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rank and file that stood the brunt
of battle calls for some verbal en-
phasis on the part of the leaders
who brought them into it.
The Times Laughs, Too
The editorial in the Times also
rips Mr.. Germans statement to
pieces. 1t says, in part:
I'm accepting the Winant report
and ordering the textile strikers to
return Immediately to work, the
labor leaders have acted wisely.
They seem, indeed, to have &C
cepted the report with an almost
suspicious enthusiasm and alacrity.
The sweeping character of the
overwhelming victory which Mr..
German and his associates find in
its recommendations is not APP
parent to an impartial reader. The
recognition of which they make
so much consists mainly in the
Winant Boards proposal that a
textile work assignments control
board be appointed to study the
'stretch-out,' consisting of an inn
partial chairman, one representa-
tive of the employers and one repre-
sentative of labor, and that United
Textile Workers, in conjunction
with the Code Authority, select the
representative plants in which
that study is to be made. The strike
leaders have little to say of the
Winant Boards recommendation
that for the present collective bar
gaining in the industry be confined
to plant-to-plant basis, nor of the
boards implied fears that on the
basis of present statistics any fur
ther increase in wage rates at this
time would lessen production and
lead to reduced employment"
The gist of all these editorials
and the statements by the textile
chiefs is that the workers were sold
out. The victory" claimed by Mr..
German is victory for the bosses
at the expense of the workers. AL
ready the manufacturers are NOV
ing to take advantage of the U. T.
WIS betrayal, by blacklisting thou
sands of militant workers. Victory
for the workers can only be
achieved by mass picket lines in
front of every mill, and rank
and-file leadership that will settle
only on the basis of the original
demands of the workers.
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ment, but the top union officials,
as they have done since the first
days of the strike, are throwing cold
water on every move in this di-
rection.
Re-Strikes Possible
1t is very possible that the rank
and file, seeing the obvious be-
trayal of their interests on the part
of their leaders, will take up the
cudgel in various sections of the
Southern textile front and re-
strike many of the plants.
The Communist Party issued a
leaflet today to the workers in Con-
cord and in Castor County, urging
mass marches, mass picketing and
the continuation of the strike.
Myra Page, author; Cary White,
former professor Of history at Hood
College in Virginia, and Sarah
Hartman, outstanding social worker
from Virginia, representing the
Southern section of the Committee
for the Defense of Political Prison
ers, and who are here investigating
the terror against strikers, de-
manded an audience with Governor
Ehringhaus, where they propose to
present evidence of troop terror and
widespread blacklisting against
union textile workers.
The committee has been investi-
eating the terror in and around the
High Point region and arrived here
last night. Today they took evil
dence on the bayoneting of Ernest
K. Riley from two of Riley's chill
dren, who were with their father on
the picket line when he was stabbed.
Victims Children Testify
Mrs. Riley, the committee learned,
was confined in bed following the
birth of child born following the
fathers funeral.
Christina, 19-year old daughter of
the dead striker, who is also a mill
worker, told how she was with her
father on the picket line when the
troops stabbed him to death with
out the slightest provocation.
My father was one of the first
ones to join the union when they
started it here in Mount Holly"
Christina told the delegation. "All
of us who are old enough to work
are union members. Daddy told us
that we got to all fight united.
I'VE live here in a nest of non
union people. But since daddy died
thousands of people come here to
pay us respects. I'm glad we live
here so that these people can see
how union people stick together"
The committee also took evidence
from blacklisted workers in front
of the mills in CASTOR County this
morning and sent kilograms pro-
testing the blacklisting to the d.
rector of the State Compliance
Board of the N. R. A. and to Pres
ident Roosevelt. The committee is
demanding the immediate release OF
all strikers held in jail in the South
ern States.
Late reports today showed that
the owners Of the big Erwin chain
of mills in Durham and Harnett
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Italian workers Back g p

NEW YORK.-Carl Bro dsky.
manager Of the Communist election
campaign committee, reports a COM
munication from the City Commit
tee Of the Federation of Italian
Workers Centers and clubs to the
effect that the committee has
agreed to support the Communist
election platform because they have
found it 1.-The only sincere platform
that fights for the workers rights -
Many workers organizations are
indicating their intention of parti-
clpating in the first convention of
the Communist Party in the Safe
OF New York, at which delegates
legally chosen at the primaries will
nominate the State candidates. Del
egateS chosen from workers organ
1zations will bring credentials from
their organizations to the Conven-
ton, which will meet at the New
Star Casino on Saturday, Sept. %
from noon to 6 pm.
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Continued from Page II
against a large number of union
members. The foreman only hired
those who had signed cards last Fri
day asserting their willingness to re-
turn to work.
Bayonets Around Mill
The Knit Products Mill was circled
by troops with fixed bayonets and
workers reported heavy discrimina-
ton. The Preston Mill did not open
and was guarded by a large number
of deputies.
Last week they had the deputies
here to keep us in the mill and today
they've got deputies to keep us out"
a striker demanded. They want to
make us crawl back on our bellies"
said another.
The doors were also locked on
union members at the Smyre Manu-
featuring Co., in CASTOR County.
In Concord, where 1,700 workers
were locked out, the blacklisted
members staged a protest parade to
the court house and occupied the
halls Of the building during part of
the morning.
Strikers Denounce German
Three groups of strikers in the
Greenville, S. c., section sent tele-
grams to Francis j. German, de-
nouncing the strike settlement and
demanding that the strike be con-
tinued.
r. r. Lawrence, President of
the North Carolina Federation, told
me that the wholesale discrimina-
ton "was obviously conspiracy on
the part of the employers to smash
the union"
1 asked Mr.. Lawrence what action
he would take against the discrim-
ination. We're awaiting orders from
Mr.. German" was all that he would
say.
1t is clear that the top A. F. of l..
officials are doing all in their power
to smother any militant action,
which is so necessary to halt the
discrimination.
Some strike leaders promised the
workers that all cases of discrim-
nation would be taken up before
the board of three SO that Roosevelt
is supposed to set up. The work.
ers, however, are angry and ready
to launch into big re-strike move
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
C.P. Nominees
Put on Ballot
In Connecticut
5000 Signatures Filed
To Place State Ticket
Before Workers

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. "a
With its drive to place a State
ticket in the field successfully con-
cluded by the filling Of more than
5000 nominating signatures, the
Communist Party in this State is
now entering the second phase Of
its fight to roll up an overwhelm-
ingly large Communist vote.
The reaction to the traitorous
surrender OF the textile strike st1ug-
gle by It's official leaders, and the
unhagging assistance given by the
Communist Party in various parts
of the strike field are expected to
win new thousands of workers to
support of the Communist election
program and candidates.
Textile centers like JeWett City
and New London are being pene-
trated by the campaign machinery
of the Party. I Wofsy, candidate
for Governor, and ]. Simon Scott,
Negro worker. who is Wofsy's run
ming mate, will spend all of October
in textile and other industrial CEN
tiers at indoor election rallies.
The capitalist parties have NOM
mated as standard bearers, Alcorn
for the Republicans, former Hart
ford prosecuting attorney, who
boasts that he used mo detours" in
dealing with trouble makers" and
Governor Cross, renominated by the
Democrats. Cross used his reputa-
ton as friend of labor" to call
out the national guard during the
textile strike and to this date has
not yet removed them in the face
of steadily mounting mass protests.
The strike situation here will bring
sharply to the fore the demands Of
the Communist program for the
right of the workers to organize,
strike, picket and exercise of their
other fundamental political rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
N Y State Election Convention of c. p Set for Saturday
Make BetrayaIs of the Workers Impossible
An Editorial

among the textile workers. without this latter
force there can be no victory despite the heroism
of the striking workers
Our tasks are therefore clear. We must not as
we did so often in the past leave the field. We
must increase our work among the textile workers
tenfold We must utilize all connections built up
during the strike in order to strengthen the Party,
to broaden the circulation of the Party press and to
set I'D organized rank and file groups in the U.TW.
locals
IMMEDIATELY we must work to prevent demorali-
1 cation among the workers in their moment Of
defeat. Where the workers still out we should
aid them in formulating local mill demands and
in getting the best terms possible in returning to
work. We should take the lead in organizing the
fight against the blacklist against discrimina-
ton in every form. We should fight for unity in
the ranks of the workers. rallyng the workers for
the slogan: ALL INTO THE MILLS WITHOUT
DISCRIMINATION, OR ALL OUT OF THE
MILLS New mill strikes should be carried through
where the workers be won for such policy
to force the return Of all strikers to their jobs
Convince the workers that they must prepare
for further struggles under honest rank and file
leadership in order to win their demands. Con-
vince them of the need of keeping their organi-
zation Advise them against tearing UP union cards
in disgust. Show them how they can win control
of their union, by throwing out the betrayers and
be setting up their own rank and file control
I'VE MUST carry on tremendous political and Or
W ganizational work among the textile workers,
individually and in smaller and larger mass meet
ings.
In every local. in every unit, in every section
and district In the textile territory the whole work
of the Party must at once be examined, in order
to find out who fought well, who failure.
improve orr work at once in order to
increase the rate of growth of our influence among
the textile workers The Daily Worker must be
built into mass paper among the textile workers.
To make impossible the betrayal of the betray-
ers-that requires better work-that is the conclu-
sion that we Communists must draw from the
hatred against the betrayal which is surgng through
tens of thousands of workers.
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counties refused to rehire any of
the workers who were on strike. In
Roanoke Rapids, where there are
six mills which ordinarily employ
$500 workers, the owners posted no.
tees that all union members will
have to go through the "rehiring"
process before the mills are opened
Meanwhile troops remained on
duty in both the Carolinas. Twenty
four companies were stationed at the
mill gates in South Carolina and IL
companies were on duty in North
Carolina. 1t was announced that
additional troops would remain ION
call" in the headquarters in the vari-
GUS centers.
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uShered in the period from which
much may be expected, the drive
is still far behind.
Barely $500 has been received up
to Sept. 20, one month to the day
since the drive started.
Birmingham has as yet not con-
tributed one cent. Six districts sent
nothing at all during the past week.
And one of these districts, Seattle,
with a quota of $4,000, has chal-
lenged two other districts. So far
exactly SO has come in from Seattle.
New York, which has a quota Of
100000 and is in Socialist competi-
ton with the rest of the country, is
not even up to the $4,000 mark.
Many other districts are below the
10 and even 5 per cent mark. 1t
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is noteworthy too that hardly more
than dozen districts have entered
Socialist competitions.
On the credit side of the ledger;
Denver has fulfilled Ait per cent
of its quota. Close behind it is
Philadelphia, which has filed 1856
per cent of It's total. Then comes
Boston, with $50 per cent.
This, accordingly, is the statistical
picture. The Daily Worker wishes
again to impress upon the districts
that only about three weeks remain
before the new Daily Worker will APP
pear-that the expenses for the new
paper are already looming noun
tainously.
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Marine Strike
Plans Speeded
Continued from Page u

preliminary effort to set up united
strike action committees.
Meanwhile a group of workers of
the Eastern Steamship Company
lines have informed their officials
in the International S e m MS
Union, with headquarters at 70
South ST., that they intend to join
the strike movement. Officials are
attempting to keep the men on the
job through hasty negotiations with
the company, in which the rank and
file of the workers are not being
consulted.
Alexander Bell, head of the COM
pany-controlled Cooks and Stew
ards of the Atlantic and Gulf"
union, is tryin to stem the tide
of strike preparations by the an
nouncement that his union" will
not strike. Bells organization is
known by seamen to be completely
subservient to the Clyde-Mallory
Line.
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/ (ConttcUed from rage IL
came out and picked out workers
and kept the rest outside the gates
on the sidewalk. The workers eX-
pressed indignation at this treat
ment.
Some Plan to Stay Out
The menace of blacklist haunted
their minds. 'Why don't they do
like the Riverside Mill did?" asked
one worker. Let us all in and then
put those at work that they can"
we will have to wait until jan
uary or February before we get a
chance to win anything out If the
strike" another worker said And
that's a hell of long while to wait.
We ought to stick it out until we
know what we're getting and until
we win something"
THE mule spinners in the Allan
tic are going to stay out" another
worker said. They are going to run
picket line beginning at noon to-
day. They have grievance of
their own"
THE Delane Mill tlikers didn't
go back" declared a worker They
want to know what they're going to
get before they go in. They de-
mand two looms. They're working
six now"
Other workers, In the minority,
were taken in by the letter of Roose-
welt urging them to end their strike
before winning any concessions.
According to the papers we're
going to get less stretch-out and the
thirty-hour week." said a striker on
the way back to work
Roosevelt told the mill owners
to give us our demands" another
declared. But Roosevelt can't force
the bosses to obey him. They don't
pay any attention to him. We won't
get anything out of the strike"
Workers Are Not Cowed
While police and armed guards
kept watchful eye around the mill,
a large section of the 100000 New
England strikers trooped back to
work, their strike broken by Cor
man and the other U. T. w. leaders.
But the strikers murdered by Ma
tional Guardsmen at Woonsocket
and at Saylesville have not died in
vain. One only needs to recall Woon-
socket under martial law to realize
that New England textile workers
are more conscious of their power.
The day following night of fight
ing with hundreds of National
Guards men patrolling streets with
one of their number shot down and
killed, not even allowed to con-
gregate, the Woonsocket workers
came out on the streets by the
thousands. They walked slowly up
and down passed the drawn bay
onets of guardsmen. They were not
cowed or beaten. They were proud
of the battle they had put up during
the previous night. They walked
with new confidence in their
tread. The Woonsocket battle had
opened up to them vistas of the
great forces of the working class
which they had used and would use
again even more effectively.
The strikers are better organized
with a bigger and stronger union.
They were forced back into the
mills because they were not able in
so short time to develop their own
organized rank and file leadership.
Another sellout is chaked up by
the German MacMahon leadership
of the U.T,W.-another strike has
beeen broken with the help of
President Roosevelt.
In the next struggle, differ
ent story will be written. In the
next strikes, soon to come, the tex
tile workers will take things into
their own hands and stay on the
picket lines until they win some
thing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Anti-Nazi Conference
Will Demand Boycott
OF Berlin Olympics

NEW YORK,-Jewish, Catholic,
fraternal, trade union, sport and
student organizations have been
invited to attend a conference to
be held tomorrow at the Brooklyn
Jewish Center, for the purpose OF
organizing a march on the head
quarters of the American Olympic
Committee in New York.
The conference will demand that
the Committee boycott the 1886
Nazi Olympics in Berlin.
Avery Brundage, president of the
American Olympic Committee, who
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gandized the policies of the Party winning the
workers for our position, making them immune
from insidous red scares."
Yes, comrades, the betrayal was possible also
because we have not yet taught the workers to
conduct strike over the heads of their leaders
not only to begin the strike independently of and
the heads of their leaders but to continue the
strike under the leadership of the workers own
elected rank and file strike committees.
Finally, comrades, it was possible because We
have not yet sufficiently exposed to the workers the
demagogic maneuvers of Roosevelt and his arbitra-
ton boards.
YES. the betrayers betrayed. That is their bust
1 nessl But the task of revolutionists is to pre-
vent betrayals, to make them impossible.
It is true we Communists were active everywhere
in the front lines of the struggle, on the picket
lines. We fought well in the ranks of the textile
workers In every phase of the struggle we showed
the workers the next steps, what they should be
on guard against, what they should do to further
the success of the strike Wherever we had forces,
we carried on this work.
But that is just the question; where we had
forces!" In hundreds of towns, in hundreds of
mills, in hundreds of UTW Locals, We are without
forces or we have only weak forces. That is the
of the matter AS an organizing force able
to prevent betrayals We Communists were still much
too weak among the hundreds of thousands of tex
tile workers. in the thousands of scattered mills.
Let comrade make as an excuse the diff
culties of the task, the terror, etc. To overcome
just such difficulties, and to overcome them quickly
that is the task of the Communists To overcome OBJ
staces that is what it means to be a revolutionst
WHAT are the conclusions to be drawn from the
textile strike?
The struggle showed that there is tremendous
power and fighting spirit with the American work.
ing class. 1t also showed that this tremendous
power be nullifed by treacherous labor leaders
Finally it showed the tremendous weaknesses of
the workers movement due to the absence Of
sufficient number of strongly organized Communists
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Contributions Lag.
As DriUe for Daily
Enters Second Month
Only $4,000 Collected in First Four Weeks
Denver Leads All Districts in Quota Mark,
Followed by Philadelphia and Boston

On two days during this past week the receipts in the
Daily Worker drive for $4,000 exceeded the daily
needed but examination of the returns during the entire
week-and for the month during which the drive in
progress-reveal that though the districts have finally
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

was sent to Germany to investi-
gate discrimination against Jew
ish athletes there by the German
Olympic Committee, will give his
report to the Olympic Committee
on the same evening that the con-
ference will take place.
The Committee will give it's de-
cision concerning American par
ticipation in the Hitler Olympics
solely on this report, disregarding
the persecution Of the German
working class, including the labor
sports organizations, and of the
Jews generally, by the bloody
Nazi regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Discrimination at Pawtucket

PAWTUCKET, R. L, Sept, "a,
The strike is over in the Paw
tucket district, and all large mills
are back at work. These include
the Sayles, Coates, Hope, Webbing,
Lebanon, Conrad, Brown, Royal
and Acme. A few opened some de-
partmentS only. The workers got
no concessions. Now the mill
owners are preparing to speed pro-
duction under the old conditions.
At Sayles mill Is were not taken
back today and discrimination
may be expected.
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The Daily Worker can Better Aid
Your Struggles if You Build its
Circulation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

resent.
Plan N. Y. Downtown Campaign
NEW YORK-Plans for the Com
munist Party election campaign
we're discussed and an organiza-
tlonal basis laid at a recent meet
ing at the Downtown Workers Club
of representatives from Lower Man
haitian branches Of ten mass organ
izations including the Ukraine Clubs
organizations, the Zukunft, Gil
Grand, East Side and Italian Work
ers Clubs, the 7. w. o., Red Sparks,
the workers committees of Unem-
ployed Locals 2 and 3, and various
units Of the Communist Party.
Reports from delegates showed
how the campaign is already well
under way for the majority of these
organizations and Comrade Schulz
man, chairman of the meeting, gave
a rousing picture of Communist
Party candidates now engaging in
the day-to-day struggle of the
workers on the picket line, at the
relief stations and at open-air meet
ings. However, it was evident that
much remains to be done in CEN
trally organizing the campaign in
the four assembly and two sena-
torisl districts Of the Lower East
Side.
OrganizatiOnal Plans
Distribution of Party platforms on
a mass basis greater than ever be-
fore was urged on the delegates.
The necessity for the spreading of
banners, signs and placardS over the
districts, on clu b headquarters,
across streets, and even on the fire
escape was emphasized. 1t was also
decided that other organizations,
such as social clubs and non-po-
ntlcal groups, must be activized,
oanquets for the raising of funds
and debates with candidates Of other
parties arranged.
subcommittee for each assembly
district were formed, with their first
task the establishing of local head
quarters for each district, to be open
day and night. 1t was explained to
the delegates that Party platforms
and other literature could be OBJ
tanned at the Downtown Workers
CLUB, and that organizations should
pledge themselves to distribute spe-
cried amounts. 1t was further de-
clded that a section campaign hear
quarters must be set up. as the
Downtown Workers Club could not
be used for the purpose. Finance.
nrnCE =
three members each were formed
and assignments given. Organiza-
lions were asked to name two dele
gates each to the State Party Con-
ference to be held at the New Star
Casino at IL noon on Sept. %.
The next meeting of the Lower
East Side campaign committee will
be held on Monday, Oct. /. at the
Downtown Workers Club, Avenue A
and Second st.