The daily worker., 1931-07-27
Renegades GiVe Support to
Paterson Strike Breakers
1itlow in Vicious Attack Against National Tex.
tile Workers Union =.

BENJAMIN Gitlow secretary of the
-o-caued Communist Party, majority
eroup-a group of leaders expelled
rom the Communist Party for trea-
son to the working class. has come
the assistance of the silk and dye
manufacturers of Paterson, in the
role of a strikebreaker. This follows
closely upon the heels Of the act of
Benjamin Mandell Bert Miller,
also an expelled member of the
Communist Party, who not only
tried to sell out the highway con-
struction workers of White Plains,
N. Y, but used detectives and the
police to attain his ends.
In a statement issued to the press,
Cfitlow declares that the National
Textile Workers Union and the
United Front General Strike Com
mittee do not represent the dye and
silk workers of Paterson. This is a
lie. The United Front General
Strike Committee is composed Of
members of the National Textile
Workers Union, the Associated Silk
Workers. the United Textile Work
ers. unorganized and unemployed
workers of the industry. 1t is a
osoad, comprehensive united front
ld. the struggle that is now taking
ace. This united front was set up
"a June 10, Of which the leadership
cs the Associated and U. T. w. and
GitIow are well aware. This united
f. ont was put up for the purpose OF
preparing and leading the General
strike now in progress in Paterson.
The United Front General Strike
Committee, together with the strik-
ing textile workers of Allentown
vice went to the officials of the
associated and U. T. w proposing
nifty of the rank and file of all or
ganizations for the strike. Twice
he leadership of the Associated re-
acted the united front of the rank
and file
L. T. w. Turn Down Allentown.
Even more: when the Allentown
workers first went to Paterson, they
vent to the offices of the Associated
nd u T. W. asking for support for
he Allentown strike There they
round the officials playing cards. and
received as answer that the Asso-
ciated and U. T. w 'sympathize"
, ith them, but could not do any
thing for them When they went
. the National Textile Workers
nion, unity of struggle was estab-
ished, as it was established between
he Paterson Allentown Putnam,
Tawtucket and Central Falls work.
ers at the National Silk Conference
held in Paterson on July 49,
Therefore unity has been estab-
lished. and the united front has been
set up in Paterson The only thing
that is preventing the broadening of
the United Front in Paterson are
the leaders of the Associated, U. 7.
w. assisted by Benjamin GitloW and
the other Communist renegades. But
in this attempt at sabotage of the
united struggle of the workers, these
people will not succeed, The work
ers coming out on strike realize who
are the breakers of the strike-the
Associated and u M w. officials,
assisted by Benjamin Gitlow and the
Nlusteites. Gitlow received $4,000 for
this dirty job from the Garland
now Is trying to deliver
the goods.
The United Front General Strike
called the strike on July
%, and the workers in the silk and
dye shops, who work under miserable
for shamefully low wages
and long hours, came out on strike.
What was the position of the Asso-
ciated and U. r. w. leaders-Gitlow
and the others? They told the work.
ers TO remain in the shops. What is
this but open strikebreaking? All
talk of the Associated and U. T. w.
calling a strike on August had no
meaning. When the workers were
ready to go out on strike, the Asso-
ciated and u. T. w. leaders called