The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Towards Victory in the
Strike

THE textile strike is gaining tremendous
l momentum. On strike front of about
1900 miles over 300, 900 workers of a total
of 653, 200 are already out, according to
the estimates of the United Textile Work
ers officials The Associated Press, which
gets its figures from the bosses, claims
around 100000 are out.
From these figures and facts arise the most I'M
portsnt problems facing every member of the Com
munst Party in the textile areas. The first real
day of the strike saw about half Of the workers out
But the movement must go on now more swiftly
Mills must be shut down rapidly and the strike
made one hundred per cent effective.
How can this be done? Certainly 1t is not suffi-
cient for German and company to burn up the
telegraph wires The job must be done in the mill
towns and at the mill gates.
In many sections Of the country the textile
workers are taking leaf from the experiences Of
the great coal and steel strike and the auto strikes
They are not only throwing picket lines around
the mills only partially shut slightly affected but
they are sending out flying picket Squadrons
and motorcades from mill to mill, utilizing pckets
from mills that are shut tight to help the workers
at mills that have not yet been completely pulled
out.
Maine to the South in Georgia and Alabama every
district Of the Party in the textile region, every
section, every unit, every Party member and SYM
pathizer must Immediately be plunged into the
chief tssk-closing down every textile mill in the
country.
Every unit of the Party should Immediately pick
out the weak spots, assign itself specific mills and
work and carry it out with the greatest boldness
fir1nness determination and energy. It is in this
way that the Communist Party will help the textile
workers increase the picket lines and the whole
fighting ability of the textile strikers and win vic
tory in the strike
Francis T. German in his Washington office
declares that by the end Of the week at least as
per cent of the industry will be tiled up tight as
a drum" This can be made reality only by the
most persistent action of the textile workers them
Selves by the most intensive organization and &C
tvity, not in Washington, but around the mills in
Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania South Carolina, Ala
banla, Georgia and elsewhere.
And that is now the chief role of the Communist
Party in the textile areas. Where the battle is
sharpest and most difficult, where the greatest
work must be done, that is where the forces of the
Communist Party must play the most important
role. We must make IT clear to the textile workers
that the Communist Party membership is the most
determined fighter for the effectiveness and victory
of the strike, and that be done only by the
most energetic work.
In this respect, the Daily Worker can play
tremendous role in the strike Up to date, it has
not been sufficiently utilized. Since the beginning
Worker have been ordered and distributed in the
strike regions. This must be greatly multiplied
Not only does the Daily Worker carry the best
news the strike, but it is the most effective
sgtator and organizer in the interest of the textile
workers It must become one OF the most powerful
weapons of every Party member working in the
textile strike Not single Communist participating
in the strike should go out on the picket lines or
among the textile workers without copies of the
Daily Worker.
What the Daily Worker can do and say to the
textile worker about the whole significance Of his
struggle the forces involved and the tasks of win
ming the strike, cannot be accomplished by short
contact or conversation with the workers.
We cannot assume the self-satisfaction of German
when he says: Victory is assured at this hour"
We know the forces involved. The textile bosses
stocked up, and have dug in for bitter battle
The various government forces, national state and
local. have their strike-breakng forces in the field
Troops are already out in states. The major
ity OF the strikers are not yet out. All sorts of
maneuvers being talked Of maneuvers which
can only lead to sell-out arbitration.
The greatest tasks lie ahead the greatest tests
Of the fighting ability of the textile workers and
most especially of the Communist Party member
ship Victory be assured by the greatest mo-
bilization of the textile workers for 100 per cent
strike! Victory be assured If the Communist
Party, from districts to units plunge all their
forces into the struggle as they never have done
before. Victory be insured if the fighting organ
OF the workers, the Daily Worker, can be put into
the hands of tens of thousands of strikers
The strike has had an enthusiastic bliant be-
ginning. The textile workers are fighting courage
ously and well. We must now mobilize our whole
Party to speed this fight and to become an impor-
tant factor in winning complete victory for the
demands of the textile workers