The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
New York Workers
IN Big Struggles
Needle, Shoe, Food, Silk, Dye and Other ToiIers
Show Fighting Spirit

same issues ana cOnQlClOnS. NOC Tor
nothing did Governor Roosevelt send
greetings to the company union CON
vention of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union, which was
held in Cleveland. Not for nothing
did Lieutenant Governor Lehman,
Governor Cooper of Ohio and the
mayor of Cleveland, greet the con-
vention. Not for nothing did Schles-
niger in Cleveland offer the same
hand of cooperation to the manufac-
turers, that Green Offered the blood
stained manufacturers of the South
the manufacturers whose hire
lings murdered the textile workers
of Marion, N. C.
The bloody hand of Schlesinger,
bloody with the life-blood of many
needle trades workers, bloody with
all the treachery that the 1. L. G.
w. U. and the socialist party have
practiced against the workers,
bloody with the sell-outs that he and
his treacherous colleagues have
been guilty of-the murderous
treachery of the social-fascist So
cialist party and its pious clergy
men, shyster lawyers and sons Of
Wall Street bankers.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union will lead the fight de-
spite the state, the police, the gang
sters and the social-fascists. They
will fight against these odds, for
their recent history is one of fight
and their leadership today is not
that Of the corrupt brood that hob
nobs with governors, bankers, ETC.,
but in the main Communist leader
ship.
The workers of the silk and dye
industry of Paterson are preparing
to struggle. In this "elite" industry,
where exploitation always has been
intense, the conditions are fearful.
Men, women and young workers
all Of them are suffering from the
indescribably low wages and long
hours that prevail Mass unemploy-
ment that lowers the wages to the
lowest level, with much part-time
work. This is the industry that is
now preparing for the fight that
must develop into national strug-
gle, struggle that may not be con-
fined to the silk industry alone, but
spring over into the entire textile
industry.
Silk Strike Developing.
In Paterson the bloodhounds of
the capitalist class of this country
and of Great Britain are prosecuting
the Hindu workers.
The workers, organized into the
National Textile Workers Union,
are preparing for the battle. They
know their, enemies-the state, the
manufacturers, the A. f. of l.. and
it's cleft" wing, the Musteites, those
who sold out the workers in Marion,
N. c., and Eliaa3ethton, Tenn.
They are going into the struggle
with courage, knowing that the
Trade Union Unity League will mo-
Billie the workers Of the entire
country for their struggle. They
know that their Communist leader
ship will lead them correctly, for
the Communists in this union, as in
the others, have necessary courage
and policy.
Revolt Against A. F.. l..
Not only these workers are pre-
pairing to fight. In the A. F. of l..
itself, there is deep. discontent-in
the building trades, where there
has been mass unemployment; in
the metal industry, more unemploy-
ment. With mass unemployment,
speed-up, slashes of wages and in
creases of hours, the workers are
beginning to realize that they must
fight or give in. But with Com
munist leadership, the workers are
being modified not to surrender
despite the strength Of the power
full enemies and their allies-but to
fight.
Our Fighting Organ.
The Daily Worker which in the
past played its part in the struggle,
helping to mobilize and organize
the workers, must play a more sig
nificant part. 1t must go to the
remote parts of the district and
country, it must reach the Eng
disappearing workers and convey
to them the message of the fighting
Communist Party. 1t must and we
know it will take to them the mes
sage Of the fight for organization
not only for better conditions to-
day, but for the demolition Of the
system that makes this struggle
necessary.
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