The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

to discuss the strike
, situation. From the South. local
unions of the United Textile Work.
ers' Union are telegraphing Francis
j. German. demanding strike
against blacklist and wage cuts. In
Pennsylvania, the picket lines are
increasing, with mills on strike in
Lancaster Gainesville and else
where. The local unions of the
Burlington and Winooski, Vermont,
United Textile Union have defied
telegraphic instructions from Cor
man, and 1900 workers have walked
out on strike there.
The re-strike movement in the
textile industry has begun, as the
Communist Party and the Daily
Worker predicted that it would.
The textile workers know that they
were betrayed. The general textile
strike was the grea est strike ever
carried out by the American work
ers, with far more than one half
million workers on strike. The
strike was betrayed by German and
William Green and the. other
national leaders of the United Tex
tile Union. The strikers were forced
back into the mills while the strike
was effective and still spreading.
They did not win single one of
their demands. They were not
granted the thirty-hour week,
higher wages, recognition or aboli-
ton of the stretch-out, for which
they were fighting. These griev-
ances still remain. The Roosevelt
Boards, still investigating" the
workers demands, are putting
through the wage cuts and the
firing of thousands of union mem
bers which followed Germans SELL
out
But the textile workers are de-
termined not to accept the wage
cut, company-union drive which the
Roosevelt government and the tex
tile employers are trying to force
on them. The textile workers are
smashing the mo strike truce of
President Roosevelt. Francis Cor
man acted as an agent of the en-
ployers when he recently promised
that the million textile workers
would not strike for six months.
The textile workers have decided
otherwise t
AS in the general textile strike,
so in the present strike movement
among the textile workers, the
Daily Worker is playing an inn
portant role. Send us one thou
sand extra Daily Workers, :" comes
the order from Paterson. The Daily
Worker strengthens the picket lines,
calling every day for rank and file
control of the strike, for militant
mass picksting and flying, squad
rons, and warning against the at
tempts of A. F. of L. leaders like
German and Keller to sell out the
strike.
In the general textile strike, the
Daily Worker was eagerly read
every day by many thousands OF
strikers. They said after the be-
trayal. THE Communists were
right" They stood around in
groups, during the strike, reading
and discussing the editorials and
news stories in the Daily Worker.
Not only in the general textile
strike did the Daily Worker play
an IMPORTANT role, but this was the
case in the marine strikes, N
Toledo, Milwaukee and Minneap-
oils. The Daily Worker is one OF
the most. important weapons of the
rank and file of the A. F. of L., OF
the workers who are breaking
through the Roosevelt Green "irl-
dustrial peace" policy and fighting
for their economic demands and for
their right to organize and strike.
Paper Needs Support
The strike wave continues. The
textile workers are now re-striking
in the face of the no-strike orders
of German and Green. The Daily
Worker is again on the picket lines.
But in order to increase its Ell
fectiveness, in order to play: the I'M
portant role of agitator and or
ganizer that it should play in the
workers strikes, the Daily Worker
must have your increasing. support.
The Daily Worker needs that sup
port now, in the heat of the strug-
giles of the unions and of the un-
employed. The Daily Worker, in
order to be the important factor
that Il must be, needs not only the
passive approval of its readers.
Every reader of the Daily Worker
should be AN ACTIVE SUP
PORTER of the Daily Worker.
This means chat the readers of the
Daily Worker must assure the Sue
cess of the present Daily Worker
drive for $4,000. Only by speeding
up the drive, by rushing in funds,
by exceeding the quota, will the
readers of the Daily Worker be able
to guarantee that we will be able
to increase our effectiveness, in the
strike struggles. If the Daily
Worker drive for $50 900 is success
full, more strikers will receive the
Daily Worker, more effective dis
tribution will be possible. If the
Daily Worker drive for funds sue
ceeds, the Germans and Greens
will find it harder to sell out strikes,
the picket lines vii be stronger, the
workers will be in stronger posi-
ton to win their economic demands
and build their unions under rank
and file control.