The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-23
MILL STRIKERS
CHEER BEALE ON
PRISON RELEASE
Boss Lauds Police Chief
Boss Lauds Chief of
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pledged his immediate renewal of
all strike activities.
To the apitalist-reporters outside
the union offices, who asked about
the strikers parade to be held next
Saturday, Beale condemned the city
authorities who broke up by force
the parade he had led In discussing
the coming parade, he declared 81
am confident the workers will make
this the biggest turnout ever seen
/ in New Bedford This will show all
people that we intend to stick thru
the fight against the mill owners till
we are victorious"
To Appear on Picket Line.
He later announced his intention
of coming out on the picket line
Monday morning. He then pointed
out to the strikers the enormous ad-
vantages of a union run on the prin-
ciple of collective leadership, point
ing out the enormous strides the or
ganization had made despite the i'm
prisonment of himself and William
Murdoch, another union leader who
is still serving the 90-day sentence
imposed at the same trial as Beale's.
While walking into the mass
meeting, Beale was showered with
flowers by the workers. He told
the assemblage of the miserable
conditions he was compelled to en-
dure while in Jail. Efforts to dis
courage him from further activities
took the form of solitary confine-
ment for 20 hours day, he related
This was alternated with 3-day
periods in an underground cell on
bread-and-water diet.
To Seek 1000 New Members.
Other speakers then called upon
the workers to intensity their drive
for membership in the Textile Mill
Committees, setting as their i'm
mediate goal the recruiting of
1000 new members.
Late today, union organizer an
nounced, large mass meetings at
both ends of the town will be held
to greet and to welcome back to
leadership the released strike head.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July %.
John Sullivan, president of the
New Bedford Cotton Manufacture
ers' Association, who recently an
nounced the beginning of a terror
campaign against the textile strik-
ers' picket lines, Saturday issued
another statement which was COM
pletely devoted to a vicious attack
on the New Bedford Textile Work
ers' Union of the Textile Mill Com
mittees.
After demanding from the au-
thorities that the T. NJ. C. and its
"bolsheyik demands" be forcibly
suppressed, Sullivan gives detailed
acknowledgement of the growing
strength and popularity of the Mill
Committees among the broad ranks
of the strikers.
Lauds Police Gar
mot only are they getting men,
bers from among the unorganized
workers, but they are taking many
members away from the already
established unions, because some
workers like aggressive tactics"
The mill barons' statement then
went on in great praise of the Fall
River Chief of Police Feeney, who
is using all Of the city's police
power in trying to check the grow
strike sentiment there by violently
breaking up mass meetings of the
Textile Mill Committees. Feeney,
while chief Of police, is at the same
time president of the American
Federation of Textile Operatives, !
the Fall River union recognized by
the bosses. Sullivan's statement calls
for the use of the same tactics here.
Fraternization among the pickets
of the T. NJ C. and U. T. w. is in
creasing daily. A U. T. w. picket
at the Booth Mill. Disguised with
the attempts of H. Riviere, his of
fetal, to prevent the two lines from
marching together, tore the U. T.
w. armband off and demonstratively
walked over to join the Mill Com
mittee piket line.
United Textile Workers Union
members, standing outside of their
south end headquarters, Justify
cheered as the T. M. C. picket line
marched past on their way to picket
duty.