The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Strike Goes On in MANY
Parts of New England
Against Blacklist !
BY Carl Reeve
(psiIy Worker stsH Correspondent

LOWELL, Mass, Sept. 25.-Tn
many textile areas the textile work.
ers are fighting against discrim-
nation and are continuing their
strike. In many mills only q part
Of the force was taken back. The
mill arrangements claim it will ba
several days before the mills re-
call all strikers. The strikers de-
clare that the militant fighters ara
being blaeklisted and that some Of
these mills are instituting a lock-
out as a lesson TO the workers.
In Woonsocket, where the work.
ers on Sept. 10 battled police and
National Guards all night to main
tain picket lines. the companies
have locked out $500, the strikers
declare. q. T. W. leaders and min
owners there are comforting and
working out some agreement in
Woonsocket.
In Easthampton, Mass, national
! guardsmen still patrol the Hamp-
ton NH, which has refused TO take
back any of the strikers and Is
running with scabs. The largest
mill in Fall River, the American
Print Works, Is still being picketed,
following dismissal Of active strik-
ers there.
Some departments Of the min
are already working. The eight
! mills Of the French Company are
I discriminating against strikers.
Strike Goes On
The strike continues in Chicopee,
Mass, with several thousand out
| demanding an agreement on the
stretchout before they return to
work Loom fixers are picketing
the Pequot Mill at Salem after
two Of their leaders were fired and
blacklisted. In Maine the Lock-
wood Plant in Waterville hired
back only fraction Of its force.
The strikers charge discrimination
here and elsewhere In Maine
In Connecticut 1000 U. T. W.
members at Rockville continued on
strike. charging discrimination.
In Lowell the leaders of the Pro-
tective Union, using the sans
methods as the U. T. w. leaders,
have succeeded in breaking the
backbone of the Lowell strike. Al
though the Protective Union has
not officially ended the strike, their
methods have caused a rush back to
work. These Protective Union Lead
ers at last nights mass meeting in
the Auditorium counselled over and
over again, NO picketing, no mass
meeting"
The $500 present did not have
a chance to express themselves, as
the meeting was hastily adjourned.
Some Forced Back to Work
The policy Of no mass meetings
and no picket lines forced a large
number back to work today. Last
night there were about 1000 strik-
ing. Today most are at work.
There is great deal Of discrim-
ination here, hundreds not having
been taken back to work as yet.
This morning in the union hall ths
militant strikers forced the hold
| ing of a meeting of the 100 strikers
in the hail. but Sam Hartizigian,
leading rank and file striker, was
not permitted to speak.
Police interference with the leaf
let distributors cut down the size
of a Communist meeting in the
Colonial Hall last night. However,
in the past two or three days IS
have signed applications to tho
Communist Party, and the senti-
ment of the workers for the Daily
Worker is particularly strong. The
Party and militant strikers, such as
Sam Hartzigian, put forward the
program of mass picket lines, re-
moyal of weak and traitorous ele-
ments from both unions, and control
Of the strike and the union by the
rank and file mass meetings, and
strengthening of the relief commit
tee and continuing the strike until
the national demands are won.
The sentiment of the strike Is
that they have been sold out by the
U. T. w. leaders, and many of them
also place the blame directly on
President Roosevelt.
1OnlgIL 6Qs Sl6NSIlS, AOu1ullullSb
candidate for Governor, and Sam
Harzigian. will be the speakers at
Communist Party mass meeting in
the City Hall Square.
Before the strike ended the union
leaders we're forced by the mass
sentiment of the workers to dis
!; band their strong-arm squad, which
had kidnapped Joe Costello, leading
shoe worker, and followed other
Communists and militant strikers.
McCue was punched in the nose
by a rank and file striker before q
vote of strike committee members
forced him to resign as president
of the strike committee. Georges
Phils was jailed and is out on Sl0o
bail for distributing Communist
leaflets. Timothy Burr was Jailed
, for the third time for selling Daily
Workers yesterday.
Especial to the Daily WORKER
ROCKVILLE, Conn, Sept. 25.-1
2 Textile workers of the Stevens Nib