The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
MILL STRIKES
DEVELOP IN
FOUR STATES
$4,000 Silk Workers
May Join Dye Walkout
OF $4,000
WOOL WORKERS OUT
Allentown Workers Talk
General Strike After
Police Attack
BULLETIN


CHARLOTTE, n. c.. Oct. 3D.
Textile workers at Roanoke
Rapids, n. c., voted today to
strike against discrimination
and bIacklisting OF union mem
bers. It expected that the action
will involve several thousand
workers. II was also reported
that mill workers in Concord are
preparing to take up the question
OF strike.
Twenty-Five thousand Paterson
dye workers are ready to strike
tomorr morning. Fifteen
thcusand Paterson silk workers
will hold membership meeting
Saturday 70 discuss the strike stu
alton.
IN Allentown, Pa, textile and
cotton garment workers demand
a general strike following police
attack on mass picket line Of the
Freezer Shirt Company.
Thirteen hundred wooden tex
tile workers strike in Burlington.
VT, at the American Wooden Mills
plants.
Three shirt factories in Troy,
N. Y, of the Artistic Shirt Com
pany vent out on strike.
PATERSON. N. j., Oct. %. -
Twenty-Five thousand dye workers
here are preparing to strike Thurs
day morning. The manufacturers
today were making frantic efforts to
split the workers ranks, circulating
petitions in the shops asking the
workers to vote against strike,
claiming conditions are "satisfac-
tory"
The dye workers answered,
through their strike committee,
pointing out that the weekly aver
age wage for last year was nve dol
lars.
In the last minute efforts of the
Roosevelt government and the en-
blowers to break the strike, Com
missioner Chapel, of the U. s..
Department OF Labor, is now con-
ferring with the leaders of the dyers
union OF the United Textile Work
ers Local 1888 and the dye federation
officials. These leaders have agreed
to confer. Chapel declared he will
call them to Washington before
Thursday.
A great danger to the strike, rank
and file workers point Out, is that
the U.T.W. leaders will put over
another betrayal, ending the strike
by means of compulsory arbitration
in another Roosevelt board. An
other danger is seen by rank and
file dye workers in the fact that
union leaders emphasize the one
demand of the closed shop. an i'm
portant demand in itself, but keep
in the background the wage de-
mands for 81 an hour and for the
3o-hour. five-day week; and other
economic demands. The rank and
file workers see in this tendency
by the U.T.W. leaders toward the
giving up of these demands to ar
bitra ton
Protest Relief Scab Attempt
The Dyers Federation U.T.W)
Executive today wired protest to
Federal Relief Director Hopkins
against the attempt of the dye
bosses to use relief workers as scabs.
The Paterson Unemployed and Re-
lief Association has pledged full
support to the dye workers, and has
sent protests to Washington and to
the local office of the Unemployment
service.
A mass dyers' rally is scheduled
for Thursday afternoon at Hinch-
cliffe Stadium by the strike COM
mittee. Among the speakers invited
are the Socialist Party leader Nor
man Thomas. The Communist Party
has sent request to the Fedora
ton for Moe Brown to bring greet
ings to the meeting from the Gem
munist Party.