The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Thousands in New England Press Strike
As answer to Germans Betrayal Deal;
10000 Locked Out in Southern Mills
South Is Eager for Re-
Strike, But Leaders
Withhold Word
BY Harry Raymond
DAILY Worker STAFF Correspondent

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. Is
Southern A. F. OF L. leaders were
marking time today in face of ire
mendous sentiment among the tex
tile workers for a general re-strike
against the widespread discrimina-
ton of union members.
r. R. Lawrence, President of the
North Carolina State Federation of
Labor, admitted this morning that
word from him was all that was
necessary to bring about continual
ton of the strike. But he failed
to say the word, and satisfied him
self with denunciation of the mill
owners blacklist campaign and
promises that the new Roosevelt
Textile Board would take up the
cases of discrimination.
IT fel that under the new board
that is to be set up by the presi-
dent the N. R. A. provisions will
be enforced" Lawrence declared.
Meanwhile 10000 members of the
United Textile Workers Union in
the Carolinas were told there were
no jobs for them when they re-
turned to the mills under the plan
to settle the strike by arbitration.
1t is estimated that 10000 addi-
tional strikers were blacklisted in
Georgia and other textile centers in
the South, bringing the total num-
Der for the Southern area up to
10000.
Rank and File Acts
When asked what would be done
about feeding this large army of
blackliSted strikers, Mr.. Lawrence
said: I'VE are placing the situation
before the Federal authorities, and
we feel sure that these people will
be placed on the Federal relief rolls
at once" 1t is a well known fact
that all throughout the South
strikers have been denied relief by
the Federal authorities and most of
the relief projects are managed by
men and women having heavy
stock in the textile mills, and in
some cases members of mill own
ers' families.
In some sections, such as Con-
cord and Roanoke Rapids, the rank
and file have taken the matter in
their own hands. There is strong
unit of the Communist Party in
Concord and it is in this town
where more than 1000 strikers were
blacklisted that a rank and file
committee led mass march of
strikers to the court house yester-
day to protest the discrimination.
Concord is the town where the
chief of police and sheriff avowed
that they would arrest every Red
that showed his head" Workers in
Concord wait eagerly for the Daily
Worker to arrive each day. They
read the paper to find out what to
do and then go ahead and try to
carry out the policy laid down in
the editorials. All the hysterical
red scare" stories in the Concord
Tribune have failed to injure the
Communist Party. The Party has
gained new recruits amid the terror
and workers look to it anxiously
for leadership.
Tremendous Demonstration
Evidence that the rank and file
movement is spreading can be seen
in the tremendous demonstrations
in front of the mills at Roanoke
Rapids yesterday, where the mill
owners told the strikers that you
boys have given up your jobs and
If you want to work you will have
to see about it at the office"
Further reports of blackliSting
came from Greenville, S. c., where
none of the 5000 workers who were
on strike, were taken back. In
Lincolnton, N. c., $50 strikers were
told, your jobs have been filled by
other klen," when they reported
| for work.
CASTOR County, one of the
strongest strike centers in the
South, was the center of the mill
owners attack. The Loray Mill was
working today with $50 scaos, who
were working under troop protec-