The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
UTW Leaders
Shown As Real
Dis rupters
By TextiIe worker CORRESPONDENT

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NASHUA, N. H. The United
Textile Workers local union has
been organized in Nashua since the
General Textile Strike in Sep
TENDER.
The A. F. of L. leadership, during
the strike, carried on a campaign
against militant workers, injecting
the red scare" poison into the
ranks of the strikers under the
slogan, stay away from reds!
Stay away from Communists"
Stella Maskwa, who was sent here
as an organizer, proved to be a
well-trained faker and notorious
red batter. At the strike mass
meetings, she lied about the Com
munists, disappearing them as
disrupters in the labor movement.
Stella Maskwa and Horace Bru-
lette, a pupil of the well-known
strikebreaker, Horace Riviere, Bit
terly opposed the election of a
broad rank and file strike commit
tee, and continued to carry out the
sell-out policy of German and Riy-
iere, debating to the appointed
strike committee.
With the red-baiting propaganda,
they confused the strikers and sue
ceeded for a time in whipping up
hatred against the militant group,
thus splitting the unity of the
workers and blocking the mass &C
ton of all textile strikers. They
sold out to the Nashua Manufac-
turing Co. the heroic struggle of the
Nashua textile workers.
Who Are the DisrupterS?
Horace Brulette and Stella Mas
kwa, carrying out the orders of
Riviere and General German,
ordered the strikers back to work,
shouting the slogans, "Vicory Is
ours?" eve won the strike-our
President, Mr.. Roosevelt, will fix
everything for us" There will be
no discrimination" ETC., etc.
AS soon as the workers went back
to work, the most militant strikers
were discharged by Mr. Whipple.
Now, Mr.. Roosevelt, in cooperation
with the A. F. of L. leadership, is
fixing a 10 per cent wage cut which
will affect about 1000 mills in the
country.
Almost three months have passed
since the strike, and the conditions
are worse than before the strike
The local officials continue their
splitting policy, dividing the ranks
of the local and threatening the
militant workers with expulsion and
deportation.
The most conscientious tool Of
Stella Maskwa and the mill owners
one who theoretically carries out
the disruptive work, is another red
batter and fascist, Constance Ger
asis, also known as Charlie" At
an open mass meeting of the strik-
ers, he put out two comrades, shout
ing: "They are reds, Communists
throw them out!"
A few weeks ago, this same Char
lie, in a discussion at the union
headquarters, brazenly boosted, I'll
/ want to, I can break this union
in 48 hours"
At the U.T.W. local meeting that
was held on Dec. 9th, where the
election for the Local Executive
Board took place, Charlie made the
following statement publicly: eve
don't want no Communist agitators
All the foreigners who are trying
to carry their dirty work into this
union, we will round up and drive
them out Of the country"
When one of our comrades de-
nounced Charlie as a tool of the
bosses he came to fight it out. Being
accused Of breaking the union, he
brazenly denied his disruptive work
in the union. and when cornerec
ran out shouting: II will bring the
police and run you out of towr
right away"
Charlie" GeraSis had been ex.
PEELED from the Communist Party
few years ago by the Nashua uni
for being an opportunist and E
phoney. He degenerated very quick
ly getting into the camp of tn,
enemies of the working class, Civ
ing his staunch support to fascisn
and serving the mill owners.
The members Of the Nashua loca
of the U.TW. should organize
broad shop committee and shol
council of rank and file workers il
spite of the bosses and their lack
eys, and put all their energy into
I fight for their Disseminated an,
discharged fellow workers, and ais
the demands for which we wer
fighting in the last strike.