The daily worker., 1928-12-14
SILK union HITS
STRIKE TRAITORS
I'm STATE NE N 7
Statement Calls for
aaa Organization
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elSH wars, W open up al dJIdCk
against us. Over the radio, through
meetings, through leaflets, the Vet
erans Of Foreign Wars organization
has been doing it's best to break up
the National Textile Workers Union.
And now that the bosses see that
they have failed, through these
methods, that the workers are join
ing by the hundreds to the new Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, their
little agents, the Hoelshers and the
Stems, of the Joint Board of the
Associated, have joined in the united
front in order to destroy the union.
The Joint Board of the Associated,
(E working very closely with the
Geterans of Foreign Wars. The Joint
Board has the approval of the boss
es, and the Chamber of Commerce,
of the capitalist press, of the police,
of the takers of the U. T. W. and
of the Veterans of the Foreign Wars,
in short of all those elements which
stand against the workers. This
should be enough to show the work
ers the true role of these officials
as enemies of the working class.
Usual Trick.
The Joint Board of the Associated
has just issued a new statement
against the N. T. w. U. In this
statement the Joint Board of the
Associated declares that the rassaic
strike resulted in complete demorali-
zation in Passaic, and that the Pat
erson workers suffered as result
of the Passaic strike. We have no
doubt but that the bosses in Pas
sale and Paterson will smile when
they hear this. 1t is good trick
10 divide the workers of Passaic and
Paterson; but the workers know that
Syhen the textile workers in Passaic
heroically fought over one year
against the clubbing and jailing and
shooting of the police and the thugs
of the bosses, against the 10 per
cent wage cut and for the right to
build their union, these workers of
Passaic stopped the wage cuts
throughout the entire industry, and
helped not only themselves but the
whole working class of America.
The bosses will never forget the
Passaic strike. They fear and
tremble each time they think of it.
The Passaic strike was a wonderful
lesson to the workers everywhere
on how to fight wage cuts in the
proper manner.
In New Bedford almost 700 work.
ers were arrested for picketing and
because they were striking against
rotten conditions. No crime has been
proved against these workers and
vet we find the Joint Board helping
The police and the courts to send
hese brave fighters to Jail. In New
Bedford practically all of the leaders
of the N. T. w. U. have been ar
rested or are under indictment, with
long terms in prison ahead of them
if they are convicted. These brave
fighters are the men whom the Of
ficials of the Joint Board would like
to send to Jail so that the bosses
would be able to carry on their
plans of wage cutting, and speed
up, more easily.
A Question.
What have these officials of the
Associated ever done for the work
ers? When the dye workers came
to them and asked to be organized
they were turned away. When the
workers demanded organization of
big shops, nothing was done. In the
different strikes that have taken
place what have your officials done?
While the workers Of Paterson were
suffering, the members of the Joint
Board, supposed to lead the strike,
most Of them were no where near
the scene. The only time they ap-
peared was to break the strike COM
mittee, composed of rank and file
workers who were actually carrying
In the strike, against the will of the
officials. What have the workers
gained in these struggles under the
leadership of the Joint Board? Let
the workers answer this question
\ themselves.
Fellow workers, the issues have
now become very clear. AS a re-
suit of the last lost strike, now
more clearly than ever, the workers
see who their real enemies are and
understand that they must build
anew from the bottom real fight
[ ing union, union that no matter
what difficulties may be, will con-
centrate, not upon small branch
OF the industry, or upon the small
cockroach shops, but once and for
all, upon all shops particularly the
( big shops in Paterson, which really
determine the standard of living of
Paterson workers. The workers now
see that the last strike was no solu-
ton to any of their problems; that
they will have to prepare again for
a new struggle. To win this strug-
I lie the workers of Paterson must re-
seive the support of all the textile
workers throughout the country or
ganized in a National Union. While
/. the tricky officials of the Associated
have been scheming and planning
to deliver the workers to the takers
of the U. T. w., the workers of
Paterson themselves have given
their answer to this move and have
built up the new National Union,