The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-21
NTWU DRIVES ON
FROM CHARLOTTE
Conferences Show UT.
w. Is Bitterly Hated

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the bosses from electrocuting our
% defendants and to extend cur
organization throughout the South.
The period that has elapsed from
the first conference to the second
conference takes US far ahead with
our work going forward against all
opposition. Since the first confer
ence we have smashed the electric
chair of the bosses. We have ex-
tended our organization throughout
the main textile centers of the South
in all the five states and we have
forced the bosses Of CASTOR County,
the center of the cotton-spinning
industry to reduce the hours of work
from 60 to 55 hours.
From Here We Go On.
"The Charlotte Conference lays
the basis on which to consolidate
this force into weapon to win our
demands and to free our seven
members from the clutches of the
textile bosses and their government.
"The Charlotte conference was
attended by delegates from states
a total of 338 delegates from It's
mills in 65 textile cities throughout
the South. These delegates repre-
scented mill locals of the N. T. w. U.
rank and file committees of the
United Textile Workers from South
Carolina, mill committees of unor-
ganized workers and representatives
from an independent textile workers
organization. Nine of the delegates
were from the U. T. w. and three of
the delegates were Negro workers.
The youth delegates held special
conference in connection with cur
two day meeting.
Workers Make Plans.
"The conference clearly showed
that this was a meeting of southern
textile workers, all American-born
workers who took the leading part
in planning the work of the confer
ence and its program Of action. Dele
gates from the Danville, Va, area,
delegates from Tennessee, delegates
from the Atlanta, Ga, area, dele
gates from the Greenville area and
the Gastonia area, the Greensboro
area and other sections, took the
floor on discussion and carried the
convention through the two days
sessions with facts and figures Of
the prison conditions in the mills.
All the delegates stressed the need
of powerful organizatino and all
of these delegates said, one after
the other that the National Textile
Workers Union must me the organ
ization.
Delegates from many sections
told of U. T. w. betrayals and that
now they were fighting for the n.
T. w. U. The two Negro members
of the Labor Jury spoke and were
received by thedelegates with great
applause. The delegates urged the
unity of the black and white work
ers.
"The first conference, the Besse-
mer City conference was mainly a
preliminary conference to lay the
basis for organizational activity
throughout the south and was an
agitational conference. The Char
lotte Conference was a much broad
err affair, with representatives from
greater number of mills with elect
ed delegates representative of a
greater number of workers-this
second conference was an organiza-
tional conference.
! Bosses Hopes Dashed.
"The Raleigh Observer, in a first
page article few days before the
conference, said that the Charlotte
conference would be mark to in
dictate what the strength Of the Com
munists might be-" and would in
form us if they were on the decline
The paper predicted that the con
ference would show us up as de-
feated group who were ready to pull
out. The conference proved that we
have grown bigger and stronger
that the bosses terror and murder
and attempt to prison the leaders
did not stop our work. The con-
ference showed that the southern
American workers were themselves
assembling in conference to decide
their problems. 1t showed that the
bosses press which said the prob
lem would be solved if the northern
organizers were run out was another
lie. 1t showed that the southern
workers were in the class struggle