The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-16
OHIO WORKERS IN WORKERS WILL
Mine CAMP AID FIGHT BETRAYERS
LABOR DEFENSEIN SILK STRIKE
Strikers Now Fighting
Bosses, Union Chiefs
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Each of the left wingers categorical
ly condemned these cynical pro-
posals and declared that the Strike
Committee will continue it's con-
duct of the strike, and also demand
ed an immediate membership meet
ing.
At the strikers mass meeting
this morning, Fred Hoelscher, chief
of the bureaucratic officialdom, rose
to the platform and brazenly in
formed the membership that no
more membership meetings will be
called till harmony" is achieved
and also not till the strike is over.
This the workers greeted with in
dignant shouts of protest, but
Hoelscher went right on. His next
move was to demand from Sophie
Streichman, the left wing head of
the relief committee, that she turn
over to him all records pertaining
to the work of her committee. This
was refused on the grounds that
the membership was overwhelming
in support of the old strike commit
tee and that no order of few off
Gals would be recognized as over
riding the will of the membership.
Storms of excited protest filled the
hall when Hoelscher retaliated by
announcing that strikers would not
get their weekly relief allotment if
the records are not turned over This
statement he made as he threat
ened the relief leader with court ac-
ton.
When Louis Stein, right wing
chairman of the old strike commit
tee, went to take the chair at the
opening of the meeting, he was met
with a barrage of shouts from the
members who demanded to know
why the strike committee of their
choice was not permitted to work.
At a mass meeting of women
workers, presided over by Lena
Chernenko, special women's organ
izer, a resolution denouncing in the
most emphatic terms the strike
breaking tactics of the officialdom,
were unanimously passed.
At the strikers meeting, Organ
lizer Poteka declared that if the left
wingers do not get out by tomor-
row, he would issue instructions to
the Syrian workers that they go
back to work Immediately. The last
part of his statement was made in
the midst of flood of Kisses and
catcalls that rose from the assem-
blage. A more concrete example of
bald faced strikebreaking was as
yet not offered, were the cries heard
all thru the hall.
The left wing yesterday an
nounced that plans are already be-
ing executed for the publication of
daily strike bulletin, which will be
the organ of the real strike COM
mittee and will discuss daily issues
to keep strikers informed as to
what's going on.
The statement which replies to
the harmony" proposals of the re-
dictionary clique in control of the
Joint Board is now on the press and
will be spread broadcast among the
membership, as a rallying agent for
continued struggle against the silk
bosses.
After sharp denunciation of the
illegal dissolution of the strike COM
mittee as strikebreaking step by
the officials and of their A. F. of
L. betrayal methods in conducting
the strike. the statement of the left
wing strike committee rejects the
fake harmony proposal, and calls
upon the workers to follow them
and the National Textile Workers
Union into more militant struggle
that will win the strike and real
union conditions.