The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-18

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ton of industrial locals in the large
cities, as in the past.
The present tour of Frank is
largely for the purpose Of building
industrial league organizations.
Building for Conventions
The tour of Harper and Buckly,
now going on, is directed particu-
larly to the shoe and textile indus
tries, and will build up representa-
ton to the national conventions in
those two industries. The shoe work
ers' national convention will prob
ably be in February. The tour of
Cush is directed into the mining and
steel industries. There will soon be
a national convention call by the
National Miners Union, and it is in
tended to make this a broad mass,
organizational convention, to extend
the influence of the union far be-
yond its present bounds. There is a
functioning steel committee already
established in Pittsburgh, which held
a conference recently, and will pro-
coed with further work.
Labor Traitors.
In its struggle to organize the I'M
organized, the national board found
the T. U. U. L. faced, not only
with the bitter opposition of the
bosses and the capitalist state, which
already increased all possible ter
roristic and oppressive measures, re-
sorting to arrests, sedition charges,
frame-up, murder charges against
workers who defended themselves
against attempts of bosses gunner
to slaughter them, as well as an in
creasing possibility of murder by
such gunner, but also by certain
elements posing as part of the labor
movement, and betraying it. The
A. F. L. with its recent Washington
conference on the South shows an
increased assassination.
The A. F. of L. Washington con-
ference indicated the determination
of the A. F. L., its United Textile
Workers. Union, and the southern
employers to unite to smash, if
possible, the victorious drive of the
National Textile Workers Union in
the South.
A special statement, exposing the
role of the A. f. L., particularly
in the South, will be issued by the
T. U. U. L. national board.
Music, Cannon. Lovestone.
The Music movement, a pseudo
progressive campaign, will be fought
and exposed. The board found that
within the T. U. U. L. organization
itself, a decadent, opportunist sec
ton existed, not affecting the
masses of the membership, but CEN
tering around certain followers of
Lovestone and Cannon, which was
capable of causing the workers
some trouble and spreading con-
fusion. These reformist Cannon
and Lovestone elements resist the
class war policies of the T. U. U. L.,
object to the int"nsification of the
struggle against the employers, OPP
pose the struggle for a workers
and farmers government, etc. In
each union they propose policies GER
tain to lead to defeat, as for in
stance, Watts program of splitting
the National Miners Union and
centering the fight on the U. M.
w. A. instead of against the OPP
orators, his dealings with such
traitors to the militant movement
as Hapgood, Howatt and others.
The board decided on general
policy of exposing these elements
and showing cheir real purpose to
the rank and file, confident that
when their true activities are
brought out into the open, theii
demogogic and hvpocritical phrases
will not delude the masses of the
workers, and the program of the
opportunists to pitt and paralyze
the workers mass movements will
fail.
The board did not finish its
agenda. The magnitude of the
tasks before l., end the great pos.
sibilities of mass movements under
the leadership of the T. U. U. l.
we're seen on closer inspection to be
more than could be considered il
single session. The important
matter of reports and programs fol
the separate unions and industries
Of the departments, of the interna
ticnal work of the T. U. U. L. with
tn, exception IF the textile unior
(on which a separate article will
follow Editor, were left. for a
session to starr at 5 }. m. Thurs.
day, in the national office, 2 w
18th st. The meeting Saturday wa
attended by nearly all the board
members.
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