The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
Strike Chiefs Strive To
Make Betrayal Sound
Like a Victory
By Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. o.
Amid great rejoicing, general hand
shaking, the oily words Of William
Green. president Of the A. F. Of L.
and the napoleonic attudinizing Of
Francis J. German, strike commit
tee chairman Of the United Textile
Workers, the three weeks general
textile strike was called of in words
that sought with desperate brazen-
ness to distort the UT.W.-A. T. Of
L. acceptance of President Roose-
velt's- Winant Textile inquiry
Boards complete rejection Of every
strike demand
German prefsced his telegram 10
Roosevelt, naming Monday as the
work resumption day. and reading
of the U. T. w. executive council
strikebreaking recommendation with
a few remarks extending "the
thanks Of our union to President
Green of the American Federation
Of Labor and to those unions who
have so generously come to our as
sistance in this epochal struggle"
Green assisted generously" in MS
memorable San Francisco strike
knitting style, by calling off the
scheduled conference of the ma
tional and international A. F. of l..
unions who were to meet to arrange
financial support OF the strike.
Other generous support consisted in
bawling out German for daring to
even intimate (for publicity pur-
poses) that a general strike in sup
port OF the textile workers might be
considered.
The UT.W. executive council sent
greetings to the hungry workers
and declared:
ut is our unanimous view. which
we shall support by our further
statements, that the union has won
an overwhelming victory, that we
ought to terminate the strike as no
longer necessary and that we now
go forth in a triumphant campaign
of organization. Moreover, we cam
not refuse to cooperate with the
President, as he has asked us to
do
I'VE have now gained every sub
stantisl thing that We can gain in
this strike"
The Observation-Disclosures lex
cellent" Winsnt report recommended
that union recognition is not "feas-
ible" "at this time; that
Textile Labor Relations Board
should be set up, with full juris-
diction over the administration and
enforcement not only of Section Ia.
but also of all other labor provisions
of the textile codes, including such
provisions as have been or may be
adopted in reference to the stretch-
out" Thus the UT.W. officials ac-
cepted another board" despite
Germans numerous statements that
the workers we're sick o. boards and
knew them only as bureaucratic
traps.
On wages, the report recommended
no increases but more "investiga-
tons and more reports" This
time the Federal Trade Commission
and the Labor Department will at
tempt to pull the MIRA. wool over
the workers eyes.
On the stretch-out, officials en-
braced a decision granting no inn
mediate relief, despite the fact that
the Winant Board declared: ut is
clear to the board that there has
in the months following the adop-
| ticn of the code been materially
increased use of the stretchout Sys-
tenn" Hence. after securing the
best available advice from expert
engineers, we have concluded that,
owing to the great number of vari-
ables, it is not feasible. at the pres
ent time to evolve any general for
mula to regulate the numerous types
of machines, fabrics and other fac
tors" However, with the laid OF
time and experience a formula can
be developed" This formula" calls
for the establishment of stretch
out Control Board" under which
the workers are asked to return to
the factories under the same condi-
lions against which they struck, in
the face Of machine guns and bayo-
nets. The Control gadget is in
structed to report to the President
on January !, 1885, long after the
mill owners have used every weapon
to weed out the militant strike lead
crs. "a permanent plan for regula-
ton of the strstch-out.'
In other words, the National Run
Around is offered. after more thar
year of boards" and "investiga-
ticns' Only the workers can an.
lswer.