The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

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yesterdays Paterson CalD.
This is not the first time in the
dyers' strike in Paterson that the
Roosevelt government, represented
by U. S. Labor Conciliator John Moi
fit, together with the employers,
have tried to split the ranks of the
striking dyers by raising the red
scare and by attempting to split the
ranks of the foreign born and native
born strikers Last Tuesday the Pat
erson Call stated, Through a spokes-
man the twenty-five independent dye
operators, among them some of the
largest in the city, announced they
would eliminate all left wing strik-
ers, and as far as possible limit fu-
ture employment to citizens" And
when the mass picket line of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union sew
eral thousand strong picketed the
Lodi mill and shut it down, the local
papers announced that the police
force included federal officers who
were watching for non citizens.
DOSSeS Are Foreigners
The striking dye workers scof at
this absurd attempt to break their
ranks. 'Ninety-f1ve per cent of the
dyers in some mills are not citizens"
said one striker, "and at least sixty
per cent are foreign born in the en-
tire dyeing and broad silk industry.
Without the foreign born they
couldn't work the mills. And besides,
most of the bosses themselves are
foreigners"
An investigation reveals that this
statement is correct. The employers
in the dye and silk industry are
sprinkled with such old American"
stock names as Louie Cohen, Julius
Breuer, j. Goldsmith, Sam Kirsch,
Murliman, Bauer, Norris, Coin, and
Martstat. Many Of these foreign
born bosses have foreign born rela-
tives working in their mills.
If the employers and the Roosevelt
government think that the native
born are pleased with the increasing
attacks on the foreign born, inter-
views with strikers would disillusion
them. An American born girl from
the NJ. and H. Blake mill says, eff
foreign born non citizens are fired,
my mother and father would lose
their jobs. I'd have to support the
whole family Most of the native
born workers are young workers
whose relatives are foreign born mill
workers
Would Be More Militant.
MANY of the young Americans
would have to leave high school and
even grammar school and go to work
in place of their foreign born par
ents," said young native born dyer
from the Weidemann plant. "Prac-
tically all of the textile workers who
are foreign born have live6 for years
in Paterson. Many have families
born in Paterson. If the foreign born
are fired, the kids will have to go to
work"
1.-THE young workers are the most
militant" said another native born
dye striker. IF they fill up the mills
with native born, they will find
strikes increasing and not decreasing.
Young native born Americans are
taking a leading part together with
the foreign born, in this strike. The
only pure Americans are Indians,
anyhow. They are not going to fire
eighty per cent of the dying industry
in Paterson"
Part of Sell Out.
The repeated attempts of the
Roosevelt government to split the
workers on the basis of foreign born
and American does not set well with
either section among the strikers.
They call us wops and hunkies,"
said dye striker who has been in
the industry % years and has sons
and daughters working in the silk
mills. What do they want to do.
They want to drive us back to work,
and then cut our wages down after
two or three weeks"