The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
Officials WrangIe for
25c Levy on Workers
10000 AmOskeag Workers Out in Fight for
Better Conditions, Living Wages

{ each gate. Under this betrayal the
Anoskeag, which closed its giant
mills last week to forestan any
chance for the workers to show
their rising solidarity, got the
chance to ship carload after carload
of valuable materials to other scab
mill centers. Armed guards and
burly, sellout "foremen," easily can
push aside two pickets, however
stout-hearted they may be.
Interestingly, this so-called La
Dor Temple" headquarters for
thousands of workers, can seat only
$50 or less at time. So, whenever
votes are to be taken on important
union questions, balloting is done
by rooms" and departments" BIZ
experience, the U. T. w. leaders
frankly admit that they have
learned that they can most easily
dominate the will of the worker
by keeping them divided when votes
are cast. Also, by this method,
they can foment distruSt 2mono
the various groups of workers, and,
with lies and misstatements, keep
them from united front.
The U. T. w. grsfters, headed
by the Infamous Horace Riviere.
learned this lesson last MAY. when
the workers went on strike, without
warning, against the National Rsla-
tions Boards ruling against re-
quested pay increases. The U, T.
w. heads were in conference at the
Labor Temple, trying to think up
ways of keeping the -trodden
men and women in the hot, stuffy
mills from oyerthrowing the U. T.
W. yoke and walking out to enforce
their demands. Suddenly a phone
call came from the mill George
Quinten, second hand, shouted over
the wires: For Gods sake, come
down here at once and do some
thing. They are going by the thou
sands. and breaking up looms and
Windows Concannon raced to the
mill gates, and threatened the
workers. If they didn't return to
their jobs at once. he told them,
they would be fired" from tbs
union.
Concannon was pushed aside
Another of his henchmen later
complained that if the police had
"let him get inside the gates" he
could have stopped the workers"
Riyiere and his gang" then hur-
ried for showdown They were
going to show the mill owners that
they had not lost control Of their
charges" They called mass
meeting for Victory Park. More
than 5000 workers were present
The U. T. W. leaders were shouted
down. The cry rose, time and
again, for strike action. strong and
militant, against the N. r. A. be-
trayal. Before a rank and file
committee could be named, the U.
T. w. crowd had adjourned the
meeting, with the understanding
that it would be continued the fol-
loving afternoon. That meeting
never came. The next morning the
Riviere- Conconron 1850
nounced that strike vote would
be taken by departments ana a-
visions"
Once again they served the AFRO
CANT and domineering manufac-
turer. The first two votes taken
were announced by the REVERE
controlled election officials, as
overwhelmingly in favor of ending
the strike at once. Similar results
came from the subsequent meetings.
Then Governor Winant and Bishop
Peterson, Roman Catholic church
head for this section, exhorted the
strikers to live up to their prom
ises!" The promises, mind you.
made by the REVERE Concannon
bloodsuckers. Disrupted and har-
assed, trying to be honest and
straightforward, as always, the
workers trudged back to their mis-
cry, once again futilely placing
their faith in promises of supposed
friends-tile U. T. w. takers.