The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
BOSSES WEAKEN.
LABOR STRONGER
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feel mighty uncomfortable.
The local press tells of a meeting
of the East Side Merchants Associa-
ton at which the members went on
record to proceed with plan to have
the strike settled. They give as
reason they are losing much money
and that some of them are facing
bankruptcy, since the mill slaves have
ceased to bring them their weekly
pay envelope.
An appeal is to be made to the
chamber of commerce to help them
and the mayor is also to be used as
an official tool to whip the workers
into line.
object to 'outsders."
This jackrabbit bunch is scared to
death about Outsiders" but when
were the merchants or the chamber
of commerce or the mayor ever on
the inside with the workers? Did
they come to their aid when the
bosses cut their wages? Did they go
to the min barona and tell them that
it was wrong to reduce the income of
the workers below the line Of bare
existence?
The workers know who has come to
their help. You cannot fool them now.
They have been told to organize for
their own protection and to look out
for themselves. They have chosen a
fellow worker to lead them and stir
them up and give them advice, but
they have not forgotten that all must
be leaders and able to take part in
the struggle. When one Of the police
asked the men and women in the
picket line who their leader was he
replied, 1--WE are all leaders. There
are eight thousand of us who are
leaders"
The strikers chose Albert Weisbord
to be their head and leader. He has
accepted this great responsibility. But
he has a committee of over hundred
which meets every day or when it is
necessary and this committee goes
over the situation and together with
Weisbord adopt such methods as seem
to them best.
Afraid Of Weisbord.
Now come the merchants who tell
the strikers that they want to have
the strike settled, but make very
insulting statement at the very begin
ming. They stated that Albert Weis-
bord, organizer of the united front of
textile workers, would not be invited
to the conference.
In other words, the very man who
has been so true to the workers and
helped them to get so strong that the
bosses are now crxing for settlement
is to be left out and not allowed to
participate in the settlement.
Are the bosses afraid that Weis-
bord is too much for them? Are they
afraid that he has too much knowledge
of the situation and knows too much
about the tricks of the meddlers and
the hypocrisy of the bosses?
The workers will not let the bosses
insult them so boldly and shamelessly
as that and get by with it. They will
settle with Weisbord as leader of the
strike and with the committee and
then with all the strikers as a mass,
or they will not settle at all. This is
the time when the workers themselves
will agree upon the settlement. There
will be no secret sessions with the
bosses and no dark and mysterious
compromise.
Must Settle Right.
The merchants association and the
mayor and the chamber of commerce
and the bosses and the whole bunch
Of exploiters will save valuable time
if they get wise to that and make up
their minds that if they want to settle
they will have to settle with the
united front committee of textile work
ers including Organizer Weisbord and
the entire rank and file OF the work
ers in every mill affected.
This frantic cry for settlement
means that the entire city with bosses
and businessmen alike feel the crush
ing power of the workers when they
are united.
The textile workers will go back
only when their demands are granted
In an open and definite way, and all
that is needed to accomplish this is
a continuance of the strike as it has
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