The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
n. T.W. LEADS
FIGHT
ON SELL-OUT
Truce Would Force
Workers Back on
Cotton Code Wages

PATERSON, N. j., Sept. Is.
Boos and jeers greeted the As
ISOLATED Silk Workers officials
at a stormy strike meeting this
morning in Roseland Ballroom
when the strikers, aroused to a
high pitch Of Indignation re-
jected the so-called 5-week silk
strike truce.
That the strikers would not accept
the sell-out deal agreed to by Nc
Mahon of the United Textile Work
ers and SchWeitzer of the Associated
Silk Workers was already indicated
last night when the strike COMMITTEES
of the Associated broke up in tur-
mol without any decision being
reached on the question of the strike
truce. The truce sends the workers
back without any gains pending SET
Element of the silk code.
The meaning of the silk truce be-
trayal was exposed in a leaflet dis
| tributed to all silk strikers at the
strike halls today by the National
Textile Workers Union in which 1t
was pointed out that the prices o.
81 per 100000 picks accepted by
Schweitzer and Mcmahon as s'con-
cession" would actually mean no more
than $40 a week for a good weaver
and that all lower paid crafts would
be forced back on the basis OF the
cotton code of $13 week against
which the workers have gone out on
strike.
THE Associated silk Workers Of
ficials want to send us back to work
without any guarantees for wages and
conditions" the leaflet declares in
warning the workers to vote down the
rotten Sell-out.
The National Textile Workers
Union is calling all silk and dye
strikers to be out on the picket line
on Monday and to stay out Of the
shops until the demands of the strike
are met.
AS first step in defeating the
truce" the National Textile Workers
Union has announced mass meeting
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| st. to form united front OF all SIX
strikers regardless Of union afftlia-
| ton to continue the strike. One big
strike committee of all unions, all
crafts and all strikers to take the
strike out of the hands of the treach-
erous officials of the A. F. OF l.. and
organize it on rank and file basis
will be an important object Of the
meeting Saturday.
simultaneously with the rejection OF
the betrayal truce In Paterson the
Allentown Silk Workers Union which
voted down the terms of the fake
settlement Thursday, sent the fol-
lowing wire to Senator Wagner:
Mass meeting, Allentown silk strik-
ers, Sept. IA, vigorously protest
against the attempts of Mcmahon and
the NRA Labor Board to disrupt the
national silk strike. The agreement
for 50 for 100000 picks silk, and 1925
for 100000 picks rayon will mean q
wage cut in most mills. The silk
workers will continue the general
strike against all agreements made
without our consent. We demand that
the delegates representing all indie
pendent unions be not Disseminated
against in conferences with manu-
facturers. Mcmahon does not speak
for the striking silk workers"
Dye strikers registered victory to-
day when the employers of the In
stitute OF Dyers and Printers and U.
8. Conciliator Moffat backed down
and agreed to meet the representa-
tives Of the overwhelming majority OF
the dye strikers led by the National
Textile Workers Union.
More than TOO silk and dye strik-
ers attended the mass meeting called
by the Communist Party last night
on the issues Of the strike.