The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
Record of Germans Own Words COnvicts Him
Of Rawest SellOut in History of U. S. Labor
Day by Day Durin g
Strike He Lied to Mis-
lead Heroic Strikers

Francis J. German, leader of the
I General Strike Committee of the
United Textile Workers, has be-
trayed you in the rawest sell-out in
the history of the American labor
movements
For proof of this one has only to
go to Germans own statements.
See what German said, day after
day, in this heroic strike. See how
he led you to believe that he was
conducting a militant strike, how
with militant phrases he led you to
believe that the strike would not be
ended until the demands of the
textile workers, drawn up by the
national convention Of the U. T. W.,
would be won.
He lied to you, workers,
consciously and Systematically. Now
he is trying to send you back to
the mills without single one Of
your demands won, without any
union agreement, without the faint
est guarantee against discrimina-
ton. He sends you back to the
same rotten conditions you struck
against!
See for yourself. Look at the
record
On Sunday, Sept. 2, speaking to
reporters in Washington, he said:
I'VE must have some definite
concessions" he declared, adding
that the union was demanding
the thirty-hOur week without a
pay reduction, regulation Of the
stretch-out system and enforce
ment of Section la of the Recov-
cry Act" IN. Y. Times, Sept. 8,
1884,
Where are those definite conces-
sions now? Why has Mr.. German
sent you back to the mills without
the thirty-hour week?
What we're the issues in the
strike? Let us hear them out of
Mr.. Germans own mouth, as he
Tested them on Sept. 2 in Washing
ton:
Itptdk AIC Issues
ITO stabilize the industry and
to provide a decent living for oar
people, we must cut the hours to
thirty and we must maintain the
wage without reduction. The
average wage has been less than
$40 a week. This does not permit
an American standard Of living.
We must have recognition of the
union and collective bargaining.
:. We must abolish the stretch
out"
Life itself depends on wages,
and especially the lives Of babies.
'YOu textile workers are striking
for babies lives. Don't let your
neighbOrs forget it. Every piece
of -chiSeling means an in
crease in the number of little cOf-
fins coming into the mill town."
How about those babies now, Mr..
German? Will there be any less
collins now that you have sent the
textile workers back at exactly the
same terms which you denounced
with so much sound and fury a
short three weeks ago?
On Saturday, Sept. ~, the Strike
Committee, at the head of which
stands German, announced that the
workers were to go back and that
the new textile board would take
care of all their grievances. But on
Sept. 6 he said exactly the opposite:
"If the Presidents mediation
board proposes arbitration, the
United Textile Workers of Amer
lea will agree to it only after we
have closed all the mills in divi-
sions of the industry Francis J.
German, chairman of the special
strike committee, declared today"
IN. Y. Times, Sept. !, 1884,
ing out Of within. They are enl
gagged in a great conflict to wipe
out of the mills abuses that have
made slave pens. The strike goes
on. =" IN. Y. Times, Sept. 10,
1934)
Now, fellow workers, German is
sending you back to the mills with
out the lease semblance of a union
agreement, without one single con-
ceSsion from the employers. There
is only complete, black betrayal by
Francis (Judas) German. But he
spoke differently on Sept. 10 over
the Columbia Broadcasting Com
pany network. Read his words now
and think of the callous treachery
of this betrayer of labor:
Settlement will be made now,
when it is made, whether by ar
bitrati0n or otherwise, with the
textile industries as such. That
means there must be settlement
with the entire cotton textile in
dustry, with the entire wool and
worsted industry with the entire
silk industry, and so on. There
will be no settlement mill by mill
in any of the divisions Of the in
dustry" New York Tines, Sept.
IL, 1894.
And on Sept. II he wrote in a
letter to the N. Y. Times, still main
tanning his militant pose:
I'VE have wanted peace; we still
want peace, but we do not want
peace bad enough to go back to
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