The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-05
LABOR DEFENSE
DEMANDS TROOPS
LEAVE MARION
Urges Workers Reject
Hoffman's Sell-out
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But the mill barons refused even
this last demand, which the state
supported. Thereupon, the dynamite
frame-ups took place, and the gov
ernor sent in the militia in accord
ance with the demand of the bosses
to break the strike.
Hoffman has abandoned the
struggle. He is not making any
effort to resist the attacks of troops
and police upon the workers and
their homes and picket lines. Hoff-
man has nothing but pacifist pro-
grams, appealing to enlightened"
capitalists and the state for sup
port of the U. T. w. class collab-
grafton policy of industrial peace.
But He Sent Troops.
The Southern Capitalist papers
are printing edit trials denouncing
the class war program of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union and
praising Hoffman for his conserva-
tism and reasonableness and crit
icizing the Marion mill owners for
not accepting the program of the
U. T. W. and lauding Governor
Gardner for arbitration. Gardner
said a short time ago he would not
send troops to protect the mills of
the bosses who refuse arbitration,
but nevertheless he did so when
agents provocateurs pulled off the
dynamite frame-ups.
Hoffman's Surrender.
Now Hoffman bases his strategy
on the excuse that the capitalist
class and its state are trying to
force the Marion bosses to accept
the U T. w. program of arbitration
and class collaboration, and he is
therefore abandoning resistance to
attacks of the bosses agents, and
abandoning mass picketing, the
workers most effective weapon.
/. l.. D. Urges Fight.
Poyntz stated today upon return
from Marion that: "The L L. D. is
ready to secure bail, legal aid, and
mass support for the defense of the
Marion strikers, victimized by
bosses, state and U. T. W. bureau
Gratis. The 1. L. D. calls upon the
strikers to resist the strike-breaking
maneuvcrs of the bosses, their gov
eminent and the labor takers, to
resume mass picketing, to continue
to fight against the stretch-out sys-
tenn and starvation wages. We call
upon all Southern workers to or
ganize for their defense, to build up
a powerful militant union and the
IL. D. as the shield of the workers
in their struggles"
Especial to the Daily Worker)
MARION, N. c. (By MaiD-"La-
Dor Day" in Marion, which had been
widely heralded as a statewide
demonstration of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor could better be
described as a funeral celebration
by the United Textile Workers lead
ership.
The town was completely occupied
by the national guard sent in by
Governor Gardner on Friday, follow
ing the fake bomb plots of Thurs
day. Staggering drunken troops
rolled through the streets of Marion
and settled along the highroad, hold
ing up and searching machines and
individuals. Their success in driving
back the picket lines on Saturday
with guns and bayonets had given
them extra nerve and there were
rrophesies of repetitions of the Gas
tonia affair when they would try
to stop the strikers from parading.
Yield to Troops.
Hoffman and the "strike leaders"
of the U.T.W., however, did this job
for them by calling off the dem
onstration scheduled and giving ap
all resistance, yielding completely
to the intimidation of the military.
The much-advertised cavalcade of
the North Carolina Federation of
Labor officials did not materialize
in force, and was allowed to pass
after it was discovered to contain
food not agitators."
Hoffman has been mailing speech
es to the strikers, telling them
that the soldiers came into the stu
alton as their friends, etc. These
cowardly pacifist maneuvers to break
up the militant resistance of the
strikers to the interference of the
armed forces and to prevent their
opposition to the military is de-
signed to play into the hands of
the mill bosses, and the state gov
ernment's strikebreaking plans. They
are also to save the skin of Hoffman