The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
PATERSON LABOR
DEMANDS WALKOUT
AGAINST PAY CUTS
Rank and File Calls for Keler's Removal AS He
Acts As Agent of Greene German, Expelling
Militants and Again Giving German Control
BY Carl Reeve


The re-strike movement has al
.eedy begun in the textile indus
try. In Paterson, N. j., seventy silk
mills are on strike. Strikes are
spreading in Pennsylvania, where
this week Pinchot's state police at
tackled mass picket lines in Lam
caster. The fight OF the textile
workers continues in the Sout'l and
in New England. The Paterson
dyers are on the verge of striking.
The statement of the Communist
Party that the textile workers
would re-strike, that the period of
strikes in the textile industry would
continue, is being amply borne out.
The conditions against which the
textile workers walked out on gen
eral strike remain.
The re-strike movement puts for
ward similar grievances and de-
mands as those put forward in the
general strike against The low
wages being paid under the N. R. A.
codes; against discrimination
against union men; for the thirty
hour week; for recognition and for
higher minimum wages for skilled
and semi-skilled.
General Silk Strike Looms
The spearfEead of the re-strike
movement is now in the silk and
dye industry. The dye workers con-
tract expires this mon h. There are
over 10000 dyers in Paterson, where
the Whole dyeing end of the textile
industry is conferred. In the Pater-
son silk mills the employers tried
to put over low wages at the con-
clusion of the general srike, and
bl2cklisted many of the strikers.
The silk workers are demanding
general strike.
A general strike in the silk and
dye industry is once more on the
order of the day. The silk and dye
workers rightly ask themselves now
shall the Gorn1an-Gresn machine
Of the United Textile Workers once
more control the coming strikes?
Shall the leadership which sent the
textile workers back into the mills
without winning a single ono Of
their demands, again control the
destiny of the coming atruggles?
Il Paterson, where Eli Keller,
Loycstoneita manager of the silk
union CU. T. W., was the one who
carried out all of Germans instruc-
lions for the betrayal of the strike,
the rank and file are showing where
they stand. A membership meet
ing, with 500 present, last week de-
manGed Keller's removal. The rank
end file opposition in Paterson has
demanded that the silk union shall
have an immediate shop chairman's
nesting in order to make real strike
preparations.
Ke.ler's Resent Record
In this situation, when the Pat
erson workers are faced with the
necessity of immediate strike, KEEL
Ter is once more attempting to put
On his left face. He wants to main
tain his slipping position in order
to be able to betray the Paterson
textile workers once more. In words,
he is for a strike.
It is well to review KellerS re-
cert actions. ID Keller is now
carrying through William Green's
red scare and expulsion policy, hav-
ing secured the expulsion of such
militant workers as Valgo. This is
in line with Keller's statement in
The last national silk strike in 1888,
where he said, 81 will see the union
In hell before 1 will make a united
front with the National Textile
Workers Union"
~ AT the national convention
of the United Textile Union, Just
before the general strike, Keller did
not, Throughout. the whole conven-
ton. make any concrete exposure
OF The Communication ma
chine. He did not make any con-
crete criticisms of Communicates
hon officials. After the convention,
keller wrote signed editorial IN
the Paterson union paper, declar-
Ing that he had no differences with
the -IacNlahon-Gorman leadership.
90 During the recent general
strike Keller, from Gay to day, car
RED oft, without question, every
instruction he received from Cor
man and the U. T. w. strike COM
mittee. Keller refused to call out