Dispute between the Garment Workers Union (Transvaal) and the Cape garment workers in attempts to organise Cape workers and create national unity among garment workers. Also desire to have equal wages at coastal areas in line with the wage agreements in the Transvaal. In 1930 the Garment Workers Union tried to set up a branch. In 1936 an office was opened and the branch was called the South African Garment Workers Union. In 1937 this office was closed in an attempt to achieve unity by co-operating with the Garment Workers Union of the Cape Peninsula. These activities brought Sachs into conflict with Robert Stuart who was organising the Cape workers. Stuart also came into conflict with the Garment Workers Union when in November 1943 the Cape Millinery Workers Union joined the Garment Workers Union who began negotiations for an agreement. The workers would not accept the employers' terms and applied for a conciliation board. Meanwhile Stuart organised a rival union and accepted an agreement for the workers on the employers' terms. Thus the Garment Workers Union and Sachs began to accuse Stuart of supporting the employers against the workers.
