The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Textile Workers! Beware
Of Arbitration Proposals
Continued from Page u

acEnc- .dges a readiness to bargain away the
workers demands as drafted at the u T. W. con-
Nention.
Our technical demands are broad enough
said Mr. Mcmahon, $50 that reasonable men can
ait down and give away here and there. I mean
that we're not going to insist on crossing all
rs and dotting every /. 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 to sit down together"
These statements by German and Mcmahon
and the proposals Of George L. Berry show that
The A. F. of L. leaders are definitely committed
TO a policy of trying to end the textile strike by
referring the workers demands to one or another
arbitration board They also indicate that the
union leaders are prepared to bargain away a
substantial portion Of what the workers rightfully
demanded at the recent u T. W, convention.
THE Communist Party warns the textile workers
l against any such arbitration procedure. It can
lead only to the ending of the strike without
single substantial gain being won.
Mr. German admits that the workers have been
given the run-around by N, R. A. boards through
out the entire past year without single victory
to be recorded from that procedure. You have gone
to the employers and they have sent you back TO
the boards, and to quote the words of Mr.. German,
"the abuses continued"
Now when the workers completely fed up
with the old boards, they offer you new boards,
this time a special board appointed by General
johnson, Perkins and Roper.
Is there any reason to believe that this new
n R. A. board will be any different from the old
N r. A. board? Hardly. 1t will be the same old
n R. A. which is responsible for the present in
toerable conditions in the textile industry.
Such special board was set up in the auto
strike situation in order to persuade the auto work
ers to return to without the granting Of their
demands The promise was made that their de-
mands would be acted upon by this special board
The strike was broken, the demands were not won
and the auto union was not recognized The board
postponed action the workers demands time and
again, while the bosses busted themselves with the
setting up of company unions in order to split the
auto workers ranks before strike action could again
be prepared.
In one industry after another (steel, coal, etc.
the workers have been given arbitration board,
and when they became disguised with it and en-
tered into prepared strike action they given
another board The ROOsevelt-N. r. A. administra-
tion specializes in handing out arbitration boards
a substitute for improved conditions
Each new board has only brought worse condi-
tions-lower wages, "stretch-out" or
higher prices-or all of them together.
THE Communist Party urges all workers to reject
this fatal arbitration road.
Every local union should go on record against
settling the strike in such manner either through
old N. r. A. boards or new ~ r. A. boards. Any
kind Of board is strike breaking board!
The only way to win your demands is to con-
tinue the strike until your demands are granted
You out on the streets one million strong.
The textile industry is paraly1ed You can compel
the bosses not only to listen to your demands but
to grant your demands
If you return to work without winning your de-
mands, and with your demands referred to an srbi-
tration board, you will be given the run around
for another long period, during which time the
bosses and the government will do everything
within their power to make such effective strike
as the present strike impossible.
Textile workers must now realize their strength
just think! A million men are on strike! Every
textile mill in the country is closed! In one gigan-
tic acton-fn the biggest strike In American labor
history more than 5000 textile mills from Maine to
Alabama have been shut tight
Furthermore, the workers of the nation Negro
and white, employed and unemployed, organized and
unorganiZed watching your great fight, ready
to come to your aid, ready 10 aid you in fight
to victory.
Don't let German, Mcmahon or other A. F. of L.
officials misead you into accepting any treacherous
arbitration scheme.
Close down the mills, and keep them closed