The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
BY Carl Reeve
Especial to the Daily wOrkerl

Especial to the Daily Worker)
LOWELL, Mass. Sept. 1.-THE
first Lawrence textile workers joined
the general strike when % wor.ze-s
in the Lawrence Duck c.. ac1
Lawrence WOODEN Co., walked cut
this morning. Five walked out Of
the Duck CO. yesterday.
The N. T. w. U. members pick
eted the mill yesterday and today.
George Cottell, U. T. W. organizer,
entered the situation. The N. t.
w. U. has called on the workers Of
this plant to strike in a solid united
front regardless of union affiliation
and to picket this and other mills.
Mill Owners Push Terro..
The mill owners took steps for
more aggressive terror following The
further spread of the strike when
three New England Governors
called out troops in three different
states, in an attempt TO halt he
mass pickcting which hes ticd 30
New England textiles.
Governor Theodore Green. Of
Rhode Island; Governor Barr, Dem
ocrat just reelected in Maine, and
Lieutenant Governor r. c. Wilcox
of Connecticut, called out compan-
les of National Guard troops at
some key mills in these three states.
The Arligton Mill in Lawrence
was heavily patrolled by police yes
terday and this morning,
Postponed Marches Last Week
The picketing at the Duck Plant
was the first picketing in Lawrence
during this strike Previously U. T.
w. Organizers Kelley and German
had made an agreement with the
police commissioner Of Lawrence
not to picket any mills not on
strike. These U. T. w. organizers
last week postponed marches which
the workers we're organizing on
Lawrence. Now the Lawrence city
government is forced to agree to
the picketing because a strike Is
actually on at the Duck Mills.
In addition to the National
Guard called, mill owners con-
tinued to deputize guards, bringing
them from New York and else
where, ard to secure local guards
from the American Legion Officials.
At North Dightoa there arc Ger
500 guards and poiic2.
Biedenkapp in Lawrence
Fred Biedenkapp, leader of the
1881 textile strike, speaks at a
mass meeting of the n T. w. U.
in Lawrence tomorrow at 730 pm.
at the italy Grand Hall, 100 Oak
St. The n. T. w. u, in calling
this meeting, urged Lawrence
workers to strike for the 3o-hour
week, increased wages, less looms
and reduced machine load, and
recognition.
The n. T. w. U. statement de-
clarcd thai thc mill cwne-s are
Preparing ancShar vase cut in
Lawrence while they ask the wor.l-
ers to b. "loval' to them. 1T
urges them to organize strike
committees in your mill. Now Is
the time for united action of all
Lawrence workers. For united ac-
ton to win the workers demands"
Protective Head Calls Police
In Lowell today the president of
the Textile Workers Protective
Union independently, Edward Cote,
made another Of his vicious daily
attacks on militant workers (He
is one of the officials who recently
turned a mezs meeting over to
local rolilio;sn3) This attack fol-
lov,d tcc d'5t--..7usetSa aroag the
ss~.Eor5 Of TIC D2tly Worter e1e-
to-lals, vn;2n arc printed in leafIct
form Cote attacked the Commune
nists, and went 50 far in his s5ool-
pigeon tactics as calling upon tbs
Lowell police and asking them TO
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