The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
WORKERS UNITY
ALARMS PASSAIC
TEXTILE BARONS
The Kept Press BewaiIS
Bosses Poverty
BY J. o. BENTALL.
Especial to The Daily Workerl

PAssAlc, N. j., February THE
monster parade of the striking textile
workers here caused a veritable hur-
ricane in the circles of the bosses and
the new demands presented by the
striking workers came as a cyclone
into their camp.
Strikers Determined to Win.
In the homes of the strikers is a
grim determination to fight to the bit
ter end against the bosses and to stick
for the new demands of 10 per cent
increase in pay over the precut
wages, with back pay since October
1st.
The Passaic Daily News which has
been silent till now, on the strike,
comes out with an editorial filled with
sob-stuff about the poverty of the
bosses and says the bosses cannot pay
the demanded wages since there have
been cuts in other mills and the
Passaic mills must meet COMPETE
ton"
Organizer Weisbord is laying plans
for relief work and is getting the sup
port OF, organized labor thruout the
country. This department of the
strike is of utmost importance as the
workers in the mills have been paid
such low wages that they have not
been able to save enough to live on
one week after their meager pay
stopped
Send Out Collection Lists.
The United Front Committee that
is in charge of the strike has sent out
collection lists and made call for
donations of food stuffs. Many Of the
merchants have promised to supply
the strikers at a big reduction in
price, and others have offered to sell
flour and meats at cost.
The success of the strike depends
largely upon the ability to keep the
strikers alive. If the bosses find that
there is suffering among the workers
they will hold out that much longer
against them. With well established
relief the bosses will weaken and the
workers will go back to their jobs
with all their demands granted.
The strikers are asking each other
why Mayor Mcclure was not in the
parade. He was invited by the United
Front Committee, but declared that
this matter did not concern him. eff
it is not his business to see that you
get a living, what is his business as
mayor?" asked Bentall at Neubauers
Hall, today. did you elect him for
mayor?" was the next question. YES"
came the reply. Are you going to
elect him again?" NO" roared the
crowd.
Government Against Strikers.
The strike has taken on political
significance and the workers are not
blind to the fact that the government
is not all that they had formerly be-
lieved it to be. In a life and death
struggle for food, the mayor says he
has nothing to do and will not take
the side of the oppressed. This is
quite strange to the men and women
who have shaved for many years I'M
der the impression that the govern
ment aids the laboring masses.
1t has leaked out that the mayor
and three of his pals went on a spree
and came home-or tried to come home
about five o'clock on the morning
Of the parade after the mayor had
written his refusal to participate with
the workers in their demonstration.
Their condition was such that they
ran into a truck and wrecked their .
car, and had to be escorted by the
police of a neighboring village to their
homes at daybreak. An attempt was
made to keep the matter secret but
the facts soon came to light. The
story was too good.
So even the local papers told OF
the merry four who were in such
condition that tho the truck driver
ran off the road to give them the right
of way, they sailed into him and
smashed their Deluxe Lincoln into a
heap of junk.