The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26

turned off, and by demanding the
use of the Common and the funds of
the city for the starving, the strike
will be won.
All speakers urged the strikers not
only to picket Monday, but to make
Sundays mass meeting huge one,
and to come down with the commit
tee of the United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee Monday at
10 a. m. to the city hall to demand
the Common and city relief, and
freedom of the strike prisoners.
While this meeting was going on,
the stool pigeon who calls Father"
Milanese's meetings or him con-
Quoted another, in Holy Rosary
school. This time he got a total of
twenty-five more-to come TO the
meeting. The priest expressed his
discomfort with this slim harvest by
staying away, The workers present
expressed theirs by half of them
marching out when the stool pigeon
called on them to sign UP for the
strikebreaking committee the priest
is organizing "for Italian strikers
only"
This meeting was apparently meant
as trap for Italian Organizer Ca
puani Of the United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee. The day be-
fore Capuani walked into Milanese's
first meeting, and exposed him so
thoroughly in a speech from the
floor that the whole crowd walked
out.
Women on strike warned Capuani
this time that all arrangements we're
made to arrest him, and he eyaded
the trap.
Organization goes on. Not only
is a steady stream Of individual APP
plications to join the National Tex
tile Workers Union pouring into the
office, but Saturday about half of
the Greek textile workers met, in the
Greek church on Essex st., in pre-
liminary gathering to call all of them
together. There are about 100 Greek
mill workers in Lawrence. The pre-
liminary meeting elected three del
egates to the United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee.
Saturday many children of strik-
ers' families, led by the Young Tex
tile Pioneers members, sold the Daily
Worker on the streets of Lawrence.
Father Milanese's Scabbing
LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. 25,-The
first attempt in this strike of the
notorious Father Milanese, italian
Catholic priest to split the ranks Of
the strikers and interfere with re-
lief, preparatory to starting a back
to work movement through fake ne
gotiations with the employers, was a
complete failure Friday afternoon.
Milanese has a record. In the two
previous strikes he worked along
these same lines, in the last strike
being badly exposed and discredited.
But the Bish keeps Milanese right
here in Lawrence, where he is ready
at all times to do the work of the
mill owners. Milanese is a prominent
member of the Lawrence Citizens
Committee" and takes part in all its
strikebreaking conference.
Quite suddenly Friday morning,
word was passed around by Mil
anese's agents that there would be
meeting at 2 p. m. for all Italian
strikers in Holy Rosary school on
Summer st. At the time it was
quietly rumored that the meeting
would elect committee to go to the
bosses with Milanese to compromise
the strike as far as Italian workers
we're concerned.
However, when the meeting took
place, with about $50 Italian textile
workers present, including a commit
tee headed by Organizer Capuani
from the United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee, the priest
began to maneuver little. The
question of opening direct negotia-
lions with the bosses was left for
later meeting. Milanese opened his
meeting with a bombastic assurance
that he would give his blood from
the Italian strikers" and talked about
relief, for the italian
strikers only.
Call for United Front
A rank and file member of the
United Front Rank and File Strike
Committee grabbed the floor and
denounced the scheme to separate
the italian strikers from the rest.
The crowd recognized Capuani and
called for him to speak. Capuani
called on all strikers to stick together
and win the strike against the ten
per cent wage cut, and under the
leadership Of the United Front Rank
and File Strike Committee to win
the demands against discrimination
and TO win the recognition of mill
committees and the right to Or
ganize. etc. He denounced the plan
10 form a separate relief committee
for Italian strikers only. "If the
Italians cat and the Polish strikers
are starved, you will force the Poles
10 90 back he said, and the crowd
agreed.
Another OF Milaneses henchmen |
got up and began TO speak against