The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-20
The Enemies of the Textile Strikers.

quarters of the National Textile Workers Union and the
food station of the Workers International Relief Gastona
North Carolina
The Nation has sent certain Paul Banshard to the
Caroinas and Tennessee ito write the story of the mill
strikes there This Blanshard quite shocked to witness
Communist spokesman finding favor with the textile work
opposed to aggregation that is described he
Federal Council of Churches the Nation the New Repub
lie and the American Federation of Labor that confines
itself to charity investigation of the mseries of
the Southern mill slaves 1t will be remembered that the
American Federatonist had special edition 1.-THE
South mostly written by southern bourgeois ntelectuas
In its previous issue april 17th), the Nation, that
numbers among its contributing editors Norman Thomas
the late socialist party candidate for president its
warning to the Southern mill barons to be nice to the Amer
lean Federation of Labor since he gravest possibilities of
disorder exist because Communist leaders have organized
branches of the National Textile Workers Union the Ma
tona Guard has been modified the feeling growing
bitter.
because the disorder did not maeraze expect
ed 1t contains in full the advertisement appearing in the
Gastona Daily Gazette under the title Mob Rule Law
and Order In this editorial the masked mob of that
destroyed the union and relief headquarters appealed to
In this fashion:
Men and County, you willing permit
the of the of Ba and his continue preach
the doctrines of Boshevm anywhere in America and especially
herein your midst"
The Nation utters its surprise that strikers were
tared and feathered result of this So Banshard
nues his story by repubshng another broadsde of the
manufacturers under the heading, RED Russanism Lifts
It's Cory Hands Right Here In Gastonia Blanshard had
confess that he of most of the strikers this
advertisement to tear copies of the paper and scat
ter them through the Streets Next Banshard reviews the
eaflet campaign carried by the mill denouncng
the Soviet Union raising the issues of religion and
nationality differences, concluding that:
When this barrage failed the strikers, the
eviction which, this writing,
sympathy the strikers"
Blanshard to be in the confidence of the mill
acquainted with their nnermost thoughts Blan
hard is free lance writer He is of the associate
editors of the berasocas Musteite Nation that sup
ed Snoit last
mention to the editorials and advertisements appear
ing in Gastona and Charlotte papers denouncng the
union Natonal Textile Workers Union) for breaking the
color line and quoting story from the Daily Worker
which described with approval dance of Negroes and
whites" The Nation concludes
As for the Negro strikers there only handful
proportion mill
iron tradition of the South is that white will work the
Here the Nation gives full acquescence to the pref
udices and hatreds the mill seeking
der the cry white supremacy maintain their
supremacy The Nation thus shows clearly to which
capitalist class supremacy The Nation thus shows clearly to
which class it belongs
Banshard processes himself quite surprised the Sub
lime sangroid displayed by the mitants in distributing
the Daily Worker and spread the most highly coored des-
crtons of the sins of the American Federation of Labor
Banshard the preacher with his theories of industrial peace
through the agency of the Federal Council of Churches
almost parayzed at the sight of strikers appealing the
sodery sent against them to, Hep win the strike
Refuse to shoot bayonet fathers brothers the
picket lines Fight with your class, the striking workers.
Banshard calls these dangerous remarks. In such
crisis he points out the employers and the editors of the
region could do nothing else but fall back with touching
soctude upon the American Federation of Labor He de-
clares
Although of the United Textile
Representing the federaOn) the Carolnas this writing
the have hailed with headlines
emanang from New York that the regular union the
field"
Still the threatened disorders did materiaize and
Blanchard came to the conclusion that:
'The in the strike they fighting
for better life They do not know the difference between
union and another and for them Communism is simply
ephet The employers have shouted Wolff Wor
their paroxysms have little effect upon the workers"
The facts give the lie to Blanchard and the Nation.
The disorders The solidarity of the strikers
great for the national militia and the masked mob of
"best citizens that may well have included "iy-
white subscribers of the Nation, took into it's hands
the task of destroying the strikers headquarters
Blanchard declared that the mill workers "are tired
and uneducaed but the employers adj
NIT that they becoming of their degradation
Even the employers the Federal Council of Churches the
Nation the New Republic and the American Federation
Labor admit this.
The fact is that the mill workers becoming aware of
their strength through the right kind organization
under the left wing industrial union leadership offered by
the National Textile Workers Union This they clearly
showed when they rallied Thursday as never before for