The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-21
Southern Workers Again
in Action


THE strike of textile, hosiery and furniture workers in
North Carolina that swept the unemployed into
struggle with the strikers has reached dimensions
Beginning with several hundred and youth mill
workers walking out of eight plants High Point and rapidly
spreading to Townsville and Kernesve and other nearby
places there at this writing $50 plants shut down with
more than $4,000 workers brought into the fight.
The continued beating down of the miserable standards
of life of the mill workers and the widespread unemployment
with no relief for which the Hoover RESPONSE
bic have brought workers the point where they
determined to fight back the bosses program of hunger and
wage This movement in North Carolina is another
evidence of the rising tide of struggle throughout the
try of the increased determination OF the workers to fight
back against the capitalist attempts to place the whole bur-
den of their crisis upon their backs 1t follows series of
recent small struggles and is linked with the whole past of
the struggles of workers in the South
Already the bosses and their government have taken
steps smash the movement and to drive the mill workers
back starvation and crush the unemployed who
fighting against actual starvation.
But the attempts crush the of strikers and
unemployed be defeated Out of this struggle must
come only victory for the strikers in their fight against
wage cuts and the employers must be forced
grant immediate relief to the starving unemployed men,
women and children.
Victory can be won by carrying out the fight the
lines that all experience labor struggles have proved to be
effective Firstly there must be definite rank and file
troll through committees elected by the strikers and the
employed 1t is imperative that the strikers and the
poyed mil workers. Negro and white organize into the mill
unions of the industries in which they worhe hosiery
and other textile workers IN the National Textile Workers
Union.
Definite demands be drawn up around which the
fight be made defeat the cut and force the
ployers grant living wage instead of the starvation
ton of six dollars week that handed out miser
able dole instead of wage Demands must be made to do
away with the "stagger system under which
beaten down. The fight must be wagd the demand that
bosses and the grant immediate relief to the
unemployed and part-time workers.
The workers of North Carolina will not only have to fight
against the open attacks of the bosses and their police thugs
but they will be faced with nsidous enemy in the shape
of the labor agents of capitalism, of whom have al
ready been sent to the to try place themselves at the
head of the movement they beray it. 1t is also
the workers to be guard against the Music
elements wo always try to step into strike situations when
the MacMahons and other leaders of the United Textile
Workers Union have been dscredtd and exposed before the
workers These Music elements Hoffman and others will
operate with radical phrases to deceive and betray the work
Such elements must be fought with the deernin
alton that bosses foughbecause they the most
dangerous agents of the BOSSES 1t also essential that
government medators be treated with contempt they
are nothing other than professional strikebreakers.
1t is further necessary that the utmost vigilance be
maintained guard against individuals being permitted to
set themselves spokesman for and leaders of the move
Already there appears in the report that an
alleged spokesman for the hosiery workers has issued
that he the workers o remain quietly about
the plants where they work and not to interfere at all in the
work of other industries What does this meant 1t
that this Spokesman either consciously unconsciousV
refrain pcketng to abandon the demonstra
lions that have thus far played important part in mobi
zng $4,000 against the wage cut and hunger of the
bosses.
ONLY militant rank and file leadership win The only
union that upon conducts its struggles such
rank and file basis is the National Textile Workers Union
By maintaining the fighting unity of the strikers with
the unemployed by making the shutdown complete where
the strike in effect and by spreading it throughout
the whole Piedmont section and beyond the workers
march to victory stop the cut drive and
pei the government and the employers grant unempoy
ment relief.
Workers all the country must recognize that this is
also their fight and must rally to the support of the
ment that sweeping through North Carolina Victory
there will inspire workers everywhere to action against the
hunger drive of the bosses and their at Wash
ington.