The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
BOSSES AND PRESS
HAVE A LAUGH OVER
CORMAN VICTORY

Francis j, German, the Executive
Council of the U. T. W., William
Green and other A. F. of L. officials
are hailing the Strikebreaking re-
port of the Winant Board and their
subsequent sellout as an over
whelming victory" of sweeping
character" But the boiled
textile magnates and their press
ridicule each claim made by Mr..
German and his associates.
The New York Times, in an edi-
torial yesterday, noted that the N.
T. w. leaders have accepted the
report with an almost suspicious
enthusiasm and alacrity." And
Ernest N. Hood, President of the
National Cotton Manufacturers As
ISOLATION, disclosed to the New York
Herald-Tribune that "the net gain,
to Northern workers at least,
through the textile strike was a
three weeks vacation without pay"
The recognition" of the union,
that the U. T. w. officials boast
of, is scoffed at by Hood, who as
serts that the Winant Board speci-
fically declined to recognize the U.
T. w. as representing all textile
labor. In other words, this demand
of the mill strike (ended on
terms set by the Roosevelt Board"
as the N. Y, Herald Tribune head
line read.
What about the other demands
of the strikers which Mr.. German
claims the report grants to the tex
tile workers? The New York World
Telegram editorialized on Sept. 2
that This report does not grant
the strikers demands"
No Wage Or Hour Gains
Specifically on the question of
wages and hours, George H. Sloan,
chairman of the Cotton Textile
Code Authority, emphasized the
point that 'It would appear that
the Winant Board makes no at
tempt to pass upon the demands OF
the strike committee for changes in
hours and wages, but has recon-
mended further study of these sub
jects by government agencies" The
strikers know from their past eX-
periences that the further study"
will be used to cut wages and ex-
tend the stretchout system.
The react;onary New York Sun
pointed out that Not single issue
in the strike has been settled by
the Arbitration Board" 1t leaves
"all the major problems of the
strike to two more boards which
are yet to be created"
But perhaps the most striking IN
dictment of the false claims of the
strikebreaking U. T. w. leadership
are the editorials in yesterdays is
sues of the Times and Tribune
Each of these takes up every false
claim by Mr.. German, and reveals
how untrue and hollow his bally-
hoo really is. The Trihune's edi-
torial is entitled 1.-THE Textile
Union Victory" and reads as fol
lows:
What the Tribune Says
zone cannot help being struck b,
the earnestness and re-emphasi'
with which Mr.. Green, Mr.. Gormar
and the executive council of thu
textile union assure the striking
workers that what they have VOL
is a great victory. This fact nigh
otherwise have escaped the MOTTO
of some of them. The victory take
the shape of a report telling tn
strikers that they are the employee
of q sick industry; that, although
they are more poorly paid than tn
workers OF any other major indus
try, available data give little hop
of any increase in their earnings
and that the issue of the stretch
out (Which is merely the textil
industry's form of chronological I'm
employment; is wrapped in SO man
complexities that no solution is a
present apparent, though a neV
. board may perhaps be able to wor
out something that would prov
helpful in the matter. On thos
factors, in other words, fundamen
tai to the economic well-being @
the individual cotton textile worker
! the report finds that little can b
5 done. One can understand that t
make this look like victory to tn