The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-28
Is MORE jailed;
SCABS kept ON
Strikers Jobs
Weisbord Says U.T.W,
Commits Clearest Act
Of Treachery
Prosecutions Continue
Groups Call for Natl
Textile Union
BULLETIN.

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, May
27.-Fred E. Beal and Vera Buch,
GastOnia strike organizers, were
refused the floor when they tried
to speak at the mass meeting
called by the United Textile Work
ers' Union misleaders this morn
ing to complete the sell-out of
the rayOn strike here. Beal and
Buch wanted to warn the strikers
of the treason practiced upon
them, and tell them how the Gas
tOnia strikers, under leadership of
the National Textile Workers
Union were fighting to victory.
The temper of the strikers here
was such that the takers dared
not throw the Gastonia strikers
out, but in the afternoon, Vice
President Kelley of the United
Textile Workers, called closed
meeting this afternoon, in which
he assailed Beal, saying he was
in the pay of the Soviet"
Wilcox, supposed kidnapper of
Alfred Hoffman, is helping to
register the workers for return to
the mills.
Edward McGrady, A. F. of L.
organizer, who declares himself
the personal representative of
President Green, today offered his
services to the bosses and business
mems committee of ElizabethtOn
to ride Beal and the Communists
out of town."
Porter, supposed to be a repre-
sentative of the Socialist Emer-
gency Committee for ''strike re-
lief" and a member of the social
ist party, acts as an informer to
the takers.
There were no strikers repre-
sented on the settlement deal,
Just the A. f. of L. misleaders and
business men.
Real opposition to the sell out
is developing among the workers.
They are glad to see the National
Textile Workers Union in the
field, and are responding to it.
Many copies of the Labor De-
fender have been distributed.
Especial to the Daily Worker)
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, May 27.
Thousands of rayon strikers here,
convinced that they have been cheat
ed and swindled by the United Tex
tile Workers officials and govern
ment agents who worked secretly
with the employers for a surrender
of the strike without single point
gained and without any guarantee
whatever against the penalizing of
militant strikers, are demanding
that the U. T. w. be repudiated and
the strike carried to victorious
finish.
Is More Arrested.
Arrest of Is strikers last night
by city police because they were
demonstrating against the selling
out and betrayal of the strike by
the U. I. w. policy, was aided in
that treachery by Anna Weinstock,
department of labor agent, and the
sudden flaring out of resentment
on the part of the strikers who tried
to return to work showed the depth
of strike sentiment here today. The
strike may be resumed in full force
fin violation of the orders of the u.
7. w. at any moment.
The strikers arrested have a for
NAL frame-up charge against them
of carrying firearms"
The strikers who went back to
work, after registering according to
the first article of the terms of sur
render, which was voted through a
small, packed meeting assembled
Saturday by Vice-President Kelley
of the u. I. w. and the department
of labor agent, found chat the bosses
were already breaking their own
agreement, which was bad enough
already.
Already Change Contract.
The agreement specified that
strikers were to be taken back with
out discrimination. Many of the
strikers fond their places filled al
ready by imported scabs. These
scebs had been called to meeting