The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-31
BY George MOvus

PATERSON, N. j., Oct. 30.-With
the employers offering only 81
cents per hour for IS hours a week,
negotiations in the strike of 10000
dye workers again came to an abrupt
end. From all indications the
Dyers Institute employers is set
upon policy of smashing the 100
per cent unionization in the indus
try and the strike may prove to be
an extended, bitter battle.
AS a first step in answer to this
challenge of the employers, the
Federation of Silk Dyers and
Finishers announces that the strike
will be spread and calls are being
issued which by Friday will affect
10000 more workers in dye houses
in Shamokin, Sunburry. Williams
port and Allentown of Pennsyi-
vania; Belvidere and oxford OF
New Jersey, and the Perennial
Piece Dye Workers in Rhode Island.
This will make the tie-up 100 per
cent nationally.
The rejected proposals for set
tlement likewise provided for a La
Dor Board to which all complaints
on discrimination and firing we're
to be brought.
Mr.. Baldanzi. secretary of the
Federation. in his statement this
morning on the breaking off of the
relations has, however, not stated
if this was one of the points agree
able to the union. Experience with
the Winant Board, after which
this board would be patterned,
shows that it is an instrument
through which thousands are
locked out. evicted, and is now the
cause for another wave Of strikes
in the textile industry.
Several Thousand Picket
This morning the main picket
line of several thousand, proceeded
from plant to plant, concentrating
at the Globe-Skein Dye Works,
where several scabs were soon
cleaned out.
It is reported that Benjamin N.
Squires, secretary Of the National.
Relations Board, is flying to WASH
ington in another attempt to medl-
ate.
Militancy Hats Swindle
The chief obstacle to German,
who is angling to incorporate the
Overs into the same enslavement to
the Winant Board that the rest OF
the textile workers have been
swindled into, is the militancy OF
the dyers who have from the out
set made it plain that they will
not go back to work until they
themselves vote for the settlement.
The leaders Of the union have
promised that no settlement will
take effect until the workers in ev-
cry shop discuss and vote on it. But
the militant spirit is threatened by
the actions of Anthony An1nirato,
President of the Paterson local Of
the dyers
Speaking before this mornings
meeting, he launched vicious att
tack against the militants in the
strike ranks, while praising the po-
lice and urging the members to
their corporation" He
urged workers not to boo the po-
lice. In Passaic and Union City"
he said. where our workers do not
have the correct attitude toward
the police. they have lots of trouble
getting the picket lines The police
are not our enemies. they have Civ
en- us cooperation and will continue
to do so if we continue behaving on
the picket lines"
After stating that the union is
ready to negotiate with the en-
ployers at any time it is called, Am-
nitrate urged open gangsterism
against the militants.
While Ammirato launched his
attack against the Communists, at
the very same meeting inside the
hall, leaflets announcing an elec-
ton rally with Norman Thomas.
Socialist leader, as speaker, we're
being passed around. Also an S. P.
which didn't even havs
a word on the strike, was being dis<
tributed.