The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
BY LISTON M. OAK

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 10. -
When delegation from the Inter
national Labor Defense and Work
ers International Relief came to
Marion yesterday to offer the legal
aid of the defense organization and
relief from the w. l. R., Hoffman
and a guard Immediately surrounded
the automobile in which the delega-
ton, consisting of Juliet Stuart
Poyntz, Walter Trumbull and S. C.
Saylors came.
Hoffman asked Poyntz to step
aside, as he did not want his guard
even to hear. With utter self-abase-
ment, he apologized for his vicious
attack upon the Gastonia defendants
and the international Labor Defense
and the union at the Raleigh State
Federation of Labor Convention at
Raleigh, according to the delegation.
With confiding smirk he said
that he himself is a progressive, one
OF the Music group and opposed to
the A. F. Of L. bureaucracy. He in
sisted that he was not responsible
for the sell-out in Elizabethton, but
that Kelly engineered that job.
He appealed to the delegates not
to interfere in Marion and proposed
a division of territory between the
National Textile Workers Union and
the United Textile Workers. Hoff-
man admitted that the possibility
of the N. T. w. coming into Marion
worried him, and he complained Bit
terly about the distribution of leaf
lets about the Charlotte Conference
several days ago. He pleaded with
Poyntz. not to have any more leaf
lets distributed.
Poyntz explained the policy of
the N. T. w. u, the /. l.. D.. and
w. L. Re, to help all strikers every
where in their struggle, to form
united fronts with workers every
where against the bosses and their
agents.
1--WE will do everything in our
power to help the Marion strikers
carry on the fight" Poyntz said
when she returned to Charlotte.
Hoffman said that the N. T. w.
had a place and that it could sue
coed where the U. T. w. had failed,
for instance in Durham where he
had only been able to organize few
skilled workers and not masses of
unskilled, but pleaded that we
should leave him alone"
CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 49,
William Murdoch, vice-president of
the N. I. w. U. who has just re
turned from tour through South
Carolina and Georgia, together with
Sam Phifer, Don Stevens and three
other local organizers, announced
that they distributed un6bn and I.
l.. d. leaflets and organized groups
as a basis for further organization
at Gaffney, Spartanburg, Greenville,
Anderson, Ware Shoals, Pelzer, Pied
mont, s. c., and Athens, Ivey. Star.
Elberton, Eatonton, Macon, Barnes
vile ard Fortyth, Ga. Shop COM
mittees were organized in seven of
these textile centers and a LEGAL of
the N. T. W. U. at Anderson with
nearly 100 members as a beginning,
The groups have arranged for
mass meetings at many of these tex
tile centers. At Greenville, Murdoch
stated, the N. T. w. U. organizers
met with 1853 members of the U. II.
W. who are Disguised by the deser-
ton Of the U. T. w. officials. These
1853 members asked the N. T. w. u.
! organizers to return on the 18th, and
if the U. r. w. organizers have not
returned, they said, they will join the
N. I. W. U. Murdoch stated that
he found wages somewhat lower in
Georgia and South Carolina than in
North Carolina, tho average wage
being about $40.
"The speed-up system there is