The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28
open SHOP PRESS
HITSEAT WORKERS
PARTY IN STRIKE
Enemy of Unionism and
Communism
BY WILLIAM sIMoNs,
Especial TO The Daily Worker.l


filth to this open shop paper. The dis
patch sent yesterday to Hartford is
headed: Thread Strikers Ban Com
munists!"
The statement is made that the
strikers committee sent to the police
station, asking for police protection
against a Communist from the Polish
Federation of the Workers Party, B.
Lewanski from Boston, when they
heard that he was coming together
with the writer to the meeting ar
ranged by the strikers, at which a
Polish organizer from New York was
to speak.
Incidentally, it was the first meeting
at which a Polish speker appeared,
sent by the United Textile Workers
Union of America. For two weeks no
Polish speaker had been secured
When the strike committee heard that
Comrade Lewanski was coming, they
made sure that they obtained a
speaker.
Capitalist Press Distortions.
Another statement in the capitalist
paper was that "9Tmons attempted to
start an argument with one man, but
was quickly squelched by the officers
and told to be on his way" The fact
is that as Comrade Lewansh was Civ
ing out Tribyna Robotnicza, Commun-
list Polish paper, outside Of the hall,
and telling the workers the Communist
position, the reporter for the Will
mantle Chronicle asked him his name
Lewanski gave it, and not knowing
his questioner, asked who he was.
replied that the reporter was from
the Chronicle which was against the
strike. That hireling protested, and
the chief of police came to his aid,
telling me to cut it out. l told him
that the reporter had started it, and
that ended the incident
The Open Shop courant.
The Hartford Courant, because it is
morning paper and has many pages,
is relied upon even by workers for
their news. About 400 copies are sold
in Willimantic and helped to combat
unionism in this mill hell hole.
Every Monday morning this scab
paper devotes an entire page to the
ads of firms operating on the "Amer-
lean" plan. Included are the Cheney
Brothers (silks) of South Manchester,
Conn, authorized by the legislature
short while ago to increase their cap
italization to s2O,OOO,0OO; Colt, which
recently took a 100000 order from
Poland for shooting workers; the In
ternational Silver Co. of Meriden;
Lockwood and Brainard Co., which
prides itself on being ''open shop
printers since 1886"
An Enemy of the Workers.
At the head of the page, in heavy
type, is the line: Firms Operated on
the Open Shop Plan" On the op-
posite page (12) of the same issue of
Monday, March Is, appear two articles
against the working class.
One headline is, Union Hold Gone
in West Virginia Mines-Organize
Labor Produced Only 1.6 Per Cent
Coal in Southern Region" based on
figures compiled by the statistician
Of the Kanawha coal operators asso-
citation. The other is column article
headed "Open Shop Aim is Co-Opera-
tion," by Willim H. Barr, President of
the National Founders Association.
The american" Plan Of soab Wages.
1t speaks of Organization morale"
and the necessity of "emancipating
employers and employees from the
thralldom of unionism." He prates of
the American plan Of free labor and
free Industry" of it's necessity to
the nation and it's patriotic useful
ness,"' and of the open shop carrying
the flag Of Industrial freedom to a
tremendous victory"
There is also a cut of an addition to
the Burnside school, under the in
scription: open Shop Contractor
Builds School Addition" This morn
ing the entire list of open shop firms
is repeated. It is this detestable la
Dor organ of the open shoppers which
is leading the fight against the Com
munlStS.
The Communist DAILY WORKER
The DAILY WORKER is the only
paper that has pictured the battle now
on, as a struggle between labor and
capital which will continue until the
workers establish a workers and far
mers' government and control the in
dustries OF the nation. The other
papers simply give as much news as
they feel compelled to give.
The Providence News made a
splurge in the early days, but now
gives little space to the strike. It's
object was achieved when their pa
per got place on the stands OF the
city.
The Waterbury Herald, former La
Toilette hacker, takes a. whack at
the Communists as is It's custom. The
Willimantic Chronicle simply prints
what It must, refraining carefully
from attacking the company or ex.