The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-07
A.F.L.P PLANNING
TO BETRAY BIC
TEXTILE STRIKE
Mill Barons Aiming at
Fake Settlement With
Batty and Co.
Strike Ranks Stiffen
Workers Demand Boss.
Capitulation
Especial to the Daily Worker)

tDpectot 10 the Ddtty W0rkef)
BOSTON, Sept. 6.-Jim Reid,
leader of a delegation of textile
strikers to demand from Governor
Fuller the immediate termination of
the police and court terror, yester-
4. day denounced the murderer of Sac
co and Vanzetti in Fuller's own Of
flee. when the latter began to up
J braid the delegation for putting for
ward a demand for a wage increase
in answer to the New Bedford mill
owners wage cut.
'"We came here to talk and not to
listen to a lecture" Reid shot back
at Fuller when the governor en-
barSed on an oration in which he
criticized the delegation for not be-
ing ready to make a concession to
the bosses in order to end the strike.
The session with the mill owners
agent in the State House ended soon
after he had shouted to the workers
leader: "1'll have you put out of
my office"
The score of strikers representa-
tives, poorly clothed, presented a
striking contrast, to the creased
sickness of the Governor of the
State of Massachusetts,, and to the
waxed mahogany fittings of the Of
flee. With quiet dignity the spokes-
n man of New Bedford's and Fall
Rivers workers began to talk of the
struggle against the wage cut. The
atmosphere soon underwent rapid
change as Fuller began to assert his
fear and hatred of labor.
Confident beforehand that the mil
lionaire manufacturer, Fuller, would
never take any step toward ending
the vicious terror of the police and
troopers in the strike area, the dele
cation of leading strikers neverthe-
less decided to seek an appointment
with him in order to expose further
the strikebreaking role of the city
and state authorities.
The first clash between Fuller and
the delegation came after Reid had
described the unbearable sufferings
of the $4,000 strikers. Fuller kept
interrupting insolently. Reid then
calmly told the governor that he was
"worse than Chief of Police Feeney
of Fall River" whose vicious at
tacks of picketers was responsible
for the drowning of six-year-old
child driven into the river to his
death by trooper.
Especial to the Daily Worker)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Sept. 6.
I-Feverish | preparations are now be-
J ing made by the mill owners to lash
J out in a renewed offensive against
the $4,000 strikers through the me-
dunn of fake settlement which
they are trying to reach with the
officialdom of the reactionary Unit
ed Textile Workers Union. Although
denials of intentions to "settle" the
strike are still forthcoming from the
president of the manufacturers as
sociation, the employers trade jour
nails print predictions that the strike
will be settled" in about ten days.
These predictions" and rumors of
settlements are merely new strike
breaking maneuver of the mill own.
ers, leaders of the Textile Workers
Union of the Textile Mill Commit
tees declare. They also warn the
workers that the bosses are now des-
perate enough to consider using the
American Federation of Labor union
as the chief agency for smashing the
strike.
Batty Sell-Out.
! As evidence in support of this con-
tention they point to the fact that
Batty & Co., the U. T. w. leaders
here, are the real sponsors of the
plan to grant the mill owners the
Labor Extension System" which is
one of the most vicious speed-ups
ever devised. The Citizens Media
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