The Daily Worker

TEXTILE UNION SCORES A. F. L. Green's Conference Is Blow at the Workers

"The American Federation of Labor is meeting at Charlotte, not for the purpose of helping and organizing the Southern textile workers. Their aim is to help the textile mill owners defeat the National Textile Workers Union in its rapid advance in the South."

This statement was made today after a business meeting in the national office of the National Textile Workers Union, 104 Fifth Ave., by Clarence Miller, secretary-treasurer, and one of the Gastonia defendants sentenced to 17-20 years' imprisonment in the Gastonia trial.

Miller declared the A. F. of L., which began its convention Monday in Charlotte, "had sold out the strikes of the Southern workers in the past, as well as recently, at Elizabethton and Marion and other places."

Contrast the Records.

"The record of the N.T.W.U., which is affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, and is based on a program of militant struggle, not collaboration with the bosses, has opened the eyes of the Southern workers. They see we fight side by side with the workers, and do not run away when the police come on the scene," he said. The N.T.W. is part of the Trade Union Unity League which has just called all its affiliated unions to send more organizers into the South. It organizes Negro and white workers on equal conditions-a program which the A. F. of L. has steadily refused to follow.

A.F.L. for Low Wages.

"President MacMahon, of the U.T.W., has already stated," Miller declared, "that his union would not fight for higher wages as 'the state (Continued on Page Two)
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of the textile industry does not per- mit it.' Thus you see the A. F. of L. drive for the workers is a fake."

Miller pointed out that the Gas- tonia defendants (N.T.W.) got 20 years, while organizers of the United Textile Workers Union (A. F. of L.) received but a month's sen- tence in the Marion trial, while the workers who followed them were sentenced to six months. "The bosses do not fear the A. F. of L leaders, they are ready to sell-out the workers at any favorable mo- ment."