The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-14
By MAX HARRIS.

one of the most vicious yellow dog contracts
" has been enforced upon the hosiery workers
of the Kraemer Mill, located in Nazareth. Not
only does this contract prohibit the workers
from participating in any organlzauonal &C
tivties but it states specifically that the sign
err upon being dismissed, or voluntarily IeaV-
ing the services of the employer, is not to seek
employment in any other mill within a radius
of 100 miles. All the silk mills in the Lehigh
Valley are located within that area. To further
check the attempts of the workers at organ
ization, the labor hating Judge Stewart has
issued a drastic injunction prohibiting the
strikers from using any means whatsoever IN
interfering with the enforcement of the yellow
dog contract. The strike is mislead by Budenz
of the Musteite Full Fashioned Hosiery Work
ers.
Sing to the Thugs.
The daily clash with the police and scabs,
the arrest of over 100 strikers, including the
organizational committee, proved conclusively
that the workers were convinced that only
through militant tactics could they succeed in
winning their struggle for better conditions.
Instead of organizing defense corps, Budenz'
answer to the headcracking tactics of the local
police, was to instruct the workers to offer
passive resistance by singing America" On
ward Christian Soldiers" etc. While the strik-
ers were engaging in these fake tactics, the
mill was working in full force, and the police
continued their headcracking.
Budenz went a step further in betrayal of
the workers, by attempting to enlist the aid
of the foremost tool of the silk barons in the
state of Pennsylvania, Governor Fisher. With
the aid of Fisher he succeeded in impressing
upon the strikers that they would succeed in
enlisting the aid of one of the instruments of
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them against the attacks of the local police.
These fake tactics finally demoralized the work
ers, checked their militancy, and brought
total defeat of the strike, with its drastic af-
ter-effects.
Limited Strike.
Another attempt to check the growing mill
fancy of the Lehigh Valley silk workers, can
be found in the tactics utilized by the United
Textile Workers officials in the present Wal
lace Mill strike at Philadelphia. This strike
broke out when the mill owner fired forty
weavers for joining the union. The morgan
ICED workers in the mill and the organized
loom fixers, members of the U.T.W. remained
on the job. No attempts were made by the
fakirs to get these workers out so that they
can tie up the mill completely thereby insur-
ing the success of the strike.
At the next meeting of the weavers, Local
1860 of Easton, the entire matter was brought
up for discussion by the rank and file. Upon
direct and persistent demands from the rank
and file for full cooperation towards the strike,
Mcdonald, Lehigh Valley organizer of the U.
7. W. and officiating chairman tried to squirm
out of tight situation, by declaring the strike
illegal.
However the workers were not to be fooled
by such tactics, and a motion of full support
towards the strike introduced by one of the
rank and file members carried by 124 votes to
II. This aroused the ire of Mcdonald and he
stated that he would appeal against the deci-
sion to the national officials of the U. T. w.
At the following meeting he brought down
number of the national officials, including