The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-07
90 DELEGATES
At CONVENTION
lass Meeting Part of
Union Campaign

(COHtWHeu FROM Iuge OHe'/
opposition groups that were ex-
POSED in the class unions as a re-
suit of the developing struggle.
The workers are now beginning
: new offensive, that has a mass
character and that will develop
revolutionary characteristics. We
see the struggle sharpening in the
colonial countries, India and China,
specially.
World Problems.
The socialist, reformist and labor
party bureaucrats are being ex-
posed by events as the tools of the
bosses.
tombstone emphasized the impor-
lance of the Fifth Congress of the
R. l. L. u, coming in July, and
the necessity of the rank and file
of the unions taking a decisive
part in its deliberations, discuss
ing and understanding world prob
lens of labor and sending their best
representatives as delegates.
A large percentage of young
workers present, many as delegates,
added the spirit of youth, its fire
and audacity. Delegations of young
workers from New York, Philadel-
phia and other cities marched into
the hall with banners and placards
'eading: Welcome Young Workers
Into the Revolutionary Unionw
"The Young Workers Will Always
Fight to Build the Industrial
Union!" young Workers, Organize
Youth Sections In Your Shops!"
Before the meeting started the
young delegates began to sing the
International, and the whole audi
ence responded, so that it rang
through the building.
A committee from the Co-opera-
tive Colony in the Bronx called the
Daily Worker late last night and
reported that the Western Union
refused to take telegram of greet
ing to the convention unless the
words TDown with the company
unions! Against social fascists of
the A. F. OF L. and the socialist
party!" were stricken out.
The entire telegram was as fol-
lows: Revolutionary greetings in
your militant struggle for union
Of the workers, by the workers and
for the workers. Down with the
company unions! Against social fas-
cists of the A. F. of l.. and the So
cialist party! For the defense of the
Soviet Union!"
Il. The Canadian Industrial Needle
Trades Union telegram of greetings
from Montreal was read, as follows:
Revolutionary trade union greet
ings! We feel confident that this
convention will lay the basis to de-
feat company unionism and fight to
improve the workers conditions. In
dustrial Needle Trades Union of
Canada will do its share to reach
Same. Long live industrial union
ism"
4 kilograms were received also
from the textile workers of New
York District and from many shop
committees and shop delegates coun-
els throughout the United States.
Historic June 6.
June 6, the date of the opening
Of this historic convention, is itself
day with history in the New
York needle trades. On June 6,
1896, the bosses courts, eager from
that time to this to smash the work
ers' struggle for better conditions
and break picket lines, sentenced,
in one of the first labor cases in
America, 20 tailors for picketing
against a wage-cut announced by
the organized employers. The Judge,
as he meted out punishment for
conspiracy to raise wages" to these
early militants, declared that "labor
unions are harmful and are "mainly
upheld by foreigners" Where have
we heard those words since?
Sessions tomorrow and Sunday