The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
INCITED
TERROR, CHARGE
MILL STRIKERS
Picket Demonstration
Great Success
BULLETIN

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. July
10.-A mass meeting is to be held
of all the workers in the ten tex
tile manufacturing plants not on
strike in New Bedford, accordsag~
to an announcement made by Eli
Keller of the Textile Workers
Union of the Textile Mills Com-t
mittee.
The workers in these plants are
to take up the question of joining
the strike of the $4,000 men work
ing in the factories of the New
Bedford Cotton Manufacturing
Association.
The ten mills mentioned include.
the Firstone Tire Fabric Mills and
other automobile fabric concerns.
The workers in these plants did i
not have their wages reduced ,
when The general wage cut went
into effect, but nevertheless suf-
fered reductions in the recent
past.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July
10. = The slogan, "Oust Mayor
Ashley" which was put forward
several days ago by the New Betz
ford Textile Workers Union of the
Textile Mills Committee is being
taken up by so large section of
the entire New Bedford population
that it no longer assumes the char
acter of a strikers protest alone.
1t was revealed yesterday that a
citizens body is in process of for
nation which will lead the fight
to rid the city of the textile bosses
agent, Ashley.
Inquiries made at the office of
the Textile Mills Committee later
brought a statement from its
to the effect that they
would be ready to give their whole
hearted endorsement to any such
move. 1t was also learned there
that a mass meeting to which the
general public will be invited is al
ready being planned.
Mayor Seeks Violence
Many sections of the New Bed
ford population are expressing the
deepest resentment against Ashley's
open attempt to provoke bloodshed
in the big textile strike here, by
heavily armed troops to the
56 mills yesterday morning. Ashley,
it is charged, was well acquainted
with the fact that the mill owners
had planted provocateurs among the
10000 who turned out to picket the
mills.
In addition to this, it is shown
that the mayor had pursued de-
liberate policy of breaking the
strike. by a series of wholesale ar
rests for no greater crime than
singing on the picket lines. These
arrests were followed up by jail-
ings of strikers and their leaders.
Over 46 were arrested and either
heavily fined or jailed for thiss s"of-
Tense" Murdoch and Beal, the two
leaders of the 7. NJ. c. are still
for leading picket lines.
Especial To The Daily Worker)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July 10.
The mill owners staged the same
farcical performance today as they
did yesterday, when they had the
factory whistles blow long and i'm
perative blasts early in the morn
ing, to show the strikers that they
were ready to resume operations If
they would only come back to work.
The thousands of pickets Of tho
Textile Mills Committee greeted the
whistles and the wide-open gatso
with the same contemptuous scorn.
The widespread protest reused
by the threat of armed terror is so
great as to have caused the an
that the militia will be
after today.
Enthusiastic Meetings
Mass meetings where the great
est enthusiasm yet exhibited were
held yesterday. The strikers are
convinced that yester-
days events gave conclusive proof
that the strike will be won. In
addition to the local leaders of the
strike, Albert Weisbord, national
head Of the Mills Committee, alss
spoke.