The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Dye Strikers Spurn
.BetrayalAgreement
Negotiated by UTW
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union meeting. Fitty-seven workers
who voted against the terms were
fired out of the hall.
The vote was taken only after
the majority Of workers had accepted
the U.T.W. settlement.
Meanwhile, a picket line of 1000
Dye Workers tried to picket Wash
ington Hall, but were kept out by
the police.
The remaining $500 workers of the
Textile Company who are members
of the UT.W. and N,TW.U. voted
against returning to work by re-
manning away from the company
union meeting and by walking on the
picket line this morning.
The sell-out signed by the U.T.W.
Local No. 1873 and published in full
in the afternoon papers, completely
abandons the demands of the strik-
ing dye workers. The only mention
made of wages and working condi-
lions in the agreement, is as follows:
TN order to appease those we re-
present (U.T.W.) we respectfully re-
quest that you grant an increase in
wages over that period of prior to
the strike" No other mention Of
wages is made in the agreement and
this is regarded by the rank and file
A. F. of L. members as a complete
and obvious betrayal Of their strike.
BY the agreement the U.T.W. be-
comes company union, and the
strikers are placed at the mercy of
the employers. TT is not our pur-
pose to hamper you in the conduct
Of your business, but to assist as far
as possible to much needed stabili-
cation of the industry" the agree
ment states. The sole decision as to
the firing and hiring of workers is
left to the bosses in a paragraph
which reads: I'VE recognize the right
of the employers to hire and dis
charge, but should an employee be-
lieve that he or she was unjustly
discharged, he or she shall have the
right to appeal their case to an au-
thority designated by the company
to pass upon such appeal"
In another shameful, treasonous
paragraph, the U.TW. places in the
hands Of the employers the power
to victimize all active strikers with
the following statement "All strikers
United Textile Workers, shall return
| to work without discrimination and
no resentment will be held against
them because of their activities ir
the strike. If, however, it is proven
that any members of the U.T.W. as
sisted in the destruction Of property
during the period of the controversy
such members shall not be cOnsid-
cred under this article"
1t also reported in the press that
unoff1cially the U.TW. had agreed tc
accept a meagre 10 per cent increase
in wages. But even this small in
crease was not included in the finaI
agreement which the UTW. leaders
accepted.
The names of the negotiating COM
nlittee of the UT.W. have not beer
made public, but the leaders of the
U.T.W. took part in negotiating this
sell-out. These leaders included Ell
Keller Govestoneite), and Frank
Schweitzer, both of Associated Sill
(UTW), who have been giving the
Overs Local daily guidance and max
ing all press statements for the dyer.
union and Charles Pirolo, leading
Democratic politician, one of the
leading organizers. of the Dyers Union
When two pickets were arrested ir
clash with the police in front Of
the Degrade shop this morning, the
picket line marched to the jail and
demanded the release Of these pickets
The two pickets arrested were Stan.
ley Madesunich and Berdonand Vim
cenzo, both members of the N.T.W.U
and we're taken off the picket line