The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13

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erson silk workers to meet and vote
on WHISTLER they would go back tc
work He merely ordered them back
into the mills and postponed" their
membership meeting to discuss the
situation. Keller is now making
free use of the police a. union
membership meetings and in union
halls to quell the rank and fix
Inilitsncy.
KeIler's Latest Maneuver
Keller is now trying to recover
the ground he lost among the work
ers through this sinking treachery
He has wired asking permission
Of William Green to call silk
strike on Oct. 25. Keller know:
very we'll that Green will not accede
to such a request. This telegram
has already been referred to Cor
man by Green.
BY the very act of sitting and
waiting for the Green German
reply, Keller is once more trying
TO turn a strike of 10000 silk and
dye workers back into the hands
CT the very men who betrayed the
general strike. He is acknOwledg-
ing, on behalf Of 10000 workers,
the German leadership as his
leadership. While Keller tele-
graphs Green the bosses cut
wages.
Keller is trying to place the. fate
of the 10000 silk and dye work
ers of Paterson in Germans
hands at the very moment when
German is praising the Roosevelt
textile boards. Meanwhile, he
does nothing to prepare the strike.
German, who defeated the gen.
eral textile strike, has accepted
mo strike" truce for a six
I1onths' period, at Roosevelt's re-
quest. German has agreed in adj
vance, not to fight against the
blacklist, the stretchout, for rec
ognition or shorter hours, for the
next six months. And Keller,
valuable agent of the Green-G Cor
man machine, tells the Paterson
textile workers they cannot act
until they hear from German.
The attemp5 of the Oct. l issu,
of the Workers Age TO whitewasf
Keller will not go over with the
Paterson textile workers. Keller
record is too smelly to permit o.
any defense. The so-called Work
ers' Age claims that during tht
general strike Keller was carrying
en- pressure for the dyers to b.
Brought out. They claim that Kellel
wired German opposing the calling
off of the strike.
But the fact remains, and canno
be disputed or denied by the Work,
ers' Age, that it was Keller wht
sent the strikers back to work. Hi.
protests" if any, were confined
within the German leadership, O.
which he is part. He never varied
from his loyalty to the Gormal
leadership in carrying out Gormant
instructions. The telegram wa
sent at the demand of the mem
bers.
The LoveStoneites are ever loya
to the A. F. of L. officialdom. II
action their only discipline is tn,
discipline of obedience TO the die
tates of h, Green machine. Rather
than disobey Germans orders
Keller stabbed the Paterson work
ers in the back, ordered them bacl
to the mills, postponed their mem
bership meeting, expelled militants
and kept the dyers at work.
This, evidently, is what is mean
by the Workers Age when it de
clares for realistic" policy ant
when it charges the Daily Worke
with teeth gnashing.' This is tn,
identical policy that some left" So
cialist Party leaders carried on
during the general strike, com
plete lie-up with the German ma
chine; no warning to the worker
of the coming betrayal; keep tn
workers disarmed as much as pos
sible from learning the true CHAR
acter of the German leadership
Then. after the battle is over, il
order to try to crawl back into tn
workers favor, 10 declare Il wa
against them all the time"
The 10000 silk and dye workers
of Paterson must smash Keller's
treacherous moves now. The les
son of the general strike is that
the coming strike must not be
allowed to travel the same road of
betrayal. This time the rank and
file must prepare, and control,
their own strike.
The rank and file opposition
has put forward he correct pro-
gram for winning the demands of
the silk worlSers-the immediate
election of rank and file strike
committee; the removal of Keller
and other similar traitors; the
control by the elected committees
of the strikers of the strike and
of all negotiations. If the rank
and file does not act now, the
strike will not be prepared, and
will he beheaded by the Kcllers
and the Germans as the general
STRIKE uae hob N ded