The daily worker., 1934-10-31
MiSIedderS'
StooIpigeon
Role Barred
BY a Group of Textile Worker
Correspondents

Correspondents
LOWELL, Mass. The Textile
Workers Protective Union of Lowell
will face a dangerous situation ii
its present officials continue their
stupid policy as has been followed
at the membership meeting on Sat
urday, Oct. 13 by Mr.. Katis, presi-
dent of the union.
Mr.. Katis started of with an at
tack on the members who fought
militantly during the recent textile
strike.
Mr.. Katis acted as a stooI-pigeon
all the time during the strike here
He tried to find out who were the
Communists in this organization
and then report back to the SELL
out union officials. Mr.. Katis called
the police to eject Simon Harzigan
from a membership meeting and
anyone trying to get information as
to why he did this was ruled out
of order.
OF course, he is not the only one
doing this kind Of work. Arthur
Charette, business agent for the
union, is the outstanding stool
pigeon of the whole lot. He did
his duty 100 per cent. He was the
main key between the bosses, the
police, and the rotten officials of
the union.
Mr.. Charette deserves to set a
medal from the bosses for the way
he helped to sell-out the strike.
He gave all the information he
could to the police about the Com
munist members in the union. Du-
ring the strike he took all his IN
structions from the police in regard
to having picket lines, etc. He had
private meetings with the mill own
erS and with Kelley and Molly,
leaders of the U. T. w. Further
more, Charette was told by the
Nashua Manufacturing Co., that he
must drive all Communists from
the union. This Charette promised
to do.
Brothers and Sisters of the Tex
tile Workers Protective Union, we,
as members OF this union, call
upon you to resist these tactics. We
must advocate solidarity and unity
regardless of political affiliations as
our Union constitution calls for
Only unity and constructive meth
ods will give strength to our union
ranks.
Fellow workers you know that
these are the real facts that hap
pened in our union. Take, for in
stance, our financial secretary, Mrs
BoisVert. Just before the meeting
started on this same Saturday, she
noticed that Simon Harzigan and
other militant workers were present
IN the hall. Right away she tried
to organize group to eject those
Communists" from the hall. Even
before the strike, Mrs. Boisvert tried
to sabotage the strike by refusing to
go on the picket line, saying that
she did not believe in such a thing.
I would like to ask Mr.. Boisvert a
question, what does she believe in if
she wants to win the strike?
We also have persons in our
union who do not belong there. Mr.
Monty, third hand in the Booth
Mills, an outright scab, has been ac-
cepted as member in our union,
This same Mr.. Monty was the star
witness who appeared against Sinos
Harzigan when the latter was SEN
fenced to three months in iall for
assault and battery" on loyal
workers. We must beware of such
elements in our union. They will
always try to break up our union.
These union officials, at the last
day of the strike, also went to the
city officials and asked their opinion
about the strike. In the meantime
the workers were shouting. we
want picket line and a continua-
ton of the strike" But Charette
and company told them that tney
could not have picket line. This
was the mayors orders.
On Tuesday morning, the 25th of
September, the union officials kept
the union hall closed. In this same
hall were all the posters and ban
ners, and the hall being locked pre-
vented the workers from going on
the picket line. This is what lost
our strike. Some of these takers are
still in the union. We will call
upon the workers to kick these
takers out of their positions and
have rank and file control.
Rank and File Group of this
Union.