The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22

w Va ACAOs 4 4lC dll4ea45 ell4A1leC0 hllOll
will retain the name o Associated,
with considerable autonomy. but will
affiliate to the American Federation
Of Labor.
This is the manoever Of the A. r.
Of L. and the Musteites, for which
the Musteites received $4,000 from
the Garland Fund on the request of
Benjamin Gitlow, the Communist
renegade. This is the activity of
Louis Budenz, who was present at
the meeting, and engineered this
action, which is an open Strikebreak-
ing action.
Refuse to Listen.
A delegation of the United Front
Central Strike Committee of Pater-
son, and of the Allentown workers
who were in Paterson on Friday
night for the strike meeting, went
to the meeting of the Associated
with the request for the election OF
delegates to the General Strike Com
nittee and an appeal to the men,
bership OF the Associated to join
the ranks of the striking silk wor-
kers. Instead of listening to the ap-
peal, instead Of discussing the vital
question Of joining forces in the uni
ted front for the struggle of all Pat
erson silk and dye workers against
the bosses, together with the Allen
town, Pawtucket, Putnam and Cent
trail Falls workers, the leaders Of the
Associated, steered by BudenZ, the
Musteite, the so-called progressive, -
slammed the door on the delegation
and refused to receive them.
This is the answer only Of strike
breakers This is the answer of
people who as one declared, will
FILL the mills with Scabs if the work
ers go on strike!" This is the role
of the Musteites, misleaders and
Strikebreakers.
The close vote Of So to "a indicates
that the membership of the Asso-
ciated is opposed to going back to
the A. F. of L. 1t indicates further
that many Of the Associated rank
and file do not and will not par
ticipate in the strike breaking role
of the Associated. 1t indicates fur
ther that, if the many members of
the Associated who were at the
strike meeting called by the United
Front General Strike Committee had
been present at the membership
meeting of the Associated would have
rejected amalgamation with the U.
T.W. This does not mean that the
Associated is any better than the
U.T.W., for the takers Mathews and
Cohen. the latter the leader of the
socialist party in Paterson. have long
been known as misleaders.
The United Textile Workers did
not hold a membership meeting.
Fifteen members, mostly the EXecu-
tive Board members, we're present,
and when another delegation repre-
senting the United Front General
Strike Committee and the Allentown
workers, went to their meeting to
ask for unity in struggle, they were
not admitted The door was open,
and the delegation saw the executive
board members sitting around the
table-not discussing the conditions
of the workers and the necessity of
strike, but playing cards! This is
the leadership that the U.T.W. gives
to the textile workers, except when
it sells them out, as it did in Dan
, vile. Va, Elizabethton, Tenn, Marion.
N. c.. with the assistance of the
Musteites.
The Paterson Morning Call prop
erly estimates the signinf1cance of
the "amalgamation' of the Associa-
ted and the U.TW. 1t says that it
is of benefit both to the operators of
plants and workers in industry" The
workers of the textile industry know
what that means. They know that
the bosses want low wages, killing
hours and rotten conditions, that
the workers want the s hour day
and higher wages, and the recogni-
ton of the union. This the bosses
will not grant, and this the Asso-
ciated will not fight for Therefore
what is Of benefit to the operators
is just what the workers do not want
and they intend to fight for what
they demand
The of1cialdom Of the United Tex
tile Workers of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, the socialists, ano
the Musteites have clearly shown
their hands-they are strikebreakers
The Paterson workers now know
clearly where they stand on the eve
of the general strike, when all work.
ers have been called into the United
Front of struggle against the sill
and dye bosses. The rank and fill
of the Associated, in spite of theil
leaders will line up with the Uni
ted Front in the general strike, ana
fight.