The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
The Task of the Convention of the National
Textile Workers Union mobilize
for STRUGGLED"

The Annual Textile Workers
Union beginning its twday session Saturday Dec 21
j. of rcass Importance for the working class
Conceived and born the strikes of the
Passaic and New Bedford the NTWU maturity
ganr and leader the heroic struggles
in and around Gastonia, N. c.
1t the loyalty of the workers and
courage which made impossible for the textile gov
ernmen to murder the leaders of the NTWU the electric chair
after the defense of the union headquarters Gasonia the night
of June in which chief of police They from
II to 20 in prison and their defense the strength the
WI and other militant sections of the working
The NTWU at the time of its by
one OF its leaders The sharpening class struggle produced other
among leadership but the rank and file
faered The NTWU strong enough repair all internal dam
the necessary for its task of organizing and
leading the million workers in the industry
The against the opportuns major point
conventions order of business That struggle already victorious
far individual right leaders
to fight against opportun deaons the daily
work struggles of the
The convention meets just as the leadership of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor and especially the socaed wing
Textile Workers planning berayas of the Southern workers
struggle
duced the capitalists to call in their agents
deavor to check the developing struggles
THE of NT.WU city
itself growing strike movement In Illinois thousands of
striking under the leadership of the National Miners
like the NTWU to the Trade Union Unity League the American
section Of the Red International of Labor Unions The used
the N WU convention preparatonsMobze for Struggles
clearly and ebodes the perspective of class and Party
for this period.
South, against
by the open challenge to Southern and Its agents
in the demand of Party for full social economic and political
South
united class struggle For the whole working class this
is N achievement of historical Importance
The NTWU convention will give another working class reply
fascist council and its of increased robbery and
Based demands the abolition of the speedup and
$50 week tsef proof of the low
level the entire Industry equal for and bo
child labor the 7hou the 5day week. the union will
lead big sections of the workers and lay the
basis for general strike in the industry.
industry csis-nationay and internationally In the
than 2OOO textile workers unempoyda
of the number of workers the industry
The convention will have deal with the struggle against unempo
immediate takis has to organize unemployed well
employed workers.
The situation the industry integral part of the deepening
the United States the tremendous tasks that the
imperative that the convention elect leadership
trained struggle More rank and file work
should elected the National Council and broad collective
directing center established.
the first days of the recruiting
Party The convention and the hundreds of workers
will be attracted it, become recruiting ground for
militant textile workers Party Communists
Workers Union This will be the best
that the NTWU will be able through its revolutionary
organizer million textile the
United States