The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
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carnations, are working frantically
to crush the strike, or, as they say
quite openly, to keep the leadership
out of ten hands of the National
Textile Workers Union.
The strike, which started Monday
by walkout of 1000 at the Wood
and Ayres Mill, under the leadership
of the National Textile Workers
Union, rapidly spread despite all ef-
forts of the mill bosses and their
union leadership to stop 1t. When
the workers learned that wage-cut
was to come for all of them on Oc-
tober 10, they Immediately declared
themselves for strike action and
moved without the sanction" of
their misleaders, following the slo-
gans of the National Textile Work
ers Union, which called for united
front.
LAWRENCE, Mass, oct. 6.-The
Pacific Print Mill joined the strike
1900 strong on Tuesday afternoon,
making the total on strike up to that
time 2o,700. This is the biggest tie
up OF the textile industry in this
town and vicinity for the past 20
years. The partially successful strug-
gle in the American Wooden Com
pany last February of 10000 workers
laid the basis for the present strike.
The same militant workers who fol-
lowed the leadership of the N.T.W.U.
at that time too kthe leadership in
modifying the rest Of the workers
under the slogans Of the N.T.W.U.
Wednesday will be an important
day for the consolidation of the
strike. The misleaders of the A. F.
of L., working in solidarity with the
Citizens Committee and the mill
owners, will try to take over the
leadership of the strikers on the
City Common on this day. Before
Monday they were saying mo strike"
Now that the strike is on they are
saying: eve will declare the strike
as officially existing on Saturday,
and propose arbitration as the means
of smashing It," The A. F. Of L.
intended to put over fake vote In
the City Hall under the auspices Of
the Citizens Committee and the
company bookkeepers as a meaps OF
preventing the strike. But the work
ers voted with their feet, by striking.
The N. T. w. U. calls upon the
workers to demand rank and file
and N. T. w. U. speakers for We'd
nesday's Common meeting.
Call Mill Conferences.
In the evening on Wednesday the
N.TW.U. is calling the preliminary
mill delegate united front confer
ence to elect the rank and file lead
ership of the strike. This prelimin-
airy conference will then organize a
bigger conference for Saturday aft
ernoon. The N.T.W.U. and the rank
and file committee not only calls
upon the groups in every department
of the American Wooden Co. mills,
the Pacific mills and the Arlington
mills to elect delegates to this con-
ference, but invites delegates from
the innsbruck mills and shops as well.
The workers in unorganized depart
ments must get together in groups
and elect delegates to these confer
ences so that their departments will
be represented on the General Rank
and File Strike Committee" All
strikers, regardless Of what union
they belong to, non-union workers,
office workers, skilled and unskilled,
employed and unemployed, regard
lecs of their nationality, political or
religious beliefs, are urged to or
ga:,ize against the wage-cut- under
the leadership of tho StSikA Coma