The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-28
PARISH SOCIETY
SPEAKS OUT ON
PASSAIC STRIKE
Society AssaiIs OpUners
for Deadlock
tspeeIaI to rhe DaIIy WORKED

A@RbNf"N
PAssAIc, N. j., May %. - ain
Botany is uncertainty sH,d dIstrust,
both within and without; in Forst-
mann-Huffman is a domiuesrine de-
termination to work its own will at
any cost"
With these words the executive
committee of the Associated Societies
and Parishes of Passaic and vicinity,
the organization that created the Citi-
zen's Mediation Committee. reveals
the reasons why the negotiation con-
ferences scheduled for May 10 were
suddenly called off by the mill owners.
When all other mills were ready to
accept. the right of the workers to or
ganize as they pleased, Forstmann-
Huffman demanded that they refuse
the Concession"
rs Parish Declaration.
TheastsHement of the executive COM
mittee is in part as follows:
About May Is the six large wool
manufacturing establishments issued
a Joint statement to the effect that all
efforts to end the strike were more
than use ness, and they requested the
mediation committee appointed by the
Associated Slavic Societies and Par
ishes to cease its attempts, stating
that fits further activity could result
only in prolohging the strike and that,
with the withdrawal of the false hope
held out by a popular belief in the
committees efficacy the strike would
promptly come to an end. The COM
mittee announced at once its cessation
for the time Of all effort to bring
peace. That was nearly two weeks
ago. and the destructive industrial
deadlock still paralyzes the commu-
nifty.
'SThe public Is entitled to know the
obstacles to settlement as far as dis
closure will not hinder adjustment of
the difficulty.
The obstacles arise out of two
difficult personalities: in Botany is I'M
certainty and distrust both within the
organization and without. In Forst-
manu-Huffmann is a domineering de-
termination to work its own will at
any cost, and particularly to prevent
any organization of its employees
other than its mill assembly or the
developing of any organization under
the sole control Of workers in any
other wooden mill in this vicinity.
THE desire to be heard on wages
and other questions vitality affecting
them will not be crushed out of the
workers hearts. When the strike is
brot to a close, as it must some day,
it will be at a conference between the
workers to organize to suit themselves
is freely conceded"
Weisbord's Statement.
In commenting on the statement of
the executive committee, Organizer
Weisbord said THE excellent state
ment of the Associated Societies and
Parishes proves once more that every
decent element dn the city of Passaic
is thoroughly in accord with the de-
mands Of the strikers for a decent
living wage and a union that will pro-
test them. They too have placed the
responsibility for the continuance of
the strike with all the consequent suf-
fering and bitterness, violence and dis
order. upon the shoulders of the mill
owners. They have minced no words,
they have spoken plainly and truthful
", even to the extent Of mentioning
the names Of the most stubborn and
obdurate Of the mill owners.
"The next move is up to the mill
owners. If they honestly want to set
tie the strike in decent manner, the
strike can be settled in twenty-four
hours. The mill owners must be made
to understand that they cannot smash
this union Neither the workers nor
the city will permit it,"