The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
WEISDORD NAILS
lies OF PASSAIC
TEXTILE BARONS
ASSGiIS Joint Statement
of Mill OwnerS
Especial to The Daily Worker

PASSAlc, N. j., May 17.-AIbert
Rassaie textile workers, attacked the
joint statement issued by the textile
bosses here that their Industry was so
poor that It might not be possible to
employ all Of the workers on strike
if the strike were called off. In his
statement he brought out that the
bosses have made enormous profits,
year after year in Passaie at the ex-
pense Of the mill workers.
The statement of Albert Weisbord
follows:
Rule or Ruin.
"In their statement issued today the
mills have definitely decided that they
will either rule the city of Passaic or
ruin it. The city OF Passaic has given
of her best to these mill owners. The
reports show that these mills in Pas
sale have never had a single poor
enabled absentee mill owners TO
amass fabulous fortunes so that some
of them stand in the very forefront of
the textile magnates of this country.
1.-THE year 1925 was no exception to
he years of prosperity that the mills
have enjoyed All indications are, as
government reports show. that the
year 1926 will be still better than the
year 1925. The cry of poverty that
the mills have raised is case of
deepest duplicity and hypocrisy.
Horrible Condition.
what have the mill owners given
the workers in return for the loyal
and faithful work which the workers
have done for them? An unparalleled
system of terrorism and espionage has
been instituted in the mills. Night
work for women has been forced on
the helpless workers. The city of
Passaic has one of the highest rates
Of illiteracy in the country. With the
miserable low wages that the workers
have received has gone terribly high
rate Of crime and vice, disease and
death.
Bosses Fear Investigation.
'If the mills are as good as the mill
owners claim they are, why is ii that
they have blocked the senate and con-
gressional investigation that was
pending. We have always been ready
to have the senate investigate the
question of Communism in this strike,
but the mill owners who proclaim
they are such angels, do everything
in their power to prevent an investiga-
ton as to their angelic character.
Even the local papers have said
in their editorials that If the mill own
ers do not move for peace they are
responsible for the continuance OF the
strike and all of the consequent suffer
ing. II ruinous conditions face the
community II is the mill owners who
are fully and plainly responsible. They
are responsible for the violence sThey
are responsible for the misery. They
alone are responsible for the black
stain which has besmirched the name
of the city. It is these self styled
humanitarians that have family be-
come exposed for the despots they
are.
Long ago the workers raised the
slogan. III we have to starve, we shall
not starve working in the mills. but
rather we shall fight on to the end,
fight for a decent standard OF living
in the mills for which the workers
give their entire lives. The union
knows that the statement OF the tex.
tile ezars is the last desperate bluff on
the part Of the mill owners. The bluff
shall fail, and regardless of what the
mill owners may do the union shall
remain to challenge forever their un.
principled, irresponsible power"
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