The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-23

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug o.
Hugo Oehler, Southern District or
ganizer of the N. T. w. u, today
characterized the action of Alfred
Hoffman at Marion as "capitulation
to the mill owners and their agents.
The present situation at Marion"
Oehler stated, "is one more addition
to the long list of surrenders of
which the U. It. w. officialdom has
been guilty. Before the clash with
the millowners the Hoffmans and
MacMahons could get away with
their pose as leaders of the workers,
but when the bosses brought in SOL
diers as strikebreakers, the true role
of these misleaders was made clear.
When the bosses decided to open the
mill, Hoffman retreated, stopped the
-picketing and went over to the
camp Of the enemies of the workers
by relinquishing the most effective
weapon of the strikers-mass picket
Eng.
cat Elizabethton, at Ware Shoals,
at Greenville, and now at Marion the
U. T. w. burcaucrats have served
the bosses by stemming the tide of
workers revolt, and thus helped the
bosses defeat the struggle for better
conditions. The agreement reached
between Hoffman of the U. T. w.,
Judge Townsend, representing the
Governor, Mr.. Hart, president of the
mill, and a representative of the De-
partment of Labor, is a complete
surrender to the mill owners.
Desert Strike.
"What is the present situation at
Elizabethton and Ware Shoals? The
mill owners at Elizabethton are dis
eliminating against the members of
the u. T. w. Thoselwho were most
active in the strike have been dis
charged and forced to leave town.
Unrest and dissatisfaction are in
creasing. There is much talk about
new strike. The mill owners are
transferring the workers from the
Glanztoff to the Bemberg mill and
from one department to another, as
a camouflage' for a wage cut. Most
of the workers who were recently
sold out by the u. T. w. bureaucrats
are now getting lower wages than
before the strike. They are rapidly
losing the little faith they have in
he reactionary organization which
betrayed them"
: In Ware Shoals the situation is
worse still, Oehler said The strikers
there were deserted by the U. T. w.
"labor leaders" who left town two
weeks ago, and have not returned.
They stopped relief two weeks be-
fore the strike was called off.
"The workers are asking that a
N. T. w. u. organizer be sent there"
Oehler salt. "Now the same story
Of surrender is being repeated at
Marion. This brings into sharp con-
trast the class struggle program Of
the militant National Textile Work
ers Union as opposed to the treach-
erous policy of class collaboration of
the U. T. w. Better conditions for
the workers will never be won by
surrender, at conference with the
bosses such as Hoffman had with
Hart when he agrees to suppress the
strikers ready to fight for their
rights and their demands"
= SaccO Meets Tonight.
Sacco-Vanzetti-G meetings
will be held tonight in: Boston, New
international Hall, AZ Wenonah
HAL, Roxbury; Rochester, Labor
v.yceum, $50 st. Paul ST.; Akron,
Grace Park; Kansas City, Open
Forum Hall, 1918 E. 18th st.
Those on Saturday will be at Lud-
low, Mass, at 2 p. M. Palmer,
Mass, at 5 p. M; Springfield,
Mass, at $50 p. M. Stamford,
Conn, on the City Hall steps. On