The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-23
ALL RACES WELD
In FIGHT WITH
TEXTILE BOSSES
U.T.W. Mill Committee
Members Fratern1ze
By AMY sCHECHTER.

9Aa@ NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July %
events of last Wednesday and
Thursday in the New Bedford strike
have been an exceptionally dramatic
expression of the way in which mass
action breaks down the vicious and
Unnatural barriers of craft and race
and age and sex erected by the mis-
leaders of labor, and sweeps the
-1svorkers into a fighting whole.
ers In peace times the bosses and the
e labor bureaucracy find it easy to
g play upon the prejudices of the
57~orkers, and blind them to their
common interests and their common
fight. But when every, day skilled
,.aHd unskilled are confronted with
the desperate need for unity in the
face of the unified forces of bosses
and state, and every day on the pick
ct line they have the opportunity of
seeing how all the various categories
of workers have brave men in them
good fighters and good strikers, the
utmost efforts of the takers, in this
case the Battys and Binns ad Ri
vieres, can no longer keep them
apart.
Encourage Pickets.
Wednesday evening, when the po-
lice under Detective Sergeant Nc
Carly, notorious for his brutal
handling of workers set upon the
New Bedford Textile Workers
Union picket line at the Kilburn
Mill, first Selling Auguste Gonsaves
Pinto, picket captain for the whole
southside, and Alphonso Lameiras.
picket captain and eloquent Portu-
guese speaker at NBTWU mass
meetings, the British and French
skilled workers on Batty's line
shouted encouragement to the strik-
ers under attack and Immediately
moved to their aid But Horace Ri
Were, !JTW organizer was there
Keep quiet" he yelled to his line
keep going in line!" ''Do you think
that's the way to fight for the work
ing people?" called back Maria Car
reia, fiery little strike speaker, black
smooth hair, flashing black eyes. ~
hope the people get their eyes open
, now about you" Riviere's men be-
| gan pushing him aside, you've no
right to stop us. we must all fight
together" a Britisher shouted, and
a number rushed over to help the
NBTWU men, and when the nine
pickets under arrest had been taken
tlaWay number kept marching on
our line.
Known to Strikers.
Pinto was the hero, for his many
run-ins with the police, and the
splendid way in which he handles all
the southside picket lines-and he
had leaped from the patrol wagon
and forced Sergeant McCarty TO
stop choking Luisa Moura who had
dared to protest against the arrest
of her husband. "Take your hands
off or I'll shoot you," said McCarty
AS he was being taken away some
of the British came around and said
they would see he was bailed out If
it took $4,000. Later in the eve
ming two of Batty's members came
around to the Jail and bailed out two
Of the NBTWU members.
= Thursday even the capitalist Eve
ming Standard of this city had to
acknowledge the unity of feeling that
has swept over the strikers of both
unions. "Rival strike factions join
in cheering arrested Pinto" says
~headline.
The same morning, when Pinto ar
rived at the Kilburn Mill, scene Of
the previous nights clash, UTW
pickets Joined heartily in the cheers
that greeted him. And later, passing
by the UTW southend headquarters
a crowd of strikers gathered around
the door and cheered Pinto as he
went.
Leader Praised.
Today, reports from those who
can penetrate the Businesses of Bat
.ty's camp, told that all the strikers
were talking about last nights
events. There was much praise for
Pinto and the rest of the NBTWU
Kilburn pickets, and bitter condem-
nation of Riviere' attempt to keep
the UTW men from coming to the
others aid. Also soreness because
UTW men had participated in the
Scrap, and not one had been ar
rested. The rank and file don't con
slider special police privileges over
the NBTWU something to be proud
of as the leaders do. Il
The same source of information
declared that visiting the Washing
ton Club, British social organiza-
ton, to which many of the British
mill workers belong, he was be-
sieged by Batty men asking eagerly
us Pinto out yet? ?"
One more incident An old Brit
ish loom-fixer told Indignantly how
when Burton, Nashewena Mill fore
man had pulled out his gun the other
night and threatened the strikers
he had said to some of the British
pickets, "You act like lot of bloody
Portuguese" And the loom-fixer
said holly, telling the tale, "Ain't
the Portuguese human beings ?"
HEAT HITS so IN EUROPE.