The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-28
BOSSES PRESS
PRINTS lies ON
TEXTILE STRIKE
Force, Violence Bunk
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BY J. o. BENTALL.
Especial to The Daily Workerl

Especial to ne Daliy Workerl
PASSAic, N. j., Feb. &c The
strikers Of PassaIc, clifton and Gar
field are taking a day off to laugh at
the ridiculous whining of the Forst-
sad story to the world when their
5000 slaves left them and joined the
picket line. The bosses claim that the
employees were so scared and intim-
dated that after much elaboration the
kind lords decided to help protect
their workers by shutting their plant
so "no lives might be lost due to the
violence Of the strikers"
1t is a story and the capitalist
press-from the Passaic dailies to the
great New York World and Times
lament the situation with long faces
and much concern, crying that it was
the "reign Of terror" that made the
bosses shut the shops.
Strike Halls Packed.
Contrasted with this is the packed
halls of strikers of all mills who have
come together in a most friendly de-
termination to spike the guns of the
bosses. and the capitalist press by get
ting into union of textile workers.
They have decided to fight to the bit
ter end and win the strike under the
leadership Of the United Front Com
mittee of textile workers.
1t was a bad day for the textile
barons when their last stronghold fell
under the powerful influence of the
strikers. For weeks the workers in
the Forstmann-Huffmann plant have
been aching to walkout, but the
bosses have inundated them in every
conceivable way, telling them that if
they go out they will never be taken
back, and there will be no more $500
a week jobs for them.
Force and Violence.
The old cry of violence and riots
have begun to, echo turnout the whole
eastern part of the country. Only in
Passaic andthe affected towns are the
workers aware of the falsehood of the
capitalist press.
At first when the speakers told the
strikers that they would be charged
with all kinds of crimes they would
not believe them. Now they see
the local papers as well as the big
metropolitan press STOPPING to the low
est level in its villification of the
strikers.
Mary Heaton Worse has interviewed
the police of all the municipalities in
the strike district and all of them,
even the captains said that the
strikers had behaved perfectly and
that there had been no violence. The
police say that if the bosses behave
as well as the workers there need be
no trouble at any time. |
An investigation campaign will start
tomorrow when Fanny Hurst and Miss
Wise will start to look into the homes
of the workers.
Plan Investigation.
A hearing by j. p Walsh and others
is planned before long to find out If
the poverty is as horrible as the
strikers have described it to be. The
question Of wages will be sifted thoro-
ly and the working conditions will be
examined in a very thoro manner.
Already the bosses are sorry that
they did not listen to the first demands
made by the original strikers. They
merely wanted their wage cuts Of ten
per cent back. If they had gotten thai
they would have returned to work and
the bosses would have been ahead
many thousands of dollars. AS the
matter now stands the bosses stand
good chance to be exposed as the
finest skinflints in the country and be
made to toe the mark as well as have
one OF the best unions In the indus
trial life Of the nnfinn on fhnir hnnda