The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19
SEES new union
Center AS BEST
Way TO FIGHT
Labor Rising Against
Speed-up, Low Wages

Trade Union Educational League Tor
the Trade Union Unity Convention
to be held in Cleveland, Ohio on
June 1, is contained in a statement
issued yesterday by the National
Executive Committee of ;e National
Textile Workers Union, signed by
Albert Weisbord, national secretary
treasurer.
The statement calls attention to
the increased exploitation of the
workers, inhuman speed-up and
wage-cuts and the permanent I'M
employment of thousands of textile
workers. 1t points out the constant
danger of imperialist war directed
against the Soviet Union, and the
reactionary and scabbing role of the
A. F. of L. officialdom.
Immediate Steps.
The National Textile Workers
Union calls upon the new fighting
unions to build a fighting trade
union center for the common fight
against the American capitalists
and the A T. of L. officialdom.
With the aim of cooperating fully
in making the Trade Union Unity
Convention a success the N. I. w. U.
instructs every one of its locals to
distribute leaflets in the neighbor-
ing mills; at the next meeting of
the union to have a full discussion
en- the coming convention; to elect
a delegate to the convention; to work
out ways and means for raising
funds for the delegates elected; to
see to it that in every mill, organized
and unorganized, there is mill COM
nittee that will send delegate to
the convention.
Statement of n. T. w. U.
The statement follows:
The National Executive Commit
tee of the National Textile Workers
Union of America has endorsed the
call of the Trade Union Educational
League for the election of delegates
to constitute the Trade Union Unity
Convention to meet in the city of
Cleveland, Ohio, 10 a. M, June /,
1929, and conclude on June End.
Danger of War.
A tremendous increase in the eX-
ploitation of the workingclass of the
United States is taking place. For
us this means inhuman speed-up,
wage cuts, longer hours, permanent
mass unemployment of hundreds of
thousands of textile workers. At
the same time the greedy textile
barons and other capitalists are en-
tering into the sharpest struggle
for world markets and in order to
grab these markets are preparing to
plunge US into new world war,
first and foremost against our
brothers in Soviet Russia, and the
Soviet Union, and second against the
English and other capitalists who
are the rivals of our American
bosses.
While conditions are steadily
growing worse for the textile work.
ers, making it all the more necessary
for us to fight back, we see, in our
own ranks stool-pigeons for the
bosses, the officials of the American
Federation of Labor, posing as "la-
Dor leaders," but really confusing
the workers with the aim to break
up their ranks and sell them out. We
saw the American Federation of La
Dor and other yellow misleaders do
this is Passaic, in New Bedford, in
Fall River, in Paterson, and else
where in other industries. The
American Federation of Labor Off
cialdom whether openly reaction
ary'' or posing as progressive"
have become thoroughly exposed as
the worst enemies of the working
class.
Workers Answer
However, the worsening situation
for the workers has brought forth
number of sharp class struggles of
the unorganized masses. In the
course of these struggles already
three new unions have been born
the National Miners Union, the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, and our union, the National
Textile Workers Union.
1t is now time for these new
fighting unions on the initiative of
the Trade Union Educational League
to get together with all other fight
ing groups to build some sort Of
fighting trade union center where
we can help each other in our COM
mon fight against the American
capitalists for the organization of
the unorganized, for a fight against
the stool-pigeon American Fedora
ton of Labor officialdom, and for
real class struggle policy.
1t has been decided that the basis
Of representation shall be as fol-
lows: Follows the plan of repre-
sentation outlined in the call of the
Trade Union Educational League),
Let us elect our delegates and
agitate for the Unity Convention!
Fight against wage-cuts, against
the speed-up and for shorter hours!
Fight against the social-im-
perialist A. +. of l.. bureaucracy!
Fight for social insurance, against
unemployment, disability, and old
age!
Organize the unorganized into new
unions!
Build the New Trade Union Gen.