The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
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struggle, on Friday evening, Deem
Der 20, with a great demonstration
for the seven Gastonia prisoners, is
convention of class struggle. The
delegates, coming from the mills and
the mill towns of American capital
ism, are all fresh from actual strug-
gle. For there is no district of the
N.T.W.U. that has not been engaged
in constant struggle during the past,
year. The delegates bring from the
masses the message and the spirit
of struggle; they come with one
united purpose-the preparation of
greater and sharper struggles
against the speed-up and wage cuts,
and the inhuman conditions of work,
against the treachery of the A. F.
of L. against the schemes of Ameri-
can imperialism to plunge them into
World War upon the Soviet Union,
and for great drive that will es-
tablish their union as power in the
textile mills, and that will win for
them good working and living condi-
tions.
The N.T.W.U. that now goes into
the Second Convention is a far diff
ferent union from what it was at
it's first convention a little more than
year ago. At the time of the First
Convention the N.T.W.U. had estab-
lished itself only in Passaic and
New Bedford. In the short space
of one year it has become a mass
union of the textile workers in the
United States, established in the
most important textile centers. The
N.T.W.U. has broken open the South
for the whole revolutionary labor
movement in the United States and
has conducted there a struggle
(still in it's first stage) that is one
of the most bitterly fought and he
roic class battles in the history of
the American labor movement. In
Paterson, the N.T.W.U. smashed
the Musteite union of the silk in
dustry and established mass work
ers' union that has been fighting
dozens of sharp strikes, and that
has advanced into the big silk CEN
tiers of Pennsylvania. There the
N.T.W.U. has broken fresh ground,
building strong organizations in the
Allentown region and in the Anthra-
cite. In the Anthracite the N.T.W.U.
has led strikes in Wilkes Barre and
in Scranton. Spreading from New
Bedford, where the union has been
growing more powerful, mill locals
have been established in important
New England centers from western
Massachusetts, around Ludlow and
Easthampton, to New Hampshire in
Manchester and Nashua.
At this convention the N.T.W.U.
stands in the midst of period of
large scale struggles opening up in
every section Of the industry. The
workers are moving into offensives
against their exploiters. A general
silk strike involving $4,000 workers
in Paterson and the silk centers of
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, and the development of
a general struggle in the Southern
cotton mills confront the union i'm
mediately after the convention.
The convention fights against all
renegades from its ranks and
against all deviations from the clear
class struggle line that must bring
victory to the textile section of the
Trade Union Unity League. The
convention is firmly determined to
overcome any shortcomings. in the
leadership of the union, to correct
its errors, to analyze mercilessly the
opportunist and right-wing tenden-
cies of the Weisbords, Dawsons and
Kellers, so that it will be able to
stand in the forefront of the textile
struggles and provide a genuine