The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
ANSWER BOSS
SCAB THREAT
IN PATERSON
Cheering Masses Surge
in Demonstration
Of Solidarity
ONE SHOP SETTLES
Ranks of Bosses Split
as Many Wish to
Make Terms
ONE SHOP SETTLES

PATERSON, N. j., Nov. %. -
twenty-five thousand dye strikers
and sympathetic workers paraded
through the streets today singing
and cheering, in answer to the
threat of the manufacturers to open
the mills on Monday
The workers sang Solidarity and
shouted slogans expressing indigna-
ton at service clubs and the local
Chamber of Commerce which early
this morning issued statements in
the local scab papers threatening
to carry through secret ballot in
spite of the wishes of the workers.
The demonstration is also an an
swer to the threats Of the manu-
facturers to use armed thugs and
police to protect scabs Monday
morning. The demonstration ex-
pressed the solidarity of the Pater-
son workers with the strikers.
Seek to Enlist Veterans
The Paterson News this afternoon
published an appeal of the manu-
lecturers to the Veterans of Foreign
Wars to come out Monday morning
and help protect the scabs.
Ii the solidarity expressed at the
demonstration is carried out into
action again Monday morning, not
a mill will open. All Paterson work.
ers have been urged to be on the
mass picket lines Monday.
The Communist Party issued a
statement of greetings and solidar-
ity with the strikers, calling upon
the veterans and workers of other
unions to turn out in mass to help
picket and to keep the mills closed
The first break in the ranks of
the employers came as the William
Wilhelm Co. of Passaic, which in the
fist week of the strike announced
it is moving out Of town, capitulated
to the 100 per cent union shop de-
mand. The plant which employs
500 workers agrees to pay So cents
per hour, at SO hours per week. The
last offer of the employers. which
was rejected, provided for Sc cents
per hour
Agreement Not Voted On
While the shop settlement consti-
tutes an important victory, and
shows the strikers that determine
ton and solidarity will bring such
victory on a general scale, many
active strikers expressed very much
dissatisfaction when it was learned
that this settlement was declared
in effect without it first being sub
mitted to the Settlement Commit
tee. The officials have been warned
against repetition of such procedure.
1t is further reported that there
is wide split in the ranks of the
employers on the 100 per cent union
shop issue, with many ready to sign
an agreement similar to that of the
Wilhelm Company. The main pres
sure against settlement comes from
the largest firms, closest to Wall
Street bankers, consisting of such as
the Wiedman, Lodi, International
and Textile Piece Dye Works.
Boo Service Clubs
At yesterdays meeting of shop
chairmen, the workers heard rep
resentatives Of service clubs through
which the employers are engineer
ing the latest strikebreaking ma
neuvers. They again advised a secret
ballot. But while at the start they
were given cordial reception they
we're booed off finally.
Where were the service clubs
when the workers we're working for
starvation wages?" they we're asked
by Charles Vigorito, the strike
leader. Where was the Chamber
of Commerce when we fist pre-
sented our contract?"
That the secret ballot issue was
raised only to pave the way for
strikebreaking, and police protec-
8 ton for scabs is now clear to all
worker as an open announcement
has been made by the Dye Insti-
tutes Labor Committee that the
police are called upon to protect
loyal workers" on Monday. The
loyal workers would be deter
mined by the poll that the service
clubs will take by mail.