The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-21
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| burden OF the present industrial crl-
sis on the working class.
AS an affiliated union of the Trade
Union UNITY League = the Amer
lean Section Of the Red Information
al of Labor Unions and in accord
with our duty as workers, we must
rally the workers in our industry
for the struggle against capitalist
naturalization and the imperialist
war danger.
/ Practical Steps
This is our main task.
Practical steps for carrying on
this struggle must be taken by our
convention.
2. The organization of the work
ers in the textile industry j Negro
and white - into our militant union
is the basic method Of enabling the
textile workers to carry on the
struggle against naturalization. I'M
employment, the war danger and for
defense of the Soviet Mon. Our
union must organize and lead all
struggles of the textile workers.
8. The will of the masses to strug-
gle against increased robbery and
oppression increases at a rapid rate.
The wage-cutting offensive of the
bosses has already started. 1t will
become nationwide. The pressure on
workers is becoming unbearable. We
must make the fight against wage
cuts the rallying slogan for mass
struggles.
a. Since our last convention we
have won the leadership of impor-
tant struggles, especially in the
South. Following its classic policy
of suppression the American CAPT
talist class and it's government have
jailed our most loyal members and
sentenced them to living death in
prison. At the same time, in North
and South Carolina, fascist terror
was organized against our union.
Only the mass protest of hundreds
of thousands of workers in the Unit
ed States and other countries saved
the lives of our comrades and only
the support of the working class
enables our union to withstand the
drive of the bosses and their gov
eminent and come out stronger than
before.
S. The heroic defense of our I'M
ion headquarters in Gastonia on the
night of June 7 by our members
and the carrying forward of the
campaign for their liberation by our
union and the International Labor
Defense under the slogan of the
right of workers to self-defense
against the armed attacks of bosses
gunner, troops, and deputy sher-
ifs, and the other armed forces of
capitalist government, while at the
same time we intensified our organ
ization campaign, has been a ire
mendous source of inspiration to the
whole American working class and
more than any other struggle has
definitely established the National
Textile Workers Union as the mill
tant leader of the exploited work.
ers of the South and North.
Held to Correct Course
6. In the severe struggles it has
led, our union has had to encounter
and overcome the most serious de-
partures from the line of the Trade
Union Unity League, the program
of the Red International of Labor
Unions, and our own special policy
and tactics for the textile industry,
on the part of section of the form
err union leadership.
Albert Weisbord, former secretary
of our union, opposed our whole
policy in the South and in particular
the slogan of the right of workers
to self-defense. He fought publicly
against the line of our union, and
resigned his post right at the peak
of the struggle in and around Cas-
tonia. 1t was necessary to remove
him.
Ellen Dawson, a former member
of the executive board, not only
failed to carry out the instructions
of the executive board but wrote an
article against our union in an enemy
paper.
Eli Keller, who replaced Weisbord
as secretary, supported Dawson
against our union and failed to carry
out the tasks assigned to him.
1t has been necessary for the ex-
ecutive board to take the necessary
disciplinary steps against these ele-
ments to protect the integrity and
unity Of our union.
y The impermissable position
taken by these elements springs from
their lack of faith in the working
class and in their failure to under
stand the great radicalizing effect
upon the working class, and especi-
ally the terribly exploited textile
workers, of capitalist naturalization
and the burden Of the increasing mil
itary preparations of Wall Street
government.
The great tasks which face our
union as the leader of the struggles
of the textile workers cannot be car
ried out unless we at the same time
struggle against, expose and deprive
of their power to do harm, all such |
elements as those mentioned.
=. Fight Opportunism.
Opportunism is the deadly enemy
of the textile workers as it is of the |
whole working class. Our line is
the line of the class struggle in this
epoch when the class