The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-14

the mill running for Mr.. Sayles.
The real issue is that Governor
Green under cover of the Red Scare
has issued proclamation against
"tumultous assembly" and has or
dered all strikers to stay home. He
is using his army of fascist bands
and his troops in order to try to
stop mass picketing.
Yesterday mass picketing through
out New England made the strike
even more effective. The mill own
ers and their State Government
then launched their Strikebreaking
terror in order to stop by force mass
picketing and thus keep the mills
open and break the strike.
U. T. w. in Scab Agreement
The same issues are involved in
Woonsocket. The attack of the Ma
tional Guard there occurred in an
effort to keep the Woonsocket Rayon
Company opened. In Woonsocket
an independent union is leading the
strike throughout the city. The
United Textile Workers, in strike
breaking move, through Francis
German made an agreement with
the Rayon Company that it might
keep open. All other mills in Woon-
socket are closed tight. The Woon-
socket workers came out on the
picket lines by the thousands, de-
termined to strike the Woonsocket
Rayon Company. Green's troops
fired into the masses of the pickets,
killing one and fatally wounding
others. The bullets of Green's troops
in Woonsocket also were shot into
unarmed strikers in order to keep
the Woonsocket Rayon Company
open with strike breakers, to abolish
the picket lines and to end the mass
picketing.
Last night in Central Falls and
Saylesville I talked to number of
strikers. They are bitter that their
fellow workers were murdered. But
they continued on the mass picket
lines. They are militantly demand
ing of the Governor the right to
strike, to picket and to assemble.
They are demanding of him the
immediate withdrawal of the Ma
tional Guard. They sent Black
woods bullet-pierced hat to the
Governor yesterday in protest, but
they are as determined as ever to
win the strike.
Determined To Close Mills
The solidarity and heroic deter
mination of the strikers to prevent
scabbing and close all mills enrages
the Rhode Island mill owners and
their Governor Green.
In the whole situation the U.T.W.
leaders have played a disgraceful
role. They have from beginning to
end furthered the strategy of the
mill owners. They have outdone
Green himself and the mill owners
in confusing the issue by raising
the Red Scare. They have accepted
the orders against mass picketing
at the Sayles mill and everywhere
else and agreed with chiefs of po-
lice and guardsmen that they would
picket with only six or seven.
U. T. w. In Disgraceful Role
At the very moment in Sayles-
vile when strikers were resisting
gunf1re and vomit gas, U.T.W. Or
ganizer Sylvia was comforting inside
the mill with the head of the guard,
Dean. They have used the same
terms of hoodlum, ETC., against mill
tant mass picketers.
Furthermore in Woonsocket they
again displayed their strategy of
splitting the strike by agreeing to
allow the WoonSocket Company to
run while the Woonsocket workers
were on the picket lines trying to
close it down. In New Bedford
yesterday they also allowed rayon
mill to open under separate U.
T. w. agreement. They are thus
splitting and weakening the work
ers ranks in the face of extreme
mill owners terror.
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