The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
Struggle Between a Labor Racket
eer and a Pinchot Tool tor
Lackey Service

thought that when they got the workers so en-
ragged against the Communists by lying to the
effect that Communists are strike breakers and
agents of the Bosses that they refused to read
the Daily Worker their treachery in strikes
would not be exposed.
These traitors had to do something about it
for the workers were beginning to question the
sincerity of the Kel1ys in the Broad Silk strike
Sincethey could not deny the facts in the Mt.
WI. statement, they issued front page attack
in the Pennsylvania Labor Herald which Mozer
edits against the N.T.W.U. organizer making
some filthy insinuations about "Mertz, Rosen-
berg, who are listed as strike breakers, willing
to tear down American institutions and Amer
lean standards to secure the desires of the
Reds" In this attack they also mention that
while Mertz has been accused Of wife beating
it was not against Lena. knowing that Merits
wife is worried about him going out with other
women they carefully cut this article out and
send it to his wife, hoping that personal
zcandal would thus be created nd the attention
of the strikers drawn away from their real pro-
blenas. No doubt the article was purposely writ
ten in this fashion in view of Mertz's nlatri-
monial troubles
Of course, that Mertz is strike-breaker we
can agree because in the Review of June
statement appears by the manufacturers threat
= ening with an injunction against the outsiders,
which is, of course, meant against the strikers,
and Mertz agrees with this statement, mat
ter of fact cleans that he helped to get the
manufacturers to issue it, And that the Or
ganizer of the N!T.W.U. his no particular love
for the American institutions which break
strikers by intimidation and terrorizing of pick
cts and American standards which allow mil
lions of workers to starve because of unenlploy
o,,te have ,aot,f
against.
From the ritings of both sheets it is clear
that both Mertz and Mozer agree on the meth
DDS of breaking the strike and their fight is
Just a fight between two capitalist cliques each
trying to clean up better share of the booty
for himself We have already shown what kind
of Communist Mertz Isl in the quotation on
| Pfeifle and his position on the manufacturers
| statement. Now we will take Mozers sheet on
| June g. which carries the following gems in an
| editorial attack against Communists, not manu-
| facturers!
ut is unfortunate that some plan to end the
silk strike has not been developed by the various
| agencies which have sought to end this strug
GLE" Emphasis mne-L.R)
Who are these gencies that the Labor Herald
speaks of? No others than the Chamber of Com
4 merce and the Citizens Committee, which was
| appointed ny IT, IL 81 lldpPCuo tiido uc hCii6ii
Valley Review was first to call on: the Chamber
of Commerce to do something about ending the
strike. Here it is both Mozer and Mertz call
upon the Chamber of Commerce and the Cit
liens Committee, both agencies notorious for
breaking strikes, particularly in the Textile In
| dustry. Naturally such settlement could be
i only in favor of the silk manufacturers and
because the N.T.W.U. has warned the strikers
that this would happen it makes 1t somewhat
difficult for both Mozer and Mertz to put II
over And as the strikers begin to realize the
real role of both these agents of the bosses as
some of them do already, it may even make a
sell-out impossible and thestrike will yet be
won.
1t is therefore natural that Mozer and his
buddies from the U.T.W. CKelly-Smith and Mac
donald should be sore at the Communists, and
when does this full belly racketeer call upor
!. for help against the Communists we will lei
the editorial in the Labor Herald speak for it.
self:
What does the Chamber of Commerce or the
American Legion think of the effort To bring
Communists to Allentown"
Thus we see that although there are no poll
tical differences between Mozer and Mertz, both