The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09

A LBERT WETSBORD, the youth
"A full Communist leader of the
Passaic, New Jersey, textile strike,
has withdrawn from the struggle.
On the eve of Labor Day he babe
farewell to the 10000 strikers with
whom he had battled for nearly
eight months against all the
strength that the powerfully en-
trenched mill owners could muster
against the mill workers.
Weisbord did not withdraw of his
own volition. He wanted to stay and
fight 1t out to the flnish,-to the final
victory against the Passaie front of
the textile profiteers-a victory that
must yet be won, and that will
stimulate the workers in other tex
tile centers to similar brilliant strug-
giles.
Weisbord withdrew from the
struggle as a condition imposed by
the oficialdom of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor for the admission
of the great host of strikers to the
recognized American movement.
The millions Of American workers,
organized and unorganized, will de-
mand to know why Weisbord had
to withdraw from the struggle.
He had come into this slave center
of the textile industry and used his
crap;ur oo on or0onf7a~ fN hr{ocr tbo
workers together. 1t was only after
weeks of preparation and in the face
of vicious cut in wages, that the
Passaic workers went on strike.
They didn't all come out at once. One
mill followed another-the Botany,
the Gera, the Forstmann-H Hoffman,,
the Lodi-until the mighty hosts
were on the march in one of the
most historic battles in all American
labor history.
The Communist, Weisbord, was
their leader. Weisbord, the Com
munist was a successful organizer,
a successful strike leader. That was
his only crime. Thru actual achieve
ments in the Passaic strike, he
proved the lie in every attack that
labor reaction, thru its conservative
officialdom employing ancient meth
DDS in trade union work, has made
upon the Communists.
The brilliant triumphs achieved by
Communist leadership and militant
methods in conducting the Passaic
strike, threw an intensely revealing
glare on the outworn tactics Of the
labor officialdom that denies the
class struggle and knows only the
war against the progressives.
H The forced withdrawal Of Albert
Weisbord was merely another phase
of the expulsion policy invoked by
the labor officialdom to insure the
continued rule of reaction, to main
tain the treacherous class peace"
with the employers, the truce of sur
render Just as an effort has been
made to drive Communists and for
ward-looking militants out of the
miners union, the machinists' union,
the carpenters union, the painters
union and some needle trades I'M
ions, so is the effort made to elimin-
ate Weisbord from the Passaic
strike situation and, If possible, from
the labor movement.
Weisbord withdrew from the Pas
sale strike situation on the eve of
labor day, when the full strength of
the Green regime in the A. F. of l..
was busy assuring Americas exploit
ers that American labor would not
rebel against the heavy chains that
shackle them.
President William Green was at
the sesqui-centennial in Philadelphia
and on Sunday at Carnegie Hall in
New York City, pledging his listen
ers that 1.-THE rule of reason pre-
wallis" yet he marvelled that condi-
tions, such as exist in the non-union
coal fields still prevail in Free
America" He gave the lie to him
self. Secretary Frank Morrison was
in Wisconsin defending the capital
list congress in Washington against
I "slurs and insults" that he says
were unjustly hurled at this lackey
of capitalism. Their views were hail
cd by the employers press generally.
The Chicago Tribune, while attack
ing the musicians strike, gloried in
the fact as expressed in a headline
over an article by one of its flnancia
writers that, American Labor Is
Still Feeling Gompers' Power" It
halls with Joy the declared fact that,
Another Labor Day finds the Amer
lean labor movement still distinctly
diverse from those prevailing in
Europe"
The Chicago Daily News, the or
gan Of the LaSalle Street bankers
and the local open shop" interests
and lands Awarders, greets with
ecstacy "the creative spirit in trade
unionlsm," that crowns upon need.
less strikes and lockouts and abhors
the propaganda OF class struggle and