The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

place in California and when Gen.
Johnson, as representative of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, went to California
to break the strike; when with the
aid of Senator Wagner, Frances
Perkins, who put the immigration
Department at the disposal of the
Industrial Association for the de-
portation of all militant foreign
born workers; and when William
Green sent telegram to President
Vanderleur of the Central Labor
Council, declaring that the strike
was local strike and the general
strike was northumberland was
the position of the Socialist Party2
Speaking at a picnic in Metuchen,
N. j., on Aug. Is, Norman Thomas
said he "depIored Gen. Johnson's
actions during the San Francisco
strike, and that much of the trouble
might have been averted had the
N. r. A. Administrator acted
promptly" In other words, Thomas
completely supports the strike
breaking activities of Gen. Johnson
and regrets that he did not break
the strike more promptly.
When one looks at the textile
workers strike, a strike of 100000
heroic men and women against the
shameful conditions in the South;
and when one regards the strike
breaking leadership of German and
Mcmahon that sold out the strike,
then one sees the S. P. leadership in
all its glory. The 100000 workers,
facing the worst terror in the coun-
try, with sixteen of their members
murdered in cold blood by the Ma
tional Guard, of whom there were
10000 in the field, pleaded with
German to extend the strike, to call
out the rayon, dye, velvet workers,
etc. This German refused to do. On
the contrary, he sabotaged the work
OF the flying squadronS, refused to
aid the workers on the picket line,
except through a lot of bombastic
announcements over the radio.
When William Green promised to
call a conference of the Interna-
tionals affiliated to the A. F. of L.
in order to raise relief and to pro-
vide other support, this conference
was called off the next day on the
pretense that it would be the first
item on the order of business at the
A. F. of L. Convention in San Fran
cisco on Oct. 1! Ninety days longer
the 100000 textile workers were told
to face the armed gangsters, thugs,
National Guard, police and the
eventual sending of the U. S. Army
by Roosevelt. In this situation, when
the whole American working class
should have been modified and
every textile mill in the u. S. should
have been shut tight, as the Com
munists proposed, German and Nc
Mahon accepted Roosevelt's Media
ton Board and sent the workers
back to work without single de-
mand granted or even promised
This, German called a triumph, y
"victory!'
S. p. and Textile Strike
What was the position of the
S. P. in this strike? The National
Executive Committee of the S. P,
assigned none other than the Chair
man of the S. P. Leo Kryzski, who
is also vice-president of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers, to assist
the U.T.W. leaders. Therefore, the
S. P. was equally responsible for the
seil-out.
Let us look at the columns of the
New Leader and what do we find?
We find Norman Thomas DECLARING
the Winant president Roosevelt
board report offered certain mode
rate gains to the worker in the
matter of handling labor complaints
under the codes, in the probable
curbing of the stretch out system
and, possibly, in laying the basis for
wage increases and fuller recogni-
ton OF the union" Emphasis ours
This is brazen lie. The workers
have gone back to work on the