The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-15
By MYRA PAGE.


After needle trades delegate from Baltimore has related the ire
mendous growth in the left there both
lied unognzed various industries the struggles
by colored white with
who hailed from the port of New Orleans took the floor With all the
and of the he described the sailors lingo the
dos along the southern gulf coast for men who go down to the sea
ships and likewise for those who load these vessels with
vnrl niayed oainst biot nd bIac aipst b sn +h 1n
Samen Union had fighting character
been helpless before the powners onaugh But the Marine
expect big many ports the next few
months "You all know how important marine in modern
play struggle victory
live the American ships port flying the red fag For
that statement him good send-off.
redced broadhoudered umber-jack from Seattle spoke of
bad conditions the North West and the revolutionary traditions of
labor there ending with the statement that Seattle labor would call
general some years ago.
telling effect And time Soviet Russia needs help Seattle
labor is ready"
ringing Pennsylvania textile
battles terrific conditions police reaconary
machine, birth growth revolutionary
and instances of solidarity between miners and textile workers
exploitation Japanese Mexican Chinese
California fruit farms and in the cannee the story which bright
faced delegate from the food workers organization the
had tell He made plea for nea and international
SLIM softongued mill hand from Dixie told about mill
conditions the South and the rapid growth of the National Textile
Workers Union throughout the Cronas Georgia. Virginia and Ten
Many mill hands serving volunteer organizers work
ing their from mill village village organizing mill committees
South have the UTW That organization has sold
time and again works with the bosses But we want real union
powerful organization At first mill hands thought Boshevk
up, but we've learned different That's
talk We found Boheviks fine folks who helped the
wok We used to han despse the cood people but we're
different this All workers stick together for
their interests Boshevk worker who mind tn boss
ashamed be called Boshevk we're of it. We used
Whites who let tn mill bleed lives but
we're Boheviks who'll fight back!"
noontime nobody wanted hail. So
inside and sandwiches and drank and about hundred
working
three hundred more in the benches and joined
ITS the old capitalist system
1t amt good enuf for
It's good for the makers
For Wall Street SPECTATORS
all the labor fakers--
But faint good enough for me-
Also the Hurry Hymn of the Ford Worker:
eyes have the glory O coming Ford,
cts under conditions that offend the lord,
With most ungodly driving and amid a mad uprcar,
PRODUCTION rushes on!
Hurry, hurry hurry John!
Hurry, hurry hurry John!
We've got rush job on"
many first Maybe third of knew
everybody threw themselves learning the
theory of
We had such good time singing that when Jack tombstone with
his comb hair the platform the afternoon
nobody wanted He had wait until had
two
happened morning. speeches
by delegates This
position feel struggle
Who could better than they the workers
solidarity capitalism? And when feel thing be
coored surely know how music word of
What the pogressives"
colored labor!
Negro miner who flower his
Logan County West Virginia opera
and coal dgges ragged few began his talk by saying