The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
The War in Happy Valley" Tennessee


notorious American Ganzsto Corporation plant at Eliza
bethon have quit their work places and established their
battle lines against their enemythe mill owners, who
calling for the bullets and bayonets of the state militia
1.-THE South" speaking through its Chambers of Com
its Rotary Club and the Ku Kux Khan has heraded
to the world that the land of mo strikes of 100 Per
Cent Americans which intended to safe invest
ments and huge profits. The flames of sweeping
Happy Valley oblteratng this promise This in
evitabe
The new slave-owners and drivers of labor in "The
South" do not know the mete of the socaed innocent
ignorant hbes being transmitted into industrial serfs
they have faith in their hgpressre propaganda
intended to draw in capital not only from the North but also
European and other countries The Ganzsoff plant
like of the mills in the Passac strike said to have
international, especially German connections.
The Southern mountaineer drawn into modern industry
has often shown his courage and daring the baefeds
of the class This has been notably true of the West
Virginia coal fields, especially the historic march of
miners of Mngo County under the hungry machine guns
and clouds of poison gas of aeets against them by
the federal government at Washington Hundreds of
could be erected up and down Paint and Cabin Creeks
along the Kanaha River in memory of heroic working
class deeds against the guns of mine armed guards
Cossacks and federal troops.
An especially brilliant page in Southern labor history
has been the fighting side by side of Negro with white work
in the coal fields of Alabama the only shameful blot
being that the white workers have too often the hour of
crisis deserted their Negro comrades the hope of winning
some advantage for themselves.
struggle that blazes through Happy Valley Ten
therefore has the heritage of long and brave
sstance already waged by those who have these many
been coming down out of the hills and the mountains
The strikers of Eizabehton have need of every tough
snew they boast The huge machine of capitalist OPP
preston the goied Hoover business efficiency regime
arayed against them against other revolving worker
and poor farmer in the entire land Rifle and machine gun
fire. poison gas the armored tanks the employ
ing class to their many and just grievances
The factory serfs of Happy Voey" suffer from the
long workday excrucatng toll of &c to 70 hours weekly
men, 10 hours day and Sc hours weekly for girls and
women
They agonize under the peculiar industrial diseases that
afct them partially blinded by acid fumes chest and lung
troubles developing from the etherzed atmosphere the
dreaded tuberculosis finding fertile soil and helpless victims
everywhere.
They continually torn on the rack of low and
the high living maddened by the meager pay that
does not provide the bare necessities of life
No wonder there has been explosion the mills of
Happy Valley with the prospect that the strike will
spread the nghboring plant of the American Beberg
Corporation.
Here is an opportunity for the new National Textile
Workers Union plant itself astrde the Southern industrial
battlefield where its forces have been practically
up to the present time said that the fascist berayer
of the United Textile Workers Union, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor the ground trying to
win the confidence of the strikers This is of course cha
lenge to every militant in the labor movement who must
recognize that strength by the reaction used to
smash the resistance of the workers wherever asserts
itself The mill workers of Happy Valley Tennessee must
understand the treason of the United Textile Workers Union
at New Bedford and Fall River in Massachusetts, at Passai
New Jersey, and in multitude of other battles 1t must
not now be allowed to write the black page "The
South"
Negro workers must everywhere be drawn into the
leadership well into the membership Of every Southern
strike struggle On this issue alone the F. of L. traitors
will expose their hostility to the fighting unity of the
working class.
Women and youth labor must also be drawn into leader
ship and membership Sixty per cent of the mill workers
Happy Valley" women. They subject to
greater exploitation than the They capable of great
resistance quick to sacrifice in extremity brave in
combat courageous in working class spirit aring will
to victory 1t would be grave in this in all strug
ges not to draw workers fully into the leadership
Capitalist industry has boasted and still exults the