The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
C.P. in CGrOIinGS Asks SIP.
For United ActiOn in Strike
Through Letter to Thomas

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. I'll
The Communist Party of District
/ Is North and South Carolina) has
transmitted letter to Norman
Thomas, q member of the National
} Executive Committee of the Social
iSt Party, and through Thomas to
the State Executive Committees of
the S. P. of North and South Caro-
lima and Georgia, proposing imme-
date united action in the textile
strike.
The letter, which was S.gned by
Paul Crouch for the District Com
mittee of the Communist Party, fol-
lows:
Dear Comrade:
THE Communist Party of Dis
trict Is North and South Carolina)
transmits to you, as a member Of
the National Executive Committees
of the Socialist Party of North,
South Carolina and Georgia, a pro-
posal for the immediate formation
of a joint committee to formulate
united action of the Socialist and
Communist Parties to assist the
textile workers in their struggle for
the right to Organize, strike and
picket; for united action against the
murderouS terror now unleashed
against the strikers by the mill
owners, and, finally, to mobilize the
entire southern working class to
come to the aid and give all pos
sible help to the textile strikers.
To-day in the South there exists
the greatest need for united action
in defense of the workers rights
to organize, to strike and to picket.
The splendid fight of the embattled
textile strikers urgently demands
united action in their behalf by
developing relief, defense and a
widespread protest movement
against the violence and murderous
actions is an urgent necessity if the
fight of the textile workers, which
is the fight of all labor is to be Won.
To-day in North and South Caro-
lima and Georgia 5000 troops and
unknown thousands of sheriff'S dep
utieS and company gunner daily
murderously attack the workers and
use every violent means to smash
the strike. They are smashing pic
ket lines with machine guns, with
rifles, pistols and tear gas, with
clubs and bayonetS. They are en-
forcing StrikeMeaking martial
law and bra2enly opening up struck
mills. They are wantonly murder
ing unarmed strikers under the
guise Of 'quelling riots and 'preser-
wing law and order. The brutal
slaughter at Honea Path was repeat
ed today in Belmont, N. G. Only
this morning E. K. Riley, striker
with IL children, died from bayonet
wounds received at the hands Of
drunken troops.
Also today, the local mill-owner
The protection furnished by nation
al guardsmen in the first two days
of this week enabled more than TO-
600 employees to return to their
places (This in Georgia alone0
Hundreds of strikers are being
herded into military concentration
camps. Scores are held under ex-
orbitant bail. Terroristic vigilante
groups are being organized by the
mill-oWners. FERA and relief off,
Gals refuse the strikers relief I'M
less they return to the mills as
Strikebreakers. Socialists are Jailed
in the strike districts. Communist
meetings are brutally smashed and
the speakers Jailed. Tn right to
organize, picket, strike, TO meet, and
to speak is denied to the workers.
Everywhere the employers and their
lackeys have embarked on a reign
of unparalleled terrorism destined
to smash the strike and herd the
workers back into the mills unor-
ganized.
This terror can be stopped only
by a united and determined work
ing class. United and speedy action
is the greatest demand of the day.
The thrilling example of the Haz-
elton, Pa, workers in closing down
the city in "a hour sympathetic
strike because they could not see
their brothers shot down and re-
main idle is an example of prac-
tical demonstration of solidarity
which can, and must, be developed