The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-29

Educational League when he began
to line up with the right wing and
strike breaking officials of the AS
saciated Silk Workers Union, the
Paterson Local T.U.E.L. issued the
following statement:
In the Silk Striker published by
the Associated Silk Worker of Satur-
day. December 8, 1928, appears an
article signed by Louis Stein and
endorsed by the Joint Executive
BOARD of the Associated Silk Work
ers.
This article, charging financial
'~rnsponsibilitv in the strike of
o2A. j. An attemnt by Stein and the
roirt Executive Board to cover I'D
their treacherv and BETRAYAL Of the
workers in the mast strike. Like
every renegade. this Stein nrntends
70 be in a nositior to give out elmer
secrets" which he has IN to the
present time restrained himself from
exposing.
What does this Judas who has sold
himself f. thirtv uie"ns Of silver
charge? First: That Pittkowitz as
orparizer Of tho STRIKE of 1924 had
> STAFF If pioked c-'-o-'izo~s "''d That
he did not conduct a militant
strr ~ele.
What are the facts. Con this
renegade derry that during the 1924
strike there were wonderful picket
lines thrown around the Gilt Edge
Mill in the face cf drastic iniunc-
tiors? and around the s. 7. Arouson
mill which forceH a number of tho
bosses to close their shops? That
strike was not lost due to waverinr
lass collaboration tactics such ps
have beer pursued by the official
in this strike but due to the violence
end terrorism of the police. ~
closinc of the halls. due also to +1,o
fact that the Associated Leadership
had not attempted previously to o.
ranize. to rrenare the workers Gov
big struggle because the Associate
was an isolated organization allow
inc the silk mills in Pennsylvania.
which even at that time produced
ove~ 40 per cent, to scab upon them
without making anv ATTEMPT pre-
viously to ove~oome this situation.
Hoe1scher Ran Off.
In the str'ko of 1924 the left wing
--as not n full CONTROL. The were
hsmpered on all sides by Lessig,
whose record is known to the silk
workers. of Paterson. by the Joint
Executive Board. the same old
fossils and class collaborationists
who endorsed the strike only two
weeks after it broke out, and by
Hoelscher who left for his vacation
in the midst of this struggle.
Compare the strike of 1924 with
the conduct of the officials. of the
Stems. the Hoeleohers, in 1928. This
~ene~ade and his arch supporter
Brooks opposed picketing the big
shors end particularly the Gilt Fdge
Mill. The strike could have been
won despite all of this opposition if
the policy of organizing the three
ard four-loom system had been
adonted and a union could have been
established at that time. who on
nosed this policy which the left wing
favored? 1t was Friedman snd
Pechman, the bosom friends of the
reactionary officials and Of tho
treacherous Stein who lined up
against the organization of the three
and four-loom shops, declaring that
those workers were not worthy of
organization, also causing national
istic friction to occur between the
Jewish and the Italian workers.
STEMS Treachery.
Charge No. 2 infers financial ire
sponsibility against Leib.
First, let Stein answer whether it
was not true that as recently as a
week or so before the strike COM
mittee was dissolved by the high
handed tactics of the Joint Board he
proposed to the left wing in the
strike committee that they should re-
sign and leave everything to
Hoelscher end Ccmpanv because he
said that Hoelscher and Company
the socialist labor party, Brooks,
etc. have had secret conferences
with the chief of police, assrrinr him
that no "outside agitato~s" will be
hrc,-rht TO Pa+o~~on dur'r~' +''o
strike and that Hoelscher and Com
panv will ruin the strike.
A few days following this meeting,
This same Stein was nominated by
Brooks as paid official of the As
sociated Silk Workers, to receive =
weekly wage of S45 and he accentnd
Immediately turning a Judas in the
strike,-a roll for which all his pre-
vious conduct had prepared him. The
left VIM held in contempt his pro
posal of resignation-a policy Of
running away from the struggle, but
iike courageous fighters fought for
the workers, fought against the Off
cials, including the treacherous
Steir, and despite the fact that in
the meantime they were becoming
victims of the bosses and of these
reactionarv officials working hand
in hand with the bosses. Now, what
are the charges regarding financial
responsibility The charge is that
fellow-worker Leib received $25
weekly durin~ the strike. What are
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