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

ERANCIS GORMAN, who betrayed one
million textile workers in the recent
general strike, flew to San Francisco for a
speech to the A. F. of L. Convention Cor
man, United Textile leader, who was head
of the UTW. Strike Committee is attempting to
maintain his leadership in the face of the wave of
Indignation against his sell out of the strike,
In order to quiet the rank and file, German
claimed that the strike settlement" the calling off
of the strike the strength of the Winant Boards
report, was IAN amazing victory" He claims that
the Winant report, on the basis of which German
ended the strike, resulted in "a plan to end the
stretchout, and "the nearest thing to recognition
of the union that it was possible to get"
WHAT is this Winant report which German claims
is an amazing victory for the textile workers?
The Roosevelt board of three headed by Governor
Of Vermont Winant which Roosevelt appointed
did not grant single demand of the strikers. Re-
gardng the stretchout, in fact, it calls for in
creased stretchout. The Winant report recommends
that the respective codes be amended to provide
that a special committee be created under the tex
tile labor relations board to supervise the use of
the stretch-out"
The Winant report proposes that UNTIL FEB
RUARY l, 1885 NO EMPLOYER SHALL EXTEND
THE WORK LOAD OF ANY EMPLOYE EXCEPT
IN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE AP-
PROvAL OF THE STRETCHOUT COMMITTEE"
plan for regulation" of the stretchout shall be
proposed to the President not later than January
1885.
In other words, the textile workers are now
hack at work under the same unbearable stretch
out against which they struck Furthermore, the
Winant board proposes even INCREASE in the
stretchout, by permission of the recommended in
vestigating committee.
On wages, the Winant report had nothing to
say. The textile workers are now working at the
same starvation wages that prevailed before and
drive is to further decrease the wages of
textile workers.
The Winsnt report does not grant or recon-
mend sembance of recognition in any shape
size form.
The Wirant report recommends an Impartial
bOard"-the textile labor relations board has been
created-tO have final say. Thus the Winant
report recommends further Roosevelt compulsory
arbitration and further investigation, which has
svailed the textile workers nothing in the past
year and half and against which they rebeIed
The same dose is given them as was given the
auto and steel workers.
The employers did not pay the slightest atten-
ton to the part OF the report recommending mo
discrimination" and backlisted thousands. They
stated openly that they will run the industry as
they please.
Certainly the decisions on which German called
off the strike were AMAZING to the workers but
the workers know that they were not VICTORY.
but a SELL-OU and betrayal
The textile strike could have been won if mill
tant mass picketing and strong rank and file Or
ganizaton had been established and if the leaders
had modified the rest of the working class for sup
O0rtinp and
tried to limit picketing to drive out the reds and
militants. He did not allow holding of union mem
berShip meetings, and did not even allow all the
textile trades to come out on strike let alone seek
to spread the strike TO other industries This is WHY
the strike was not won.
Because of militant rank and file action, the
strike was strong and effective when German called
it off on the bosses terms.
German, in his speech at the convention, praised
the textile workers for their fight in the face of the
troops and terror. But German concealed the fact
that when national guard troops murdered strikers
in New England, his lieutenants, Joseph Sylvia, Ri
viare. etc, condemned the mass picketers as reds
hcodiums and vandals' and washed their hands of
the mass picketers. They sang the same identical
song as the mill owners against the murdered
strikers
German and his aides must bear responsibility
for the murder of strikers the picket lines just
as great as the responsibility of those who pulled
the triggers and the employers and the government
who unleashed the terror. German and his aides
deserted and condemned the strike u-o were
pcEeting and fighting in the face of troops
Fancy rhetoric and empty boasting will not save
German from the indignation Of the rank and file
They know that the same desperate conditions pre-.
vail now as before the strike with blacklist and ter
ror increased. The rank and file must organize the
re-Strlke movement, this time the basis of rank
Only this rank and file action will prevent futur.
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