The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-27
BUT OFFICIALS
fail. TO START
MASS PICKETING
Refuse to Bring Out
Scabs From Mills
(By a Worker Correspondent

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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By mai).-
The rank and file of the workers is
still militantly carrying on the no
siery strike in the Ajax and Emmett
mills. The Federal mills are filled
with scabs due to the lack of effort
on the part of the hosiery workers
officials attempting to organize the
scabs. Picketing goes on, but there
are SO few pickets that if one were
not acquainted with the situation one
could not realize that strike was
taking place. Some days there are a
few pickets at the Ajax mill and 9th
er days there none at all.
Bosses Gleeful.
Very recently the boss declared to
a worker that he was almost ready to
open his plant in Phoenixville and did
not expect union interference. The
Ajax mill is so filled with scabs that
the bosses tools, the police are 70
longer. necessary in front of the mill.
Mass picketing would have prevented
the mill from operating but the work
ers have not vet learned how to force
those. who, by the workers hard
earned toll, were paid to lead them to
carry the strike to a successful end.
Why weren't the scabs organized?
Why was there no mass picketlng at
the Federal and Ajax mills? The in
junction the court issued was against
picketing in front of the mills and
not against mass picketing and or
ganizing the unorganized. Why were
the splendid militant pickets at the
Ajax mill at the beginning Of the
strike replaced by a small group OF
pickets who were less militant?
Yet even now the strike is not
hopeless. but the union officials
must cooperate with the workers
and not with the bosses as they
have done until now.
The boss does not want to see the
scabs organized, to see mass picket
inc and to see the hosiery workers
fight against the lowering of their
standard of living. He doesn't like
TO see the workers strike against the
breaking up Of the union. The no
siery workers must take a definite
stand against their "leaders" coop
Grating with the workers enemy, the
boss.
Gangster Politician.
At recent conference of the no.
siery mill owners, the PHILADELPHIA
district attorney, John Monaghan,
gangster politician, was elected pres
ident of the VIM. Brown hosiery man.
ufacturers. He will be very effective
and ever ready to serve his class by
issuing injunctions against the strik-
ing hosiery workers and by continu-
ously prosecuting them. Will the
leaders of the striking hosiery work
ers ask the rank-and-file to cooper
ate with this labor hater in the COM
ing election?
IF the workers stop and think they
will remember the sort of co-opera-
ton they received from the police
tools of the bosses, whom district at
torney Monaghan represents, when
they were on the picket line. They
were arrested. An injunction against
picketing. was issued. That is the
bosses form of cooperating with the
strikers. The workers should discuss
these problems confronting them.
Their slogan should be; "Organize the
unorganized. mass and effective pick
citing, solidarity of the workers
against the bosses, against capitalist
ownership of the mills, against un-
employment and for cooperative So
ciety of workers and farmers.
At this moment a grievance com
mittee is on the verge of calling a
strike at one of the biggest mills in
Philadelphia for having better con-
tract this year. w. c. P.