The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-26
MOFFT HOOVER AGENT BETRAYS SOUTH RIVER NEEDLE STR
TROOPERS CLOSE
DOWN STRIKERS
HEADQUARTERS
Strikers Are Urged to
Fight Sell-Out
Today


SOUTH RIVER. N J. Sept. Is
The heroic five-week strike of 1900
needle workers here against a series
Of wage cuts has at this writing been
betrayed by John Motif, Cancellation
Commissioner of the U. S. Depart
ment Of Labor, and John Krzyan-
zowski, president of the local needle
workers, who has been working with
Mofit.
Proof that Motif and Krzyan-
zOwski have sold out the strike re-
sides in the following facts: the
agreement does not even mention
an increase in wages; the strike
committee did not draw up the
agreement, it was drawnNup behind
closed doors by Motif and Kr-~GT-
ZOwsi1i and the strikers had no
voice in its making; mass meeting
that was to have taken place on
Saturday afternoon and at which
the strikers were to discuss their
demands was not held for the OBJ
vious reason that Motif and the
bosses were afraid TO let the strik-
el's hear beforehand under what
ccnditio1s they were going back to
wc-k: the strike headquarters i'll
the Polish National Home has been
ctc5ed b. the state troopers on the
order Of the Prosecutor; KrZyan-
zowski ordered the Workers Inter
national Relief not to provide any
more feed to the strikers because
that wculd only rrolong the strike"
'Thc decisive question is what will
the workers do Tomorrow tMcnday)
in answer To this betrayal!
Atodat ed Kr7yanzowssi asked all
the priests in South River to an
ounce from their pulpits on Sunday
tNst il is tire dirty Of the strikers
70 60 back to work,
Ioescs Fear Communists.
The hand Of tee strike breaking
T-o0rer government can plainly he
gesn in the agreement made by Nofht
for the strikers. The nvoviso is eX-
presslyt made that should the workers
rdnata Themselves with a Commu-
rist organization TT sny time their
r9raement with the bosses is null
aid void.
The fact that the bosses fear the
"Ccmmuniet" Needle Trade Workers
Industrial Union, which has been
auurorting tire strike from the be-
oinninp. is the best rroof in the
world that the Industrial Union has
been advising the strikers correctly
ard the strikers realize this.
The Industrial Union from the be-
ginning has urged large rank and
file strike committee to run the strike
and has always been opposed to the
leadership of a few, especially when
they are like Krzyanzowski. Only a
large, representative strike commit
tee which meets frequently insures
I've strikers against a sell-out by
their leaders. The past experiences
with Government Cancellation
sqents like Mof1t shows that their
tactics are always the same: they 90
crate behind closed doors with the
bosses and do their utmost to pre-
vent the strikers from knowing what
is taking place.
The agreement made by Moffit
avoids discussing any of the main
issues of the strike and confines it
self to such startling improvements
Of the needle workers conditions as
mutual respect by employer and en-
rinvee." mo work on legal holidays
the 49-hour week." and first aid
kits on every floor in the factory
Mass Meet Tonight.
The Industrial Union and the In
teruational Labor Defense ha We
called a Joint open-air meeting for
tonight Monday at Jackson and
Toritan Streets to expose the sell
out, to urge the workers to continue
their struggle for better conditions
and to protest at the murder by po-
lice of Walter Rojek, the nine-yeal
cid son of a striker and the serious
wounding by police of John Wilcszki
another boy in his early teens"
At meeting on Saturday at which
p trluckload of relief sent by the
Communist Party in New Jersey was
distributed to the strikers, a member
Of the Communist Party explained
to the strikers That the Communist
Party supported their struggle for
better conditions to the utmost, ano
urged them to take the strike into
their own hands by Kidding them
selves Of their misleaders.