The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
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tee, and members of the National
Textile Workers Union were in front
of the hall, having accompanied the
delegation to the meeting. For more
than an hour the officials of the U.
T. w. and Associated refused to ad-
nit the strike delegation, but the de-
mandS of the workers in the street,
as well as those in the hall, forced
Mathews, Cohen and Holderman of
the Hosiery Workers Union and
chairman of the action committee
of the Associated and U. T. w. to
admit the delegation, not, however,
before it was cut to 10.
Given 10 Minutes.
j. Rubin, secretary of the local of
the National Textile Workers Union
and spokesman for the delegation,
was allowed only 10 minutes to
speak. In the speech he made a
plea for one strike under one strike
committee. When he exposed the
leadership of the Associated and U.
T. w. as preventing the unity of the
rank and file of the general strike
Of the silk and die workers, Holder
man stopped him and would not let
him continue Fellow delegate, Por-
tica, was granted the floor for few
minutes, in which he made the same
demand, wereupon the delegation
was thrown out of the hall.
Expose Strikebreaker.
After the meeting the strikers went
to Turn Hall, where a report was
given and where the Paterson silk
nd dye workers learned definitely
that the Associated and U. T. w.
leaders are open breakers and
in negotiation with the bosses to
sell out the strike. Nina Chernenko,
who is well known in Paterson from
the strike of 1928, spoke at the meet
ing and was enthusiastically ap-
plauded by the workers, who are glad
of her return. 1923 is not 1881" she
said, I'VE have learned many les
sons in these three years"
Dissension in ALL. Ranks.
Information has been received that
Louis Budenz of the Conference of
the Progressive Labor Action sent a
telegram to Mathews, demanding
that the Associated and U. T. W..
promote the united front policy of
the N. t. w. U. This point of view
of Budenz lasted only for short
time and he was whipped into line
by Music and Renegade Gitlow,
AT the meeting of the Associated
and U, T. w. the Ribbon and Hat
Band Makers we're for the strike, and
Holdermand said to the meeting: "If
you don't go out ON strike the N. T..
w. U. will drag you out. The N, T,
w. U. is a union and real force
in Paterson"
A strike" call of the Associated is
clearly call to betray the work
erS." It states we must prepare the
way for an Organization drive and
an organization strike. This clearly
is merely a bait for the workers to
join the Associated, pay their dues
and then the trouble will be over.
The call also calls for corporation
in this crisis" Cooperation with
whom? we ask, Naturally, co-opera-
ton of the Associated and U. T. w.
leaders with the silk and dye manu-
facturers for the purpose of break
ing the strike. The appeal of the
United Front General Strike Com
mittee to the Associated and U. T.
w, membership meeting pointed out
the following:
Unity of teh rank and file work.
ers for continued struggle is the need
of the hour" 1t goes on to show
that the United Front General Strike
Committee called the strike on July
%. Nov the Associated and the U.
I. w. and the A. F. of L. leadership
have issued strike call after the
United Front General Strike Com
mittee called the general strike and
thousands of workers we're already
on the picket line" It calls the
members of the U. T. w. and the
A. S. w. to unite with the National
Textile Workers Union members to
unite in a militant struggle to win
the strike.
The result of the call of the AS
ISOLATED and U. T. w. was that more
and more shops came down to be
lined up by the N. It. w. U. The
dye workers are demanding picket
lines. The workers of Weidman have
sent a delegation to the N T. w. u,
asking to be taken out of the mill,
This will be taken care of in day
or so and all the dye shops will be
out together with ten workers from
the silk mills.
Renegades Know No Limits.
PATERSON, N. J.-After Gitlow
has clearly exposed the line of the
renegades from Communism, which
is a fight against the revolutionary
unions and open support of the A.
F. of L. leadership in Paterson, Lore,
the editor Of the Volks zeitung, has
become a part of the open strike
machine of the Associated and U. It.
w. in the A. F. of L. Lore was ad-
vertised as one Of the main speak
ers Of the meeting called by the AS
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