The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-28
FIGHT BETRAYAL.
OF SILK STRIKE:
Broadsilk Dept Backs
Left Wing
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a struggle they do not participate
in.
Not that the ribbon and jacquard
workers have no concern in the
struggles of a different craft of
their own union, leaders of the left
wing strike committee declared
after the meeting. They were mis-
led by the reactionary officialdom
into voting support to strikebreak-
ing act of their own Joint Board,
left wing leaders say. In support
ing the anti-strike policies of their
Joint Board the skilled workers are
helping to lose the broadsilk work
ers' strike, which unquestionably
will result in boss attack against
their own working standards.
Will Realize Truth.
The ribbon and jacquard workers
will soon realize, as the broad silk
workers have done, that the Off
Gals policy of fake agreements will
destroy the union and that the left
wing policies will build it up. Then
they too will throw their support to
the left wing, militant unionists ex-
plain.
In calling the meeting, the Joint
Board heads decided to switch the
discussion to purely legal grounds
and refused to permit the Strike
Committee and it's adherents to
make the discussion center around
the real problem at issue, namely
that of whether the dissolution of
the left wing Strike Committee
helped break the strike or not.
Police Present.
With the aisles in the Eastside
High School auditorium filled with
handpicked ushers and with an
available supply of police always
around, the meeting began under
high tension. Hoelscher, secretary.
announced that the Joint Board had
already decided on an agenda, which
confined the discussion to the cues
ton, "Did the Joint Board have le-
gal right to dissolve the Strike
Committee?"
When Gertrude Mueller, for the
Strike Committee, demanded that
the Joint Board and the Strike Com
mittee be allowed equal time for a
report and that the membership dis
cuss the proposals that both would
make toward winning the strike, and
that past strike policies be eval-
uated by the workers, the right
wing chairman rushed thru the mo-
ton endorsing his agenda.
All they would permit was Is
minutes of discussion on the motion
endorsing the strikebreaking dis
solution order of the Joint Board,
by left wing representative. The
alleged discussion from the floor
was interrupted continually by the
right wing.
Scores Joint Board.
Gertrude Mueller, who was chosen
by the broad silk workers to speak
for them openly announced that she
refused to be confined to a discus
sion of LOCALITIES and would discuss
the strike situation and the effect
of the dissolution order on its
chances of being won. After doing
this she read a resolution condemn
ing the Joint Board for this action
and advocating an immediate halt to
the fake agreements made by the
officialdom in Settling" strikes,
which the bosses never obeyed, in
stead cutting wages and ignoring
union conditions Immediately after
concluding these agreements"
With the demand that militant
policies be adopted to win the
strike, Gertrude Mueller called upon
the union to affiliate with a fight
lng national textile workers union
W order that union conditions be
safeguarded and unionization of the
trade be begun. Before this she
had pointed to the remarkable
growth and accomplishments of the
left wing National Textile Workers
Union. After concluding. she read
resolution embodying the general
line of her remarks, and which
asked that a committee be elected
to negotiate for affiliation to that
organization.
Despite the fact that this resolu-
ton received the endorsement of
several meetings during the week.
among which were meetings of
loom-fixers, Lithuanian, Italian and
Polish workers, the right wing re-
fused to allow it to come to vote,
railroading thru, instead, their own
measure.