The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Fhe "New Civil War" I'm the South.

Fhe "New Civil War" In the South.
The strike wave in the textile mills of the South
nues to spread New strikes are declared almost daily in the
100 mile strip of land the area that along the
sections of the Caronas the Blue Ridge Noun
tans This is the of the New Civil War; in the South
the against the most modern methods of oppression i'm
posed upon the working class.
1t is clear that these strikes in the South demonstrate
the beginnings of of struggles against
tionazaon the speedup with its accompanying worsening
conditions lowering of and continuation of the long
worday In the present period the southern workers
leading textile labor in the north in the fight against
tionalzaton The ManveJenckes Co., that is combating
the revolt of its 5000 workers at Gastoa North Carolina
also has large mill in Rhode Island where the workers
sueny at their tasks after their last defeat before
the bayonets of the state militia
The developing strike struggles in the South draw
ing into the labor movement and important section
of the working Labor in the South has been almost
entirely neglected by the American Federation of Labor
There local unions of the building trades in the big
cities also organizations the railroads But that
ALL Every attempt to organize the textile workers. the coal
miners other sections of the working class in the South
A. F. of L. has only become the basis brazen be-
traya Here tremendous field therefore, for the left
wing industrial unions. The National Textile Workers Union
especially is facing and taking advantage of great OPP
portunity in the Carolinas. Success in the South will
strengthen its efforts to organize the mill workers in the
North and really bring into existence militant,
ganization of textile workers
1t is precisely in the South where the Communist Party
and the unions have had but little foothod in the past
that they today finding tremendous opportunities in the
extension and sharpening of the class struggle.
The Open Letter of the Communist International to the
Sixth Congress of Party reviewed these prospects very
clearly. 1t is pointed out that
the development of productive forces the basis of
technical transformation and of the forms of organization of
labor increasing antagonms
limited hone markets and consequently further deepening
and sharpening of the crisis of capitalism and
diminution liquidation of that the of
American imperialism pretend"
Recent developments the Southern mills bear out that
section of the Open Letter that says:
"The fact great ficatio arising
from technical Development and capitalist naturalization
pressed speeding of the and the
machinery extreme cowdng of the working day. in ter
speeding the workers by of the bonus system
which the wearing of the workers and their being
the than the hitherto and
dimnution the number
industries gives tremendous growth of
the central problems of the entire
working class and thus acquiring the greatest political
significance"
The present Southern experience shows that huge
masses of American workers be rallied to struggle
against the overstran labor and the onstrou growth of
exploitation 1t is in this situation that the enthusiastic
overwhelming demand is made for the 40hour week in
place the so the 72hour week that has hitherto pre-
vailed.
The Party as whole the basis of these concrete
developments in the South will better realize that the fail
ure to understand the significance of the development of
technique and capitalist naturalization entails underes
nation of the revolutionary perspecves and particularly
underestmaon of the further prospects of the radcaza
ton of the working class"
The first successes of the Party in leading
ficts in the mining textile and needle trades situations
especially are convincing indications that will greater
successes in the future it understands and correctly in
terprets the basic features of the present situation
Il The New Civil War; in the South indicates the rich
possibilities for the rapid growth of Communist Party
in the United States Of America