The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
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international nature of the present struggle
is entirely underestimated by our membership
as whole and by the main eastern districts
in particular. No attempt to dramatise the
activities of the textile workers in Bombay
Sholapur, or Yorkshire has been made and
certainly nothing has been done to connect up
the struggles of these workers with the strug-
giles of the workers in the textile industry in
this country.
The Atlanta Campaign and Gastona Week.
The determination of the southern textile
manufacturers to go to any extreme in eff
fort to prevent us from organizing the work
ers for struggle does not seem to impress our
various districts. Only in Lawrence, New
Bedford, Providence, New York, Philadelphia,
and the southern districts has any attempt
been made to rally the workers. Only in
Lawrence and New Bedford has any real at
tempt been made to organize the workers on
the anniversary of the raid on the Gastonia
Tent Colony to demand the release of our
comrades in Atlanta. One prominent men,
Der of the Y. c. L. in New York remarked that
it was expected when organizers went South
that they would be killed by the bosses. A
regular example of petty-bourgeois romanti-
cism gone wild. At the meeting held in
Brooklyn on Thursday to take up the ques-
tion of organization of New York textile
workers, the writer was informed that if he
insisted on taking a collection for the Atlanta
campaign that no more workers would come
to our mass meetings. At the demonstration
held in New York on Saturday practically all
of the speakers came late, no committee was
there until more than half hour after the
meeting due to open, no literature was
on sale, not even platform was secured for
the meeting. In Philadelphia the Gastonia,
Atlanta issues were merely tackled on as an
afterthought in the publicity issued in Satur-
days issue of the Daily Worker. In the cities
where our Party has strength they have been
too busy evolving thesis and passing paper
motions to get down to the work of preparing
the Party units and fractions in the textile
industry to take up the main task of the
Party: The mobilization of the Communist
Party forces for the campaign to build the
unions
Opportunism in Practice.
1t is opportunism in practice to talk of or
ganizing the unemployed workers into Unem-
ployment Councils and then to allow the ex-
ceent beginning made on March 9Th to be
frittered away. 1t is opportunism in prac-
tice to make big talk about a general silk
strike and then make no preparations to or
ganize the machinery for strike. 1t is crassest
opportunism in practice to make windy
speeches about the Importance of the South,
and then prevent the New York District of
the union from mobilizing for an organiza-
tional and financial drive for the South, on
the plea that the organizer had not paid
dollar to get the date marked in the district
calendar of the Party. 1t is also opportunism
in practice to say that we cannot collect
money off the workers in our industry for
the purpose of organizing the union. The tex
tile workers ready to fight. They are
ready to pay for the preparation of their COM
ing struggles The textile workers were not
in the past, nor will they be in the future
organized on the basis of money collected from
liberals, or any other source but the workers
themselves. Lawrence, Rhode Island, and
Georgia have shown that the textile workers
can be organized best where the workers are
poorest and where unemployment is greatest.
Mobilize the Party fractions in the Red unions
and make the drive living thing in the Sec
lions where we have most strength.