The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
Allentown Lines Up for the Fight
AGAINST the y. T. w. Misleaders

Council left the meeting
After this meeting, the workers outside the hall
wanted a report of the meeting and went to an
other hall. While the meeting was on, Rev.
Weber a minister, a socialist, entered the hall
and asked for the floor This was granted,
whereupon he proceeded in the same manner as
his colleague, Mcdonald.
The rank and file of Allentown elected a big
delegation of ITS to go to Paterson to attend the
strike meeting on Friday, July II. There they
were enthusiastically received and called upon
the Paterson silk and dye workers not only to go
on strike. but to forget the past when Allen
town continued at work when Paterson was on
strike The Paterson workers recognize in these
young Allentown workers the splendid American
fighters that they are and the meeting unani
mously voted GENERAL STRIKE during the
coming week
At the National Silk Conference held IN
Paterson on Sunday July 10, national struggle
outlined. Paterson, Allentown Pawtucket, Cen
trail Falls and Putnam were represented There
are silk mills in other sections notably the An
thracite, Egypt, Pa, which wanted to go out on
strike long ago, but Mcdonald the AT. of L.
faker, toad the delegation that went to Allen
town for help, to go home.
The Allentown workers are beginning to under
stand what treachery of the A. F. of L. means.
When the second delegation came to Paterson,
they went to the Associated Silk Workers, who
told them they could do nothing for them. When
they went with the Paterson delegation of the
General Strike Committee to the membership
meeting of the Associated on July II and to the
UTW, and we're refused adnittance they
learned another lesson that all the workers must
learn: not only the A. F. of L.. the Associated,
the U.T.W.. but the socialists and Musteites want
+o 5jo with t11e to he
conditions of the workers. Only the fighting
united front led by the unions of the Trade
Union Unity League. like the National Textile
Workers Union, which unites the organized and
unorganized workers platform of demands
and program of struggle-only such united
front can lead the workers, defeat the bosses and
their agents. and win victory.
The Allentown workers must learn the lessons
of their experiences: the UTW leaders are mis-
leaders. They sell out the workers openly, or let
them wear themselves out and get discouraged,
so that they can then send them back to work on
the same or worse terms. Only those are real
leaders, who really lead the workers on the pick
ct lines. on the battlefield giving advice and
counsel and direction.
The Allentown workers must learn the most
important lesson of all and that is that they
must have the strike in THEIR OWN HANDS.
leader who balks their decisions who does not
want TO unite the struggle of the workers, who
wishes to prevent the United Struggle of Alien
town, Paterson, Central Falls, Pawtucket and
Putnam, who does nothing for Egypt, and does
not try to extend the struggle to other silk
tiers, is carrying out the general policy of the
leaders of the A. F. of L. This policy is to let the
workers be beaten in single sections, instead of
building up a broad struggle that will lead to
victory.
This policy of the A. r. L. leaders is in the in
terest of the bosses, who have their chambers of
commerce and manufacturers associations, they
have the support of Wall Street. and the gov
eminent. Governor Pinchot, who is trying to
break the miners strike, with the aid of the
United Mine Workers. the coal and iron police
and state troopers, is S5inding that the miners
will NOT accept his INTERPRETATION. Pinchot has
also tried to break the Allentown strike, with the
aid of the UTW officialdom But this has not
succeeded.
Allentown workers: Your UTW leaders are
misleaders, working in the interests of the silk
manufacturers. THROW THEM OUT, as the
workers outside the hall in Allentown said.
THROW THEM OUT AND TAKE THE STRIKE
INTO YOUR OWN HANDS. You are lining up
with the rank and file United Front Committee
of Paterson and the other textile centers. Make
this ONE GENERAL FIGHT of the United Front
of the rank and file silk and dye workers against
the bosses and their agents in the ranks of the
working class the A F. of L. and Music leaders