The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
T.U. ELL. MOVES
TO AID SOUTH'S
TEXTILE STRIKES
Cleveland Convention
to Organize Mills

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wages, now so per cent beneath the
low wages Of northern textile work
Iers.
Fight decentralization.
Beneath the lash of rationaliza-
ton the southern textile workers are
coming forward militantly to battle
for their demands. They are shat
tering the manufacturers boast of
mo labor trouble in the South" "
They are destroying the plan of
United States capitalism to isolate
southern labor and use it as a PAS
sive instrument to hammer down
wages and working conditions in the
rest of the country. The militant
stand of these mill workers, new to
ndustry-tenant farmers and farm
laborers driven by hunger into the
mills-shows that beneath the sharp
ening attacks Of American imperial
ism the workers of no section Of the
country can be isolated from the
general leftward swing of the Amer
lean working class.
"The unexpected and determined
resistance of the southern workers
to intensified exploitation is arous-
ing CONSERVATION among the manu-
facturers and slowing down their
naturalization drive. A leading
textile manufacturers publication,
the Daily News Record admits
that the strike wave has caused
several southern-owned mills to halt
in their plans to inaugurate the eff
ficiency system for their workers;
and is causing manufacturers to
speculate upon the effect the
recent labor troubles in the Pied
mont section will have upon the new
capital invested in the South
Greater Solidarity.
"The southern strikers are open
ing up page in the history of the
class struggle in the United States,
forging new bonds of solidarity for
the American working class.
"The left wing union, the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, is
now appearing in the situation as
the only reliable leader of this strike
movement. The Tennessee rayon
strike was ha.dled and settled on
a class collaboration basis by the
United Textile Workers, the A. F.
of L, union which betrayed the New
Bedford textile strike, played an
open strikebreaking role in Fall
River, recently bound the only mill
in the country (Salem, Mass.),
which it completely controls, to a
vicious speed-up system over the
protest of the rank and file, and is
today cooperating with the New
Bedford mill owners to put across
an equally vicious Barnes special
ization' plan.
League Can Lead.
''The new, fighting National Tex
tile Workers Union, affiliated to
the Trade Union Educational League,
which lei the New Bedford strike
of $4,000 textile workers, has now
launched an organizational drive in
the south. Every militant must sup
port the Trade Union Educational
League and the textile union in its
work of organizing the southern
Transforming their spora-
die strikes into one organized, sus-
tanned movement against speed-up
and for higher wages and shorter
hours, and linking them up with the
strike movement looming in New
England, and the other textile GEN.
ters, into a great unified, nation
wide campaign of textile workers
against the constantly increasing
pressure of naturalization.
Especial efforts must be made to
bring southern textile workers to
The Trade Union Unity Convention
to be held in Cleveland June l.
Bring the convention call to the
southern textile workers!
Bring the southern textile work
ers to Cleveland!
"Draw southern labor into the or
ganized left wing struggle against
capitalist naturalization and against
war!"