The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-09

strikers, turned into a miser-
able fiasco when less than
5000 went to work while the
remaining $4,000 strikers
stayed out to continue the struggle
under the leadership of the militant
Textile Workers Union.
To the call of the Textile Work
ers' Union strike committee for
10000 to come out to the picket
lines this morning, made at mass
meetings and thru circulars yester-
day, huge turnout of over 10000
textile strikers surrounded the mill
sections of the town, despite the
importation of the police forces of
four neighboring cities.
Continuous roars of disapproval
and condemnation welled up from
the tightly packed masses on the
sidewalks and overflowing into the
roadways when police squadrons es-
corted into the mills the miserable
dribble of scabs.
The most intense bitterness mark
ed the attitude of the strikers in
front of the mills toward the po-
lice and their tactics to provoke vio-
lence. The workers were furious
when they saw police forcing num-
bers of workers who were picketing
in front of the gates, into the mills.
They rushed to rescue their COM
rades and in many cases succeeded
in foiling this desperate measure of
the mill owners.
Police Sluggers.
Twenty-seven strikers were ar
rested at this picket demonstration,
and dragged into waiting wagons to
be charged with "rioting" Police,
armed with clubs, slugged right and
left at the inescapably slow moving
masses of strikers. Many were
hurt, four strikers were badly beat
en- up. In the wild head-on dashes
at the strikers, many policeman's
club found the head of a fellow
thug, and three policemen claimed
they had experienced periods of un-
consciousness.
Despite the mobilization of the
entire police strength of the cities
of Taunton, Fall River, Dartmouth,
Fairhaven and New Bedford, the
strikers aggressively demonstrated
their intention to fight against the
mill owners as well as the bank
rupted and completely annihilated
American Federation of Labor or
ganization, the United Textile Work
ers' Union.
Many scabs were later reported
as having met with devastating ac-
cidents.
Strike headquarters of the Tex
tile Workers Union later gave proof
to show that over 200 British textile
workers, members for many years
in the A. F. T. o. Textile Council,
walked into the strike halls to reg
lister as new members of the New
Bedford 7. w. u, with pledges of
determination to stay out on strike
till their demands have been won.
Batty Unions Death kneel.
With the taking of the sell-out
step, the Batty gang and the union
they controlled, sounded the death
knell for their organization. The
small following they did have, par
ticularly among the textile workers
OF British descent, was lost when
they officially pronounced their be-
trayal of the sufferings during the
six months of bitter and heroic
struggle. The only union in the
field now remains the militant
union which was formerly known ~
the Textile Mill Committees.
Leading small group of loom
fixers, who walked with averted
faces, Purcell, president of the
Loom-fixers' Union of the Textile
Council, walked into the mills, amid
drowning roar of catcalls and
jeers.
Future of Struggle Bright.
William T. Murdoch, one of the
chief organizers of the T. w. u.
expressed the great optimism for