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took the floor and said that the passaiC
Representatives could tell the con
vention more about the strike than
MacMahon, and moved they be given
the floor. Gustav Deak of the Passaic
local then spoke briefly, and without
mentioning names refuted the SIAN
ders against the strikers made by
MacMahon at Passaic.
ANY impartial investigation" said
Deak, would prove that it was the
mill owners and their agents who
used violence against US. We were
deprived of every constitutional guar
antee. All civil liberties vouchsafed
under the constitution of the state of
New Jersey and the United States
were denied us. We have been bru-
tally assaulted; we have had to have
recourse to the law in order to com.
pei Sheriff Nimmo to obey the law.
The mill owners have imported thugs
and gunner and have subsidized the
city and county officials and the police
powers against us.
Hits at MacMahon's Lies.
There is nothing new in all this.
It has been the same old story of vio-
lence used against workers on strike
that has been repeated in Passaic, as
in Homestead, the Cour de Alenes,
Logan county, West Virginia, and doz-
ems Of other battle grounds of the
working class.
Therefore we believe that any pub
lie statements blaming the Passaic
strikers for the violence in Passaic
will hurt our cause and will be mis-
interpreted so as to absolve the mill
owners and the city, county and po-
lice officials who alone are RESPONSE
bile for all the violence and unlawful
attacks upon persons and property OF
the Passaic textile workers.
Resents ImputatIon Of Bad Faith.
an joining the U. T. w. we wish to
assure your convention that we did
so without reservation. 1t was from
the beginning our intention to organ
ize and then affiliate with the main
body of the labor movement-the A.
F. Of L. Last April we approached
the U. T. w. and elected a committee
to negotiate for utilization and so not
flied your general officers. 1t is un-
fortunate that it should now be init.
mated that we had other motives.
"The history of our strike is an
open book. This historic strike has
been investigated by our country s
most prominent labor leaders, pub
licistS journalists and statesmen.
Our strikers have at all times and un-
der the greatest provocation obeyed
the law. At all times our strike com.
mittee and our leaders have counselled
us to refrain from violence.
All Labor involved.
at is to the interest of the entire
labor movement in general and to our
own national body, the U. T. W., in
particular, that relief and defense
shall be maintained in order that our
strike shall be won and not broken by
starvation.
"But whether our joining the U. T
w. would have the effect of increas.
ing such relief or not, we still would
have Joined hands with our brothers
in the U. T. w. in the interests OF
unity in the textile industry.
Proud Of Their Struggle.
I'VE place this statement before the
convention in order to assure you OF
our single-minded and whole-hearted
loyalty to the principles Of the A. n
Of l.. and the U. T. W., and in order
to make our record clear: a record
that we are proud Of and that will do
honor to the great organization OF
which We are now part"
This was quite a rebuke to the un.
speakable attack OF MacMahon and