The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14
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The kept PRESS
Double Production and
Cut STATS in Half
BY ROBERT MINOR.
The Daily Worker)


FALL RIVER, Mass, Feb. 12.- A
brutal declaration Of war against labor
unionism and the standard of living of
the $4,000 textile workers of New
England has just been issued by the
combine Of cotton mill owners thinIy
disguised behind the name of tex
tile trade publication.
The declaration appears in the form
of paid advertisement published 81
muItaneousIy in all capitalist newspa-
pers in every Important cotton milf
center.
The Voice of CARS Butler.
The advertisement is undoubtedly
sanctioned by, if it is not the direct
voice of William NJ. Butler, the cot
ton mill finanQ' r who managed Cool
idge's presidential campaign and who
is now chairman of the republican ma
tional committee and newly appointed
senator from Massachusetts, acting
for the textile combine whose spokes-
man he has been since the days Of
Murray Crane.
This ultimatum threatens the textile
workers with the intimation that the
ten per cent wage cut which has been
so successfully Unanswered thru many
mills in the past three months, will
be extended to every mill in New
England, or will probably be made
deeper, or the workers locked out of
all mills under the guise of closing
down. Then the statement insinuat-
lngly tells the workers that they
themselves can do much to cure this
condition of unemployment and de-
creased wages"
What the workers "can do" about it
is said sharp enough and straight
enough to pierce the skin of rhino-
! cerous:
What Workers Can Do.
doubling up of the production per
operative.
"one-half of the workers to be done
away with while one worker shall
produce as much as two formerly did.
GO ahead on the basis that your
overseers and your superintendent
are your labor leaders.
"Don't be misIed by any so-caIled
labor leader outside of your own MILL"
The words of the statement itself
cannot be improved upon for a frank
statement of the object of the present
terrific campaign against the work
ing class population of New England.
which one is tempted to compare with
the Dawes plan of enslaving the
workers Of Germany. The text reads
as in part as follows:
"a Practical Suggestion for Textile
Operatives for Steady Employment
and Increased Pay"
Conditions in New England text
lie manufacturing have been bad for
nearly four years. :"
After dwelling on past depressed
conditions and saying that the present
condition shows little Improvement"
II continues:
I'm many mills wages have already
been cut at least 10 per cent. In near
ly every case operatives are earn
ing less money because they are not
FULLY employed. The operatives them
selves can do much to cure this con-
dition of unemployment and decreased
wages.
Increased production per operative,
and a consequent lowering Of the cost
of production is going to be the saliva
ton of cotton manufacturing in New
England
"The labor leaders ought to be the
overseers and superintendent In the
mills, who are interested in the well
fare Of the operatives and not any
outside persons working for their
own selfish advantage and self inter-
est.
Speed Upl
'In one cotton mill with which we
are very familiar, the weavers used
TO run sixteen automatic looms; now
they are running thirty-two automatic
looms up to 60 inches in width. The
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