The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-14
WILL JOIN MOVE
FOR new NATL
TEXTILE UNION
A. F. Of L. Organization
Branded a mill Boss
Company Union"
Laud T.M.C. Movement
Mcmahon Fumes at the
DAILY Worker"

branding tne united IeXtlle
Workers Union of the American
Federation of Labor as "an organ
ization that is now serving the mill
owners as company union," four
delegates, acting in behalf of six
local unions, walked out of yester-
days convention session in the
Great Northern Hotel, signified
their complete severance with the
reactionary U. T. W, and declared
their intention of participating in
the convention called by Textile
Mill Committees for the establish
ment of new national union Of tex
tile workers. The T. NJ. C. conven-
tion will De held here on the % and
% of Sept. in Irving Plaza Hall
The break came when Gustav
Deak, organizer of the U. 7. W. To-
calls in Passaic, tried to answer the
furious tirade delivered by Presi-
ltlcat Mcmahon against he Daily
Worker for the comments in its
news columns on the large expense
accounts eilalked up by Mcmahon
and his shoal Of organizers
Attacks Reactionar;es.
Deak rose to speak and was i'm
mediately met with a barrage of
shouts to "sit down or III throw
you cut" from Mcmahon. who was
IN the chair. When the prole-ts of
Deak and many other delegates that
he be permitted to speak were un-
needed by Mcmahon, Deak decided
to take the floo,. Deak launched
into slashing at 1ek IN the reac-
.i>nary policies of the U. 7. ". Of
ficiald5m in Passaic anG N New
Eedfo' d now, decl arm; that the bu-
reaucrats were trying to break the
% week old strike, and continuing
to show, despite the incessant in
terruntions, that the textile work
ers in this country had nothing
more to expect from Mcmahon and
Co., "nd from! the skeleton of az or
gan'zation from which he derived
livire, Deak denounced the U. T. w.
faxers for unseating Ellen DAVIS IN
snc Eli kclle, On tins f.tst cay of
The convention here, and d, cla-ed
th4t he was ;.;lt ltn":Htd to sr,ak for
the locals they represented.
The statement follows:
We, the undersigned delegates to
the Convention of the United Tex
tile Workers of America, represent-
ing Locals 1914, 1919, 1923 of Pas
sale, N. j., and Local 1915 Silk
Workers of New York and Local 55,
Knit Goods Workers of New York,
hereby withdraw from this conven-
ton, and declare to the convention
that the membership as a whole of
the locals we represent will sever
its affiliation with the United Tex
tile Workers.
We are forced to pursue this
course because we are convinced
that the U. T. w. is no more than
company union, serving the in
terests of the employers rather than
those of the workers, and in support
of our contention we cite the fol-
Loving:
U. T. w. Betrayal
Although the textile industry is
in as bad condition as any in the
country and is rapidly becoming
worse due to wage slashing, length
ening of hours, and increasing
speed-up, the U. T. W. officialdom
has done nothing to organize the
unorganized workers, except on pa
per. We submit that the U. T. w.
is following the general policy of
the A. F. of l.. in failure to organ
ize the unorganized and its lack of
militancy in union leaders, as for
instance the treachery of President
Lewis of the United Mine Workers,
the corrupt leadership of the A. F.
Of L. in the garment workers and
furriers unions--in all three of
which the militant workers have
broken away from their leaders and
are organizing new unions.
In the Passaic situation we cite
the rejection by the U. T. w. Off
cials of Albert Weisbord, militant
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