The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-13

Wycckdge of a heavily loa
Sir 9CorkerS acre killed. "Offici
UeTdict.
South, the militancy and determine
ton with which the NTWU has con-
tinued and extended its organization
campaign, the representative char
acter of the Bessemer City textile
workers conference, the splendid re-
Spouse to the call for the Charlotte
conference and its program for a
sweeping mass movement of organ
ization and struggle for the S-hour
day, against the stretch-out system
throughout the South-all these de-
velopments, occurring in the short
space of six months, have convinced
the capitalist class of the South that
just as it learned about indu5trializa-
ton from its Northern kinsmen, so
! must it learn to use against the
Southern proletariat industrializa-
ton has brought into being, the
same weapons used by its class
brothers in-arms.
The use of traitors in the ranks
of the enemy is a recognized mill
tary necessity. In all struggles
traitors appear and are used - and
no where more than in the class
struggle. The class struggle has
burst upon the new ruling class of
the South suddenly and found it
unprepared, with speed intended
to make up for its past careless
ness, Southern capitalism, repre-
sented by the Southern trade union
bureaucracy, has prepared in Raj
eigh a rousing welcome for the
trusted traitors in the ranks of the
American workers, traitors whose
qualifications for the role they play
have been vouched for by discrimi-
mating patrons Andrew Mellon,
for instance.
All Set.
The wedding will take place. For
mally it has already taken place.
1t neds only to be consummated.
The feeble bride must be strength
ened for the ordeal. Her spirits
must be raised and her anemic form
made beautiful for the bridegroom.
So there will be wine, and trump
eters, and flowers at the wedding
feast, and gay garments aplenty.
There will also be rewards for
the lessed servitors and promises
Of still greater rewards for those
who will wear proudly the shame
full livery of the new capitalism's
lackeys.
The marriage covenant?
1t reads as follows:
l. The convention is to be the
rallying center for the mobilization
of all agents of the textile mill
owners and their allies - in
the ranks of the Southern working
class. 1t is to initiate a movement,
not for the organization of the tex
tile workers but against their or
ganization. The convention is to
lay the basis for an intensive drive
against the N. T. w. U. and the
Communists which is to be the first
step in a campaign designed to
throttle the whole movement of the
working class revolt in the South.
Try Strengthen Z. T. w.
2. The convention, in connection
with the above main line, is making
every effort to strengthen the U.
7. w. in North Carolina, and con-
sequently throughout the South, so
that it can become a more effec-
tive weapon in the hands of the
mill owners.
3. The convention will attempt to
organize an immediate offensive
against the N. T. w. u, as the
leader of the struggle in the strong
hold of the cotton spinning indus
try, in connection with the coming
trial for the murder of 13 members
and organizers of the N. T. w. u,
and in connection with the mass
convention of textile workers from
all over the South which is to
meet October 1918.
A. The convention is to endorse
the closer working of the state fed
Grafton officials with the executive
council of the A. f. of L. and to
agree that the state federation will
hereafter follow closely the program
and ms .ructions of this agency of
Wall Street in the labor movement.
Music Satellite.
5. The Music group - His Mellon
Majesty Green's loyal opposition =
represented in the convention by
Hoffman, is to refrain from open
criticism of the APATHY" of the A.
F. of L. leadership and to endorse
It h ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
speed up system, denounce the Com
munists and the N. r. w. U. and
thereby cleanse itself of any lin
gering suspicion that it has any hes
itation about taking up an openly
strike breaking role. Capitalists
are cautious folk. Why they should
have any doubts about the trust
worthiness of these most valuable
recruits is hard to understand after
the betrayals in Elizabethton and
Ware Shoals. Perhaps they are