The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01

place the U.T.W. more strongly into the hands OF
the bureaucracy. This is just what the Germans
and NAcN1ahons want.
The rank and file textile workers; the thousands
of textile workers who actually made the strikes
who emptied the mills by conducting mass picket
lines and forming flying squadrons- take the
union into their hands and kick out the cor
rupt leaders. The bureaucratic leaders Of the UTW
do not want union meetings.
The rank and file can win its demands and
defeat blacklist and discrimination by building a
strong mass union controlled by the rank and file
with the Battys and Sylyias and Germans on the
outside looking in We should force the calling of
membership meetings of the union and hold the
regular union meetings.
Secondly, the fight against the wholesale black
listing now going on must be organized. In many
New England mills, such as in the American Print
Company in Fall River, the workers, by continuing
on strike and running picket lines after the strike
was called off by German, saved many of their
fellow workers from blacklist.
The mill owners say they will fire every striker
who engaged in violence" This means they will
fire those who took part in picketing in flying
souadrons-strikers who were active in the strike
Many Of these strikers have already been sentenced
to six months and more in jail, for the crime Of
pcketng, while the murderers of the strikers have
been praised.
We must demand the release from jail of every
textile worker sentenced for his strike activity. We
must mobilize the whole working class in protest
against the falling and blacklisting of active srik
ers. We must force the mill owners to take back
every active striker.
COMPLAINT committees should be organized in
every mill to lead the fight for the rights of the
textile workers. Grievances and complaints should
be sent to German and to the Roosevelt Textile
Relations Board These grievances must be backed
up by strong local unions controlled by the rank
and file, in every mill.
The local unions and the individual members
of the U. T. w. should demand the immediate call
ing of regional district conferences of the UTW.
to discuss all of these problems, to report on the
strike and to develop the fight against the blacklist
and for the demands of the textile workers At
these regional conferences the role of the u T. W.
leaders in the strike should be taken up. Those
responsible for the seI-out should be removed.
Local unions of the UTW.! Pass resolutions
calling for immediate emergency national con-
venton of the textile workers to discuss the strike
results and to continue the fight.
Above all it is our duty-the duty of every rank
and file textile worker-to forge the unity of all
textile workers in the fight for their demands This
means the unity of the unemployed and blacklisted
textile workers with equal rights in the local unions
with all other members. 1t means that we must call
halt to the attempts of the U.T.W. leaders to
cover up their betrayals and split the workers on
the basis of political belief through their red
1t means we must unite all rank and file textile
workers for control of the local unions and of the
entire union and in the coming elections kick out
all traitorous elements from leadership.
Through re-strikes through rank and file con-
troll Of the Union through the broadeSt unity of
the rank and file to build the union the fight for
the demands of the textile workers can be
cessfully carried forward.