Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
BY Rufus Banner

week of the tie-up involving the
nationwide textile industry, 60O,-
900 strikers continued aggressive
ly to fight for the bare essen
tials of a living. The rank and
file OF workers in this always ex-
plotted field have been reduced
to intOlerable circumstances I'M
der the NRA and now are being
attacked from without by indus
trialists, local and state govern
ments. the national guard and
police thugs while combating
sabotage of their strike from
within, at the hands of the mis-
leaders.
Half dozen brutal Onslaughts
provoked by company guards
and supported by police cossacks
and guardsmen have taken an
uncounted toll of workers lives.
Capitalist papers have unani-
mously suppressed the CHASTITY
details of these riots" mini
MIXING the number of injured
and hushing up the death list
while at the same time cOloring
facts of the dispute to suit mill
bosses.
Strike Demands
More than 5000 mills are affect
ed and over 100000 workers are,
or shortly will be, affected The
strikers demand abolition Of the
"stretch-out' and speed-up sys-
TEN which has under the MIRA
become a more than ever vicious
evil contributing vastly to I'M
employment and resulting in ter
rifle hardship for the workers re-
naming on duty. Union recog-
milton. revision of machine and
load-speeds to a sane basis, re-
duction to a 30-hour week with
out pay-cuts, these are of equal
Importance in the list of strikers
demands.
The fight for decent working
conditions and a wage that will
support adequate living stand
ards is of course branded by the
paid press and the bosses with
the usual red" cOnnOtatiOns.
ALL misleaders have already
planned a sell-out of the rank
and file, talking compromise and
mediation before the strike was
fully under way.
United Textile Workers Strike
Chairman Francis German re-
jected united front proposal of
the National Textile Workers
Union branding" the latter ms
Communist Union. Subse-
quently, German has joined in
approval of the police brutality,
minimizing it as the work OF
company detectives, and necos-
sary to subdue Communist act
ivity.
Undetermined attacks by less
er AFL luminaries have result
ed simply in getting the NTWU
gaining extra support from he
workers. As the strike now pro-
crosses, it becomes increasingly
apparent that the unofficial bal
anee of power and leadership has
swung to the NTWU.
AL Breaks Ice
Arbitration suggestions made
Sunday by German came as a
surprise to no one but the inno-
cent capitalist press. Predicting
reign of murder if the strike
continues Ito date it has been
little else, with beatings and
fatalities totalling a dozen daily
German is quoted as declaring
that if the employers agree to
abide by ROosevelt-appOinted
peace boards decisions "all con-
flict can be brought to a stop at
once"
Spokesman for the Mediation
Board declared its belief that "a
settlement can be reached which
will be fair to workers, employ
ers and the public interest Con-
tradicting this statement of Geo.
A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Tex
tile Institute, which described
the union peace proposal as "ut-
terly impossible from every
standpoint"
Employers Refuse
Sloan fatty refused to permit
mills to remain shut.
Strike breakers are being
guarded by an unheard OF mo-
bilization of all fascist agencies.
In addition to vigilante and Ku
Klux threats, private scab-herd-
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