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EDITORIAL The Silk Workers Battle and Berger: the St. Louis resonti. However, did not presoint strike committee of rival unions. The Federa Historic Strike of e.
Independent Craftpflicts are more like 20 Years Ago with the workers and Recreates Unions in Strike Union people had sammud Marough comes The historic Anti War Congress how to fight the war danger; it true, adopt revolutionary theses on has adjourned, and as was to be The New York Barbusse Movement and and was formen, it has left abse speaks and writes incessantly of lutely 10 positive residue, save a The «People Council of 1917 the transformation of imperialist bitter taste in the mouth of every war into civil war, of the struggle In the general resurgence of labor militancy ection of the strike has been taken over by a broad revolutionist, and illusions in the against pacitism, and more of the which hus greeted the inauguration of the NRA the collective group of militants, actual silk workers, minds of those workers duped by in the blowing up of the second the fame organizations, the same name.
But and this is the hub of the general strike of the silk workers holds today a place who are rooted in the industry and experienced in the macabre masquerade of the International when the crucial test individuals at all events, the same Stalinists.
confronted it. The International types as those that composed the question the Socialist party of of outstanding prominence and significance. The its union struggles.
we have submitted the whole Stalin of war, was the Kautskyan explan. If the Barbusst movement has alrs. Press, also paid formal homage to More than once in these columns is an instrument of peace, and not New York congress a few days ago.
spirit of 1913 is abroad again. The strike, now in STRIKE POLICY Barbusse (in the United States:ation in 1914. If there is any dit Annie Gray of the Women the revolutionary phrase. At its its nith week, presents a solid battle line of 50, 000 The strike policy that will yield the best results Browder Sinclair Dreiser) movement ference between that and the con Alcace Society, the 1917 movement St. Louis emergency convention in workers which extends throughout the main centers is cleur enough: to a thorough criticism which laid duct of the Stalinists, it is that had the qually well intentioned 1917, it declared (majority resoluof the industry. In Its numbers and scope the preit bare as a burlesque of a genuine latter half conceal themselves lurretak Thomas the Wotion on war. We articularly Systematic exposure of the strike breaking mach united front movement against behind the thin musk of Messrs. men Louce Parts for the Bar warn the workers against the share sent sarike is the greatest in the long and stormy hisinations of the NRA administration. No illusions Fascism and the danger of imper. Nuenzenberg, Barbusse and their busse actress, Allle. Alla Nazimova, and delusion of deiensive warfare.
tory of the silk workers struggles. It deserves the about it. No confidence in it. The workers can rely talist war, as jernicious pacifist similars. Nevertheless, this does the ecople Council bud the actress As against the false doctrine of naclosest attention of the workers everywhere. The wo uphold the only on their own strength. Their strength is mani delusion enlculated to cover up the not eliminate the fact that at bot. is Lala Lalullette. Mr. Leopoldtional antional working clans silk strike has a meaning for the entire labor move fested in their solidarity, in their strike. Therefore, impotence of the international Staltom we are dealing here with a stokowski place was occupied in ideal of no disarming. no truco. no return to the shops e a Portos. Os merely remained conception, which has led to the he. Rabbit Israel Goldstein had created by war calls for an even ment.
without a definite and satisfactory settlement. This true to smudgy tradition of the August Fourth of both interna his counterpart sixteen years ago more vigorous prosecution of the So far the strikers have stood solid. More, they in Rabbi Judah Magnes, just class struggle, and we recommend is point one in a realistic and militant striko polics. Ameerimathering that fol.
last August tionals.
as the present secretary of the el to the workers and pledge ourselves have steadily spread out the strike over a wider trifling with the solidarity of the strikers by in lowed it. It represented nothing Striking Comparison lowship of Reconciliation, Mr. to the following course of action. area while frustrating all maneuvers to induce them dividual shop settlements or dickering in regard to but the Stalinist organizations plus The New York congress ufforus Matthews was at that time repro Continuous, active and public to return to work without a satisfactory settlement, a few handfals of pacifists and conus the opportunity of making a dmund Evans. The People monstrations, mas putitions and them.
This has been made possible by the fusion of the fusionists serving as a respectable most striking comparison between Council had its Salutsky all other means within our power.
Work for a single union as well as for a single front. Like its predecessors the it and a similar movement in this then, and the Barbusse Committee Radical enough, wasn it? Among rank and file mass with a broad group of experienced strike committee. Tighten the bonds between the Anglo Itussian Committee, the Kue country in 1917 the People bats him now. Both movements had its signatories were not only the and tested trade union militants who have been striking units in the various silk centers in a single Min Tong alliance, the World Council of America for Democracy more than their quota of ministers, revolutionist Ruthenberg, but also through the mill and know what they want. Paterson in the heart of indi the Paterson militants, heirs of a great tradition, are naturally Workers. Persuade all the local organizations of part of the Great Illusion of stalin names and terms are changed aastors, priests and other gentle the Centrist the main driving force of the present strike. What strikers now independent, and the independent craft ism.
they have to be for the period of men of the gospel. The Oficial imperialist Berger. So much for party representatives in 1917 were their words. In was done and what was attempted in the epic strugorganizations, to affiliate with the Federation as well. The Stalinist Theory About War time that has elapsed, it will be diluit, Lee, Pankeliuor, vent Hillquit and Berger from disas with the strike committee.
The official Stalinist theory of ficult to distinguish the one from today they are Browder, gle of 20 years ago in Haywood time is not without national socialism leads directly to the other. Or, if there is a disHathaway and Bedacht.
influence even today. The Paterson strike of 1913 In addition to the above line of policy, which the conception that the struggle tinction, it lies only in the fact solving the Socialist party and its awakened and inspired the progressive elements of flow logically out of the whole situation, a couple against imperialist war and for that the Barbusse movement and The Peoples Council was, as is anti war work in the wishy washy the working class. It lives in their memory. The of additional suggestions may be offered. The first the defense of the Soviet Union, its proponents have been deterior. quite well known today, meitist more of the People strike of 1933 may very well exert a similar influence. relates to the necessary preparations for the possil requires, or permits, policies and ating and collapsing at a spoedier cariage. It organized no real move Council, which served American imperialism so well, in its own way, If they keep to the line they have pursued up till ble prospect of a drawn out battle. The second, to generace se trate those the proletarian The People Council was as it even proclaimed that We are while the war was actually ons now, if they do not falter and, above all, if they the liquidation of the struggle of riyal unions.
keep a sharp eye on MeMahon and the NRA sharks. To be continued)
With every passing day the meager resources of must be followed in general socialist party as the Barbusse are not obstructing the conduct of the militants waging the present battle will write the strikers dwindle and the bosses will count on the struggle of the British work movement Is for the Stalinists. It the war. Its belly caved in. com a page worthy of the old tradition, breaking their ranks with the club of hunger. Toing class against the bourgeoisie too had ns its aim the struggle pletely and there was no backbone OPEN FORUM THE UNIONS IN THE STRIKE meet this danger the efficient organization of relief and its labor lieutenants. But in against war and the preservation to hold it up. The pacitists, as be!
The trade union situation in the silk strike is who are setting an example to the workers every ser, the British Communists must a friend of the Russian revoluto be against war until. it broke CUBA Towards Workers Revolution or Wall Street Puppet an especially interesting example of how a mass re where, have every right to appeal to the entire labor subordinate themselves to the Purton and demanded that the pace out. Superficial Distinction cells and Cooks. The proletariat terms of the Russian democracy Government?
volt can surmount ola divisions, and make its way movement for financial aid. They should do so with in the colonial and semi colonial te universally accepted. It too bela Ah, but you forget that it was through the most complicated forms. The of Lout delay. What they do, or fail to do, in this re countries must conduct an independ its historic conventions. repre. the social patriotic Socialist party Speaker: Joe Carter union in the textile industry the United Textile spect now may easily prove decisive at a later stage ent struggle against its sented itself as the 1917 equival, that inspired and maneuvered the Friday night, October 13th, 1983 Workers is one of the most reactionary and incom of developinents.
at International Workers School petent organizations in the country. It has a long of the defense of the Soviet Union, at its constituent Assembly in is the revolutionary Communist 126 East 10th Street and malodorous record of betrayal which has driven The Federation strike committee has been per it must be tied to the chariot of Chiengo in September 1917 declared party that is behind the Barbusse Auspices: Manhattan Branch, the textile workers to independent unionism, in one organizing activities of the and in rejecting du mysties, Balkan pensant Icad over two million members (Am upon a superficial distinction in Communist League of America form or another, for decades. The best militants in its maneuvers for a joint strike committee. The Ners or demagogic office seekers from erican Labor Yearbook, 1920. this case, for the difference is less (Opposition)
the Industry have grown up in incessant struggle ADMISSION 10 CENTS has long since lost its real basis as a union Catalonia to Cathay.
Among its founders and spokes: real than apparent.
against the treacheries and have been and the time for such proposals is past.
In essence, this course resulted men could be found almost exactly The Communist party does, it is What 18 steeled in hatred against it. Many of the leading needed in the strike now is a single union, not al militants in this strike are veterans of various in ing stronger for the than refused to be aligned with this dependent movements. There are former men among them. Not a few were once active in the whelming supremacy. The task now is to make its tion This did not convince the bosses tee. And when the membership National Textile Workers Union (the Stalinist or yet. So shop conferences hnd discovered that the National organization complete as the sole union representing ganization. all the workers. To that end, the Federation would but the strikers would not be ina motion to send tive delegates to The main directing force in the strike have nothing to lose, and much to gain, by offering timidated back to work. The auAllentown they immediately resfrom the Associated Silk Workers. This organiza to take the strikers into the union as a (Continued from Page 1) thorities arrested Haywood and (Continued from Page 1) cinded the motion and voted to body. This would deprive the leaders of the strikers gave a lesson in prole. the other strike leaders several uniotin, formed clubs of the warp workers saw very clearly what the withdraw tion came into existence and remained for years as the delegates. The an independent union. Now it belongs to the Amer. any justification before the strikers for maintaining tarian unity to the whloe country. times on all sorts of trumpwed up ers and the other trades, independ ican Federation of Silk Workers which, in turn, is a separate organization. Regardless of their atti Beginning with the fleury Doh charges, but to no avail. The kent out of any of the existing unions in was unable to understand.
From the beginning of the strike affiliated, as an autonomous section, with the tude the proposal itself, it sincerely put forward, and erty mill the strike sprend Mike Star, set up a holler that Haywood What is most interesting, how the warpers have made overtures and through that, with the F. of Thus, the forces made known to the strikers would exert a powerful wildfire embracing all of the strikers have been unified under official influence for the consolidation of the strikers move slaves of laterson who left the Star Spangled Banner and substi Textile Workers Union, which is representatives on the strike comof auspices by a strike committee whose most ag ment in a single union. The strike would therebs Looms in open revolt against the tating the Red Flag The workers committed to a policy of industrial mittee of the latter organization.
gressive and militant members are hostile to the nin in strength. was instrumental in the This move was consummated within reactionary philosophy and practices of the on system and for the eight hour day, propaganda. That they understood organization of the United Warp the last few days, and the United the one side and to the stupid, bureaucratic and disTHE REAL TEST AHEAD The workers had toiled and starved what was really involved was re ers League and the clubs of loom Warpers have elected two militant ruptive methods of the Stalinist on the The real test of the silk strike is still a bead. aged six to seven dollars a week of a meeting where long enough for a wage that Aver yealed by Bill Haywood who told fixers and the were committee where they were well.
Members following sympathizers and workers to the Associated strike other. Under these peculiar and complicated condi It has been a comparatively peaceful affair so far during the year. The strikers now happened. the most active figures, the creato received.
tions the silk workers have been welded together for while the attempt was being made to suffocate the voiced their hitherto inarticulate Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was on ors of these organizations. There the greatest strike in the history of the trade. In revolt quietly with the poison gas generated by the demands for a 25 percent increase the platform at a big strike meet is no doubt they worked under the In the course of the earlier atthis achievement there is to be seen the most con NRA.
the class struggle has not been elimin. In wages and a minimum of twelveing one day explaining the signific guidance and sanction of the lead mittee one of the conditions put by tempts for a common strike comvincing proof that the form of trade union organiza ated. The bosses have not ceased to be the ruthless dollars a week for dye workers.
tion is subordinate to the substance of the movement. Calories and exploiters of the workers. The police At the helm of the ing dyer sprang up from the midweren these crafts amalgamated take place was to the Trade union militants everywhere can learn an im and all other agencles of government remain the the herole fake stood ance of the red flag when a striking body of the Why the Associated, before this could fanning the of the audience crying: into the National Textile Workers Warpers League to come to some tool of the bosses for the suppression of the work: guiding the militants, braving the Hag.
discontent. Inspiring the faltering. know! Here is the portant lesson in tactics from the silk workers in red Union? Why were they organized this respect.
without any official connection with agreement with the of ers. Even while the oily game of negotiation and terror, teaching the rudiments of Horizontal Warpers League. In maneuver goes on the weapons of force are being the class struggle to countless stained And aloft he held his right hand it?
so discredited had the National latter refused to come to any kind characteristic of MAIN FEATURES OF THE STRIKE permanent bloody made ready. They may be turned on the workers thousatory in letters of red. The crimson, gnarled from years of Union (Stalinist) become in the of an agreement until the United and writing a page of The strike has been distinguished by several in full force at any moment. Then will come the labor toil, am corroded by the scarlet dye eyes of the workers that recruit Warpers League would liquidate pothecany all the stuk producing centers are tied up ership. The less illusions are entertained, the less Gongere temembered for their son into the fabrica wehe wwwthing pro other words, the real text of the strike and of the quality of its lead names of Bin Haywood: resizabeth which it was his business to piut ment of experienced workers into anat its members Join their nation possible. as individuals. This was refused. and from this the strike derives much of its excep the blunt truth of the class struggle and all its im Gagging devotion as leaders of the Union by the membership. And for sev.
tional power. The Paterson militants displayed mag. plications are concealed, the better the preparation strike of 1913.
stitute ceased to possess any vitality which eral weeks the neogtiations dragged For an instant there was sil would make growth possible. In alouk until the rank and Ale of the nificent energy in despatching committees by the for the coming developments.
truck. load to spread the strike to other points. They Thousnnds of strikers, men and ence and then the ball was rent by stondet en recognizing this facts as Associated strike Committee voted The strike wave now sweeping over the coun women, thronged the the housky throats as an honest and progressbyer suncosts to send a letter to the Warpers didn fall into the NRA trap and go back to work try, of which the silk workers movement is a part, the grey hours of thicket line in cries this humble dyer indeed and sending these workers into the the morning realized under a deceptive truce on the promise of adjustments later. They reject all negotiations for sep represents the beginning of a great class awakening where the police beat them merci know the meaning of the red badge ranks of the Associated, the lead Lengue inviting the warpers to elect two delegates to the strike Hundreds were taken ers of the hoping laterin of his class.
arate shop or craft settlements. They stood out, and of the American workers. The path they are enter lessly. Althy jails. But Good reason that the strikers should better times come to corral. inmittee on the single condition ing on now, will lead them far from the place where they were not swerved from their held out, grimly determined, for al. the skilled crafts into their that the elected delegates be subBlack Marias to are still standing for satisfactor national approval of the Assosettlement. To secure this they rely on the picket they have stood before and from the ideas and illu 3001. Sohn Need, who reported the most five months, their children union, followed the traditional ciated strike committee line more than on the NRA conferences at Wasbbroad Eli Keller, under instructions to which they have held. In the strikes they will a group of nine strikers were held workers, and their own stomach skilled workers from the ington.
learah by experience what the government is. They for more than 22 hours without empty. Take as an instance the most if the could not or soch bureaucratic fashion that the black spot in the strike situation is the activ. will see it in action against them every time. They food, water or bedding in a jail great pageant in Madison Square ity of the National Textile Workers Union. This organization, due to bad leadership, lost its oppor they hain, only to lose it wain the moment they re this whole time they maduring Garden the like of which has never canize the workery directly into warpers rejected it. Then a delenever censed been cheering or singing. 020 strikers gave a graphic por hold them under their influence. mittee, incensed at Keller action, tunity in the industry. It forefeited the confidence lax their vigilance and slacken their struggle. The several workers were shot and trayal of their great battle before or mor than five weeks now the came to the warpers and asked that of the best militants who once belonged to it, drove be forced to new dealkilled by hired assassins a crowded house. This thrilling, National Union, which has letter be returnd out others who raised the voice of criticism, dwindled was unani.
down to a paper shell and came to the crucial test and without slaves. Nothing less. The strike lead in the August 1913 International packed house was just one of the best united warpers League, mously accepted by the membership.
icy. The main tide of the silk workers movement ers and leads them toward it is the leadership that typifies the magnificent spirit that strike and rallied the support of representatters organization to forma sob of completely organizing the was already flowing strongly in the channel of the really represents the interests of the workers.
American Federation of Silk Workers. This should striker named Madonna was kill. All of the grandiose efforts of strike committee run by the loomixers and the twisters who have been the cure for the to eliminate itLOOK TO PATERSON ed by an armed thug doing scab the bosses and their local agents the mill. crowd of work were frustrated by the strikers and the Except for one incident of are already represented on the Asdate, where the full member sociated strike committee, and of self and merge with the mass movement.
Instead of The silk workers, who stand today in the foreers Fathered at the burial or Nad their leadership Here is a clip, he was represents etw. warners laying the ground for the end of that the attempt has been made to split the ranks front of embattled labor, have a great responsibility. onna.
Paterson have every time overwhelmingly separate craft unionism in Paterson and set up a rival strike committee.
The workers throughout the country, noting their By her husband open the time which relates the failure stubborn struggle and remembering, many of them, Madonna wife turned and faced with flags dying and the city grave by wtimately affiliating with the This dangerous game, which incensed the conscit there incidents: Lecture By DIEGO RIVERA American Federation of silk Workentious militants who concerned themselves with the the glory of the past, will turn again to Paterson the throng. In broken halting Eng decked out in gula garb, the great ers.
Interests of the workers and who desired a united for inspiration and perhaps for leadership in the ish she began to speak. REVOLUTIONARY ART struggle in their behalt, only added further dis dilicult and complicated task of building unions and do not cry, she said. Mad their doors to welcome back at the credit to the people whose light hearted adventures making them really serve the interests of the work onna is dead, but still cannot cry, men and women operatives. Greek Workers Club Protomagia Int Workers School in the trade union movement had brought them a bad crs.
They have killed my man, but he ending of the gigantic labor 590 9th Ave. bet. 42nd 43rd Sts.
enough name already. And worse may follow, 10 The militants conducting the silk strike have the strike, then maybe cry. do factory owners were going to for SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, at PM. Reristration Oct. 15 every eve.
on latest reports are true. Frustrated in their efforts shown how to make an of union function as not ask help from you, though my give their erring workmen. Mayor to make a deep split in the strikers ranks, and 180 an instrument of struggle. It is up to them also to man is dead. ask only that you cBride and the police saw the end Announcement of Courses lated to a section of the dye workers who are new demonstrate that affiliation to the United Textile win the strike.
of their troubles approaching. The THE MILITANT to organization, the is reported in the Pat Workers does not mean reconciliation with the re Is it any wonder that the mem ministers who had urged the work erson papers to be offering separate shop setements actionary philosophy and treacherous practices of ory of this strike has survived for ers to return understood their ex matter November 28, 1928, at the Entered as a second class mail Organization Principles ABERN.
below the demands of the official general strike com the leadership of this organization. In the present more than 20 years?
hortations were to be obeyed.
Post Office at New York, mittee. They had better beware of this kind of of certain individuals. Let them watch such people scare. The raised the red It was a very successful end of Under the act of March 3, 1879.
strike such tendencies are to be observed on the part Applied Marxian Economics competition. The disavowal of such intentions in e bosser Tere quite ready the strike, marred by only one Published weekly by the Communist FIELD.
the Paterson papers of October didn come too and warn them of the old proverb: he who gives the to deal with a asible union thing State and evolution soon, devil finger will soon have to give his whole hand. They brought the and its bort one of the strikers went League of America (Opposition)
EDITORIAL BOARD misleaders Sara wunboy and John No, it was not any stunt of the WEBER.
The composition of the silk strike leadership, If the silk strike has already attracted national Golden, to Paterson, made a priv. work. It was economie pressure. Martin Aberm and the course it has followed up till now, give pro attention, its continuance to a victory win investate agreement with them behind bosses that forced the men back to Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck WRIGHT.
mise of a successful outcome of the struggle which its organizers with a national authority. The pro the back of the workers and then sheer hunger that began to tell will lay the ground for a big revival and development it with after 22 weeks of strike. The SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1933 Write or phone School Headquargressive forces in the labor movement, now seat hired the armory. Both hoses strike was lost.
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