The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26

phrases" mixed with patriotic ap-
peals, was over, a thousand or SO
formed picket line and were led
along the streets, with police clearing
traffic for them. Your correspondent
personally saw one policeman driving
workers into the U, T. w. picket line.
The line went to the Wood mill,
hours after the last scab (there were
only about 20 scabs) had left, and
made gesture of picketing march
ing up to the only gate used by the
scabs but not across it.
Meanwhile the United Front Rank
and File Strike Committee had been
meeting in dingy back lot, its only
platform pile of old boards and
broken furniture blocks away from
the mill center A group of six de-
tectives came down to that meeting
and posted themselves where they
could watch. Early in the morning
Is Young Textil ePioneers who &C
| out at a. m. and rouse the strikers
| for picket duty by banging on cans
and pans and blowing horns, had
been arrested. These young strikers
and strikers children were held for
several hours, then dismissed with
warnings and threats, and police
agents visited all the public schools,
rounded up all children known to be
sympathetic with the strike and
given them q severe lecture on
"Americanism."
During the day the United Front
Rank and File Strike Committee
picket captain, Rubin Pizer. had been
railroaded through on charges OF
speaking without permit" and
''c-eating a disturbance and fined
$50. The International Labor De-
Tense and Lawrence Strikers Defense
Committee appealed his case and
collected s4oo bail The afternoon
PAYERS in Lawrence came out with
a flaring story about Pizer being held
for investigation Of his citizenship
papers. The plan as detailed in the
nress Is to deprive him Of his citizen
ship on false grounds that it was
fraudulently obtained. and then de-
port him to Poland. However, he was
released late In the evening, on bail.
On the same day, Youth Organ
izer of the union, Martha Stone had
been pointed out to Marshal O'Brien
Of the police department by Or
ganizer Sylvia of the United Textile
Workers, and was later ordered by
the police to come UP and explain
herself or a warrant would be isl
sued for her on charge of 'idling,"
which, 1t seems, Is crime In Mas
sachusetts. Inspector Chase Of the
U. s. Bureau of immigration and a
gang of detectives came down to the
Wood mill strikers headquarters at
81 Haverhill ST., and inquired for
Stone. However, she had not been
arrested up to late hour Friday.
The Boston morning papers car
ried statements that Govern Ely
was goin gto address a "strict in
junction" to the strikers, and limited
that he would demand fake ballot
on accepting the ten per cent wage
cut which started the strike. The
Lawrence evening papers carried an
appeal by some organization, ap-
parently manufactured for the pur-
pose, called the Methune Public
Forum. This appeal was addressed
by one OF the Forums officials, Rev.
E. w. A. Jenkinson, to Governor Ely
and asked for a vote of the strikers
by Australian ballot, on going back
to work with wage cut OF ten
per cent. Probably it will take a
couple of days for the machinery to
be arranged for stuffing the ballot
boxes in this voting, but there seem
to be several forces working together
to get the fake vote taken.
Friday night, the committeeof II
headed by U.T.W. Vice President
German and President Watt Of the
Lawrence Central Labor Union, re-
ports to a closed meeting of the
U.T.W. on its visit to Boston and
conference with the governor and
with his board of arbitration.
Here are enough Of one days hap
penings to show the line up. The
strikers real leadership, the United
Front Rank and File Strike Commit
tee, barred absolutely from its best
meeting place, The Common, fights
hard to expose the misleadership and
police aided U.T.W. and the COM
plicated maneuvers and schemes OF
all strikebreaking forces. 1t Is build
ing organization in the mills and de-
terding its arrested members and
gathering relief. The U.TW. and
the American Textile Workers Union
are given date for a tag day by the
city officials. The relief Office of the
United Front Committee and the
Workers International Relief is Wis
tied by the police and subscription
lists stolen.
The meetings increase in size on
the Lincoln Court lot and Fridays
meeting was especially enthusiastic,
cheering Secretary Biedenkapp,
Rran,halI the Communist candidate
for mayor Of Lawrence, and the
other speakers enthusiastically.
Prosecute Donegian.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. 23.-One
OF the most atrocious cases OF per-