The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-19
WORKERS SHOULD
GUARD AGAINST
union OFFICIALS
Hosiery Slaves Cannot
Cooperate With Boss
- q Worker Correspondentl

{ BY ~ OfheF correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By mail -
The hosiery workers here in Philadel-
phia, like other workers in other in
dustries, are confronted with an ever
lasting problem existing in most I'M
ions, the problem of leadership, the
corruptness or the ignorance of the
men selected to lead the workers.
The striking workers in the Federal,
Emmett and Ajax hosiery mills here
must be made to learn that the bosses
have attacked their union in fiend-
ish greed for more profits. They
ought to learn, too, that if all the
hosiery workers We're organized in an
industrial union they could tie up the
entire hosiery industry and could
bring those officials responsible for
urging cooperation with the bosses,
before the rank and file and ask them
why the workers should cooperate
and what they would gain by doing so.
The interests of the capitalist no.
siery mill owner are against those of
the workers in his mill. He gains by
exploiting the workers. The worker
can only lose. The capitalist gains by
the speed-up system, the worker loses.
He even loses physically, being I'M
able to keep up with the madly rush
ing machinery: Besides, his speed-up
is really creating a surplus of goods
so that the boss viii stop manufac-
turing and the workers will have to
go on a part time basis, while many
will be forced into the ranks of the
unemployed. There is the time, too,
when the boss will force wage cuts
on his workers. Anyone advocating
cooperation with the boss, knowingly
On unknowingly, is betraying the
workers.
Injunctions, like that issued in the
present strike at the Federal mill, are
a threat against the workers whereby
they are commanded to cease inter
fering with the judges masters in
their efforts to subject the workers
to their slavery.
The bosses, and their allies among
the trade union officials, hate picket
ing and mass picketing. But mass
picketing is very effective in helping
to win the strike. Organizers are paid
to organize a strike and the rank and
file of the strikers should see to it
that the organizers do their duty.
These are all problems which the
strikers at the hosiery mills now on
strike in this city ought to think
about and act upon if they are going
to win their strike. W. C, P.
EDITORS NOTE-In connection
with the above it is interesting to
print here what Samuel A. Herman
member of the Young Workers
League of America, who was re-
Gently arrested for urging the ho-
siery strikers at the Allen-A mill
IN kenosha to organize mass pick
eting, has to say about the letters
which the above Worker Corre-
spondent has been sending regular
ly from Philadelphia.
Stationed here in Kenosha and
participating in the kenosha strike
situation, it goes without SAYING
that | am deeply interested in any
news of strikes of hosiery workers
thruout the country" Herman
writes. In this connection. | want
TO state that / appreciate greatly
the splendid write-ups on the ho-
siery strike in Philadelphia by the
Worker Correspondent, w. c. p.
am glad to learn that w. C. p. sees
clearly the reactiOnary nature of
the leadership of the American Fed
Grafton of FuIl-Fashioned Hosiery
Workers. Whether in the Philadel-
phia strike against the Ajax Co. or
in the Allen-A strike at Kenosha.
the official leadership clearly shows
this. However, sooner or later the
workers win demand that their
leaders organize all day mass pick
citing turnout the week /"