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centralized body, democratically con-
trolled. The mass character of the
mill committee will not prevent it
from caring and working for the in
terests of the individual crafts, Weis-
bord said.
The conclusion of his report,
reached after the delegates had re-
turned from a recess for dinner,
Weisbord devoted to a detailed dis
cussion of strike strategy. He
showed that thoro knowledge of the
industry must be acquired in order
to conduct mass struggles or even
local struggles. "We must be init
mately informed as to the trustifi-
cation process, who the controlling
firms are, the extent to which they
control, ETC., so that when a strike
is called, our work will be concen-
trated on paralyzing the industry
thru stoppage of the plants of vital
mill owners, and not to dissipate our
force thru implanted and accidental
struggles that are handicapped from
the start" Weisbord said, adding,
eve must know when it becomes
imperative and opportune to call for.
widespread struggle and when to
fight locally. We must choose our
time for action and not have our
selves forced into it." he declared.
After, Weisbord, in an eloquent eli
max ended by announcing to the del
egates to proceed to immediate work,
he received an enthusiastic and pro-
longed ovation.
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HEAR WE|SBORD
REPORT AT meet
Time Ripe For New
Union He Says
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inevitable intensification of strug-
gle for mere bearable living condi-
tions, which the workers will be
compelled to go thru. This is so,
said Weisbord, because of "pro-
gressive Unemployment brought on
by the increasing mechanization of
The industry"
In explanation he presented the
amazing picture of American tex
tile manufacture, which while hav-
ing constantly increased its factory
consumption of horsepower by "a
per cent, the total number of work
ers employed in the industry has
decreased 5 per cent. This process,
he then showed, was still continuing
creating permanent army of Who'll
ly unemployed and part time work
ers which the bosses used to club
down the working standards of the
other workers. "In fine cotton goods
alone" Weisbord stated, "the Amer
lean worker forces 70 pounds of cot
ton goods production out of an in
dividual spindle in the same time
the British spindle is made to pro-
duce 80 pounds" Thus it was shown
thru these and other figures that
the textile barons were not only
extracting greater profits out OF
the industry, in spite of an inter
national crisis, but that these in.
creasing profits were being wrune
from the workers more and more
Time for New Union Ripe.
Stacking up side by side the draw.
backs and hindrances to organization
of the textile workers with the ia
vorable factors, Weisbord showed
that the unmistakable conclusion
reached by the comparison is that
the time is ripe for the launching
of the new union. In presenting
these facts the following drawbacks
were enumerated: The growing
classification of textile manufacture
the mechanization of the production
process; the growing acquisition of
control of the industry by banking
interests; the creation of a perma-
nent army of disemployed; the cor
ruption of the higher, more skilled
stratum of textile craftsmen; the
welfare schemes and company
unions. Organization in the south
is hindered by the fact that to the
southern backwoodsman and farmer
who obtains employment in a COM
pany village at a miserable wage,
the wage and his village life are
decided progressive steps, which has
led to his being docile. The grow
ing proletarianization of these farm
ing elements are, however, fast lead
ing to his awakening demand for
better conditions, which will even
nullify the power the employers are
welding thru complete control of
the mill villages.
Factors Weighed.
The factors Weisbord detailed
that outweigh the other conditions
unfavorable to organization work in
clude: Standards of the workers are
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will but act as the emancipating in
strument for the workers from their
present position of virtual slavery.
Greeting the textile delegates in
behalf of thousands of coal miners
organized in the new National Min
ers Union, Ella Reeve (Mother)
Bloor, veteran working class leader,
then contrasted the great textile
convention with the great conven-
ton which formed the new union in
Pittsburgh two weeks ago.
Organized in Blood.
"The miners organized in blood
and sacrifice" the speaker declared.
She told how the convention in
Pittsburgh had in reality been split
by the police into two conventions,
one of which held it's sessions in
prison. The other met in secret,
monaced by the Pittsburgh police
and the gang terror of the Lewis
machine.
"And when the two conventions
compared the results of their cleo
lions it was found that they had
chosen the same men to lead their
union" Mother Bloor said.
The delegates stood up and
cheered spontaneously when Mother
Bloor finished her speech.
Representatives of workers who
until recently belonged to the A. F.
of L. United Textile Workers, dele
gates sent here directly by the mill
committees existing in isolated mill
towns, and men, women and young
workers sent here by the mill COM
mittees of striking masses, reiterated
again and again, in English and in
an English accented by Portugal, Sy-
ria, Poland, Great Britain, French
Canada, Scotland, that a union with
an honest and militant leadership is
vitality needed.
Almost the entire Sunday morning
was occupied by the meetings of
committees, on the constitution, re-
solutions, women's work, youth work,
children's work and press commit
tee. The democratic procedure
which makes this union different in
structure from all other old ones
was demonstrated here. The dele
gates from the various states di-
vided themselves into three or four
parts, and every delegate attending
was assigned service on one or an
other of the committees.
The convention was opened for re-
ports and discussion on the resolu-
lions which after being worked out
in discussion at the committees
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on the side of the mill interests and
has manage dto squander treasury
of $4,000, not cent of which was
donated for the relief of the New
Bedford strikers.
Betrayers Hold Office
"Tansey, the president of the
A. F. 7. O., was for eight years a
police commissioner, while his son
is assistant treasurer of one of the
mills. Parkes, former president of
the Weavers Union, is now men,
Der of the Massachusetts Industrial
Accident Board and was the first
to endorse the terror instituted by
Chief of Police Feeney against the
strikers.
Then there have been Mcmahon
and Campos who have helped Tan
sey in his dirty work. But the
workers are no longer being led by
the nose by these takers. More
and more of them are joining the
Textile Mill Committees and fol-
lowing its leadership. Despite the
police terror, our obstacles are
gradually being overcome and the
revolt of the Fall River mill work.
ers is growing"
Enthusiastic Over New Union
Asked what he thought of the
prospects of the new national tex
tile union, Reid expressed himself
with great enthusiasm. "The pros
poets for one big national union
in the textile industry have never
been so good" he said. "Of course
there will be difficulties, problems,
but gradually we will be able to
build this union into power in
the American labor movement. The
story that the textile workers in
the South can't be organized is a
fairy tale invented by the takers.
They will come along with fight
ing union just as quickly as the
northern workers.
GAS for the U. T. w., the brains
of that organization died with
Sarah Conboy, the secretary-treas-
urer. Mcmahon and his gang
aren't even clever takers. The
United Textile Workers will not
have to be killed; it will simply die
natural death by the gradual loss
of all its members
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STRIKERS HERE
TO BUILD new
MILITANT union
~
Many Picket Leaders
at Convention
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tically every member of the delega-
ton is under sentence for strike
activities, with terms running from
two months to three years and with
the millowners, backed by Massachu-
sets justice doing everything IN
their power to see that the sentences
are served.
The delegations we're cross-sec-
tions of the whole strike-the ma
jority, unskilled Portuguese workers,
unorganized before the strike,
French and British skilled workers,
came over to the T. M. G. disguised
with the yellowness of the U.T.W..
and French and British workers
elected by U.T.W. members TO ct
tend the convention as fraternal dele.
gates and report to their fellow
members on their return.
Picket Captains Here.
All the outstanding picket cap
tains were there. except those left
to hold the fort while the delegation
was away. Cashmere Lameiras,
twelve times arrested; Marion b.
telho, eleven times; Germaine Me-
deros, Joe Pacheco and Jesse Troia.
under 1000 bonds to keep the peace
in Fall River; then Anton Sameiras,
a Portuguese Ben Gold among ora
tors, Joseph Figureido, League or
ganizer.
The strikers delegations, massed
together in the front seats of the
convention ball, not more militant
than the delegates from other cen
tiers, but, at the moment most tense
ly alive with the struggle they are
living through, impressed the whole
convention with the eager sincerity
with which they took the whole pro-
ceedings, listening eagerly to the
words of the speakers, spontaneously
rising en- masse, arms raised in
salute, to cheer those who especially
gripped their imaginations.
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STRIKE LEADERS
TELL OF PLANS
Murdoch, Keller Ready
For New Union
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them dirty. We have smashed the
U. T. w. in New Bedford and we
will smash it in the United States"
Get Big Ovation.
Both Murdoch and Keller were
enthusiastically received at the his
toric convention of textile workers,
VINO are well acquainted with them
through previous struggles. When
Keller was asked about the mill
fancy of the workers in New Bed
ford and their fighting spirit, he
said: Through the struggle that
the Textile Mills Committee of New
Bedford have carried on since the
wage cut during the last "a weeks
the textile workers of New Bedford
feel only new militant union can
save them from wage-cuts such as
the last. These now amount to as
FER cent of wages received seven
years ago.
Traitors to Workers.
"The experience of the textile
workers with the A. F. T. o. and
the U. T. w. before and during this
strike have proven beyond doubt
that the officials of the old unions
are neither capable nor willing to
fight and to carry out the workers
wishes.
"The old form of the old organ
izations is also incapable of fight
ing for all the workers and an in
dustrial union is now necessary.
For that reason we gladly welcome
the formation of a National Textile
Workers Union of America as the
only organization that the textile
workers can look forward to in or
der to help them in their struggles
and in their daily contacts with the
BOSSES"
Both textile workers leaders look
forward to their return to the ex-
pectant workers of New Bedford
and the launching Of wide-sweep-
ing organization campaign for the
new union. "The convention shows"
said Murdoch, chat we have taken
a tremendous step forward in the
organization of real textile work
ers union. That locals of the U. T..
w. have come with US shows that
the U. T. w. feels the weight of our
new union.
Plan Big Drive.
when we return to New Bedford
we will have large mass meeting
and carry on an extensive organiza-
ton drive. We will release at least.
one Portuguese organizer into
Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
eve will continue our picket lines
in spite of the police, and we will
smash them if necessary. We do not
intend to blow out August Vehlo,
but we will kick him out of town.
Praises I. L. d. and w. l. r.
"Tbe most serious situation at
present lies in the use of the New
Bedford courts to railroad our lead
ers and most militant workers to
Jail. The International Labor De-
Tense, who has bailed every one of
our arrested workers, will continue
its work. Thirty thousand dollars
will be needed to cope with the sit
uation. We feel sure that workers
all over the country will help.
~ feel sure that workers will also
support the Workers International
Relief, which is the only relief or
ganization in New Bedford which
is actually helping the workers in
their struggle" he concluded.
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FRENCH MIGRATORIES.

The total Humber Of migrant la
borers entering France during June,
1928, amounted to 1903, which in
cludes 1,499 workers returning to
jobs previously held in France after
leaves Of absence in their own coun-
tries. Departures amounted to 4,1O7,
thus leaving net addition during
the month of 1856 to the country's
labor supply. "a
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NATIONAL TEXTILE
UNION FORMED HERE

meeting were adopted with enthusi-
astic unanimity by the delegates.
Cheer after cheer resounded thru
the hall when the resolution formal
ly launching the new MON was taken
to vote. The official name of the
organization being, the National Tex
tile Workers Union of America.
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toss few bones to such elements to keep them
quiet, and above all to keep the masses of the
textile workers from any real action or any
real organization
When the spirit of the workers was moved
to picketing and to struggle, these miseaders
sought to dampen their ardor: go back home
to bed" was their instruction. When it was
necessary to offer vigorous and unwavering
front to the peace" gestures of the state Off
Gals really acting at the behest of the bosses,
these labor officials entered into these treacher-
Gus naneuvers. In short they both directly and
indirectly carried out the desires and furthered
the plans of the mill barons.
Thus it is perfectly accurate to say that 'labor
leaders" such as Batty and Binns are simply
an adjunct to the bosses clerical stats.
In their extreme need, however, the textile
workers found their own real leadership from
among interrupted workers in the mills and
among the militant figures of the left section
Of the labor movement, including, of course.
the Communists. Throwing aside the cowardly
policies which Batty and Binns tried to impose
upon them, the textile workers of New Bedford
have begun to learn and to show the world how
class-conscious workers can conduct a strike.
But this is not enough The finest fighting
S the fight of the whole of the textile workers
of the country, and all other workers as well.
The militant workers already see that they
must broaden their line. They must solidify
their line with the construction of big, nation
wide textile union. The beginning of this
tremendous undertaking has already been
planned in the calling of the national Textile
Convention of September %.
That date is long way ahead and much has
to be done before then. A big victory on the
New Bedford fighting front must be made to
inspire the textile workers of the entire United
States with the will and confidence that will
help to draw the whole forces of the industry
into the great organization movement.
Hold the picket line, New Bedford workers!
Keep the scab mills closed Neither bosses nor
police thugsscan run the looms Keep your line
solid and the mills idle; and you and your whole
class will gain by your courage.
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>M,rO,MA.%
New Trial of Soltan
SzantO Is Under Way

BUDAPEST, Hungary, (By Mail).
On July the new trial of Soltan
Szanto and nine of his comrades,
who are charged with attempting to
overthrow the political and social
order, began. The defendants, who
in the previous trial had been SEN
fenced to long terms (Szanto to
eight and one half years., are now
charged with urging forceful mea-
sures against the government by re-
evolutionary statements during the
trial Altho they had already been
punished for those statements the
government charges them with it
it again.
For the new process the police are(
preparing for many arrests and
many heavily armed soldiers guard /
the courtroom. 1t is filled with
secret police and only very few OBJ
servers can find places in the court
room.
fight against American imperial
ISM.
Particularly, efforts must be
made to enlist into the party fac
tory workers so that out of the
election campaign broad network
of Communist factory nuclei shall
have been established in the in
dustrial centers. Similarly, ener-
getic steps must be taken to draw
into the. Party the native Ameri-
can workers and exploited farm
ers and Negroes"
Ito Be ContinueG).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
By CLARINA NICHOLSON

LENINGRAD (By MaiD About
20 minutes ride from the heart of
Leningrad is an island in the River
Neva, formerly used by the nobil-
ity and rich merchants for their
summer homes. Before the revolu-
ton, workers were under no circum-
stances permitted on the island to
enjoy the beautiful parks and gar
dens or to go swimming OF rowing
on the river. Now the former pala-
tial homes are turned into rest
houses and thousands of workers,
sent from the factories, spend their
vacations here.
Mansions for Workers.
One rest house we visited, a huge
mansion, thanked by gardens, for
merry owned by rich engineer, is
directly on the river where boats
are available for the workers. The
enormous drawing room," with it's
satin covered chairs and oil paint
ings, is used as reading and chess
room, while one corner is cut off
for ping-pong enthusiasts. Four
meals day are served in the i'm
posing dining room-breakfast,
lunch at 1 o'clock of 3 courses, sup
per at 7 of 8 courses and at II a
buffet supper. Nearby is library
of $4,000 books. Magazines and
newspapers are also available.
There is one central club for the
rest houses on the island-a marble
structure, formerly the home of a
f'''ord IF Rasputin, where doubtless
the czarina used to come and drink
tea on the terraced roof-garden.
Here there are reading rooms,
smoking rooms, 2 theatres--out-
door and indoor, chess and checker
rooms, and buffet, where we got
an excellent meal of soup, meat,
vegetables, bread and tea for 20
cents. A large bronze statue of
Lenin stands on the marble stair
way.
Vacation Houses.
There are three kinds of vacation
houses for the workers throughout
the U. S. S. R.--first, the rest
houses for those who are well; sec
ond, the Zdravnitza for workers
who are run down, nervous or
slightly sick; and. third, the sana-
toria for sick workers. In 1920 in
the Leningrad district 14,402 work.
ers went to rest houses and Sdrav-
nitza. In 1927 this nur1ber jumned
to 43,431. In 1923, 3,733 books
were .read; in 1927, 1896 books,
21,S70 newspapers and 1928 maya
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
France Is Asked to
Deport -Fascists

PARIS, July 31-The fascist gov
eminent of Italy has again requested
the French government to extradite
all immigrants who have fled tc
escape the fascist jails. Concerning
this lie Quotidien" writes as fol-
lows:
ut is to be hoped that the French
government will not submit to this
request since most of those wanted
by the Italian government are poll
teal opponents. France the land OF
freedom, has always offered asylum
to all hunted politicals."
If the "hope' of the French bour-
geois newspaper will be granted is
not as yet known. A good illustra-
ton, however, of the "land of free
dom" is the fact that only in the
last few days thirteen workers
most of them Italian immigrants
were sent out of Elsass-Lothringer
because they were active in the
organizations Of the coal and
mineral workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
The Textile Strikers Fight.

New Bedford textile workers are adding a
new chapter to the history of the working class.
Undaunted by the armed power of the slave
driving bosses in police uniform, outstanding
bayonets and virtual cavalry charges of
mounted thugs, facing loaded guns and stand
ing up under club and blackjack these brave
men and women hold firm on the picket line.
Now it is mass falling, and they go singing
to jail in such numbers that the "black Marias'
are overtaxed. The picturesque daredevil spirit
with which these men and women defy the
police to break their ranks go to jail by the
hundreds and refill every gap in the great mass
picket line, is not the final test to which they
will be put, but it indicates their courage
to go ahead to meet harder. experiences. These
harder tests await them, and they must be
steeled to their finest courage. The textile
mill barons are not going to give up without
trying every fighting weapon.
The outrageous sentence of hundreds of pic
kets to two months in jail will doubtless stir
the New Bedford workers to fight all the
harder against the monstrous tyranny. But it
must also stir their minds to a realization of
the big issues that are at stake.
One thing that must be impressed upon the
textile workers Of New Bedford is that the
heroic struggle in which they are engaged is
not an isolated incident. New Bedford is part
of great national textile situation, which is in
turn part of world situation. The fight of
the textile workers of that city cannot be I'M
derstood by those participating in the fight
unless they understand this
New Bedford is today the front line of the
textile workers of the United States in a contest
IN which all textile workers of all sections stand
to win or lose tremendously The fight has
already shown that the so-called textile unions
up to the present have in general served more
to keep the workers unolgantzed than to or
ganize them. The trade union bureaucrats of
New Bedford proved themselves in this latest
test to be what the Communists always said
they were-simply agents of the mill barons,
interested only in petty sell-outs of a
snnall group of skilled workers, feebly organ
lied, to employers who could afford to
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C A M P AIGN CORNER

First" platform. He insisted that
Coolidge should choose to run for
reelection. Thompson was a patriot
of patriots. But a suit brought
against the mayor and some of his
aides in a former administration by
the Chicago Tribune hit him in the
solar plexus to the tune of $780,
coo. That took some of the patriot
ism out of him. In the battle be-
tween Thompson and the Tribune
there is no altruism on either side.
Both want to loot the city.
Elections in Chicago, as in every
other large American city, are a
farce, Victory is on the side of
the strongest army of gangsters, and
it takes money to hire those fellows.
Citizens vote as many times as is
necessary, and the hardy wight who
refuses to do as the ward captain
tells him may experience unpleasant
sensations, such as being lifted
through the roof of his home at
night by pineapple" alias a
bomb, or see stars after the club of
some thug is connected with his
dome. This is the way democracy
works in Chicago, yet the United
States government has the gall to
send marines to Nicaragua to insure
free" elections in that country.
The Workers (Communist) Party
has qualified for the official ballot
in ten states of the union This is
q splendid showing so early in the
campaign. The party experts to
be on the ballot i'm at least thirty
states. At the rate the party mem
bership is working this should be
easy of accomplishment. The num-
Der Of signatures required to place
working-class party on the ballot
in most states imposes heavy bur-
Den on the membership, but the job
must be done.
Funds to wage an intensive cam
paign are sorely needed by the Ma
tional Election Campaign Commit
tee. The 100000 Communist Cam
paign Fund must be raised in order
to enable the committee to execute
its program. This program in
cludes the touring of scores of
speakers, including the heads
of the national ticket, Foster
and Gitlow, and Scott Nearing and