The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
STRIKE BROKEN
BY ALL, CHIEFS
AT LOOSE WILES
Militants Proposed to
Picket, Spread Strike

KANSAS CITY. Mo.-Oct. S.
With the Trade Union Unity League
organizer, Roy Stevens, under ar
vest, the Bakery and Confectionery
Union here forced the young work
ers on strike against the "msnit"
speed-up system at the Loose Wiles
biscuit company to go back to work
without any gains from the spon-
taneous walk-out of 1900 workers
week ago. Nothing is being done
by this American Federation Of La
Dor local about the 200 workers,
leaders in the walkout, whom the
company wouldn't accept. The union
refused to allow strikers on tire COM
nittee which negotiated with the
bosses.
The A. F. of L. bakers local step
bed in when the successful MONDAY
mass demonstrations at the factory
rates under the leadership of tho
7. U. U. L. indicated that the
trikers were mobilizing for a real
7truggle. Immediately the Central
Labor Council, together with the
bakers local, called meeting in the
Labor Temple.
Cheer T. L. L. L. Plan.
Here, when the T. U. U. L. or
ganiEer raised the question of the
formation of strike and picketing
committees and spreading the strike
to other Loose iles plants, the
strikers responded enthusiastically,
hut union officials had Stevens Of
the T. U. U. L. elected and the next
lay ordered his arrest on the picket
line. Police were instructed to ar
rest all T. U. U. L. organizers, it
was reported. The judge called up
the A. F. of L. officials and consult
I'd wit hthem before ordering Stew
ems held on $500 bonds.
No A. F. of L. official ever ap-
reared on the picket line. They
passed the word around among the
strikers that it was hopeless to
struggle against such big corpora
ton, and that they must build their
union gradually" They said that
they were willing" to organize the
workers into craft unions, as bakers,
eandv-makers, biscuit workers, etc.
No plans for the strike, no demands,
were made by the A. F. of L. ex-
cept the proposition that if the
workers insisted on picketing, they
should do so in a manner not an
tagonizing to the police. Twenty
workers from the National Biscuit
Co. who came to the meeting at the
Labor Temple to offer help to the
strikers. were ignored by all except
the T. U. U. L. who called on them
to make joint fight with the Loose
Wiles in order to better their own
conditions.
:. Despite the treachery of the labor
takers, the T. U. U. L. is continuing
organization wrok and is especially
fighting against the discrimination
policy, The 200 workers whom the
bosses and the A. F. of l.. kept out
on the street are being organized
into committees. together with work
res from the shops, to fight for their
Reinstatement.
The rnanit" system goes on Just
the same and will soon mean the dis
charge of hundreds of workers. 1t
is a reorganization of labor thru
the installation of new coriveyor ma
chinery, similar to the belt in
Ford's or the b speedup in meat
packing. whereby one worker pro-
duces as much as three formerly
did, at the cost of great strain, merry
Gus exhaustion and dangerous ae-
eidents. ~ oI.,
Of the 1900 workers who struck,
Early 30 per cent were YOUTH from
le to Is years old, including so per
cent young girls, mostly American
and many high school graduates.
Their pay averages from s13 to 80
weekly. @ s