The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-31
Mill WORKERS
LINING Up FAST
IN The A. F. OF |.
To Stage Big Meeting to
Launch New Union
tspeeIaI . rha paIIy workerl

PASsAIc, N. j. Aug. 27. The
transfer of members from the United
Front Committee Of Textile Strikers,
built up out Of the strike Of the Pas
sale mill hands under the leadership
Of Albert Wesbord, Into the United
Textile Workers Union affiliated to
the American Federation of Labor was
proceeding at such rapid rate yester-
day that there were scarcely enough
application blanks.
The committee under the leadership
Of w. Jet Lauck that is supervising
the organization of the A. F. Of l..
union announces that a mass meet
ing will be held at an early date to
officially launch the United Textile
Workers Union in Passaic. President
William Green of the Federation is to
be invited to speak.
The day, to be arranged by local
sympathetic organizations, including
the Committee Of Associated Parishes
and Societies, will be given over ito
rejoicing over the coming Of indus
trial liberty and democracy to Pas
safe"
The force of the American Fedora
ton of Labor the committee declared,
will be thrown behind the new union,
and the Federation will continue and
intensity its support of strike relief.
To Make 1t National Issue.
Preparations are being made to
make this question a national one"
said members of the Lauck committee
after a conference with Thomas f.
Mcmahon, president, and Mrs. Sarah
Conboy, secretary-treasurer Of the
United Textile Workers. A national
committee will be formed with organ
izations in the principal states and
cities. Funds will be raised to sup
port the new Passaic union. Mass
meetings will be held throughout the
country to protest against the auto
cratic attitude of Mr. Forstmann and
other mill owners, and congress will
be memorialized with requests for a
withdrawal of tariff favors from the
Passaic mills unless their owners
agree to the fundamental standards of
American democracy"
Mcmahon Scores Mill Bosses.
President Mcmahon, said: 1.-THE
declaration of the mill owners that
their employees may not affiliate with
any organization without consulting
the mill owners is feudalism and
makes poems of the workers.
WAS the high protective tariff Gre
ated to give Mr.. Forstmann and those
who think with him the right to take
from the American consuming public
large profits while they are keeping
the workers who produce for them in
a state of pauperism?"
Must Rush Relief To Passalc.
Alfred Wagenknecht, strike relief
chairman, expressed himself as favor
ably impressed with the way the work
has proceeding of organizing the strik-
ers into the United Textile Workers,
the A. F. OF L. union in the textile
industry, but stressed the urgent need
of relief being rushed to Passaic at
once to enable the striking textile
workers to hold out and carry on the
fight against the autocratic and AFRO
giant mill bosses. Strikers children
and families are in grave danger of
suffering from lack of milk and food
unless organized labor and labor sym
pathizers again come to the aid of the
beleaguered strikers with money for
milk for the strikers children and food
for their families. Send contributions
to General Relief Committee, 743 Main
Avenue; Passaic, N. ].