The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-13
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MEET TO HELP
SILK WALKOUT
N. Y. ArrGngeS Meeting
on September Is
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iNEW OhNg OSPIs lZs-H
monster mass meeting for the
benefit of the Paterson silk
strikers will be held at Webster
Hall, 11o East nth Street, near
Third, Avenue, next Tuesday,
September 10, at 8 o'clock
sharp. The principal speakers
will be n. M. Wicks, of New
York, and Adoiph Leasing, of
Paterson.
Wicks has long been promi-
nent in the labor movement
thruout the United States and
has been taking a leading part
in the Paterson strike, and he
has been made the target of the
vilest abuse by the local kept
press of Paterson.
His inspiring speeches day after day
have aided materially in holding the
lines intact in the present struggle,
which is in many respects the most
brilliant ever staged in Paterson.
Leasing a Noter Fighter.
Adolph Leasing has long been recog-
nized as a leader Of the Paterson
workers, veteran of whole series
of labor struggles having been the
secretary of the great strike of 1913,
in which Bill Haywood, Gurley Flynn,
and others played an important part
and were imprisoned for their fight
against the silk mill owners. Leasing
was arrested with Haywood and Flynn
for his part in the strike and as the
organizer and leader of the present
strike conducted by the Associated
Silk Co. workers. In addition to these
speakers, there will be a number of
others prominent in the New York
City labor movement. Other Pater-
son strikers will also be present, in
Guiding women and children whose
labor has contributed to build up the
silk industry of Paterson.
The strike is now a month old and
was called against the infamous four
loom system, which has been imposed
upon the workers in this industry dur
ing the past decade. Tho there has
been no marked change in the produc-
tive power Of the loom for many years,
the gradual speeding up from one
loom to a worker to the two loom sys-
tenn and then the three and four loom
system, forces the workers to exhaust
every ounce of energy they possess.
Vital statistics in this industry show
a marked rise in the death rate since
the introduction of the multiple loom
system. So in the last analysis, these
workers are fighting not merely for
conditions, but for life ITSELF
Other demands include the S-hour
day and the 44-hour week, a raise in
wages, recognition of the union, and
the right of organizers to enter the
mills on doing business.
Police and Iniunctions.
Though this strike has been the
most peaceful ever conducted in Pat
erson, still there has been consider
able police terrorism and the use of
the infamous injunction. On one oc-
casion 107 pickets were arrested while
picketing one mill. So effective has
been the strike that the mill owners
finally resorted to the ancient weapon,
the Injunction. The first injunction
against the strikers was obtained last
Monday by Rosenstein Bros. Imme-
diately steps were taken by the union
to fight this injunction and no sooner
had the fight begun than number of
other firms including Kaufman Bros,
Haenichen Bros, Samuel J. Aransohn,
and the notorious Gilt Edge concern,
before whose plant the 107 were ar
rested, secured a blanket injunction
against the organization, naming spe-
officially Adolph Leasing, Fred Hoel-
scher, the secretary of the union, H.
M. Wicks, and others.
This injunction follows closely the
language used by Harry M. Daugher-
ty, a now discredited member of the
Harding Coolidge oil cabinet in his in
junction against the striking shop men
in 1929. At the Webster Hall meet
ing, the speakers will inform the au.
dience regarding tactics to be pursued
in fighting this injunction. The pur-
pose of this meeting is to organize
united front of all sympathetic labor
organizations for the purpose of aiding
the Paterson strikers in their present
struggle. Admission will be free. All
workers of New York should
make It a point to be at this meeting
and show the Paterson strikers that
labor elsewhere is opposed to the mill
slaves Of Paterson, being reduced to
the economic condition of Chinese
coolies.
WORKERS PARTY STREET MEET.