The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-13
Mill union CALL
FREES STRIKERS
FROM MORE DUTY
Workers Begin to Build
Factory Committees
Continued from Page Ono


terrible starvation policy of the en-
ployers which coupled with the afro
cious terror of the police and strike
breaking actions of the government
helped to break the strike. The
workers must review again the
wholesale arrests, searches and seiz-
ures without warrant, the torture of
prisoners in the cells, the excessive
bail, the vicious heavy sentences on
innocent victims, the complete use
of the criminal law to force the
workers back to work, the clubbing
and terroristic tactics of the police,
the calling in of police from the
outside, the bringing in of the mill
tia, the reading of riot acts by the
sheriffs and their deputies, the
strikebreaking tactics of the COVER
nor's arbitration" committee, the
action of the governor in Boston, in
short the enormous pressure by the
governmental forces from Washing
ton to the wards of New Bedford,
to break the strike. The workers
must carry on an unmitigated fight
against this capitalist government
and bind themselves in a political
party independent of the bosses that
will carry on class fight so that
strike-breaking no longer becomes
the characteristic of government. =
Helping the labor officials, the
bosses, and the government to break
the strike were the ministers, the
larger store-keepers, the chamber of
commerce, some of the landlords, the
newspapers and the schools through
out the city that at the critical mo-
ment "helped' the employers put
over successfully their drive to force
the wage slaves back to work in the
mills.
A Great Struggle.
Despite all these enormous forces
against them, the textile workers in
New Bedford conducted themselves
with heroism that will make the New
Bedford strike live forever in the
memory of the workingclass in
America. Under the banner of the
New Bedford Textile Workers
Union, new local of the National
Textile Workers Union, the textile
workers of New Bedford by their
great struggle stopped the wage cut
ting campaign of the employers
throughout the entire country.
Everywhere the New Bedford strike
was a demonstration that helped to
stiffen the resistance of the workers
everywhere. The strike in Fall River,
the resistance elsewhere were all
results of the strike in New Bedford.
Further the New Bedford strike
helped to found the new national
textile union, the National Textile
Workers Union of America and in
doing this forged great instru-
ment that is destined to organize
the million or so textile workers
throughout the entire country in a
fighting organization that will wipe
out the labor takers from the entire
industry and will help to emancipate
completely the textile workers from
their oppressors.
Power of Union.
"The five percent chat has been
returned, has been won by the work
ers only due to the struggle con-
Quoted by the New Bedford Textile
Workers Union. There is no doubt
but that it was the formation of the
New Bedford Textile Workers
Union and the militant fight con-
Quoted by it that really forced the
employers to return the five percent
taken from their wages last April.
1t will be the same in Fall River.
If the manufacturers in Fail River
return part of the wages cut last
spring it will be due only to the
fact that the National Textile Work.
ers Union has been in the field con-
Quoting a fight and organizing the
masses for future struggle.
"The present position of the tex
tile workers in New Bedford is very
strong. The main task is to build
the union, the New Bedford local of
the National Textile Workers Union,
to organize more solidly textile work
ers for the new struggles that are