The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
2ASSAIC PICKET
LINES PULL OUT
MORE WORKERS
Strikers Enthused Over
Solidarity
By LOUIS KovEss.

are empty and dark. Only here and
there striking worker rushing to the
Neubauer Hall is visible.
Another half hour passes as the
strikers assemble. The committee
members take their position and the
strikers fall in double line. Then the
march to the plant of the Passaic
Spinning mills on Sth st. begins.
The weather is cold. For a while
they walk in silence. The young
strikers SILVER in the cold. The cloth
ing of some is only fit for August
weather.
But as the march goes on with
faster steps, their shivering bodies
warm-up. The strong wind blowing in
their faces does not matter any more.
The silence breaks. Cries are heard
from the lines to the by-passers: Get
in line, do not scab."
The streets are getting busy. We
have been marching about 20 minutes.
The strikers sing with great enthus-
iasm:
ooh we amt gonna slave no more
no more
"oh we aln'f gonna slave no more;
until we get our ten per cent,
I'VE amt gonna work no more"
We arrived at the Passaic Spinning
Mill. A whole army Of traffic and mo-
torcycle policemen are stationed in
front of the mill.
In this mill the workers are mostly
young girls sud boys. Their wages
were also cut 10 per cent and their
overtime by rs per cent.
The long picket line forms a ring
around the mill.
"Join the line" "Don't scab!" shout
the strikers. gSome of the girls who
are trying to ENTER the mill, hesitate
to join the line. But soon they join
the pickets and by the time the picket
ing is over the pickets are increased
in number. .li'
With a Hungarian worker at one
side, ] march along. In front of us
a short young fellow is walking. He
turns around and we see that he is
only young boy and one of the most
militant strikers. Upon our invitation
he joins us and now three in a row
we continue the march.
In conversation he tells us his story
He has been working seven months
in the mill. He worked himself up to
S1O.65 week. He reached the highest
wages he can get in that mill. He
came out yesterday with two hundred
other workers.
why did you come out?" we ask
him.
you don't think I am going to
scab" he answers.
His father and mother are textile
workers. His relatives also. What
else could he become if not a textile
worker In fact that he has started
to work in the mills at an early age,
he sees nothing peculiar. All his
friends Of the same age are working
in the mill, for father and mother
earn so little that it is not enough to
support the family.
Even when the strike will be over
and we go back to work | wouldn't 60
back to the same foreman. The hell
with him." he says. He shouts to his
older fellow workers, who are hesita-
ting to join the line on the corner:
Stand in the line. Don't be afraid"
We return to the Neubauer Hall.
Picketing has also been carried on at
the Botany and Phoenix mills by their
respective groups.
The first hireling OF the bosses has
already appeared at a meeting. When
the Botany workers held their strike
meeting at Neubauers' Hall, the hall
was jammed with the enthusiastic
workers. The speaker weisbord, or.
ganizer of the United Front Commit.
tee Of Textile Workers was interrupt
cd with the hoarse cry Of the Bowery,
No more strike" This was the first
trial of the textile barons to see what
effect this slogan would have upon the
workers. The effect was that the
strikebreaker left the room without
making any use of his feet.
The number of the strikers exceeds
seven thousand The bosses will not
be able to break the ranks Of the
strikers, even when they mobilize the
whole underworld Of New York. They
will not be able to provoke any fights
among the workers. The strikers are
well disciplined.
Striking workersl Beware OF the
provocators. Dol lot them disturb
your ranks.