We Ask Justice For Our Union Leaders! - 1948 Pamphlet - International Fur & Leather Workers Union C.I.O.
"Almost from the very day that the fur workers first organized themselves into a union to fight for better working conditions, the bosses hired gangsters to smash the union. They sent their agents to disrupt it from within. They attacked the union through injunctions and court cases. They slandered and besmirched the union through the big-business controlled press. And as is their usual practice, they singled out trustworthy and militant leaders of the workers for frame-ups and persecutions - men in whom the membership had the greatest faith, leaders whose entire lives were devoted to serving the membership. But the union survived and grew, despite violence and gangsters and lockouts of employers. Why was it able to survive attacks as fierce as any ever aimed at a labor organization in the United States? Who were these men who could not be threatened, bribed, or slugged into submission? The history of the I.L.F.W.U. answers these questions. We give here only a few...