The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-04
MARION DEPUTIES BEAT WOUNDED LET THEM BLEED
Mass Action of the Workers
Must be the Answer to the
Massacre at Marion

The of textile mill strikers Carolina,
confirms our accusations that the murder campaign being waged by
the mill whole
class Until the Communists the members the National
Textile Workers Union have been the sole victims of the
campaign.
The in against wages
given militant direction by the Communists and the National
tile Workers Union The leadership of the Gastona workers
an struggle against the mill for elementary de-
struggle could not bought bbd nmdated the attack of the
mill owners and their government has from the first been of most
malevolent and murderous fascist character
evening caused by
organized attack the f Chief of Police Aderht his
on from comnanv houses That mascre J not c n +ha+
date, solely strikers having
repeatedly attacked and frequently heaened with murder
pared defend themselves and beat back the murder
During the early part
mill and their police and shs tactics similar
the Gastona Gardner,
of militia
the bosses recognize that there difference be-
tween the leadership of the two strikes and that the militia could be
dispensed with In Marion the mill discovered that the leaders
of the strike officials of the United Textile Workers Uno with
of fthe Bookwood college of class collaboration their head
anxious that they better instruments to for strike
breaking purposes than any other
The betrayal the workers at Ezabethown Tennessee
noted by the Marion bosses they duly the
ability of the American Federation of Labor skebakers The
Eizabehown strikers had been deceived plant
with the blacklist effect those who had taken
part in the strike So agreement reached between the
leaders the mill
the slave But workers. back the mills discovered
that the black list was in effect that the active union workers were
shift 1t plain that the night shift be suspended thereby
of rckery that evoked the strike of Wednesday morning 1t
against
had conspd break the strike and defeat the demands of the
strikers
strikebreaking policy
failed labor
leaders" they again back their first
Sheriff Adkins and his deputies the beck
of mill themselves bombs
proceeded the mill where they the
killing outright than
two of whom have since died.
capitalist discovered
officials unable
this dastardy and owady and mill work
the murderer Adkins then francay appealed the chief
director of the fascist attacks the workers of North Carolina
Max rushed Marion
Adkins and his hodums the of the fellow
workers and relatives of the dead strikers.
dying Marion victims of the united of
mill the capitalist the labor bureaucracy Marion
futty of anywhere putting their
labor whether they
porters machine followers the Music Bookwood
bloc that the dsntegraon the labor
bureaucracy.
1t also indicates the terrific tasks that militant labor
the struggle naturalization the South
the mobilization
the conference of textile workers Charlotte
month"; launching immediate widespread
against naturalization.
More than
rally behind the defense of the who
boodthrsty blood
strikers The working anything
other than release OF these workers who the night
by their heroic action averted tragedy the
working class than that at Marion on Wednesday,
Everywhere unyiedng fight for the
workers for the right of workers defend
attacks
they coae with authority
thugs be defeated diarmed
action of the workers themselves