The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
BENTALL Held
IN PASSAIC
Mill STRIKE.
Daily Worker Reporter
Arrested
ESPECIAL to The Daily WORKED

PAssAIc,. N. j., Feb. III. o. Ben
tall, DAILY WORKER reporter and
speaker at the strike meetings held
by the textile workers, was summon
ed to court today as he stepped down
from the platform at Belmont Hall
where he addressed a mass meeting
Of strikers.
This together with the arrest Of two
pickets this morning at the gates OF
the Forstmann & HUFFMAN mill is
taken as a signal that the bosses have
decided to go the limit in breaking the
strike that is now in its fourth week
and in more healthy condition than
at any time since its inception. Jack
Rubenstein and Bella Varga are the
two pickets dragged to Jail this morn
ing when they insisted on their right
TO picket before the gate of the mill
instead of moving down to the
cemetery gate two blocks away as
ordered by the cops.
Advise Picketing Cemetery.
I'VE are not trying to picket the
dead. we are here to picket the
living so they will not join the dead
too soon by starving to DEATH was
their reply to the police and this
sounded entirely too intelligent to be
allowed to spread in the town that is
shipping its mill slaves via the hearse
to the potters' field very frequently
as their bodies give in under the
strain of hard work and low wages
and little Sood.
Bentall has not been on the picket
line but he has explained very plainly
the tactics OF the bosses ard shown
the workers that they must organize,
and it is understood that this is a
crime in the three towns that are
now in a life and death struggle. The
new tactics of the bosses seem to be
to hound all progressive workers and
they have thus far netted over half
a dozen.
The two arrested this morning have
been very active and have had much
influence upon the workers. 1t is pos
sible. that the bosses think that there
are none to take their places. The
strikers claim they have 10000 good
and husky men and women to step
right in as soon as the police take any
to the bull pen.
You are to picket at the gates"
said Weisbord giving special instruc-
tion to the pickets not to be afraid
to do their duty picket the gates"
he repeated Never mind the ceme-
terry. The dead need no picketing. We
want the living to know that we are
not going to give in to the BOSSES
Show that you are alive. Let the
bosses picket the cemetery if they
want to-"
A statement by the mayor of
Passaic offered his good Offices to the
bosses to help settle the strike. He
wants the strikers to go back to the
jobs and after they are back he sug-
gests that their grievances be taken
up and settled in peaceful way.
Organizer Weisbord, in behalf of
the United Front Committee of Tex
tile Workers, made the following
reply:
THE attempt of the Eastside Bust
ness Mems Association to terminate
the strike can have but one meaning,
and that is that the mill owners are
beginning to weaken before the
mighty blows of the strikers organi-
cation, the United Front Committee
OF Textile Workers.
THE strikers are we'll aware of the
fact that many strikes that have been
won due to the strong organization of
the workers have been lost by the
workers falling the spurious man
.nvers Of the bosses and they consider
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