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The daily worker., 1934-10-31
.CosnOJd Speed-Up
Exposes ''Victory''
Weavers That Ran Four
LenO Looms Now Must
Work on Five
By a Textile worker Correspondent

By a Textile Worker Correspondent
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - When
the general textile strike was called
off by the U. T. w. leaders, we were
told by them, particularly German
and Batty, that we won great
victory" We Gosnold mill workers
see no victory" for us workers but
a great defeat.
AS far as the local mill owners
are concerned they have won a vic
tory over us textile workers. Here
in this Gosnold Mill speed-up is on
the order of the day. Right after
the strike the speeder-tenders were
given a little" more work. They
were given two additional speeders
to tend to the four they already
had.
Now it's the weavers. In the silk
shed number l, we used to run four
leno looms. Now we have five looms
to run, two lenos and three silk
small box looms. This speed-up has
been extended to three alleys al
ready and the overseer is prepar-
ing the last two additional alleys
for this form Of speed up. That
means that at least one fifth of us
weavers will be fired.
Many of us weavers have gone up
to the Labor Temple and COM
planned to Batty and Binns about
it, but all the answer we get is
well look into It," Yes, while they
are looking into it" we are given
more speed-up.
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
Yorker SGUed A Little
At A Time to Aid Daily

WHEN Frances G. of Holidays Cove w Va, subscrp
ton she did campaign Enclosed you will
ind So she writes for expires month
toward the drive This saved for
hope everybody would this Bit Granada Tomp-
son contributes ST. Lonwood MchOrvn NIackay
for Unit 3, and John Mackay $3.50.
II New York, group painters F. of L. Opposition
recognizing the of the Daily struggles improved
conditions in the industry contributed $1925 R. D, J
Princeton, N. j., contributes
With less than half of the
the drive contributions trebled wipe Daiys"
deficit you in today and continue with
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
RonyDodson, Company agent,
Wrecking Local in Danuile
Caught Red-Handed i'm
Plot to Head
Off Strike
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

Dy AcAIAIc nOIheT correspondent
DANVILLE, Va.-This is intended
to be an example, true and living
one, of ~ type of leadership the
A. F. of L. officisls praise and ad-
vocate, and the company's bosses
smile on.
Mrs. Roxie DodSon, president of
U. T. w. Local 2057, opens and
closes her meetings with the Lords
Prayer, and in between gives a lee
ture on the courage of women in
past strikes and praises her own
ability and courage. In every meet
ing that the writer ever attended,
she has stated that for four years
she has been without a Job and
working in and for the U. t. w.
for nothing Yet she wears better
clothes t,ln the average worker
can afford. have never seen her
without an expensive looking pair
Of shoes on.
While she is presumably trying
to build the local, it is apparent
to most Of us that her object is
just the opposite of what she
breaches. She fights to keep out
militant workers. She picks COM
mittee of three cher own choice
to investigate and pass on each ap-
plicant, and if he is found to be
militant, the application never goes
to the membership for a vote. Why
is this? She absolutely dominates
the present local because she has
succeeded in getting militant work
ers framed out or their applications
rejected. She recently had a mill
tant worker kicked out because, she
said, he was a Communist.
AS long as she dominates the local
she is in position to carry out
successfully every wish of the bosses
as she has done in the past. In a
closed meeting during the General
Textile Strike, she told the mem
berS that she had telephone COM
munication from German to call off
the local strike, which comn1unica-
ton was denied by German. The
writer bought newspaper carrying
the story of the strike being called
off as he stepped out of the hall.
1t is impossible to write and publish
a story in ten minutes, so the paper
must have had the story before the
workers in the closed meeting knew
about it.
To all who read this in and about
Danville, wish to say, if you are
textile worker, get into the union
now and GUST your enemy in the
November election. Get inside and
fight to make it a real militant
hard fighting trade union instead
of a sewing circle. as one member
so aptly described it.
AS long as Roxie Dodson dom
mates the local here, it will never
be trade union. Stop her treach-
cry by voting her out. Then and
only then can we build union to
be reckoned with.
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
Aid Is No Better
Than His Master
" Worker Ccrrespondent

RACINE, visa skunk smells
when il Is caught stealing chick
ems, and what smell we have
had.
Last Friday, when the strikers
tried to stop scabs from entering
the Chicago Rubber Clothing Co.
the police chief Dovey Luther had
his picket riot squad. He fed
the strikers plenty Of gas. Three
women were taken to the hospital
for treatment.
Last Sunday the local Trades
and Labor Council issued a call
for a mass meeting. They have
just found out that it was about
time the police chief was removed.
But what good would that do
when his chief assistant, Nuke,
is just as dirty as DOvey Luther.
A man that sill act as a tool
can't be any better than his
master Here's to getting rid of
both of them.
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
Six-LOOm Task Raised
to 10 at Another
Textile Mill
By Textile Worker Correspondent

By Textile Worker Correspondent
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - Well,
We got our new deal here. I can
get no work. One mill here got
$4,000 last June and has Just
started to work. Before we used to
run six looms; now on the same
kind of work, we run 10 looms.
A very few work for the E. R. A.
Tthey have to be married and have
children. Single persons have it
hard. Some veterans are getting 50
per week, sleeping in cellars wher-
ever they can Living costs are
very hard. The people are waking
up.
1t is difficult to do something
here. We have to be careful, for
there are lots Of stoolpigeons, spies,
porters and retired policemen, but
a lot of these too are losing faith
IN Roosevelt.
Here we have two shifts when We
work, but they could put on one
shift, and not have the weave shops
closed so often.
There are two big weaving shopa
in this town. There are five mills
here closed for years, with all the
machines gone out, and two gone
to the ground. One more is coming
down, and no new one is going up.
The ones that went to work after
the strike are filled with workers
with long faces, for their jobs are
getting harder, and strikers, hoping
the people will wake up soon, are
getting ready.
We can see that there are lots of
people waiting for the boys and
girls to come from school and look
for work. Their fathers and fami-
lies are getting very little, and can
not help them much. I'm hoping
the time is ripe. I've got only once
to die, and I'm waiting to save it
for the big parade for all time.
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
ScUbS Fail
To Get in
DespiteCas
By q worker Correspondent


RACINE, Wisc.-The workers of
the Chicago Rubber Clothing Co.
have been on strike since Oct. 4th,
for an increase in pay and for
recognition of their union.
After several days of striking
this O'Boyle ooh Boil"), was sent
in to pacify the workers. This
OBoyle couldn't come to a head,
so he schemed to get the help of
a rabbi, rabid red batter, Cohen,
to snare the workers into their
trap Of arbitration, but so far they
have failed. Then they enlisted
the aid of the Racine Service
League, a red batting organization
Of the Racine Journal Times, to
pull the wool over the eyes of the
workers.
The workers were led to believe
by the local gutter sheets that they
could win without struggle, and
relaxed in their mass picketing.
On Wednesday, Oct. 17th, a
switch engine came to get a car
of goods out that had been loaded
by the Office help, who up to now
the strikers thought were harm
less and let go in every day. But
a couple of heroic women strikers
lay down on the rails and turned
back the train crew.
On Thursday, Oct. 13, the train
crew came under the protection Of
OF thugs, and took out this car
which the women had so heroically
prevented the day before. The
about-face was ordered by a Mr..
H. Ruffer, international represen-
tative Of the Ladies Garment
Workers Union, because he said
there might be bloodshed if they
tried to stop them as these militant
women did the day before.
All this time this O'Boyle was
jesting but not until Friday did it
burst. On Friday the workers knew
the wool was being pulled over
their eyes and refused to let the
Office force in to load up another
car Of goods. When they tried
this, all this talk about peaceful
picketing that their leaders were
telling them was blasted to hell.
The workers were massed in front
of the door, and when these Of
flee scabs came and couldn't get
through, the thugs across the street.
under the directions of Lieutenant
Arthur Muhlke, who takes his
orders from chief Grover Lutter
hollered at the pickets to open up
lane for these scabs, and when
the pickets stood their ground
these thugs started a barrage OF
gas bombs. One woman was burned
by bomb and several others were
hurt so they needed medical at
tention. The pickets were dis
4! persed and so were these yellow
belly robbing scabs, and they didn't
get into the plant.
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
UTW Branch DwindIes
To 30 AS Result of
Expulsions
NV a Worker Correspondent

Df a W va hfA wi
DANVILLE, Va.-Saturday night
Roxy Dodson, the president of the
United Textile Workers Union local,
framed and expelled Jim Crews on
charges of being "a Communist" !"
Jim Crews had been one of the
hardest workers to build up the
Danville local He was one of the
most militant, sincere and honest
workers in the union, Because of
his work for a strike during the
general strike period he was per-
manently blacklisted by the mill
owners. And now this company
agent, Roxy Dodson, has framed
him and had him expelled.
Saturday before last, Dodson at
tempted to expel Crews. But there
was good representation Of the
membership present and he won
the fight against her Then the
next Saturday, when only nine
members of the local were present,
Dodson brought it up again.
They took two votes. Jim Crews
was asked to leave the room both
times. The first vote, according to
Dodson, was tie. The second vote
was 5 to majority in favor of
expelling him.
This action is an absolute viola
ton of any democratic rights in the
union. There is no bylaw of the
United Textile Workers constitution
prohibiting its members from be-
longing to the Communist Party.
But it is simply because Roxy Dod-
son is company agent and does
not want militant workers to get
into the union that she does this.
She Dragged that the National
Council had already given her per-
mission to eXpel Crews on the charge
of being Communist.
Every evidence points to the fact
that Mrs. Dodson is a company
agent. In the strike period she knitted
the strike. Even literature sent her
by the U. T. w. stayed in her pos
session and was never distributed
to the workers. She has made every
attempt to keep the union from
growing in Danville. And because
of this there is only a handful of
20 or 30 in the union now. When
a militant worker applies, she dom
mates the little handful of members
and keeps him out. When one sue
ceeds in getting inside, as Jim Crews
did, she quickly begins pulling
strings to have him expelled.
The outrageous and dirty action
of this company agent must be ex-
posed. Members of the United Tex
tile Workers Union in other locals
should help us in Danville by pro-
testing this action. Jim Crews is
appealing his case to the National
Council. Even if he is not Com
munist. he is a sincere and militant
worker who does not believe in lying
down before such cowardly and un-
demanded trickery. He is real
fighter
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
In THE HON E

BY ANN BARTON,

THE news from Mariana, Florida,
last wee k, depicting vividly
pictures of rampant barbar-
ism, lynching, hoodlumism, and
terror, brings with stinging sharp
ness the realization of the need of
every white worker to take his
stand in the forefront of the battle
against Negro oppression and for
Negro liberation. How many Ne
groes have come North, driven out
OF their homes as result of a
drive of terror such was instituted
in Mariana? How many Negroes
have seen relatives or friends
lynched? I have heard a leading
Negro Communist tell the story of
his own grandmother's lynching.
Such lynchings are part of the
attempt by the white rulers to ter
rorize a whole people so they will
work for less wages. 1t is only
through persistent participation of
the white workers in the front
ranks of militant, organized struggle
for Negro rights that lynchings
may be halted.
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
Rr TeztiIe Worker CorrespOndent

By Textile Worker Correspondent
PATERSON. N. ]. - The dye
workers have closed down every dye
shop in Paterson and Lodi. The
dyers are determined to win their
strike.
In the Seyer Dye Shop the
bosses told the workers that if any
of them were active in the strike
they would BE fired from their job
and olacklisted from the shop. So
the chairman and a delegate Of
the Sever Dye Shop resigned their
pests. and left the workers in this
dye shop without leadership.
But the chairman of the Blue
Bird Dye Shop and his militant
dye workers had a picket line in
front Of the Seyer Dye Shop Thurs
day morning. the first day Of the
strike. There we're about 1000
strikers in front Of this dye shop
before it was closed down.
There was a large picket line in
front of the Kapo Dye Shop be-
fore it was closed down.
In fact there we're picket lines
In front Of all the dye shops, and
very militant and determined to
close ell dye shops and to keep
them closed. And the parade and
the mass meeting in the Hinchcliff
Stadium on Thursday afternoon
showed the determination of these
militant strikers to fight to win
victcry.
They are ready to meet any at
tscks the bosses might use to
break their strike. The strikers
also know that Manning is in town
with his thugs, gunner and rats
to club and shoot down the strik-
ers for the dye bosses. But this
does not scare the dye strikers, as
they have met them in the past
and will meet them in the future.
The rank and file dye workers
have not forgotten Moe Brown, who
led the dye workers last year in
their strike. The workers know
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
Trail of Defeat
Left at Lanes
ByUTW Chiefs

BY a Textile Worker Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, La.-There are
great number of the Lane Cotton
Mill hands here working on the
"stagger" plan, now that the
"stretch-out system" is in perfect
operation.
Before the general textile strike,
the Lane mill was not furnishing
the operatives anything like full
time work. There was a slight i'm
provement here during the general
strike, but now that the majority
of the other mills are running
again, this one is reducing the
work time of large number of
their hands.
There seem to be quite number
of the operatives that are not yet
getting the code" wages, but are
still classed as skilled" labor,
although their work is as essential
to the operation of the mill as is
that of any skilled" worker. This
excuse is used solely to avoid the
payment of anything near the
value of the amount of work per-
formed.
The operatives of the Lane mill
were organized" in 1888 by the
U. T. w. with the assistance of the
Central Trades and Labor Council.
and field representative of the
American Federation of Labor, and
now, after being sold out by these
people, they are still paying the
penalty, because of the misleading
tactics Of those who were in control
Of the organization. Being inexpe-
rienced it was easy for the majcr-
ity to be fooled by the glib tongues
CT the takers and politicians.
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
Susie Busse

Susie Busse, a Negro woman,
who is the Communist candidate
for Justice of the Supreme Court
in Judicial District No. 2, New
York State has lynching among
her memories. Born in Little Rock,
Arkansas, in the heart of the farm
ing country, she saw man taken
out and lynched. She canC to
New York in 1915 with keen de-
sire to do something for her op-
pressed people. She worked in the
Colored Republican Club in Flat
bush, with that in mind. She
worked with the Snyder Avenue
Boys Club, which is sponsored by
the reformist Urban League.
Then she saw Negro and white
organizing together in the Urem-
ployed Councils. She saw white
workers fighting the evictions Of
Negro workers. She heard of the
mass mobilization by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, of white and
Negro workers to the defense of
the Scottsboro boys. She began
listening to Communist speakers
agitate for the need of unity to
fight Negro oppression and the
common conditions Of Negro and
white workers. She felt in herself
q warm response and became active
in the Unemployed Councils in
Borough Park, Williamsburgh. She
organized unemployed in Flatbush,
and worked in the Women's Coun-
Gil in Crown Heights. Realizing
the need for more Communist
theory among the workers. she be-
came a member of the Board of
the Brownsville Workers School,
and is now on the executive COM
mittee of the new Crown Heights
Workers School. She is a practical
nurse as well as housewife, and
her life has brought to her the
correctness of the Party platform
for which she is campaigning Es-
pecially that plank of the Com
munist platform, which calls for
the right of Negroes to any job,
to practice any trade or profession,
the plank which stands firmly
against jim -crowism and lynching,
for endorsement by the state and
federal administration of the Ne
gro Bill of Rights"
Women of New York, Vote for
Susie Busse. Fight against Jim
Crow and Lynching. Vote against
Jim-Crow and Lynehing. Vote
Communist! For Equal Rights
for the Negroes and SeIf-deter-
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
Mediclne rs Its Fakers


Comrade NJ. NJ, of New York,
writes:
"The writer would be greatly OBJ
ligated to you if you could give him
information as to the standing in
the medical profession of M. w.
Locke, Williamsbridge, ontario,
Canada. If, however, that informa-
ton cannot be obtained readily,
please inform me where these facts
can be learned?
This M. w. Locke processes to
cure illnesses which are given up by
other doctors. My mother, who is
suffering from slow paralysis of
her limbs, mouth and Joints, which
doctors ascribe to a hardening OF
the arteries and softening of the
brain, has been informed OF this
person and has been advised to go
to Canada to take the treatments
by her relatives, in spite of the fact
that she is very poor.
Our Reply
You are right. Even if we had
not looked up this man, on the
basis of the information you give
us, We would spot him for a faker.
Any one who claims knowledge of
methods of cure of disease by
methods unknown to other doctors,
is practicing the old army game. 1t
is the rule in science and medicine
(where these are honestly prac-
ticedD that all methods in investi-
cation, diagnosis and treatment, are
freely and widely announced to the
profession of their check-up. No
mans unSubstantiated work is ae-
cepted until it is investigated and
reproduced by other workers. An
honest man welcomes this addi-
tional proof. If the work holds up,
1t is then made public.
Your mother is suffering from
the results of hardening of the ar
teries, you write; and also. several
doctors have agreed on this. This
is not a difficult diagnosis and like
ly they are correct. General hard
ening OF the arteries is part of ad-
yaneing years. In some it is less.
In others, like your mother, it is
more marked. To date, no way of
affecting this condition in the
slightest has been found, and our
knowledge Of the riddle of life and
old age has come nowheres near as
yet to giving us an answer to this
The daily worker., 1934-10-31

was recommended by the commit
tee as the bill the union should
endorse and work for. Arrange
ments were made for regular un-
employed mass meetings every
Thursday in the Union Hall at
2 p. m.
Some of the old union clique
tried hard to sabotage this move
ment. They circulated stories that
the Unemployment Council was go
ing to get a red flag and march
everyone down to City Hall to get
into trouble. This kind of slander
was whispered around on the
quiet.
However, the rank and file are
sincere in this movement, and by
organizing we will be able to de-
rive some benefits by using our
united strength.
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
VISITING PICKET LINES KEEP DYE SHOPS CLOSED
Communist Was Right,
Say Textile Workers

By Textile Worker Correspondent
MOBILE, Ala.-I would say that
Of the $50 workers at the Cot
ton Mill Products, Mill 5, in Pri-
ehard, Ala, about 80 per cent are
sore as hell about the seII-out in
the textile strike.
I was on the strike committee
at the beginning of the strike, and
the entire committee knew that l
was a Communist. told them
just what would happen if the
strike was not controlled by the
rank and file. Now they admit
that the Communist was right.
Some of them even wanted to
apologize to me for having dis
agreed with our position at the
beginning. So this will give you
an idea of how things stand.
The daily worker., 1934-10-31
MdsSed Ranks Show
High Militant Mood
Unemployed Workers Offer Aid to Keep Scabs
Out of Paterson Plants

him as a true strike leader whom
they can depend on, and also as
a Communist and a loyal worker Of
the working class.
The dye strikers had two of their
union representatives at a meet
ing of the Paterson Branch Of the
United Unemployment and Relief
Workers Association of New Jersey
10 explain why they we're on
strike, and to tell the unemployed
and relief workers what they could
do to help the striking dye work
ers. They were accepted and as
sured that the organization would
do all in its power to help the dye
workers.
The unemployed and relief work
ers Of the organization assured
them that if any of the unem-
ployed and relief workers went into
any of the dye shops to scab on
the dyers, they would send a
picket line to help the dyers stop
them They elected two delegates
for the mass meeting Of the dye
strikers Saturday, Oct. 81, to as
sure the dye strikers they will do
all possible to help them win the
strike, and that they will not scab
on their fellow workers.
And they invited all unemployed
silk and dye workers to come to
their meeting and join the unem-
ployment and relief association, so
ss to be in a better position to
help the dye workers win their
strike, and to stop the National
Unemployment Service through
the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration from sending the un-
employed and relief workers to
scab or be cut off of the relief.