The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
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jority should control and for the
purpose of determining what the will
of the majority is ballot should be
taken and the result thereof be re-
Spected and honored by all"
UTW Leaders In Scab Pact.
The Committees resolution and a
long statement was issued simulta-
neously and featured big in the
morning paper. The statement. says
that the employers and the union
(UTW) leaders are being consulted as
to the details of the balloting which
will come in few days.
Strike Committee Exposes Ballot.
The United Front Rank and File
Strike Committee Executive is pre-
pairing q leaflet denouncing the fake
votes with the ballots counted by boss
agents as a scheme to divide the
workers and announce their fake fig
ures to try to start a back to work
movement. The slogans of the Unit
ed Front Rank and File Strike
Committee denounced Governor Ely'S
and the United Textile Workers
Unions plot which was exposed here
yesterday, and made plans for a
systematic distribution of leaflets
hereafter.
Picketing Is Militant.
Plcketing was unusually good for
this time of the week. Seven hun
dred strikers were in formation on
Union st. before the Wood mill and
1000 without formation on Merrimac
st. Five hundred picketed the
Washington mill. One thousand pick
eted the Arlington mill
UTW Disruptured Tactics.
At Shawsheen where the United
Textile concentrates, there were only
20 piciets. This morning Red Mike"
took small group of UTW mem
bers and tried to disrupt the picket
ing of the Arlington Mill. A. F. of L.
organizers with police protection
placed themselves at the head of the
line Red Mike told Martha Stone,
Get off the line or we will wrap you
around post"
Stone continued picketing with the
full support of the pickets. Mike then
sent members of his group to start
lights with United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee captains. The
pickets argued with Mikes followers
and said, I'VE are Arlington strikers
and we are picketing. if you want to
fight, why don't you fight the scabs?"
The line continued in united fash
ion. Previously Mike threatened a
girl organizer of the United Front
Rank and File Strike Committee at
Shawsheen.
The Citizens Committee announces
that Governor Ely will come here to
speak to the strikers before they
vote
LAWRENCE, Mass, Nov. 3. =
Events have moved rapidly in Law
renee on both sides. The employers,
Governor Ely, the United Textile
Workers and American Federation of
Labor officials, and the mill owners
city government show that they are
rushing into high gear their COM
bined trickery and terror strike
breaking program.
The textile strikers have given I'M
mistakable signs of determination to
resist both terror and trickery and
to win the strike.
First, for the bosses movements.
The Lawrence Eagle came out
Tuesday morning with a screaming
headline that hundreds of letters
had been received by the district
attorney, Hung A. Gregg, asking
him to provide them with police
protection if they went back to
work under the wage cut. Gregg
went to City Marshal O'Brien and
State Officer Richard Griffin, and
planned with them the methods to
be used to smash the picket lines.
The strikers are vigorously indig-
nant at the whole story, which they
recognize is just smoke screen for
attacks by city and state police on
the picket lines.
Strikers of the Monomac Spinning
Company, which runs the Monomac
mill in southern suburb of Law
renee, with nearly a thousand on
strike. are coming to the officers of
the United Front Rank and File
Strike Committee with letters sent
them at their homes.
The letters we're signed by the
agent of the mill, Walter M. Hastings,
and contained both cajolery and
threats.
The letter said, IF our employees
wish to return TO work we assume
that they will have ample police pro-
lection either furnished by the city
of Lawrence or the governor of the
Commonwealth" The return envelope
is addressed to what the company
calls "a representative committee who
will count the ballots and be I'M
prejudiced."
!. The head of this committee of
Nhree to count the ballots Is none
other than the Catholic priest Nc
donald. who led the strike breaking
ifh the February strike! OF the other
TWO members on the committee, one
is a mill lawyer and one business
.