The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08

mittee in order to win the strike"
declared the N.T.W.U. yesterday. At
the same time the N.T.WU. is call
ing upon all workers to join its ranks
as the permanent industrial union in
the mills, so that the gains won in
the strike can be maintained.
How Strike Was Called.
The strategy worked out by the
N.TW.U. in the calling of the strike
worked successfully. The strike
started in the Wood Mill on Mon
day, where the united front Com
nittees of Action, organized by the
workers and led by the members of
the N.T.W,U, went from department
to department, calling the workers
out. From there it spread to the
other awe. mills and then to the
Pacific and Arlington mills.
According to capitalist press re-
ports, 600 workers walked out on
strike in the Royal Worsted Co.,
Ames Worsted Co., and the U. S.
Bunting Co. in Lowell, Mass, near
here, on Tuesday, against a proposed
10 per cent wage-cut and forced the
companies to Immediately rescind
the wage-cut. Five hundred hosiery
workers of the Proper McC allum
Co. in Northampton, Mass, are on
strike against a wage-cut under the
leadership of the AFF.F.H.W. union,
according to the capitalist press re-
ports.
On Monday, when Bramhall, can
didate for Mayor on the Communist
Party platform, demanded from the
City Council the right to use the
Lawrence Common for N.T.W.U.
meetings and for election rallies, he
was told by Alderman Carr, a tool
Of the mill owners and member of
are Citizens Committee, that they
would only allow their friends, the
UT.W, to use the Common for
meetings.
Watt, an official of the CLU. and
the State Federation of Labor, de-
clared that he was still ready to
break the strike even if his efforts
to prevent it did not succeed I'VE
are still ready to sit down with the
employers and try to bring about
peaceful solution to this trouble" he
said. But ten workers are demand
ing that only their rank and file
strike committee shall have the
power to negotiate with the employ
ers for settlement of the strike.
The N.T.W.U. Is holding regular
strikers meetings at the Lincoln
Court Lot and calls upon all dele
gates to the United Front Mill Dele
gates Conference to get in touch
with them at the Union Hall, 234
Essex ST., for detailed information.
In the meantime all New England
towns are being urged to rush strike
and relief funds to the wI.R., ISL
Washington St., Boston, Mass.
Follow N.T.W.U. Slogans.
LAWRENCE, Mass, oct. THE
announced 10 per cent wage-cut for
the $4,000 textile workers, effective
Oct. 10, has already been answered
with strike. This is the answer Of
the workers to the mill owners and
their agents. the U. T. w. officials,
to prevent strike on the basis of
a fake vote in City Hall to be counted
by the company agents-the Citizens
Committee. The workers responded
to the call of the N.T.W.U. to de-
mand, not cent off our pay! Or
ganize to strike against the wage
cutl Form a United Front Commit
tee Of Action in every department.
In every mill! Join your own fight
ing union, the N.T.W.U."
Over 1000 strikers voted to be on
the picket line Tuesday morning, to
keep any scabe out and spread the
strike. The vote was put at the mass
meeting of the N.T.w.U. in I,oncoln
Court Lot, where w. T. Murdoch,
national secretary Of the N.T.w.U.;
Edith Berkman, Lawrence organizer,
and Bill Sarti, youth organizer of
the union, spoke. The remarks of
Nat Kaplan of the Communist Party
hat 1000 Boston Horlaaza bad voted