Passaic Daily Herald from Passaic, New Jersey • 7

1 ttfc.k'HUNfcl AJUU W.V1UI lU.h.U.u aic Passaic- Mistrial District IMS 1 of Passaic, take this cethodof presenting to you certain facts regarding the present strike of textile workers in the industrial district of Passaic. The strike is now entering its twenty-fourth week. During all of this period you have been promised repeatedly by your leaders higher wages, a shorter working week, and a union over which they would" have complete control None of the many promises made has been fulfilled. Each succeed- ing week old promises have been forgotten and ones have been made, in order to halt your natural desire to return to work. The United Front Committee knows it cannot win the strike.

It has known it for months. Yet it is willing to see you suffer to-obtain glory for itself and its leaders. 1 Many of you are in need. Your savings are exhausted and your families reduced to poverty. In order to live you must make debts that it will take a long time to pay.

The mills also have suffered from the strike. Losses in orders and in future business have been tremen dous. Each7 day that this useless strike continues these losses increase and that means less employment for you when work is finally resumed. s. Those of us who are business men are also victims of this strike, because your prosperity is our prosperity.

So, naturally, we have a deep interest in seeing the present unfortunate labor dispute ended. At the same time we ask you to believe that we are your friends. It is to our own advantage that you receive the highest wages and the. best working conditions possible, because the greater your earnings are the more thriving is the whole community of which we are all a part. Therefore, as friends to friends, it is our earnest adyice'to you that you now forget the promises made and broken so many times by the leaders of this strike, and face the true facts.

The United Front Committee is not a legitimate labor organization This is not our conclusion alone. It is also the sober judgment of the American Federation of Labor, which has absolutely condemned all cf the Passaic strike leaders as communists who are using the honest but deceived employees of the woolen mills as dupes for their own political glory and the spread of their political beliefs. It is a fact, unfortunately, that the woolen industry is in the most serious state of depression that hai existed for many years. Therefore, many of you who have enjoyed constant work in the past were cnly abb to work part time prior to the strike. The United Front Committee cannot remedy this situation.

It can only be cured by a change in general business. The mills can help greatly by producing new styles cf materials that will bring nty trade, but to do that they must be able to produce goods as they are needed. Every week that you remain on strike reduces the amount cf work that the mills have for you, and the amount of business they can obtain. Every week you remain on strike costs youmcney that you will never get back. Even though you were granted every demand in wages tomorrow you woujd have to work four years to gel back the money you have already lost in tins strike.

The United States Department of Labor has urged the workers to return to work; the officials of the American Federation of Labor have stated that the strike is lost. Therefore, as your real friends, we urge you, for your own welfare, to reject these communist leaders who can cnly lead you on to greater suffering and privation. The mills have stated that they will take up and remedy any grievances regarding wages or working conditions which their employees may We pledge you every assistance in seeing that you obtain the best wages and working conditions possible in the woolen industry. Citizens' Committee of Passaic Clifton Garfield and Wallington: Victor J. Christie Dr.

H. Church F. S. Clark Winfield Gearwater Fred Gough A. Coleman J.

Coleman W. F. Coleman A. S. Cohen Harry Cole Cornelius Cole Herbert Cole F.

B. Conant J. H. Constantine Arthur S. Corbin Louie A.

Cowley Harry S. Coyne F. H. Crane Dr. C.

D. Cropsey Wellington S. Cross Daniel Dahl Norman Darmstatter Dr. S. Davenport H.

N. Davidson Robert H. Davidson Rev. Edward Dawson Albion Deane Carl S. Deanv Dirk De Beer Dr.

F. F. Demarest M. De Rouville Wm. H.

Dillistin William Abbott Harry M. Abhau Henry Abrabamae Vernet A. Arnold John Ackerman R. S. Ackerman Joaeph O.

Adame George S. Aldoua Arthur A. Allen Joaeph H. Baker J. R.

Ball Wm. M. Barclay B. Bernard Harry Bee wick John H. Beawick Joaeph P.

Bets Geo. P. Biddle D. Bird P. W.

Blowers Henry L. Bokelmann H. 0. Bratton H. 0.

Boyer W. J. Bratton -Lessner Brenner J. J. Brealawaky Roger W.

Brett Morris Burg Elbert K. Bush V. Bush James Butterworth David H. Buts John M. Campbell (Other names of members received too late will be published in future statements).

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