The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-06
CALIFORNIA GOVERNORS COUNCIL REFUSES STATE AID TO OBSS

ers' Union, to organize special squads
to be ready at any time to distribute
copies of the Daily Worker and Leaf
lets answering the bosses and expos
ing their schemes.
Issue 10000 Leaflets.
To issue at once, with the National
Textile Workers, 10000 leaflets ex-
posing the United Textile Workers
and Governor Ely's scheme Matched
in Boston Thursday and to call on
the strikers to stand firm and meet
this with mass picketing.
To elect six members OF the com
mittee and call on mill meetings and
mill locals to elect from three to five
delegates to the Youth Conference,
to be held this coming Monday.
To invite the young workers in the
U. T. w. and American Textile Union
to send delegates.
To endorse and circulate petitions :
demanding food for the school chill
dren of strikers and unemployed in
Lawrence.
To issue a leaflet particularly ex-
posing the trickery in the Monomac
and other ballot schemes Of the EN-
ployers.
A report by Workers International
Relief Director Taft on the relief sit
uation showed progress; ten cities
preparing to start collections, call
to workers of fifty cities to hold af-
fairs for relief, attempts to open a
new relief station to serve cooked
food to single men and women, 8
hunt for trucks to collect produce
from the farmers, etc.
MeDonald-Priestly Strikebreaker.
Father" Mcdonald was the leader
of every complicated back to work
movement in the February strike in
Lawrence. He suddenly appeared
two days ago as the chairman OF 3
committee of three, the other two
being lawyer and a business man,
to count the ballots sent by mail to
the Monomac mill employees in fake
vote of that mill. Mcdonald an
nounced Wednesday that he was ex-
pected to announce that all the votes
SO far were for return to work
Everybody knows that the statement
and balloting is fraud. 1t would
seem that Mcdonald has been saved
for the special job of stuffing ballot
boxes.
200 Attend WOmen's Committee.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Nov. 5.--A
meeting called by the Women's Com
mittee of the United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee brought over
200 together Tuesday night. The
women were taught strike songs TO
the accompaniment of an accordian,
local women strikers got experience
in speaking, and a mothers commit
tee was formed to assist in organ
izing the Young Textile Pioneers.
Organizers speaking we're Caroline
Drew in English and Capuani in
Italian.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Nov. g.
Horace A. Riyiere, who is field Or
ganizer for the United Textile Work
ers' Union, gave its first indication
yesterday evening of the United
Textile Unions public attitude toward
the ballot. He said any vote on an
agreement must observe the following
conditions:
81. Thedecision that a ballot be
taken must be made by the workers.
20. The ballot must be approved
by the workers.
80. The ballots must be counted
by the workers and no outsiders"
He gives no explanation of these
conditions and the United Textile
officials in general avoid any ref
erence to the ballot. The Citizens
Committee promises to announce to-
day when the ballot will be taken.
There was good picketing this
morning at the Wood, Arlington and
Washington Mills. There was or
ganized picketing on both sides OF
the Wood Mill.
Twelve were arrested yesterday al
the Arlington evening picket line and
three at other lines yesterday eve
ming. Five were trid this morning
with lawyer Connolly of the Inter
national Labor Defense and the Law
renee Defense Committee defending.
All were convicted and Sntenced to
three months. The cases have been
appealed and all we're held on 81 900
bail each. The other cases are con-
tinued with bail at $1,000 each.