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

But there's nothing like throwing
met. To continue to do nothing wo
propaganda, which has thrown Will
imantic into a feverish state.
City Fathers Not Concerned
On March 21st, an alderman wrote
to HiEzoner, asking for a meeting of
the common council "for the purpose
Of discussing the strike situation"
On the 23rd, the acting mayor replied
that he had submitted the question to
every council member, whose unani-
nous opinion was that 1.-THE matter
did not come under their considera-
ton" In reply, the lone alderman took
dig at his fellow politicians: mo
one can be honest in politics, even in
this small city, attested to by the
thirty or forty places that are daily
selling liquor in the city, because a
board Of alderman does not feel, as in
the present strike situation, that the
enforcement of law comes within their
jurisdiction"
open Shoppers Appointed
The common council has not dealt
with the strike, for the American
Thread Co., does not wish It to. Act
ing Mayor Hickey, on his own initia-
tive, appointed a committee, consist
ing of the following elite: George W.
Hickey, acting mayor; James P. Bath
president Of the chamber of COM
meroe; Harry w. Standish, president
Of the rotary club; T. Frank Canning
ham, president of the businessmens
association; Russell A. Andrews, first
selectman; John R. Pickett, assessor;
James ]. Lee. alderman; Charles A.
Gates, county sheriff; last and not
least, H. N. Bullard Of the Chronicle
Before this honorable guard Of cap
ital, the strikers Committee appeared
yesterday afternoon to state their side
of the case, as, tho it needed further
explanation, gsa,
The businessmen in town hate to
see their profits diminish. They are
losing money, since the strikers buy
only absolute necessities. They want
the strike settled, but they are not
concerned with the justice or Unjust
ice of the workers fight. Whether
the workers get 5 or 10 per cent or
nothing, is not the vital matter with
them. They want, the strike to be
settled, the quicker the better. The
American Thread company has been
shut up like clam, since the strike
began. The company hopes to starve
the workers into submission. Only the
workers have expressed a desire to
meet with the mayors committee, and
naturally, the strikers will be asked
to be reasonable" etc.
Rely Upon Yourselves
This reliance on mediation will do
the workers little good. When Pres
ident Mcmahon were here on March
18th, he advised the strike committee
to go before the exchange club and
tell them the strikers side of the con-
fiict. This went against the grain of
one committee member, but they all
went The exchange club is a bust
nessmen's organization, similar to the
rotary club, containing members of
the chamber of commerce. Yet the
strike committee representatives APP
peared before them.
The strikers must remember that
If the mills remain shut down, and
no workers enter the mills to work,
then the strike is won, and the ten
per cent restored. The strike will be
won more quickly, IL more workers
can be thrown into the conflict, If the
Fall River and Holyoke plants are
pulled out; and IL the movement can
be spread to the seventeen plants in
England of the English Sewing Cotton
company, limited.
All Others Are Enemies
Labor can only rely on itself. The
role of those not part of the work
ing class is to settle the strike at all
costs, whether the strikers win or
not The working class has only It,
self to fall back upon; that the tex
tile workers will learn before many
moons are over.
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