The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
500 AT PUTNAM JOIN
RHODE ISLAND STRIKE

A few thousand workers gathered
at the open-air mass meetings in
Pawtucket and Onleyville (Provi-
dence) yesterday afternoon. These
meetings prepared for the picketing
this morning.
The efforts of the reactionary
Polish groups in Central Falls to
break the strike with the help of
Frank Faber, the ex-strike commit
tee member who was expelled be-
cause of his sellout attempt, is still
being made. A bosses citizens com
mittee has been set up, which will
try to defeat the workers through
so-called arbitration. The strike
committee of the General Fabrics
has ISSUED the following statement
on the present situation:
THE strike of the General Fab
RIGS workers has stood solid for two
months for the following demands:
/. No more than four looms to
weaver. 2. All weaving jobs to be
mixed: no jobs of bags only, or of
any one article. g. The price on
the chiffons, georgettes. flat crepes
and white bags to be $3.50 per 100,-
900 picks; the price on brown bags
to be $3.50 per 100000 picks. 4. The
10 per cent bonus for the night shift
and the per cent bonus for the
afternoon shift to be restored. 5. A
price list on all styles of work to be
posted inside the mill where all
workers can see it, 6. Only fiXer
to section; the number Of looms
per section to be agreed upon by
conference between the fiXers and
the management 7. A standard
pay of SIS per week for the drop
wire girls. g. No discrimination
and recognition of the mill commit
tee. THIS IS THE ISSUE IN THE
STRIKE. The workers refuse to be
confused by anti-red drive lies, etc.
WE WORKERS KNOW WHAT WE
WANT AND HOW TO GET 1T!
1.-THE employers, seeing that the
workers would not be swayed from
their purpose, resorted to the usual
methods of violence. The announce
ment of the company that it would
reopen its mill with scabs brought
out the entire body of the strikers
in peaceful mass picketing demon
stration, which was supported by the
people of Central Falls. The trouble
at the mill was provoked entirely by
the police. The brutal methods of
the police, attacks on young girls,
tear gas, threats with pistols, ma
chine guns, etc, is well known to all
men, women and children in Central
Falls. The continual bounding Of
the entire working-class population
of the Bowery by the police pro-
voked the resistance of these work.
ers for second time (after the
strikers and the strike leaders had
retired.
unable to break the spirit of the
strikers first by starvation and then
by unprovoked violence, the en-
ployers now resort to the third
method of strike-breaking. They at
tempt to divide the strikers ranks.
They bring in the so-called Citi-
zen's Committee, who represent the
employers but pose as neutrals, to
try to sell out our strike. This is
nothing new, the employers did the
same thing in the Lawrence strike,
in the Passaic strike, etc. Frank
Faber. strike committee member
who lined up with this attempted
sell-out move, who without the au-
thority OF the strike committee con-
ferred with the police and Supt.
Manton, has been decisively repudi-
ated by the strike committee.
THE strike committee, as the
elected representatives of the work.
ers, declares its full confidence in
the National Textile Workers Union,
which is leading the strike with us.
Only the strike committee can nego-
tate for the strikers and the strike
can only be settled by vote Of the
mass of the strikers. The strike
committee. from the beginning, has
held itself in readiness and is ready
now to meet with the employers and
negotiate for settlement of the
strike on the basis of the workers
demands. Until this is done the
workers will stand by their rights to
continue the strike" -,