The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
U.T.W. DELEGATES CALI,
NATIONAL WALKOUT
TO BEGIN BY SEPT. /
No Action in Wooden,
Silk Plants-Union
Chiefs Are Cold
BY CARL REEVE

NEW YORK.-The Ma
Itional Convention of the
United Textile Workers Union
yesterday voted to instruct its
incoming executive council to
declare a general strike in the
cotton textile industry on or
before Sept. l.
No strike action was voted in the
wooden worsted and silk industry.
but the sentiment Of the delegates.
for strike was so pronounced that
it foreshadowed similar action in
these industries, possibly before the
convention adjourns.
The original proposal was to leave
the date of the strike to the ex-
ecutive council but an amendment
that the date be set for Sept. at
the latest was overwhelmingly
adopted.
Overwhelming Strike Sentiment
The overwhelming sentiment for
strike was expressed in the reports
OF a score of delegates from the
Southern strike area, and also in
the tremendous reception given to
the speech of Delegate REVERE.
who declared amid tremendous ap-
plause that the textile workers had
I been looking toward the N.RA and
had been disappointed.
THE only course open is to close
the textile mills from Alabama to
Maine" REVERE said. THE only
language the employers will under
stand is action"
Thomas Mcmahon, president,
made a lengthy and impassioned
speech against the amendment in
which he pleaded against being
carried away by desire to crea7e
chaos"
He said, however, that he realized
that every member of the executive
council feels that now is the tina
for action and procrastination is no
longer possible.
The unanimous upsurge of de-
mands for strike left the executive
council no Other course but to agrees
to strike action.
Anti Green Resolution Loses
A resolution condemning William
Green for his "desertion" of the
San Francisco strikers was defeated
after prolonged debate by vote of
1913 to 103. The resolution was
unanimously recommended for
adoption by the resolutions COM
NIT zee, of which Frank Schweitzer,
of Paterson, was chairman. The
red scare was raised by conserva-
tive delegates such as Batty. who
declared the resolution was i'm
spired by the Communist PARTY
These delegates. some of whom
spoke against the general strike. de-
Tended Green's attack on the Coast
strikers.
The motion for cotton textile
strike was to give power to the
incoming Executive Council to call
strike in the cotton textile indus-
try when in their Judgment such a
strike should be called, the exscu-
tive council to have the power to
set the time Of strike. This is to pe
done az the first meeting of the
Executive Council after this con-
vention"
In speaking on this motion Fran
els German. vice president, de-
clared that the cotton textile code
authority refuses to confer on the
workers grievances, has violated
Section IA, while giving lip service
to recovery. He said that men who
have been for years in the indus
try and who are not impulsive, feel
now that there is no other way
out than to strike. He declared
that September is the best time to
strike.
This proposal for strike carries
the danger that all power is
vested in the Executive Board which
has twice already postponed strikes
after definite dates were Sc
Strike Demand General
l. tlS dChldAh III q ot1lhS 10 ECll~
eral among the cotton. silk. rayon
and wooden and worsted workers.
The pressure of the workers ana of
the delegates has caused the Off
GERS of the union to bring in this
strike proposal. But only continued
pressure OF the local unions and the
rank and file will cause the execu-
tive board to carry through a mill
tant strike policy in practice.
The question which now faces the
convention is the actual oryaniza-
ton of the strikes along militant
lines. with rank and file control,
and broad united front committees
in ell mills.
Yesterday the Southern delegates