The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
n. Z. w. Convention
Busy First Sessions

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ais and explaining the N. T. W. U.
and its program.
This delegation found that Mustes
loudly advertised meeting, intended
as opposition to the N.T.W. conven-
ton, had degenerated into a small
christmas celebration" The Music
ties refused to let the delegation
address their little crowd, but the
statement was distributed to them
anyway, and will reach all the work
ers on strike in the Mutual Co.
Stopping for barely a score of
minutes to eat a few sandwiches,
the delegates Immediately proceeded
to work. Every few minutes new
delegations of workers would troop
in, coming from the very maws of
the textile mills, in their working
clothes.
Honor Those Murdered.
James P. Reid was elected chair
man of the convention for the day.
In honor of the N. T. w. U. organ
Rizer Ella May, killed by the Man
Aville-Jenks thugs, the convention
stood in silence.
"All the textile workers murdered
by the mill owners and by the be-
trayal Of Hoffman and the U.T.W.
are our dead. Our union will pre-
serve and carry forward their spirit
of struggle" said the chairman.
Clarence Miller, one of the Gas
tonia defendants, was made secre-
tary of the convention; Daisy Nc
Donald and Mendes, assistant sec
retaries. Credentials, constitution,
press and resolutions committees
were elected and Immediately pro-
ceeded to work.
TU.U.L. For Class Struggle.
Bill Dunno greeted the conven-
ton in the name of the revolution
airy trade union center, the Trade
Union Unity League. "The N. T.
w. U. meets at moment of the
rising tide of class battles the
world over" he said. against the
policy of class peace of the A. F..
of L., and the Musteite takers we
oppose the slogan of class strug-
GLE" Dunno exposed the renegade
role of Weisbord, of Ellen Dawson
and Keller. The latter by disrup-
tive interruptions tried to hinder
the work of the convention.
Greetings were read from the
Red International Of Labor Unions,
Athe 100000 textile workers in the
&Textile Workers Union of the
4Soviet Union, the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, the international
Relief, the international Labor De-
tense, the Metal Workers League,
and other working class organiza-
tions.
"0rganizew
"Our main task is the organiza-
ton Of the unorganized textile
workers, both Negro and white"
said Hugo Oehler, in his report on
the struggle of the N.T.W.U. in the
South. That is the major task of
this convention. There is suffi-
GENTLY large body here to lead
these struggles of the workers. We
will go out from this convention to
prepare our mill locals and mill
committees for a definite strike
struggle. We are not going out
merely with the slogan of 'strike!'
But this means definite organiza-
tional preparation.
eve demand the unconditional
= release of the seven Gastonia de-
PENDANTS. We defeated the threat
of the electric chair, but seven of
our delegates face long Jail terms.
We will mobilize to smash the
prison threat by organizing the
workers in the South"
Beal Denounces Renegades.
Fred Beal, one Of the Gastonia
defendants, supplemented the report
on the work in the South. "When
we were in jail" he said, "Weis-