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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
Plants Shut
By Picketing
In Paterson
LOvestonite Official
Tries to Restrain
Dyers From Strike
Especial to the Daily wOrker)

PATERSON, N. j., Sept. 14.-Mil-
liant picket lines and flying squad
rons successfully closed down prac-
tically every large mill in the city
of Paterson today. Strikers, whose
militancy has risen greatly within
the past few weeks, threw large
mass picket lines around the Audi
ger-Meyer jacquard plant yesterday
and closed it down.
When picket captains attempted
to lead the workers away from this
mill before they had been assured
that it would close, all of the work.
ers refused to break the picket line,
and followed militant girl strikers
back to the Audiger-M Meyer plant.
At yesterdays m ass meeting,
Valgo, formerly of the N. T. w. U.
and one of its delegates on the new
Executive Board, announced de-
cision at the shop chairmens meet
ing to plan systematic mass picket
ing for next week in place of hap
hazard arrangements which have
De6Il Uldue illus lar.
Although three leaders of the So
cialist Party, including Norman
Thomas, who spoke yesterday, have
addressed strikers mass meetings,
as we'll as several renegades from
the Communist Party, Keller, who
talks about unity has not allowed
any representatives of the Commu-
mist Party to speak at any mass
meetings.
The strike situation in Paterson
was seriously threatened by the de-
laying tactics of Keller and the Of
ficials of the dyers' union. Every
day the silk workers have continued
to demand that dyers be called out
on strike without further delay.
Dyers Expected to Strike
Last night it was announced that
an injunction was granted by Vice
Chancellor Egan of Jersey City to
the Dyers' Bosses Manufacturers re-
straining all dye workers, members
of the U. T. W., etc, from not only
striking and picketing but also from
any meetings to discuss striking.
This is one of the most far reach
ing injunctions against workers
that has ever been granted in Jer-
sey. In spite of continuous delays,
German, the national and local Of
ficials of the dyers' union, and also
the strikebreaking injunction of the
Jersey courts, a membership meet
ing of all dyers, which violates the
injunction, will be held tomorrow
morning at union headquarters.
1t is expected that the vote to
strike will be taken then, to take
effect on Monday. The Communist
Party and Young Communist
League of Paterson have just issued
a statement appealing to all dye
workers to strike without further
delay, to elect rank and file COM
mittees. The Communist Party and
Y. C. L. pledged its solidarity with,
and full support of, the dyers and
the general textile strike.
Tremendous applause greeted q
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Relief Plans.
ToAid Strikers
Laid in n. Y.
Strike Aid Conference
Makes a Nationwide
Appeal to Workers

NEW YORK.-"A truckload of
food by Monday" was demanded by
conference held here yesterday,
under the auspices of the Workers
International Relief, as the first
step in rushing relief to the striking
textile workers.
StreSsing the need for immedi-
ate action to aid the striking tex
tile workers, the conference APP
pealed to all trade unions, irrespec-
tive of afflliation as well as to all
other workers organizations, to
elect representatives to form a
United Front Committee for Re-
lief to the Striking Textile Work
ers.
All organizations are asked to
send in names and addresses of
their representatives to the New
York Provisional Committee, at $40
Broadway, New York City.
Workers organizations in the fol-
lowing cities are rushing prepara-
tons for relief and are setting up
united front committees to include
any and all who are willing to CO.
operate in getting relief to the
strikers: Boston, Cleveland, Chi
cago. Detroit, Hartford, New Haven,
Newark, Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh.
These are the first steps in the
national relief campaign under
taken by the recently held confer
ence of delegates from national
trade union, fraternal and other
working class organizations held
on Sept. 10, in New York City.
The Provisional National Com
mittee for Relief for Textile Strik-
ers, 870 Broadway, New York City,
appeals to all workers and their
sympathizers to rush relief in the
form of funds, food, clothing and
medical supplies to the strikers.
In oSder to facilitate the organ
ization of relief supplies the Ma
tional Committee recommends the
calling of conferences and setting
up of committees in each city to
get all the unions and other groups.
behind this campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
Newsboys Win Pay Raise
After Militant Strik e

HOLYOKE. Mass, Sept. IA. =
After three days Of militant mass
picketing, newsboys of the Holyoke
Daily Transcript won their strike
for a quarter Of cent increase
per paper pay. During the three
days the boys had defied the mo-
Utilization of twenty-four policemen
and seven state troopers against
them and had staged demonstra-
tons and parades throughout the
town.
Carrying signs reading "The
Transcript is Unfair to Child La
bor," the boys marched through the
town. Several labor unions adopted
resolutions supporting the strikers
and pledging to boycott the news
paper during the duration of the
strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
BayOnets Used
On MiIlPickets
In Burlington
4 Jailed After Attack
Mother of Five Tells
Of Brutality
By Jim Weaver
Especial to the Daily WORKER


BURLINGTON, N. c., Sept. IA
Troops used bayonets and tear gas
on peaceful pickets today at the
Burlington Plaid Mill, arresting four
and wounding several others. Two
Of the wounded pickets were young
women, one of whom was placed on
an open truck and driven through
the town in full view of everyone
in the streets
A young worker, his shirt bloody
from his wound, told your cores
pondent his own story of the at
tack:
Il was walking down the road"
he said, when soldier stuck his
bayonet in my back and ordered me
to move on. I saw an old man
stuck by bayonet and another in
the leg. The one who had been
hurt in the leg fell down. but they
continued to jab their beyonets at
him.
Stab Girl With Bayonet
II also saw them stab a girl with
bayonet."
I interviewed Grace Morlette, a
mother of five children. This thin,
frail little woman with trembling
voice, showed me her swollen side,
where two soldiers had brutally
struck her with bayonets.
1.-Two soldiers hit me in the side
with bayonets because I could not
move fast enough" she said. There
weren't but six pickets at that gate
when soldiers got off three trucks
and ran toward us. I was not say
ing word They told me to move
on. I answered that I was moving.
but a soldier said it wasn't fast
enough. Two of them struck me in
the side with bayonets. Then, hold
ing the bayonet in both hands. they
showed me across the road and for
two blocks.
II YVES in the middle of the high
way when they struck me. My
brother was cut too A soldier
started to stick his bayonet in his
chest when he grabbed the blade
and got bad cut in his hand My
brother was not saying a word.
The soldiers cursed at us and
said, Let's kill the ratsl'
Il was picketing because I had
really suffered for the past few
months. I have five children to
feed I've worked in the mill for
years and now we're starving"
The situation was tense here as
more troops were called to the scene
The Plaid Mill was reopened after
the troops action, but the workers
were preparing large picketing dem
onstrations to close it again.
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r. l. Veterans Refuse to Aid
Green in attacks on Strikers
And Protect Scabs at Mills

PROVIDENCE. r. l., Sept. IA
American Legionnaires and mem
be-s Of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars will not sign up as special
State troopers or lend aid to the
Guard, announcements
from both organizations declared
yesterday in response to Governor
Green's frantic appeal for strike
breaking reinfcrcements. Both vet
Grams organizations took the posi-
ton Of neutrality" in the struggle.
The statements, a startling re-
versal Of usual Legion and v. of
F. w. procedure, is seen here as
primarily the reflection of the fact
that a large percentage of the ex-
servicemen are textile workers
themselves and any attempt to en-
list the veterans into the .anks of
protectors of scabs would not only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
Newspaper Guild Wins
i nj on Conditions on
Two Wisconsin Papers

MADISON, Wise, Sept. IA. -
One hundred per cent organization
of their editorial employees COM
PEELED publishers Of the Wisconsin
State Journal and the Capital
Times here to settle with the
Madison Newspaper Guild today
under a closed shop contract. me
local organization is part of the
American Newspaper Guild.
The contract, which begins to-
day, calls for a 48-hour week for
reporters and desk men. Minimum
starting pay is SIS for inexperi-
enced workers with s35 the mini
mum for writers with two years
daily newspaper experience in any
city of $4,000 or more population.
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be, in many cases, entirely futile.
but would discredit the leadership
Of both bodies
However, the statements said. the
organizations would render aid to
the police forces of the various tex
tile communities but would under
no circumstances patrol the strike
areas.
GOVERNORS ISLAND. N. Y,
Sept. 14-Eight hundred troops of
the 10Th and 9th Infantries, U. S.
Army, arrived here late last night
from Camp Dix, N. j., ready to en-
train for Rhode Island textile strike
scene. Prior to the arrival of the
contingent from Camp Dix, 700
men, prepared to rush to the
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Strike Gains
Made i'm South:
Relief Denied
Negroes, Whites Fig h t
Side by Side, Break
Jim-Crow Barriers
BY Harry Raymond
DAILY Worker Staff Correspondent

(Dauy worker STAN correspondent
GREENVILLE, s. c., Sept. IA
Substantial gains were made today
along the textile strike front in the
Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee.
The fresh militant upsurge which
began yesterday at Belmont. N. c.,
and Gastonia, with the massing of
thousands Of pickets along the roads
in front Of the mills, spread today
down the long road between Char
lotte and Greenville.
In Cherokee County, S. c., every
mill is closed and the strikers in
small attachments are picketing all
entrances to the plants. Not one
strikebreaker has dared to pass the
lines set up by the strikers So
effective is the strike in this county
that the mill owners came pleading
to T. E. Best, president Of Local
1904 of the UT.W., asking permits
sion to move finished products from
the mill area. The strike committee
informed the manufacturers that as
long as the strike is on they will not
permit the movement Of goods.
Breaks Jim Grow Barriers
One important feature of the
strike in this region is that it is
definitely breaking down the Jim
Grow barriers that heretofore him
dered Negroes from sitting in trade
union meetings with white work
ers. In the Gaffney Local union
yesterday I saw Negro union
members meeting with the white
members on an equal basis.
In Charlotte, at a union meet
ing in the Eiks Hall, whites and
Negroes met together in the same
hall.
After being denied relief from the
Federal Government, local unions
everywhere are setting up strike re-
lief headquarters. Considerable re-
lief was collected by the Gaffney
local and distributed yesterday to
the most needy strikers.
F.E.R.A. Agents Scab
Federal relief agents along the
whole strike front are acting openly
as strikebreakers. At Honea Path
S. c., Lily Beard, who is in charge
of Federal relief, told strikers that
in order to get relief that they would
have to work on the local projsct
which is under the dictatorship Of
Chief of Police George Page, one
of those who did the shooting or
Sept. 7, when seven workers lost
their lives. Amos Wooten, one Of
the workers who was wounded dur
ing the bloody attack, was told tc
report on this job. The strikers have
refused to work on this project.
In the County Of Anderson, S. c.
Mrs. Mitchell, Federal Relief head
requested the workers in the towr
of Bolton to circulate petition
calling for the reopening of the
mills. Relief has also been denied
all strikers in the town of Conestee
County of Greenville, where Ton
Charles, president of the largest mil
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Hospital in Brooklyn
To Be Picketed Today

NEW YORK. = Nurses, hospital
workers and members of neighbor-
hood organizations will picket the
Israel Zion Hospital in Boro Park,
Brooklyn, today at l p. NJ, in pro-
test against the discharge of two
nurses by hospital authorities.
One of the two nurses fired was
discharged after she had refused
to order nurses working under her
to give up their off hours. The
other was fired for housing the
first nurse during the time of ner
unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
Rank and File Strikers
In New Bedford Hold
Large Mass Meetings
Especial to the Daily worker

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Sept. IA.
Unity meetings arranged by left
wing rank and file members of the
U. T. w. are being attended here
by large masses of workers. On
Thursday afternoon, over 5000
textile strikers turned out to Halle
wood Park, in the South End, to
hear Walter Burke and Leo Thomp-
son explain why the rank and file
must control the strike committees,
which in turn would elect the Ma
tional General Strike Committee of
rank and file leaders. At present
there are practically no strike COM
mittees organized in any mill or
city by the U. T. w. leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15

Bars Data
On Arms
Inquiry Shows Link of
Army and du Points
To Break Strike

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. IA.
German Nazis are armed with
American machine guns and re-
v0lYers, it was indicated today in
the Senate inquiry. A letter to
the du Points from their Paris
agent in 1882 said:
81 have heard-that the Ger
man Political Associations, in
Guiding the Nazis and others, are
nearly all armed with American
revOlvers and Thompson machine
guns, and that there is a regu-
lar business Of bOotlegging Of
small weapons to Germany"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
IT. W. LEADERS AND GOV. GREEN AGREED
MANY SHOT AS MILL WALKOUT SPREADS
Business Men, German
Raise Red Bogey
in Capital
BY Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)


WASHINGTON, Sept. IA. The
Undertaking cry of revolution"
used recently by the Pacific Coast
business interests and the A. F. Of
L. of1cialdom, was raised again to-
day in the Capital with all the
Red" DOGGY trimmings by the same
two groups.
Francis J. German, chairman Of
the United Textile Workers CA. F.
of H. special strike committee, lost
no time in falling in line directly
behind Governor Theodore F.
Green, the author of yesterdays call
to President Roosevelt for ex-sol-
der, State and Federal strikebreak-
ing storm troops.
German Follows Green's Lead
1t is extremely significant that
German took Green's cue in the
face of an unprecedented mobiliza-
ton of big business men in Wash
ington, whose acknowledged purpose
in meeting with such of their own
groups as the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, the National
Manufacturers Association and such
fascist oriented officials as Secretary
of Commerce Roper, Is to begin 8
national terroristic anti-labor cam
paign. Indications point to the
execution of the San Francisco bust
ness and newspaper tactics on a
scale broad enough to envelop the
entire strike front.
With federal troops from two
corps areas being held in readiness
for strike duty" by high-ranking
U. S. generals and Secretary of War
Dern, and with Roosevelt preparing
to take direct charge Of troop move
ments against the strikers, German
declared during his talk with news
papermen: st understand that the
situation is all cleared up. All the
mills are closed down there. No,
no violence today"
Pushes "Red" Scare
Asked point -blank whether he
knows that Roosevelt is expected to
call him and the textile operators to
Hyde Park next week, German said:
Il don't say that President Roose-
welt won't intervene. simply
haven't definite information that he
will"
Germans attempt to ingratiate
himself with the government and
with the employers by reviving the
Red" scare, in the teeth of his
announcement that "today strike
lines are longer than ever the
strike situation is just about per-
feet -" is an obvious maneuver
to try to force the picketing work
ers to retreat by ceasing mass
marching and picketing. To effect
this more rapidly German is making
every effort to remove some of the
best fighters from the picket lines.
instructions No. 81
The old gag about Communists
caring nothing about the success of
the strike, but only about "revolu-
tion," and so forth and so on, was
sent broadside this time under the
label Instructions No. g."
To-day Instructions No. 9 are
going forward. These instructions
will repeat with emphasis our orig
inal warnings against Communist
interference and intrigue. The strike
must at all costs be protected as a
trade-union operation and against
perversion by revolutionary propa-
ganda and treachery. Communists
have but one aim-revolution They
care nothing for trade-union sue
cess and I think our unions under
stand that"
The issuance of your Tnstruc-
tions No. g is an attempt to revive
(Con
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DREssMAKERs TO MEET

NEW YORK.-TWo forums on
"Why is the Left Wing Group for
,Jobbers' Committees and Against
the Unit System" will be held Sun
day. II a. M, at Ambassador Hall,
1875 Third Ave, the Bronx, and
at the Borough Park TWO. Center
1878 43rd ST., Brooklyn, under the
auspices CT the Left Wing Group
of Local %, I.L.G.W w. All dress
mixers are being urged to attend
khe meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
N. J. CONFERENCE TOMORROW

NEWARK, N. J., Sept. a. An
Essex County Election Conference,
called by the Communist Party
State Campaign Committee, WI
be held Sunday afternoon at 2
O'Clock at 50 West ST., Newark, Or
CARNATIONS are being urged to send
delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
Especial to the Daily worker

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Sept. IA
Every known Communist was being
picked up on sight today and mill
tant workers, active on picket lines.
were taken into custody. charged
with being Communists. John
Weber, Communist Party organizer.
and fourteen others have been in
Jail here for the last "a hours. with
no definite charges placed against
them. At least 100 workers have
already been seized.
All copies of the Daily Worker
were confiScated when police raided
the Providence Communist Party
headquarters at AT Westminster st.
A truck carrying large bundles of
the paper was seized.
Strikers here continued their mass
picketing today as two mills, at
which most of the troop attacks oc-
Cured in the last few days. were
completely closed. They are the
Woonsocket Rayon Mill and the
Sayles Mill at Saylesville.
Charles Gorsinsky. of Central
Falls, who was shot by a National
Guardsman's bullet on the Sayles-
vile picket line, died last night in
the ROTTERDAM Hospital. No hope
is held out for several other work
ers who were critically wounded
during the fighting in Providence.
The General Assembly in Provi-
dence (similar to the New York
State legislature has been in ses-
sion since yesterday, but it has not
yet agreed to Governor Green's pro-
poSal that Federal Troops be called
to the strike scene However, they
plan to pass the proposal to appro-
pirate 100000 for the arming of
special deputies. Today there were
hundreds of special deputies at work.
They are openly called vigilanteS in
the Providence papers. In Smith
vile, for example, the deputies are
stopping all cars. Throughout the
state hundreds of fascist bands are
being deputized.
A delegation under the 1urisdic-
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Sept. IA, 1884.
Gov. Theodore F.. Green,
Providence r 7

Gov Theodore F. Green
Providence, r. l.
your talk Communist instruction
hide your responsibility ordering
murder Of textile pcke Withdraw the forces violence
National Guard and hired thugs permitting exercise of strikers
legal rights stop attacks against Communists all
efforts help strike for decent conditions
parcel of whole skebreakng which broadens
cude fascist denial of elementary civil rights stop Communist
moboizng workers and all your program
nationwide protest
Earl, BROWDR, General Secretary, Party UsA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
Providence Quarters of
Communist Party Are
Raided by Police
BY Carl Reeve
tSpec,5l ~ the Daily Norkcr)

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Sept.
14.-All arrangements for the
calling of the National Guard
which has already taken a toll
of two textile strikers lives
were approved beforehand by lead
ing officials of the United Textile
Workers Union, it was revealed
today when a committee of lead
ing writer's, and publcists inter-
viewed Governor Green Of Rhode
Island in protest at the reign of
terror raging through the state.
The U. It. w. officials who con-
ferred with Governor Green at his
official mansion previous to the
calling of the state troops were
Thomas MacMahon, president of
the union, and Sylvia, New Eng
land strike head for the U. T. w,
the Governor and his Attorney
General Hartigan. The governor
used this information to justify the
calling Of the troops.
At one point in the hour inter-
view, the governor threatened to
eject Allan Taub, spokesman for
the delegation, when Taub charged
that the raging Red scare had
been raised by the press and the
state officials to assist the mill
owners to hide the real issues in
the strike.
Governor Green re-affirmed his
intention of using troops to pro-
tect the right of the mill owners
to keep the plants OPEN"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
BrOuUder in Wire to Green
Shows Governors Motives
In Talk Of hsurrection

YORKEar Browder secretary the Communist
yesterday telegram Governor Green of Rhode Island
which he exposed Green's motives in raising the Red scare"
the State.
Browder's telegram follows
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Needed = 1925 a Day!

fetal to Date -...................s 4,4e5.5l
Yesterdays Receipts ...............s 371.s7
Press Run Yesterday .....51, 800
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