The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-24
7eep Mills Closed
In Lawrence, Mass.
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The Wood mill and dye house
meeting today resulted in all join
ing the Natiosal Textile Workers
Union. The dye house is now nearly
100 per cent organized; officials were
elected and a strike committee were
clectd. Dlegates VIZ picked to tn
United Front Rank and File Com
mittee and subcommittee.
The Aver Mill meeting today cleo
ted delegates from three additional
departments TO the United Front
Rank and F. Strike Committee. An
Italian prievy named Milanesi, a
member of the citizens committee.
who was the active organizer behind
the back-to-work movements in the
previous strikes, has entered this
strike by calling a meeting in a
schoolhouse this afternoon for the
purpose of electing committee to
20 with him to the bosses.
The United Front Committee is is
suing statement in Italian exposing
MilaneSi's record, also declaring: HE
cannot nepotiate for the workers, and
# he really is against wage cuts as
he says he is, let him stay in his
church and advocate more picketing
for our demands"
The fake strike committee Of II
will report at a close UTW meeting
in Eagles Hall tonight on the con-
ference with Governor Ely and the
arbitration board yesterday.
An inspired story in todays Boston
Herald says that the continued fail
ure OF the Governors meditation eff
forts will result in the announce
ment by him of a drastic injunction
to the warning factions. 1t was in
Dictated that his chief concerns now
relate to the sentiment of the strik-
ers.'
The Herald then suggests that the
strikers take votes on the 10 per cent
wage cut. The Lawrence city Off
Gals hav announced it Is not legal
for the city to give relief to strikers
the police threatened the owner of a
hall in which sympathtic athletic
organization has a dance arranged
-oniyht for strike relief.
4 Picket Captain Pizer was fined $50
fter his trial today and is now locked
''p awaiting bail.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. 23.-The
huge Wood Mill of the American
Woolen Co., which used to work over
10000 men, women and children,
which employed nearly 5000 just be-
fore the strike started, lay almost
noiseless Thursday night. A few
cars with scabs, mostly clerical
workers, bosses and men from the
power house slipped out of the en-
trance far down on Merrimac Ave,
where there is gate for autos. The
crowd of several hundred outside this
gate met these cars with stones.
Part of these pickets had come on
foot for blocks from the mass meet
ing in Lincoln Court Square where
speakers for the United Front Rank
and File Strike Committee, the In
ternational Labor Defense, the Young
Communist League, Pioneer Organ
izers, speakers in English, Polish
and italian, had called for a dem
onstration at the Wood Mill.
Picketing was set for $3.50 because
with the handful Of scabS the Wooden
trust has been able to secure, they
no longer dare to let them out at
the regular quitting time. Some of
them are dismissed in the middle of
the afternoon, or, at some mills,
scabS are turned out late at night,
after the picket lines leave. The
bosses are using the same tactics in
the morning to get their strike
breakers into the mills. Therefore
the time. of picketing has to be ex-
tended.
But at the Wood Mill there were
so few, handful" might be a mis-
leading word to use. There were not
over cars run out, and not over 20
scabs altogether. None came out of
the many great entrances where
those on foot are supposed to come
in and go out.
This, in general was true Thursday
of all the mills in Lawrence. For
every practical purpose they are shut
down. Why those who do not Of
ficially and openly admit they are
closed still run their machinery is
something of mystery. The strik-
ers think it is an attempt to fool
them. But it fools no one.
The Arlington mill of the Airing
ton Mill Co., way out on Broadway
away from the main mill area an
nounced in the afternoon that it was
closed and would not try toSrun, just
yet. Nevertheless, there we're over
800 pickets on the Arlington picket
line Thursday night, with some 1000
standing around. This line was led
by woman with an Amtrican Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor badge, but the
backbone Of the line was, as has
been the case hitherto, made up of
non-A. F.. L. members, and to a
considerable extent of militants who
support the United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee.
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