The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
DEFEAT FAKE
BALLOT MOVE
IN LAWRENCE

In LAWRENCE
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with ten per cent cut. At the
same time this announcement was
made both the Citizens COMMITTEES
and the police department declared
open war on picket lines.
Now AL Must Be on the picket Lines!
The one morning paper, The Eagle,
came out with big headline, ''U.
T. w. Approves Roll Of Help" That
was the climax of the propaganda
drive to send the workers to the polls,
and to ten per cent wage cut. 1t
marked the latest deep infamy Of
German, Riviere and Watt, mis-
leaders of the U. T. w. and the A.
F. L. These traitors swindled out of
a membership meeting Of the United
Textile Workers Friday night a
(nliscounted) vote to consider" the
ballot. and promptly declared 1t a
vote to go to the polls. The mis-
leaders had been carefully approach
ing an open support Of the ballot for
days. and Friday night they threw
off the mask and openly campaigned
for 1t. They were voted down when
they put a direct motion to approve
the ballot, and then resorted to
trickery. Now they stand exposed and
shamed before the striking thousands,
and their masters, the mill owners,
have decided that in spite Of their
treason to the strikers, the vote can
not 90 through now.
The decision Of the Citizens Com
mittee Is recorded in the big head
lines Of the two Lawrence evening
papers. The Telegram says: "CIII-
zENS COMMITTEE FORCED TO
POSTPONE PLANS FOR POLL" and
the Tribune (Which is tho evening
edition OF the Eagle) says: Strike
Vote Abandoned BY Citizens Com
mittee."
The official resolution Of the Citi-
zens Committee Saturday Is as fol-
lows:
''VOTED:--That due to the In
ability Of the Committee to secure
the cooperation of representation OF
certain Of the large textile mills, and
due to the assertions made BY Ger
tain Of the spokesman for the or
gained striking employees In some Of
those plants that the result Of bal
lot would be ignored, the Committee
deems it inadvisable that any attempt
be made at this time to carry on q
general ballot Of the employees on a
question of whether or not they
desire to return to work under the
new wage scale, and that for these
reasons the carrying on Of a general
vote should at this time be indef-
initely postponed" (Our emphasis
The United Front Rank and File
Strike Committee policy of mo Bal
the Wage Cut on the
Picket Lines" has found such a re-
sponse from the workers Of Lawrence
that even the Citizens Committee
sees the writing on the wall. At Fri
days mass meeting on the Common,
where U. 7. w. and American Union
speakers, protected by police clubs,
were throwing out the feelers and
working their way to open support
Of the ballot, the 5000 assembled
we're showered with hand bills that
made the speaker stop and choke
but which he could find no answer
70. These were the leaflets OF the
United Front Rank and File Strike
Committee. headed, Lawrence Strik-
RS! Vote on the Picket Lincsl"
thoroughly exposing the fake ballot.
Ind calling for united struggle under
he strikers own elected Rank and
File Strike Committee.
These leaflets were sowed broad
;ast over the working-class sections
II Lawrence.
Then followed the open letter and
he committees from the United
Front Rank and File Strike Com
nittee TO the meetings Friday night
II the American Union, the U. T. w.
md the Loomfixers. Officials bar
ed both from the first two meetings.
'ut the letter was Immediately sent
o the printer to make new leaflet,
md this the takers and the Citizens
Committee probably knew full well. |
The unusually militant picketing
night, Immediately follow
ng the announcement Of the strike |
'reaking scheme was also an answer.
The fight does not by any manner |
I means and here. The leaflet and
he open letter and thousands OF |
title cards 70 be handed around or |
tuck In hats are messages OF the |
United Front Rank and File Strike |
to the $4,000 Lawrence |
trikers to build unity--unity under |
heir own elected leadership In the
United Front Rank and File StSika