A daily update from the front lines at Passaic, with arrests, relief, meetings, and fascist threats part of the news.

‘Police Arrest Women for Singing “Solidarity Forever”’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 3 No. 63. March 26, 1926.

PASSAIC, N.J. March 24. Two women textile strike pickets were jailed by Bergen county deputy sheriffs at the Hackensack jail for singing “Solidarity Forever,” while on the picket line in front of the East Paterson plant of the National Silk Dyeing company. The strong picket lines maintained in front of this shop has caused the number of workers on strike at this plant to increase from 500 to over 1,000. By continuing their strong picket lines it is expected the rest of the workers in this plant will soon join the Passaic workers in the demand for shorter working hours, better pay and recognition of union organization.

The two women arrested were Nancy Sandowsky and Mary Hankow. They were released on $500 bail on a charge of disorderly conduct.

Arraign Police Thugs.

The policemen that beat Martin J. McEvilly, a newspaper photographer from New York, were arraigned before Judge William Davidson in police court. The police waived examination and are being held on their own recognizance to await action of the grand jury.

Unions Aid Strikers.

The Amalgamated Clothing Workers announced that a carload of flour is on its way from Buffalo to feed hungry strikers. It will be distributed to relief stores in Passaic, Clifton, and Garfield. The Baker’s Union, Local 100, of 5 Ludlow street, New York City, sent two truck loads of bread, more than 10,000 pounds to the relief stores. A large part of this bread was contributed by the Pechter Baking company, Inc. Other truck loads of bread will be sent later. Over $3,000 was cleared at the bazaar. Large crowds attended every program, many workers from New York were among them.

Fink Meeting Broken Up.

An “anti-Weisbord meeting,” sponsored by Jack Bryan, ousted from strike headquarters, turned into a strike rally. Far from discrediting Weisbord, the meeting was a veritable tribute to his leadership, Felix Penarisi, picket captain, was the principal speaker, and finally adjourned the meeting, after Bryan had virtually been refused a chance to speak at his meeting by the crowd in the hall. “Remember, a strong picket line tomorrow,” shouted Penarisi. “The meeting is adjourned,” Laughing, the crowd filed out of the hall, shouting for Weisbord.

K.K.K. Send Another Threat.

The third ku klux klan letter was received by Albert Weisbord on Saturday. It declared that “we did not burn those crosses for nothing,” and said that a committee had been appointed to “get you and your radical friends, too.”

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924.

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