The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08
FIT TENTH week
/. or MILL STRIKE
FINDS men FIRM
Bosses Begin to Talk of
Settlement
Especial to The Daily worker)


PASSAIC, N. j., May 6-With con-
tributions totalling more than five
thousand dollars for the day, the
fifteenth week of the textile strike
began with signs of settlement on
every hand. Meetings in Belmont
Park, reopened after the sheriff's
reign of terror" and large picket
lines before the mill gates ushered in.
the week that may be crucial
Announcement that three mills were
ready to send Representatives to meet
the settlement committee of the Unit
ed Front Committee was made Mon
day evening by the Citizens Committee
of Passaic, headed by Judge Cabell.
The conference will be held on We'd
nesday, but which mills will be met
has not yet been announced.
First Meeting.
The meeting of these mills with rep
.resentatives of the United Front Com
mittee will be the only official rec
ognition of the union by the mill
owners SO far, with the exception of
the meeting of the Passaic Worsted
and Spinning company in the sixth
week of the strike. No demands were
granted at this meeting, but the mill
representatives met with the United
Front, which all other mills have stub
bornly refused to do. When the three
mills meet on Wednesday land it is
probable that Botany will be among
these), they will have conceded a vic
tory to the strikers on this point, the
most bitterly contested of the strike.
Three rousing meetings secceeded
the enthusiasm of May Day. Albert
Weisbord spoke at all of them, en-
couraging the workers with news of
settlement negotiations, and impress
sing the need of firmness at this criti-
cal moment.
Contributions for the day totalled
more than five thousand dollars. Some
Of the largest single contributions
were as follows: Elizabeth, N. j., Tag
Day collection, $725; Bakers Local
Union No. 202, Trenton, $780, Obrana,
$50; Young Workers League, New
York, $46; Emergency Committee for
Strikers Relief, New York, 1913; Mrs.
Stephen S. Wise, $50; Plumbers,
Steamfitters Local No. 2S6, Trenton
800; International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, New York, $3.50;
United Mine Workers, Harmarville
Local, $50; New Yorker Volkszeitung,
s544; Rhode Island Committee, $6S;
United Mine Workers, Harwick, Pa,
$50; Jewish Branch of the Communist
Party, Young Communist League and
Workmen's Circle, Branch No. 1859,
$1S7; United Mine Workers of Klein,
Montana, $1O2; Vorvaerts Association,
81 900, Stone Masons of New York, a
collection at a meeting at which Con-
gresham La Guardia spoke, $1,040;
Bakery and Confectionery Workers
Union, Local 1875, 500; Passaic Relief
Conference May Day meeting, 1914;
Louis Siska, Cleveland, Ohio, $346;
Butchers Local Union, No. I'll, $3.50.
Permanent Donations.
The International Mule Spinners
Association of Adams, Mass, has de-
cided to donate S25 week for the rest
of the strike and sent the first Install
ment. The Cloak, Skirt, and Dress
Pressers Union, S35, sent its regular
pledge contribution from officers and
Office staff of Local No. 35, from April
\ 10 to April "a 1t amounted to $215.
Eighty-three dollars was collected in
mill in Stafford Springs, Conn, by
Angelo Argenta, John Casagrande, and
John Baldi. A group of carpenters in
Cleveland, Ohio, sent $173 which they
had collected.