The Daily Worker

TRY TO BETRAY
RAYON STRIKERS
U.T.W. Restrains More
from Joining Walkout
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., March 17. — The United Textile Workers' Union of the A. F. of L. is definitely placing itself at the head of the strikebreaking machinery being mobilized to smash the spontaneous strike of the 2,000 workers in the American Glanzstoff Corporation.
This was again demonstrated by the U. T. W. agents who issued a statement branding as malicious any rumors to the effect that they were trying to pull out on strike the thousands employed at the nearby plants of the American Bemberg Corporation.
While the Glanzstoff bosses and the state government hold in readiness the militia and are organizing the importation of scabs, the U. T. W. representative here, a Mr. Penix, is doing all in his power to hold back the strike against conditions that are humanly intolerable.
Since a few days ago, when agent Penix announced that his newly formed local included the entire 2,000 on strike, the figures given out have fallen to 500 members in the alleged local.
The U. T. W. reputation among the textile workers of the South is extremely odious, it being known as an organization which establishes a local when a spontaneous strike occurs, and after collecting dues from the impoverished workers, betrays the strike, instructing its organizers to vanish.
Here too, the same seems to be going on. Mr. Penix announces to local capitalist reporters that dues have been successfully collected from the 500 who have supposedly joined his local. These workers earn from $7 a week to $15.