The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25


is affiliated and the U.T.W. represents
nothing in Allentown. The elected
delegates Of the Allentown workers
proved this at the recent hearings be-
fore Wagners' NR.A. Board, and
Washington MIRA. hearings.
The Militant has taken the line of
the employers on It's deliberate falsi-
fication of the role of the United
National Strike Committee. This
committee, led by the National Tex
tile Workers Union, unites full half
of the strikers, including the entire
strikes OF the Allentown and Easton
area and hundreds of silk workers in
Paterson, as well as \ large per-
centage Of the dye strikers.
Unity OF the strikers regardless
Of their organization, In one strike
committee, to negotiate one settle
ment, Is essential TO q complete
victory. The Militant, like the
U.T.W. opposes the demands Of one
united union in the dye strike,
which would win the strike.
Militant Opposes Unity.
This unity has been demanded time
and again by the United Strike Com
mittee and has been refused by the
Associated silk leaders In Paterson
repeatedly. On the question of unity,
MacMahon and his representatives
In Paterson, the leaders of the As
ISOLATED Silk (U.T.W.) and the Trots-
kyites and Lovestonites have q COM
mon line-to refuse to recognize the
demand for unity by the workers,
especially for one united dyers' union,
and keep the workers solely under
the strikebreaking ALL. leadership.
All demands and demonstrations of
the workers solidarity and unity are
carefully kept out of the Militant, in
line with the policy of the manufac-
turers.
The NR.A., the manufacturers, the
U.T.W. in Paterson and MacMahon
have a common line toward the Mt.
WI, and the United National Strike
Committee to isolate them and smash
the strike. The line of the National
Textile Workers Union has been fol-
lowed in the silk strike by the rank
and file workers inside the A. F. of
l.. Unity has been achieved on the
picket line by N.T.W.U. and A. F. of
L. members, at the call of the Mt.
WI. Mass picketing has been car
ried on by A. F. of L. members, vio-
lating earlier instructions of the u
T.W. in Paterson, at the call of the
N.T.W.U. The strike has been spread
under the leadership of the National
Textile Workers Union and the
UN.S.C. 1t was the N.TW.U. and
tine U.N.S.C. which went into Rhode
Island, and successfully called on the
UT.W. members to strike over the
heads of their leaders. It was under
the leadership Of the N,TWU. that
the strikers of Easton and Allentown
were united into united front district
strike committees. 1t was under the
N.TW.U. leadership that joint action
between Allentown, Paterson and the
anthracite was achieved. 1t was the
N.TW.U. that proposed the organiza-
ton OF one united rank and file dyers'
union.
The N.T.W.U. called out and led
the Paterson dye strike. The Mt.
WI. defeated the five weeks truce
perpetrated by the U.T.W. The
leadership Of the N.T.W.U. defeated
the two attempts Of the U.T.W. Dy-
ers' Union leaders advised by Keller
and Schweitzer, to sell out the dye
strike. The N.T.W.U. leadership
guarded against splitting the strike
by the sending OF the ribbon weavers
back to work and later the Jacquard
workers.
The Militant has nothing but praise
for the U.TW. leaders in Paterson.
Only in one point is there semblance
Of criticism. LET them (the mil
itants-Ed) watch such people," says
the Militant, speaking of people who
tend" toward the reactionary U.T.W.
policies. The Militant does not say
who these people are. And it does
not call for q fight against them.
They should be watched while they
break the strike. "Such people, are
the leaders Of the Associated Silk
In Paterson, the representatives Of
MacMah0n there, the collaborators,
with the manufacturers and with
Panken, Wagner, Roosevelts N.R.A.,
the Lovestonite U.T.W. leaders, the
Kellers and Schweizters, the Militant.
"Such people" are those who are try
ing to split mp the strike into frag-
ments, to behead its militant leader
ship, the N.T.W.U. and to drive the
workers back to work.
The Militant, with the same policy
as the Lovestonites, heaps nothing
but praises on "such people," saying
THE Associated Silk, barring minor
errors, here and there, has done itself
proud in the present strike stu
alton"
The policies Of the NTW.U. are
leading the strikers of Paterson to-
ward unity and victory. The silk and
dye strikers, with almost unexampled
and solidarity, are on guard,
under the leadership Of the N.T.W.U.,
against traitors and betrayers. With
the slogan Of one powerful united
rank and file dyers' union, and unity
Of the silk workers under the banner
Of the United National Strike Com
rnittee. the Paterson strikers will be
able to continue to defeat renegades
and traitors, and win the strike.