The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
Textile Youth Convene
and Extend Activities


and formulate a fighting program
of youth demands and carry on spe-
cial activities (sports, educational,
etc., which are of special interest
to the young workers, and at the
same time, participate in the work
of the union as whole"
They're Active.
The main resolution of the Ma
tional Youth Conference points out
that the young textile workers have
participated under the leadership of
the NT.W.U. in sharp struggles,
in which they were in the front
lines in New Bedford, Ludlow,
Scranton, Gastonia and other parts
of the country. Special youth con-
ferences hald in Charlotte, in Fall
River, and being arranged now in
| Connecticut and Paterson, show
some progress in the organizational
side. The chief criticism is that the
youth section is too much merely
a skeleton and not enough of a mass
movement. Young workers have
been so prominent in the N. T, w.
! struggles that seven of them are
sentenced to twenty years in the
Gastonia case, and one, John Porter,
is in a federal prison for activities
in the New Bedford strike. A spe-
cial resolution demanding release of
all these was adopted by the Youth
Conference and the convention.
For Each Territory.
The youth conference resolution
considered the main sections Of the
country one by one. New England
requires youth organizers where
youth section contacts exist. These
recommendations apply to other ter
ritories as well.
In Paterson, mass meetings and
intensive organization among the
silk workers is needed, with extern
sion to Passaic, Elizabethton and
other cities.
In New York City THE knitting
mills are especially important, and
the immediate task is to hold a city
conference.
In Philadelphia youth organizer
is needed, to start the elementary
work. In Scranton and Allentown
there are N. T. w. mill locals, but
! youth sections must be built.
More Negro Youth.
The skeleton of a youth organiza-
ton exists in the South, where there
are organizers in Bessemer City,
Dallas, Mount Holly, Gastonia,
Leaksville, Belmont, and other CEN
tiers. Special efforts to draw in
young Negro workers must be made
and any race prejudice theoretically
exposed and eliminated from the
youth sections.
The national youth organizer and
the national youth committee have
the task of building up a real eff
fective central office, and of extern
centers, such as Chicago, Cleveland,
Pittsburgh, etc.
The national youth committee of
the N.T.W. must meet at times
when the national executive board
is in session, and may have to hold
emergency meetings at other times.
The general need is for better
planned work, co-ordinated with all
the activities of the union, and con-
tinual recruiting of new members.
Children's Auxiliary.
1t was voted to establish chill
dren's auxiliary for the very young
workers have their special problems.
The Workers International Relief
antidote to the Boy Scout move
ment, the Relief Scouts was en-
dorsed. A special resolution against
child labor was adopted.
The capitalist school system,
which tries to make scabs of the
children was exposed and denounced.
The chairman of the youth con-
ference was Emanuel Perry of Fall
River. The secretary was Edith
Eisman, a hosiery mill worker in
New York, working in a mill where
there are 600 young workers.
Reports were made, discussed and
adopted on the Trade Union Unity
League Youth Department by D.
Mates; on the national youth COM
mittee of the N. T. w. by Sophie
Melvin; E. Totherow on the South
ern District Youth Organization;
and w. Albertson for the Labor
Sports Union.