The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-14
-FOUR DELEGATES
QUIT U. 7. W. MEET
Hit Reactionaries; to
Back New Union

leader Of the Passaic workers and
the failure of MacMahon to gain
the confidence of the workers, be-
cause of his collaboration with the
bosses and other strikebreaking
agencies. The failure on the part
of the officials of the U. T. w. to
carry on militant fighting policy,
and agreeing with the bosses to
blacklist militant workers and lead
ers of the Passaic strike. When the
mill owners were making a drive
against the union, reducing wages,
introducing speed-up systems and
insurance schemes, MacMahon and
the Executive Council of the U. 7.
w. were. fighting the leadership of
the local unions instead of step
ping out militantly with fighting
program against the attacks of the
mill owners.
In New Bedford, where $4,000 of
our fellow-workers are striking
against a 10 per cent wage cut, the
U. T. w. leaders are cooperating
with Batty, who is negotiating with
the bosses to effect the betrayal of
the strikers. There the strike was
called actually against the will of
these same corrupt leaders, and at
this very moment they are consid-
ering submitting to the so-called
Frieder plan, which would not only
break the strike but would worsen
conditions and lessen wages for the
strikers.
Official Scabbing.
In Fall River also, where the Tex
tile Mill Committees were urging
the workers to strike against their
10 per cent wage cut, and in sup
port of the New Bedford strike,
Thomas MacMahon and Compos in
their speeches urged the Fall River
workers to remain at work, even
while their work constituted actual
scabbing on the New Bedford strike.
The Textile Mill Committees alone
I are putting up real militant strug
gle for the workers in these CEN
tiers, and are responsible for the re-
markable strength which the New
Bedford strike has after % weeks.
The stand of the U. T. w. is
plainly outlined by President Mac
Mahon, who in his speech yesterday
urged the Organization" of the
workers on a collaboration
basis of appeals for support to
church organizations, clubs, manu-
facturers' associations, etc. The ex-
pulsion of Eli Keller and Ellen Daw-
son, militant leaders of the Passaic
struggle, who have well proven their
loyalty to the textile workers, is
indicative Of the drive made by the
officials of the U. T. w. to rid the
union of all honest, fighting ele-
ments.
Based on the above enumerated
points and on others too numerous
to mention in a brief document of
this nature, we hereby sever all con-
nections with the United Textile
Workers, and call upon all textile
workers everywhere to follow the
only militant leadership in the field,
that of the Textile Mill Committees,
and to participate in the formation
of a new national textile union, led
by honest militant workers repre-
senting the rank and file of tex
tile workers throughout the coun-
try.
(Signed):
GUSTAV DEAK, Delegate, Local
Union 1914, Passaic, N. J. Organ
izer United Textile Workers locals
in Passaic.
JOHN DI SANTO, Delegate, Lo-
cal Union 1923, Passaic, N. j. Vice
President Local Union 1923.
PHILIP LIPSHITZ, Delegate, Lo-
cal Union 1915 Silk Workers. Pres
ident Local Union 1915 N. Y.
SARAH CHERNOW, Delegate
Local 30, Knit Goods, N. Y.
ELLEN DAWSON, Delegate, Lo-
cal 1919, Passaic, N. J. Secretary
Local 1919, Passaic, N. j.
ELI KELLER, Delegate, Local
1919. rassaie, N. J, President Lo-
| cal 1919. Passaic. N. T.