The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27


and drove the crowd away. Then
Marshal O'Brien appeared on the
staircase inside the city hall and
stated. You can't see the city coun-
Gil and that is final" The committee
Of ten were then elected.
The strikers and committee re-
turned to the United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee headquarters,
filling the hall to overlooking and ex-
pressing indignation at the action Of
the police and council. Biedenkapp,
reporting. showed that the strikers
must vote out the city officials who
represent the bosses and elect their
own candidates like Bramhall Com
nunist Party candidate for mayor.
Biedenkapp urged, amidst the en-
thusiasm Of the strikers, that every
one be an organizer and bring thous-
ands to the mass meetings, organize
mill committees and next time to 90
with thousands to the city hall.
Bramhall was then introduced and
declared that if elected he would
clean out and fumigate city hall and
let the workers committee In at any
time. There was much applause at
his remarks.
Five hundred strikers met at Lin
coin Court on Sunday despite the
rainStorm and two hundred in the
hall meetings.
Jail Organizer
Italian organizer, Capuani Of the
- T~'7t Penk and File Strike
Committee was arrested during the
49,. G3.no.!s ration today, charg-
ed with idleness and is now being
bailed out. @ -
5000 Picket Wood Mill 80
LAWRENCE, Oct. 26-Six thous-
and strikers picketed the Wood Mills
this morning. The line grew con-
stantly from several hundred at five
O'Clock in the morning to eight
o'clock. About five hundred picketed
along Essex Street which is as close
as the police would permit them to
get to the Washington Mill. In these
lines no A. F. Of L. badges were worn
and the United Front Rank and File
Strike Committee picket captains d.
rected the operations while strikers
sang National Textile Union songs.
The Arlington picket line had about
three hundred pickets with two A. F.
Of L. badges worn, but many National
Textile Union members were also
present. singing the songs of the Ma,
tional Textile Union.
United Textile Organizer Sylvia
arrived late at the Arlington Mill; the
pickets were decisive of his late ar
rival and he went away. The / ,ited
Textile Workers Union orders were to
picket the Arlington and Pacific Print.
The Pacific Print Mill had hundreds
Of pickets with no A. F. OF L. badges
worn. About twenty scabs got into
all the Lawrence Mills this morning.
German, Vice-President Of the u.
T. w. at meeting last night at
Eagles Hall stated: 1.-THE workers are
willing to accept fact finding COM
mission representative of both sides
set up by the state or an agreement
to arbitrate by a neutral commission
with an equal number on both sides
and an impartial chairman" Even at
this meeting United Textile organ
izers admitted that the strikers will
not go back with ten per cent cut.
The UTW and A. F. of L. takers are
by all means trying under the slogan
Of arbitration" to get the workers
Rack into the mills, thus ending the
strike and ensuring the wage cuts.
They know the workers are militantly
fighting against wage cuts and use
the fakery of arbitration" as a means
to end the strike.
Hundreds picketed the Shavsheen
Mill OF the American Wooden Com.
pany in the adjoining village OF
Shawsl1een. The combing room and
one other department is working In
the Shawsheen Mill, but all the rest
Of the mill Is struck.
Two hundred strikers packed the
hall at the headquarters Of the Uni.
ted Front Rank and File Strike Com
nittee and nearly all voted to 60 with
the committee today to the city
council.