The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-22
N { W HAMPSHIRE
TEXTILE WORKERS
STRIKING BRAvELY
Pacific Mills Meeting
Real Fight
Special 10 The Daily worker,

DOVER, N. H., Feb. 21.-Eighteen
hundred textile workers are heroical-
~ continuing the strike they began
last November, when the Pacific Mills
attempted to speed them up by add
ing more looms and spindles to their
tasks. Vainly is the superintendent
attempting to drive them back to
their jobs.
The strike was the workers an
swer to the arrogant demand the
company posted up in November that
weavers were from then on to handle
40 cotton looms, instead of 20; spin
ners already handling - to Ia frames
were to take two or more sides;
carders were to add another frame. to
the two already handled.
Efficient Exploitation.
Greater efficiency, you say. And
so said the efficiently expert, who had
been holding a time clock as he
watched like a hawk every move
ment of the mill workers. A worker
in single day walked to and from
machines many miles, which would be
raised additional miles by the extra
frames. One handling 40 looms
could not see from one end of the
room to the other.
The effect Of the contemplated
change would be an early breakdown
of the workers, to be replaced by a
new batch of slaves, imported in mass
at the demand Of the mill sharks.
The older workers would be banished
from the factory, to die in their
homes, or rather on the streets, for
one must abandon ones home, if the
owner is the mill company. They
are skilled, with twenty or thirty
years experience and as one youth
full worker would double his work, one
of the older folks would be fired.
Helping the old and infrm, SYM
patty for old age, reward for long
years of service, which are extolled
in textbooks as capitalist virtues, are
revealed as hollow frauds.
Super From Dixie.
The workers are up against the
Pacific Mills, a powerful company,
with a large mill in Lawrence. They
hoped to crush Dover, and then ride
over to Lawrence, and repeat the
business there. Unfortunately for
the Pacific, the challenge was met by
strike by men and women who have
shown themselves to be real fighters.
To the Superintendent, a southerner
who married his job, and knows moth
ing about the industry, they said,
'sYou boast that you handled negroes
in the South, whom you call niggers,
and you hope to make us crawl be-
fore you. Before this fight is thru,
you'll be back in the sunny south"
The superintendent is glowing tri-
butte to the wonderful managers"
of present day industry.
Funds Are Needed.
The president Of Local 27, William
e. Hayward, now in Boston with a
committee of strikers, collecting
funds, calls it fortunate that when
the men go on the picket line, the
Mayor will be with them. 1t is to
be hoped that the strikers do not get
the same dose as the Brockton shoe
workers, who took pride in their for
mer fellow shoe worker, who allowed
them to picket for the first eight
weeks. But at the critical moment,
when the manufacturers felt the
pinch, the Mayor backed up the City
Solicitor, outlawed the strike and
arrested the pickets.
Funds for the relief Of the scrappy
Dover strikers are to be sent to the
Financial Secretary Of Local 81, of
the United Textile Workers of Amer
lea, Joseph st. Cyr, SO Hanson St.,
Dover, New Hampshire.
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