The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-10
AFL LEADERS OFFER SELLOUT
TERMS TO PATERSON BOSSES
NTWU to Rally All Workers in Fight for the
Minimum Demands and Against Sell-Out

PATERSON, N. j., Sept 9.-The
A. F. of L.-Muste- Gitlow leadership
in Paterson is completing the be-
trayaI of the silk strikers. Last
night at the mass meeting called by
the U. T. w. at Roseland Auditorium,
Mr. Music presented a resolution
proposing to settle with the bosses on
the basis Of reducing the demands
of the weavers from 7 cents to cents
per yard for 81 picks. The demands
of all the other crafts have been and
are completely ignored by the A. F.
of L. leaders.
The manner in which this fake
resolution was rammed down the
Threats of the strikers was in itself
proof of the traitorous nature of the
entire business. This demagogue, A.
]. Music, together with Ben Gitlow,
had agreed with the silk bosses weeks
ago to sell out the strike to betray
the demands Of the workers.
When two weeks ago Thursday
they called a similar meeting at
which they prepared to rush through
a decision to call off the strike on
the basis of the cents settlement
and were compelled by the exposure
of the National Textile Workers
Union and the pressure of their own
membership to temporarily retreat,
they had already sent shops back to
work on the 5 and 515 cents agree
ment with the bosses. While they
spoke of the full demand of cents
per yard at that membership meet
ing and settled shops at 51a and 6
cents, their decision at present to
settle on cents is further step in
their policy to completely demoralize
and break the strike, to send the
workers back at cents in prepara-
ton for further wage cuts and for
instituting the six loom system.
Hosiery Sell Out Warning.
This is the program of the A. F.
of L. leaders, of Mr.. Music, Gitlow
and Co. The recent most cowardly
and treacherous wage cutting per-
petrated upon the hosiery workers
should be warning to all silk
workers
The N. T. w. U. is mobilizing the
Paterson silk workers, including the
strikers and workers in settled shops
the organized as well as the unor-
gani5ed and workers who we're forced
to return to work without settle
ments through the demoralizing
work of the A. F. Of L. bosses agents,
tonight at 1880 p. m. at Turn Hall
where the only fighting union of the
textile workers, the N. T. w. U. will
propose concrete steps to stop the
Generalization of the strike by the
bosses and their A. F. of L. strike
breakers. An effort will be made to
organize the widest united front in
every mill to build the N. T. w. U.
as the best guarantee for defeating
the wage cutting, speed-up plans Of
the U. T. w. and Mr.. Music.
Propose MINIMUM demands.
The United Front General Strike
Committee will propose to this vitality
important mass meeting the question
of reducing wage demands of the
weavers to the minimum Of cents
for 60 picks and cent additional for
each 8, for compelling the bosses,
through united action in the shops
to grant this minimum as well as the
wages and conditions for all the
crafts for every worker in the silk
mills.
In order to take advantage Of every
step necessary for winning the de-
nands of the workers, for uniting in
every shop against the treachery and