The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-21
Dailu -. Worker
Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. A.
Hymn Books and Bibles

soon as the striking textile workers of Marion North
Carolina were face to face with the problem of dealing
with imported scabs they treated to splendid example
Of the new progressive" Music leadership personfed in
Alfred Hoffman organizer for the United Textile Workers
Union.
When in order to protect the 400 imported scabs, the
agents of the mill owners called state militia ntim-
idate the 1000 strikers Hoffman Immediately rushed into
the capitalist press with statement endeavorng to justify
the presence of the troops Instead issuing cahing
denuncaton of the scabherders and rkebreakers this
worthy assaled workers with the following gem of mill
tant leadership:
advised the union workers against violence and have
hymn books and bibles instead of black
jacks and clubs"
All honor to the workers who scorned such advice and
hooted down Hoffman! The Marion strikers nstinctivey
reacted against this treachery Few of them however will
realize the utter pery of Hoffman and connect up with
the outfit of progressves in the American Fed
Grafton of Labor This group Matched in the Brook
wood college collaboration function to per-
FORM try halt the rising tide of working class hatred
against the bureaucracy of the American Federation Of La
bor by spreading illusions to the effect that the Music op
position will force the old officiadom to adopt mill
tant policy.
No avoWed reaconay leader of labor could go farther
than Hoffman did in trying mpute to strikers RESPONSE
bly for violence instead of branding the mill the
scab the police and the militia meters of violence Hoff
wants prove to his capitalist masters that he will aid
them their efforts render the workers harmless by
preaching non-resstance in the face of the most vicious
provocaton. He wants workers to have faith capitalist
nstitutions-aws, courts, police militia Resortng to the
pompous preaching of his choomaste the Rev. A j. Music
dean of BrookwOod the alma mater of Hoffman, this
called textile leader tells workers. when faced with murder
assaults of the enemy class to carry hymn books and
bibles Instead of fighting to resist wagecus and the speed
up here they should out their lives while enduring star
walton wages in the hope of obtaining pay checks the
bank of heaven He doesn't strikers to resist
murder did the Gastonia strikers He doesn't want
other Gastonia Had he been in Gasona and able to
induce the workers to adopt his policies there would be
Gastona today because the Gasona workers would
have been drowned their blood before the mudeous
attacks the hirengs Of the mill owners the hired
derers would be walking the streets awaiting opportunity
to repeat their performance at the first opportunity.
Fortunately the Gastonia workers resisted and they
alive today and the movement of the working class
that is being modified in behalf of the Gatona defendants
throughout the world must their return to the ranks
of labor where they again take the fight to help free
the labor movement of the agents of the capitalist class who
tell workers to refrain from defending themselves against
the murderous attacks of the BOSSES