When the Amalgamated Clothing Workers met in Chicago on May 8, 1922, a message was sent from Moscow by [[William Z. Foster]], then national chairman of the Communist Party. It read: "The defeat of the employers is the natural result of the splendid spirit of the Amalgamated. Many times in my present tour speaking to your unions I marveled at this growing spirit but since coming to this country I marvel no longer. It is the spirit of the Russian revolution, the spirit that will lead the workers to emancipation." | When the Amalgamated Clothing Workers met in Chicago on May 8, 1922, a message was sent from Moscow by [[William Z. Foster]], then national chairman of the Communist Party. It read: "The defeat of the employers is the natural result of the splendid spirit of the Amalgamated. Many times in my present tour speaking to your unions I marveled at this growing spirit but since coming to this country I marvel no longer. It is the spirit of the Russian revolution, the spirit that will lead the workers to emancipation." |