The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03
U. 7. WELY
PACT BASIS OF
LYNCH CALL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

ana File SUrlke COInnllGLee nave eX-
posed the treachery of the A. F. of L.
and UTW officials, shown up the
strikebreaking activities of Governor
Ely and, backed by the unbroken soli-
darity Of the workers, have defeated
the drive to break the strike and put
over the wage cut.
The Lawrence mills have juicy
emergency contracts for o. S. army
khaki.
The mill owners are frantic, but not
too upset to plan, together with the
governor and the city authorities of
Lawrence, campaign of lynching,
beatings, jailings and deportations by
the American Legion and other fas-
cist patriotic" organizations-ac cam
paign which has as its object the
destruction of the militant strike
leadership by any means necessary.
The Lawrence mill owners and
their thugs, backed by the police
powers of the Massachusetts state
government, through the Lawrence
press, notably the Lawrence Leader,
are calling for campaign Of muir
der on a wholesale scale. They are
whipping up the Lawrence under
world, the young sciors Of the middle
class, and the whole collection of
mill owners hargers-on, to launch
the terror drive to coincide with the
propa "anda offensive, led by Cover
nor Ely and the UTW Officials, to
drive the strikers back to work.
It has been made clear in the last
two weeks that the UTW sell-out
cannot be put across as long as the
Communist textile workers and the
National Textile Workers Union
leaders retain some freedom Of move
ment. Therefore the demand for
their deaths or deportation from
Lawrence.
Faced by tire MAGNIFICENT solidar-
4 ity of the strikers, the mill owners,
the local md state government and
their adyisors-the A. F. of l.. and
UTW Off'ciaIs-dccidcd to gamble
all ON direct challenge to the ele-
mentary rights of organizing, strik-
ing and picketing.
This is the real meaning of the
call for the blood of militant Or
ganizers and strikers published In
the Lawrence Leaders Sunday
issue supported by the two other
! mill owners sheets. n
The part played thus far In the
strike by the UTw officials and the
local and state A, F. of L. leaders is
q classic Of anti-working class
treachery:
From the first moment Of the strike
they have been in secret consultation
with the mill owners and the COVER
nor. They have made just as much
pretense of organizing and picketing
as was necessary to present some kind
ofsa strike front to: the workers. They
have worked with the police as blood
brothers, they have turned over for
eign born organizers and strikers to
the y. S. immigration authorities.
One Of these officials is on record
with letter promising the federal
agents to act as a stool pigeon.
Last Wednesday German and
Riviere of the UTW, Mor.erity,
Watt ard others Of the State Fed
Grafton Of Labor, had a secret meet
ing with the governor and mill
owners. At this meeting they
agreed to try to put the strikers
back to work at a per cent wage
cut after WI ich the whole wage
question was to go to arbitration.
The Boston Post, evidently trying
to. boost the fortunes of the governor
as settler of strikes and. friend of
the working man, released this story
in its Thursday morning edition-an
spilled the beans.
Historic Background for Traitors.
Everything was supposed to be in
camera until the Benedict Arnolds.
operating in their historic New Eng
land setting, had laid the basis for a
stampede back to the mills. While
the independent" mills had agreed
to this arrangement, the American
Wooden company, employing between
Is, 900 and $4,000 of the total number
Of workers in Lawrence, was very
skeptical as to the ability of the
U.TW. and A. F. Of l.. officials to
deliver.
This created additional difficulties
and accounts for the denials by the
governor and U.TW. officials car
ried by the Lawrence and Boston af-
ternoon papers to the effect that no
such conference had taken place and
no agreement for ending the strike
arrived at.
Exposed Before the Strikers.
The United Front Rank and File
Strike Committee and the National
Textile Workers Union promptly Is
sued 10000 leaflets exposing the SELL
out conspiracy and putting forward
six points-unity against the wage
cut, unity against the sell-out, unity
on the picket lines, unity in the cleo
ton of central rank and file strike
committee, unity in relief, unity for
defense-as the basis for a fighting
united front of the $4,000 strikers.
The mass of the strikers respond
ed and 10000 workers on the picket
lines yesterday is the answer of the
Lawrence proletariat to the U.T.W.