The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-10
PASSAIC STRIKE
ENTERS into ITS
ELEVENTH week
Relief Badly Needed By
Textile Workers

PASSAlCy N. d. April o Inc
eleventh week finds the workers fully
determined to continue their strike I'M
til their demands have been granted"
With this firm announcement made by
Albert Weisbord, the eleventh week of
the strike was ushered in. Refusal
by the companies to confer with the
workers will find the workers with
ample resources to continue the strike
with greater vigor," he said further.
His statement in full is as follows:
Strike in Eleventh Week.
"The strike Of the Passaic textile
workers is now in the. eleventh week.
The eleventh week finds the workers
fully determined to continue their
strike until their demands have been
granted. The demands of the work
ers are just demands and can be cas-
lily granted by the mill companies.
Every attempt to intimidate the
strikers and to break their ranks has
failed. The strike has aroused ma
tional interest with the result that
public opinion is in full sympathy with
the workers. Repeated efforts have
been made to mediate the strike. The
strikers have welcomed these efforts
and have on more than one occasion
expressed their willingness to confer
with the representatives Of the mill
companies for a settlement of the con-
troversy.
"The representatives of the mill
companies, however, have been obsti-
nate and have stubbornly refused to
confer with a committee of the work
ers.
Teach Bosses Lesion.
"If the representatives Of the mill
companies will continue to maintain
such an attitude, they will learn thru
sad experience that the workers
ranks will hold firm and that the pub
lie sympathy for their cause will In
crease. The responsibility for the
prolongation of the struggle which is
especially costly to the community OF
Pasasic, therefore rests upon the rep
resentatives of the mill companies.
Refusal by the companies to con
fer with the workers will find the
workers with ample resources to con
tinue the strike with greater vigol
until the representatives of the com
panies will recognize that only thru
comforting with the workers can the
controversy be ended satisfactorily.
Walkout Began with $500.
The Passaic strike began with
walkout of $500 workers from the
Botany mills, They went on strike
to protest the discharge of fellow EN-
ployes who had dared to suggest Il
Colonel Charles F. H. Johnson, vice
president of the Botany mill, that
10 per cent wage cut of starvation
wages was unjust. They went OF
strike to gain a just wage, decen
working conditions, pay Of time ant
half for overtime, a 44-hour week
and the right to have union. Othel
workers, desperate from long con
) tinued injustice, joined them. AS tn
strike enters the eleventh week
: 10000 workers are striking, pickle
lines are frmer than ever, the spiri
Of the strike remains unbroken.
Relief Needed
Aid from the workers in every quar-
ter continues to swell relief funds 81
that the tremendous need for NOR
than $4,000 worth of food alone ever,
week, may be met, and the $500 fam
lilies that are dependent on the ger
eral relief may be fed.
The International Workers Aid O
Chicago has shipped 1000 cans Of milk
$50 pounds of coffee, 1000 pound
, of oatmeal, 1000 pounds of rice, an
1000 pounds of prunes. These stat
les will be put in storage. togethe
with a carload OF sugar and a carRa
Of flour from the Amalgamated Clotf
ing Workers, and will be distribute
to the four relief stores as it
needed.
other large contributions that hav
been received recently include tn
proceeds from the mass meetings he'll
in New York, amounting to $1,S1S.6t
the Workmen's Circle, New Yorl
S66259; Joint Board of Cloak, Sui
and Dressmakers' Union, $2,S99.49
collections thru Eteenpan, Finnis
daily paper, sSS.45; Perth Amboy col
ference, $46.45.