The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04
TELECRAMS FROM
STRIKE, TRIALS.
AT CONVENTION
Worker Organizations
Send Greetings
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against the speed-up, the stretch
out and the growing war danger.
"The struggle in the southern
textile industry is part of the inter-
national crisis in the textile indus
try which is part of the crisis of
world capitalism which leads
straight to another imperialist war.
The raid on the N.T.W.U. headquar-
tiers on June z, tie mass arrests,
the attempt to railroad 10 militant
workers to the electric chair, is
part of the war preparations of Wall
Street imperialism.
eve pledge ourselves to uphold
the right of workers self-defense,
the right to organize, to strike, to
picket, and to protect our lives, fam
lies and union headquarters for
which you are fighting. These are
fundamental working class issues
we will never surrender. Any wa
vering on these issues we condemn
as cowardly opportunism. The
growing mass pressure of the work
ing class already compelled the
change of venue to Charlotte. Mass
pressure likewise compels the state
to make a pretense of impartiality
in the hope of covering up the
frame-up features 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 we pledge ourselves to
fight. We pledge our fullest sup
port to the International Labor De-
tense. and to the Joint Defense
Campaign of the 1. L. D. and
w. l. R."
Resolution on Porter.
The convention also sent the fol-
lowing telegram to John Porter,
militant young worker in the New
Bedford strike, sentenced by court
martial because he left the army
when he found it was strike
breaking machine.
"The Trade Union Unity Conven-
ton sends you brotherly greetings.
We are continuing the struggle to
build a strong revolutionary labor
movement in this country, in which
you so actively participated during
the New Bedford strike. We look
forward to the day when you will
resume your post in the labor move
ment. This convention will inten-
sify the struggle against capitalist
militarism which you so militantly
fought. The 1872 youth delegates
from every important industry and
section of the country send you their
special message of solidarity. We
will do everything in our power to
free you from Jail, where the bosses
keep you"
News of successful strike in
West Frankfort, ILL.,, reached the
convention late Saturday night.
"Schillings reports Oakhill mine on
strike over firing of Polesky and
Bradshaw. Men stood solid. Sub
district president OF U. M. w. A.
William Jack and Bradshaw holly
debated at mine head" the wire
said. Bradshaw is a member of the
militant National Miners Union.
MEN cheered Bradshaw and Ma
tional Miners Union, and the COM
pany capitulated in the face of sol
idarity. Sub-district President Jack
skunk home. All the workers joined
the N. M. u"
Henry Corbishley, Freeman
Thompson, Dan Singer, George Voy-
zey and Gerry Allard, leading Hi
nois miners, were among the delega-
ton from the coal and metal mines,
which numbered $50.
The Hardwood Floor Workers I'm
ion of Philadelphia, entering into
strike, sent the following wire:
"Hearty greetings to the National
Trade Union Unity Convention. Our
members who are just entering upon
a struggle against the bosses and
are confident that your deliberations
will result in the founding of
broad mass movement"
From Pan-Pacific Workers.
Wires of greetings from far and
wide poured into the Convention and
were the signal for deafening ap-
plause and spirited demonstrations.
From the Pan-Pacific Trade Union
Conference now in session in Vladi-
yostock comes the following cable:
"The second Pan-Pacific Trade I'm
ion Conference greets the Trade
Union Unity Convention and wishes
success in its work. We urge you,
while solving the problems of organ
izing the unorganized, new unions,
ETC., to give full support to the
young trade union movement in the
colonies and semi-colonies, to expose
the predatory role Of American i'm
perialism and it's agents, the Pan
American Federation of Labor, and
raise broad, mass demands for the
liberation of the Latin American
peoples and the Filipinos, and to
denounce American conspiracies in
China participating in war prepare
tons against the Soviet Union"
From Latin America.
From the Confederation Sindical
Of Latin America, comes "very fra
ternal and deep greetings and a
pledge to cement our forces for the
consolidation of all the revolutionary
organizations in Latin America and
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