The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-13
N. C. FEDERATION
MEET OPENS IN.
RALEIGH TODAY.
Shotgun Wedding" of
Labor's Eenemies

ury, head of the aluminium trust
whose largest plant is in North Car
DINA, is the dictator of the water
power trust which has just an
nounced, after clinching its control
of all available power sites, an ad-
ditional S125,000,000 development
that will turn dozens of square miles
of eodntryside into an island sea and
neeessitate the destruction of half
dozen towns.
Boosts UTW
The Raleigh convention will be an
industrialization convention in every
sense Of the word.
Yesterdays Raleigh News and OBJ
server says:
"The major topic of discussion
at the convention is expected to
be the move of the United Textile
Workers, affiliated with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor and OPP
posed to the Communistic National
Textile Workers, to organize the
textile workers of the South. AL
fred Hoffman, organizer for the
United, who is in charge of the
strike in Marion, will be present,
bringing with him a delegation of
the striking unit there"
"At a recent meeting of the
Piedmont Organizing Council, held
in Raleigh, labor leaders from all
over the State expressed the be-
lief that the federation convention
would be one of the most import
ant held in years. They based
their belief on the ground that the
South now stands at the beginning
of an unprecedented campaign to-
ward organization"
Conceal Real Issues
The Southern journalists, as the
above quotation shows, are rapidly
developing the faculty of concealing
zeal issues by the use of the formal
factual method--a further proof
that the Raleigh convention is an
industrialization convention and that,
in spite of the pride of craftsmanship
still noticeable in many Southern
journalists, they are now part of the
propaganda machinery Of the new
Southern capitalist class.
Nothing could be more false than
the statement in the above extract
which says that "the major topic of
discussion at the convention is ex-
peete6 to be the move of the United
Textile Workers, affiliated to the
American Federation of Labor .
to organize the textile workers of
the South" This statement is cal
culated to fool further the rank and
file delegates who believe this to
be- the purpose of the convention,
and to fool the masses of morgan
izedoworkers in the textile and other
industries.
Caucus With Authorities
The main topic of discussion in
the corridors and lobby rooms of the
Hall of the House of Representatives
where the convention is meeting
and where McGrady, "the trusted
personal representative" of Presi-
dent Green of the A. F. of L., will
caucus with the state government
officials and state federation leaders
over bottles of "cohn lickah," will
be. how, to prevent the organization
of the workers and how best to util-
ize Hoffman of the Music group and
the UTW for this purpose.
MELONS Blessing
The-Raleigh convention is in the
nature of a wedding-a marital I'M
ion between the bureaucrats of the
North and South. This union will
have the blessing of Andrew Mellon
and his class brothers-the CAPT
talists of both North and South.
1t is, to carry the metaphor a little
farther, in the nature Of Shotgun
wedding well known Southern
institution. The bride, in this case
the rather feeble Southern trade I'M
ion bureaucracy, is facing a situa-
ton which is a scandal in the best
bureaucratic circles. The working
class which is supposed to shield
from seduction and whose political
purity it is supposed to guard, has
left the old homestead under circum-
stances which wiring tears of
mingled sorrow and wrath from the
eyes Of its self appointed guardians.
Industrialization - that handsome
young enemy of the conservatism
among workers-has been meeting
the labor movement at the mill gates
land in the homes of the workers.
The Southern working class is preg-
nant with the urge for militant
struggle against the very class it
has been taught by the bureaucrats
to revere as its benefactor-the cap
italists, those holy givers of jobs
whose preachers said that untiring
indust"y-represented by the eleven
and twelve hour day--and meekness,
represented by the accomplishing
acceptance of an average wage of
Si2 per week-entitled workers man
ifest--those cardinal virtues dinned
into the ears of the toilers in a
capitalist society, to the blessed
privilege of roaming beyond the
stars, wrapped in eternal bliss, con-
tented and carefree--after they are
dead.
Bosses Use AFL
The strike struggle in CASTOR
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