The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
T.U.U.L. REPLIES
mo" TO GITL0W
RESOLUTIONS
Rights Disguise Basic
Gastonia Issues
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struggle and serve notice on the
capitalist class that it will not be
terrorized in its struggle for the
overthrow of capitalism and the es-
tablishment of a workers republic.
Line Contradictory.
The fundamental struggle against
naturalization is not developed, and
the resolution was deemed COM
pletely contradictory to the line Of
the Gastonia defense, to the line of
the Trade Union Unity League, and
not in line with the telegram sent
to the Gastonia defendants earlier in
the session.
When the resolution was pre-
scented on the floor, tremendous
NO" shook the hall.
The telegram sent to the textile
workers facing the Charlotte court
was accepted as the line of the reso-
luton adopted.
Delegates from all industries and
all parts of the U. S. meeting in
Cleveland in the 4th Convention OF
the T. u. E. L. send you the pledge
of their answering support against
the attempt of the textile mill own
ers and their government to take
the lives of Is of you and send 10
more to prison for long terms" the
endorsed document declared.
"The struggle in the southern tex
tile industry" it continues, sis part
of the international crisis in the tex
tile industry which is part of the
crisis of world capitalism which
leads straight to another imperialist
war. The raid on the N. 7. w. U.
headquarters on June 7, the mass
arrests, the attempt to railroad 10
militant workers to the electric
chair, are all part of the war
preparations of Wall Street i'm
perialism.
eve pledge ourselves to uphold
the right of workers to self-defense,
the right to organize, to strike, to
picket, and to protect our lives,
families and union headquarters for
which you are fighting. These are
fundamental working class issues
we will never surrender. Any waver-
ing on these lines we condemn as
cowardly opportunism," the resolu-
ton pointed out.
"The growing mass pressure, al
ready compelled the change of venue
to Charlotte. Mass pressure like
wise compells the state to make a
pretense of impartially in the hope
Of covering up the frame-up fea-
lures of the trial and of hiding the
naked class issues. Only an increase
Of mass pressure can defeat the
murder plot of the mill owners and
their agents. For this" it declares
in conclusion, 1--WE pledge ourselves
to fight. We pledge our fullest sup
port to the l. L. D. and the joint
campaign Of the I. L. D. and the w.
W. I. R."
The resolution on the Labor Party
presented by Gitlow differed in no
way from the old, discarded theory
Of the united front from on top. This
the convention opposed, and the
resolution adopted stressed the
necessity for a united front from
below "for the furtherance of work
inx class demands for the seven
hour-day, social insurance, ETC., etc.,
and for the ending of capitalist ex-
ploitation.
Whereas the class struggle must
be carried on in every field and by
every means" the resolution begins,
land whereas the pressure of inten-
sified exploitation by the barons of
trustified capitalism linked up ever
more closely with the capitalist state
gives rise to growing rehabilitation
of the masses, and
Whereas, under these conditions
every industrial fight is trans.
formed in a political struggle,
"Be it resolved that by this in.
augural convention of the TUUL
that its program and activities Cor.
ganization of the unorganized, Of
Negro proletarians, etc. must helI
lay the basis for broad mass party
Labor Party which unlike the
British Labor Party, will not be ;
tool Of imperialism and will bring
together all workers on a basis o.
united front action, organized from
below, against the democratic, re
publican parties and their bench
men, the Thomases and Mustes ESQ
called socialist party, progressives
etc. for the furtherance of working
class demands for the seven houl
day, for social insurance, ETC., ant
for the ending of capitalist exploita
ton,
"And Whereas, such an organiza
tion on the basis of a united from
from below represents a stage to b.
rnassing of the workers for tn
sharper and sharper class struggl
under the guidance of a revolution
sry proletarian Party. This conven
lion instructs the National Executiv
Committee to formulate the condi
hons under which campaign for
broad mass Party of Labor can b
launched, taking into account boil
local and national conditions, in sucl
way that no reformist weakenin,
If our struggle can result therefrom
sor any reformist elements sneal
INTO its ranks" This resolution wa