our strike.... But, then, after all, there is a reason, a
Jewish reason. He wants to demonstrate to the American community, he
claims, that not all Jews are Bolshevists.”
This excerpt shows several things: that only “we” may say certain
things; that Jewish authority is trying to cover the blemish of
Bolshevism; and that this is done in order to demonstrate to “the
American community” a certain desirable thing. The Jewish community, it
is presumed, is not so easily impressed. The Kehillah is apparently
trying to call in its kites but they have apparently flown too high in
the rarefied atmosphere of revolutionism.
Another big union which makes part of the New York Kehillah is the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, whose membership is about
200,000. It is officered by Russian Jews whose pronounced Bolshevik
utterances have been widely reported in the Jewish press of New York,
until plain and unprivileged Americans have wondered how far treason to
the United States Government could go on our own soil.
Sidney Hillman, the president, is one of the most radical Socialists in
the United States—so radical that he would probably spurn the name of
Socialist as ordinarily used. He is a Sovietist. He is so far “advanced”
that to him the regular type of American labor union is “a scab union.”
The purpose of the American labor union is stated to be the improvement
of the workers’ condition in industry and the establishment of their
industrial rights, whereas the object of Hillman’s union is the
overthrow of industry and its communization in the hands of the radical
element. That is to say, Russia over again. Hillman was born in Russia.
He personally knows most of the Bolshevik Jews now ruining that great
land.
The secretary of the Amalgamated is Joseph Schlossberg, also born in
Russia. Schlossberg has a very free gift of words. One of his promises
to his Jewish followers, publicly made at Madison Square Garden, is
this:
“The clothing industry is ours. We are not going to permit the employer
to determine where his factory shall be, or how many hours we shall
work.”
Abraham Shiplacoff, a Socialist member of the New York board of
aldermen, and next to Sidney Hillman in command of the Amalgamated, is
also a free speaker, as the following excerpt will show:
“We are going to move heaven and earth to educate our people that
they and they alone are the owners of industry. The workers of
Russia have found it out, God bless them!
“If I knew old Sammy Gompers knew as much as that, I would tell you
to go and do what the workers did in Turine. Ten thousand of them
marched to the factory with music and a flag, and they opened the
doors and went to work and said, ‘To hell with the owners of the
factory.’
“Everybody knows it is war. We are going to control the industry.”
Always the omission, of course, that the factories so spectacularly
captured, cease to run soon after. The Hillmans and the Schlossbergs and
the Shiplacoffs are heroic figures on the platform, but in manufacturing
the common commodities of life and making both ends meet so that the
consumer may be served and the producer rewarded, they have been the
most tragic failures. “The workers of Russia have found it out, God help
them!”
As a matter of fact, besides the I. W. W., the Amalgamated is the only
organization which not only preaches Bolshevism but actually practices
it—all in the United States, and all apparently in perfect consistency
with its membership in the Kehillah and under the officership of the
high gentlemen of the American Jewish Committee. The Amalgamated
actually does run the industry which has mulcted such a heavy tax from
the American public since 1914.
They tell the factory manager where the factory is to be located.
They have a minimum wage of $12 a day, independent of skill or
production.
They enforce that rule, that an employe who has worked for two weeks has
thereafter a job for life.
No improved machinery can be introduced without the union’s permission.
The employer cannot hire even a cartage firm that the union has not
first approved.
The employer cannot withdraw from business unless he goes into
bankruptcy, else the whole force of the union and its allies will be
marshaled against him and his. He must inform the union of all his plans
in advance.
This, of course, is part of the endowment of Trotsky to the East Side.
He did great missionary work there while waiting to go across and take
the Czar’s place. Even to this day in the Jew-controlled theaters that
crowd Broadway, the picture of Trotsky brings wild delirious cheering,
while the portrait of the President of the United States is hissed. A
favorite stage scene is the Star of David high over all flags. The
recent debate between Senators King and France, said to have been
organized with the assistance of two rabbis, developed into such an
outrageously anti-American pro-Soviet demonstration, that prudence
intervened to prevent a vote. Recently when pro-Jewish Germans
endeavored to stir up trouble by holding a great mass meeting to protest
the alleged “Black horror on the Rhine,” the audience was packed with
Jews. Not that they love Germany more, but they love any regular
government less. While a few days later, at a great American meeting,
the Jews of New York, according to the testimony of incredulous
observers, were most conspicuous by their absence.
Now, the Jewish leaders must admit that the Jewish Question does not
consist in American citizens uncovering these facts and helping other
American citizens to become aware of them; the Jewish Question inheres
in the facts themselves and in Jewish responsibility for the facts. If
it is “anti-Semitism” to say that Bolshevism in the United States is
Jewish, so be it; but to unprejudiced minds it will look very like
Americanism.