The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-13
STRIKERS UNITE
FORCES AGAINST
POLICE ATTACKS
Strengthen Picket Line
Is Workers Cry :
BY J. o. BENTALL.
Especial 70 The Daily WorkaF)

PAssAlc, N. j., Feb. 1--WE must
| fight this attack upon the workers
with all our might" said Joe Deak,
seeretary-treasure Of the United
Front Committee of Textile Workers,
when he was helped to the platform
in Neubauers' Hall two hours after
he had been beaten ssnseless and left
on the ground by the police and later
carried out Of danger by his fellow
workers in the picket line that broke
thru the police squad and marched
in front Of the Forstmann a Huffman
mill in spite Of the precautions taken
by that mill to have II remain IN
disturbed by plekets Of Passalc.
Strengthen Picket Lines.
I'VE must strengthen our picket
| line and make it five thousand if
necessary and show the brutal bosses
that the workers cannot be mauled
and battered without protest that
will compel the police to abandon
their vicious assault on innocent men
and women" he continued. II am
ready to go out and lead the picket
line tomorrow, and no one shall stop
US. We must make our union so
strong that no power in the country
will be able to break It,"
Deak had been brutally hit on the
head by the heavy club welded by
the police, and had been knocked to
the ground where the inhuman cops
beat him over the back so severely
that he had to be carried away in a
half dazed condition. When he was
assisted to the platform the crowd
broke into loud cheers shouting
That's the stuff. That's the fellow to
stand by"
Rose Hadnagy, mother OF three
children, was in the same line as
Deak and was introduced to the
packed house by Organizer Weis-
bord.
Fight For Better Conditions.
ut is an outrage to have the bosses
first cut our wages and then have
the police cut our heads open," she
declared. The entire back of her
head was swollen and a deep cash
marked the spot where the club had
hit her. She too was knocked down
and kicked in the abdomen by the
cop. Il am not going to give up in
this fight" she continued. II came to
America to find civilization and this
is what get. wish / had never
come. They cannot scare me by
threatening deportation. This Is no
country to live in till they do away
with the tyranny that now exists
here. We must stick together and
get our rights and make this country
a good place to live in"
Albert Weisbord. organizer, told the
strikers amid great enthusiasm that
1--WE must have bigger picket line
than ever. We have had one and two
thousand in Garfield and Passaic to
pull out the Botany and the Gera mills
and the other small mills" he con-
tinued, but now we must double the
! line. We can have line tomorrow
morning of 1000 or 5000. We can
have more than that. We can call out
all the relatives and friends Of the
strikers and have them take their
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police line of 10000 to 10000. We
must have mass action and show the
bosses that we mean business and
that their assault will mean only one
thing: greater solidarity and a more
thoro united front"
Unite Against Bosses.
Ed Royce Of New York told the
strikers Of the move made by the
police under orders of the mayor and
the bosses to unite in a concerted
fight by giving all the police in all the
neighboring municipalities authority
to attack and arrest the strikers. I'VE,
too" said Royce. must unite as they
and show them that we have not gone
at this blindly. but expect to carry
the fight to the finish"
do not fear the police" said Ben
Lifshitz Of New York. "The bosses
do not ask whether worker is a
foreigner or not as long as he works
for low wages and bad conditions
and makes big profit for the boss.
It is only when the worker wants his
rights and a decent living that they
call him a foreigner and want to