The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07

are cutting wages ana introducing
a and 10 hour day. The Associated
officials openly declare that they are
helpless to defend the silk workers.
This is only part of the truth. They
are giving every assistance, some
times tacit, sometimes outspoken, to
the campaign for wage cuts and
longer hours. Wherever the work
ers take up a fight against the
bosses they find that they must
fight the Associated as well.
Drove Out Workers.
AS one of its first official acts
after the 1928 strike, the Associated
decided to drive from all Paterson
shops those workers who for years
have been most outstanding in the
struggle for organization and bet
ter conditions. Persecution is no
longer a privilege of the bosses. The
Associated has joined hands with the
bosses in an attempt to crush any
spirit of militancy that exists among
the textile workers. Now the Asso-
ciated officials have begun a cam
paign of poisonous SANDER with the
purpose of shaking the confidence
of the workers in their militant lead
ers.
1t is a well-known fact that the
Associated called the strikes of 1924
and 1909 or,1xy haoouea Of ,,o,es rroe
sure from the workers, and that both
strikes were led by Communists and
betrayed by the Associated officials.
Whatever these discredited officials
may say today will not eradicate
from the minds of Paterson work
ers the memory of Harry Wicks,
Lena Chernenko, and Gertrude Muel-
Ter.
In Summit.
The criminal misdeeds of the As
ISOLATED officials in Summit is the
latest addition to the long records of
betrayal. These officials called the
Summit workers out on strike with
the Paterson workers in October of
1928, left them abandoned and iso-
lated to struggle alone for five
months, and then broke up the
strike by making a fake settlement
in one of the Summit mills. Dis
gusted with these tactics, the Sum-
nit strikers sent committee with
an appeal for help to the National
Textile Workers Union in Paterson
and New York, and the Summit
workers Joined the National Union
by unanimous vote at a subsequent
mass meeting in Summit. Now the
Associated is suing the Summit
workers for return of relief money
which was previously given to them
by the Associated. In 4 desperate
attempt to calumniate the N. T. w.
u, Quinlan, in his New Leader ar
ticle, deliberately accuses the N. T.
W. U. of appropriating this relief
money that was given to the Sum-
nit strikers before the N. T. w. u.
ever came to Summit! The accom-
panying lie that the N. T. w. U. or
ganizer went to a mill owner with
an offer of men who would work 10
hours at reduced wages, could have
originated only in the corrupt inn
agination of a renegade.
A Viewers Record.
One lie in Quinlan's article has
created good deal of amusement.
According to Quinlan, the N. T. W.
U. organizer who was called to Sum-
NIT by the workers there is the son
of silk manufacturer in anothev
part of the state, and went to Sum-
NIT with the express purpose of
damaging his fathers business ri
walls. 1t is known to all that the
Communist leader" in question is
a Paterson weaver and a former
member of the Associated. His
grandfather was Paterson weaver
who was active in many strikes. His
father is Paterson weaver whose
rs years of activity in the Pater-
son labor movement speaks for it
self. He was one of the first broad
silk weavers to be admitted into the
Associated, and his leading role in
the founding of the N. T. w. U. in
Paterson brought upon him, with %
other left wing members of the As
ISOLATED, expulsion by the yellow
leaders, and several slanderous re-
marks, of which this one by Quinlan
is not the first.
Quinlan his shown himself to be
a stupid liar. His attempts to throw
mud have made him SO dirty that
he will never be able to clean him
self. The best union elements in
Paterson have already come into the
National Textile Workers Union.
The result of Quinlan's work is only
further exposure of the Associated.