The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-20


textile industry has already national proportions The
Washington delegation of strikers and their
pahzer has foot movement that bids fair to eliminate in
sweeping investigation of the whole industry Before the adop
ton Fordney tariff law the bestal conditions in
everywhere considered
tona disgrace Every capitalist country has varied
wide dispars in the standard of
living There usually however level below which workers do
sink the abyss poverty and misery But in the whole tex
industry local exceptions the standard
of living Of the workers far below that Of workers in all other
industries $685.
Whole families are chained to the mills long
night they live in novels that their masters would not shelter
dogs exhausted that they cannot enjoy
that heau sleep that is experienced by the lowest of the
beasts of burden workers England
The Frederick Eng their condition in 1874 they
seepey simply fall into stupor from which they
themselves to slave another day.
The republican politicians who backed the high tariff policy
condition the mill workers declared that high
protective tariff would enable the workers to raise their standard
of living AS reyouonsts and Marxans pointed to the fact
that tariff would only enable the employers pile up still
greater profits by shutting European competitions that the
forced pay higher prices for their clothing and
that would force the poor farmers pay for manufactured
articles proved that would benefit only the textile
magnaes Every prediction made has been indicated by his
tory Instead of raising the the textile workers. cuts
have been the order of the since the law enacted
Greater profits have been piled enable the employers
time aside greater hire armies
of spies and deficiency experts devise methods OF terror and
agonng toll in order to squeeze the last bit of vitality from the
bodies the workers Instead of consuming the energy of the
workers period of thirty years. the textile worker is
a wreck at the end Of fifteen years seryude.
the investigation that being mistakenly demanded by every
person familiar with who directly with
the textile industry the real fraud of the tariff will out
course revoluonists know that the removal of the
high tariff will not raise the of the workers in the textile
industry light during such investigation
will focus the attention of the advanced section of the labor
upon the necessity organizing that industry and forcing
the employers dgrge Of the surplus that they plumber
the rghtfu exploitation known in this
country.
Workers in the textile industry will learn the strife of the
Industrial necessity effective industrial organization
This agitation investigation of the whole industry ought to be
intensive drive to bring all the workers into
embracing the whole industry Any local textile union that
organization of the industry playing
he of the bosses and the
ship that intellectually behind drive consolidate
power the workers industrial union The struggle
developed distinct political characteristics that any worker
which emphasizes the necessity for independent
political action the part of the working class against all parties
capitalism the order of the day in the textile industry
demands that the Communists constantly emphasize
gamaon various and localized into industrial
unions and a labor party. sae .ns-