The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
WORKERS STILL SWELL
RANKS OF STRIKERS AT
Mill COMMITTEE CALL
Workers Answer Committeemen's Shout of
Strike, All OUT by Tie-up of Printing Plant
New Bedford Masses Greet New Allies as the
Struggle Spreads to Key Textile City

FALL RIVER, MASS, aug. o.
Two thousand workers in the textile
plant of the American Printing Com
pany here, walked out on strike to-
day in answer to the call of the
Textile Mill Committees, thus
spreading the struggle of neighbor-
ing New Bedford's $4,000 strikers
to this huge mill center.
By mid-afternoon 1000 of the
company's 4,300 operatives had
answered the strike call issued in
the morning, with even the capitalist
press admitting that night-fall would
find nearly every worker out.
1000 Walk Out
The Textile Mill Committees exec
utive board, granted full power to
set the strike date by a textile
workers meeting last Friday, met
last night and acted acted with
Tightening swiftness, in calling to
struggle those employed by the
American Printing Company.
Fight Wage Cut.
4 The strike was officially declared
after Manager Durfee for the COM
pany publicly refused to meet with
the plants mill committee, when
they demaded abolition of the 10
per cent wage cut enforced last Jaa-
uary and further improvements in
working standards.
The American Printing Company
is the largest of the ninety-four
mills in Fall River, which employs
over $4,000 workers. Late reports
showed that several hundreds of
workers in the Lincoln Manufac-
turing Company had also joined the
strike, the strike call including this
plant also.
Tie Up Division.
The entire printing division of the
American Printing Company is COM
pletely tied up as a result of the
walkout, with skilled and unskilled,
British, French, Polish and Portu-
guese workers demonstratively halt
ing work and marching out of the
plant at 10 in the morning.
With indescribable enthusiasm,
the workers in the printing division
poured out into the streets IN
answer to the shouts of the com
mittee ini the mill walking from
room to room. Strike! All Quit"
was the committeemen's cry, which
grew in volume as it was picked up
by the men leaving the machines.
Leaders ofs the workers organiza-
tion Immediately announced that a
mass picketing line would be thrown
around the plant at 4:30 this after
noon, to meet the shift of night
workers as they enter.
A mass meeting of the strikers
was also Immediately announced for
$3.50 tonight at Liberty Lot which
is located directly opposite the mill.
Police Aid Bosses.
A picket line of the workers out
of the Lincoln Manufacturing Com
pany plant are already face to face
with an intensified police dictator
ship. Police lieutenant Violette has
already challenged the pickets at the
Lincoln mill and ordered not more
than two to patrol the gates. Those
orders, workers declared, will be
completely ignored. Refusal of the
pickets to leave the lieutenant's s
order was answered by his taking
the names of ten leading pickets.
Warrants will undoubtedly be issued
for their arrest.
Fully prepared for the response
elected by the workers to their
strike call, the leaders of the Tex
tile Mill Committees are meth
odically working on organizational
plans, preparatory to issuing gen.
eral strike cali in this huge cotton
manufacturing center.
The strike affected today, shows
how completely the American Fede-
ration of Textile Operatives is dis
credited in the eyes of the textile
workers here. The reactionary Lead,
ers Of the A. F. T. O.. are powerless
4 to stop the coming walkout of. tens.
of thousands, is the statement heard
everywhere. Fortifying this belief
is the fact that the skilled workers
in the American Printing Company
are joining the strike as readily as
the unskilled. The A. F. T. O.ris
composed wholly of several thou
sand skilled operatives