The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-04

center to the labor resistance, as
against the national center Of the
present big scab movement. To look
at this problem as one which can be
handled, as such problems were hand.
led in the past as for instance,
as one of Pawtucket Valley, or
Blackstone Valley, or the Lawrence
district, or the Fall River district-or
as New England" problem of these
districts together, would result in dis
aster. To pursue such a policy would
be to overlook the fact that the mill
owners plan Of campaign reaches in
single front from Maine to Florida
1t would be to overlook the fact that
the textile manufacturers with the
possible exception OF one or two small
"old-men" groups) are so thoroly uni
fed in this fight that they can and
do play the Southern mills against the
Northern mills. II
There is some dispute as to whether
the textile industry has already com.
pleted the, transition into hnance-cap-
ital, monopoly control. In industry
generally we know that this stage
was reached about twenty-five years
ago. Many persons claim that the
textile industry in America is a par
tial exception. New England cotton
mill owners propaganda plays strong
on the note that they are in competi-
ton with the Southern mills. But in
dications are strong that this "compe-
tition" is between the right hand and
the left hand of the same financial in
terests. Il shall take this up in a lat
er article and try to show the amaz-
ing development of differentiation
that reach literally from Texas to
Maine.)
Have Monopoly Of Credit
Certainly there exists, and has ex-
listed at least since the world war
some sort of a banking-capital ar
rangement for monopoly of credit in
the textile field. AS to the silk indus.
try, the existence Of a bank credit
monopoly was charged last week by
the Gerseta corporation (Which is a
mere little "La-Follette-size" corpora
ton of $1,00O,0oei capitalization and
its associates in .a5s28, oo0, 900 damage
suit in New York against the Silk AS
ISOLATION of America. AS to cotton
and wooden manufacture, it is known
that about year or more ago there
were negotiations between the manu-.
facturers' associations and the depart
ment of justice on the question of
price-dxing arrangements and the
antitrust lava question Of so-called
interchange. of price Information.
But today a writer in the biggest or
gan of the cotton manufacturers
boasts in the words: ,aWhere, indeed,
are the antitrust laws? They have
gone with the rosHs.nf. vHsteryear."
But more certainly still, there is
complete and unqualified unity of all
the textile interests as far as this
anti-labor drive is concerned. The
mere fact that a few months ago the
"old men" of New Bedford and Fall
River were publicly scoided in the
textile bosses press for not quickly
enuf cutting their. wages, indicates
that there was probsbIx no other ex-
ception to the unity, and the subse-
quent wage-cut in that district indi-
Gates that the "old men" group fell
into line. FAM W.
The anti-labor drive for a 25 to 80
per cent cut in wages and doubled
production per worker, for the elimi-
nation of one-half of the workers
from their jobs and the installation
Of "the mill superintendent as your
labor leader" is unified and conferred
and its center is the financial district
Of New York.
And this superintendent labor
movement" has force behind 1t
which is astounding. 1t has its "cul.
ture." 1t. has developed its "intelli.
gentsia" specialists in propaganda.
1t has its literature, big and bold and
rollicking and cynically frank, thriv.
ing on the untold millions that have
been wrung, and are being wrung, and
will be wrung from the slaves Of the
textile mills in thousand towns
from Maine to Florida.
New York Hailed As "Rome."
You can get that in New York"
went to New York and got it strong
er than l dreamed was possible. In
the Offices and on the streets and in
the restaurants even the small-fry
clerks of brokers' offices know what
this textile wage-cut and speed-up
drive means. They speak now OF
New York as Rome" the center of a
new Roman Empire" drawing tribute
from all the world.
There in New York, brokers, and
head-clerks are, passing from hand TO
hand, and enthusing and marvelhng
over, copy of the most authorita-
tive Of all the organs Of big finance in
the textile field. II is the issue Of the