The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
We Want to Help Bosses
NJ axe Dividends
Says Mcmahon
MANY FINE BOSSES
Will Not Stick to All the
Convention Demands
He Declares
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
lDailv Worker Mashingtnn Bnreanl


WASHINGTON, D. c.
Sept. Weekend confer
ences between the National
Labor Relations Board and
the United Textile Workers
CA. F. of L. Special Strike
Committee failed to arrive at
any agreement providing WORTH
while employer concessions as
nearly one million cotton. wooden,
silk and worsted workers through
out New England and the South
enthusiastically rallied their strike
ranks for what is expected to be
labors greatest general strike
1 against employers and their gov
eminent supporters.
The general demands on which
the recent New York U. T. w.
convention voted strike by 400 to 9
call for the abolition of the stretch
out (speed up), reduction of hours
to thirty per week with no Teduc-
ton in pay, and recognition of the
union.
These general provisions, however,
are based on specific technical de-
mands adopted at the U. T. w.
Convention. They provide specific
ally for instance for definite scales
on hours and wages, for the exact
number of automatic and non-au-
tomato looms per worker. for daf-
mite categories of workers in diff
for5ntial groups, end for precise
minimum scales Of pay.
viii Disregard Convention Orders
That the U. T. w. strike leader
ship plans to disregard these rank
and file technical convention orders
was made clear today in an inter-
view given by President Thomas F..
MacMahon to your correspondent.
Don't get me wrong. Our tech-
nical demands are broad enough so
that reasonable men can sit down
and give away here and there. Tn
derstand, mean that we're not go
ing to insist on crossing all It's and
dotting every i.
1--WE want the employers to know
that they have a problem on their
hands and that we want to help
them make dividends. For, if they
don't make dividends we get no
pay, see? There's an opportunity
for the EMPLOYERS. and us to sit down
together"
IT elegra m crystallizing the
workers strike sentiment from all
parts of the country and from all
sections OF the textile industry con-
tinue to come irregularly" Francis
j. German, strike committee chair
man, informed the press yesterday.
just before dispatching the order
eagerly awaited by many thousands
Of silk workers.
In speech delivered over a Ma
tional radio hookup, he declared
that "the workers are on strike to
enforce decent treatment, to end in
tolerable abuses, to vindicate the
law which guarantees them the
right of collective bargaining" He
referred to the MIRA. under the
sections of which the company union
has not only thrived but been le-
galized The supposed guarantee of
collective bargaining is an animal
never seen alive in action in Wash
ington or anywhere else
German voiced the General john
son anti-strike tactic that there are
good and bad employers, the
'chiseler5," against whom the work
ere darts must be directed. Now,
there are many fine men engaged
in the textile industry, as prop-ie-
tors and managers but these men
are driven by the machines they
own and operate and by = the
'chiselers," said German over the
a7icrophone.
His theme called for "the control
of labor saving machinery"
Greet Rcd Batting Legion
The proposal made yesterday to
Williom Green l:y George L. Berry,
! Divisional N. R. A. Administrator
! and avowad anbi-strille president Of
the Icte-nGsional Printing Press
mems Union, for an arbitration
board of three members to be APP
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