The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-05

ignored the offers of the LID. to
secure the best legal aid for the
strikers.
Attorney John Randolph Neal of
the counsel for the defense in Char
lotte went to Marion on Saturday
to investigate the situation for the
LID.
Giles Bows Down.
Attorney Giles issued character
istic statement on Labor Day, beg
cling Sheriff Adkins and Mayor H.
H. Tate to return to constitutional
principles" He complains against
useless search and seizure of per-
sonal property" He says, "no one
can regret more than 1, the unfor-
tunate conditions that now exist in
our community. I appreciate to the
very fullest extent how the civil
authorities are taxed in their efforts
to preserve peace" He cites the
American constitution and calls for
the preservation of life, liberty and
property "if we all have in mind
the establishment of domestic
tranquility, I believe with all my
soul that we will quickly arrive at
a solution of our troubles" No men
ton of strike, of the right to organ
ize and picket, of protest at the
sending of the national guard with
the object of smashing the strike!
Such are the leaders and lawyers
of the U.T.W.U., and the ALL. in
the most serious scene of bitter
labor struggle in the United States.
LID. Statement.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, who was in
Marion on Labor Day issued the
following statement to the press on
the situation there:
"The International Labor Defense
makes the most vehement protest
against the sending in of troops to
smash the Marion strike. Marion is
today a beleaguered camp, with SOL
diers armed to the teeth filling the
town, OCCUPYING all roads, brow-beat-
ing the workers and using every
possible means to smash the picket
lines and break the strike.
"This outrageous introduction of
the military forces to terrorize
workers on strike into submission
to the will of the cotton manufac-
turers has been carried out under
the order of Governor Max Gardner
acting on behalf of the cotton mill
interests.
Governor Gardner was provided
with a pretext for military inter
vention by dynamite explosions ar
ranged and carried out by company
agents. These explosions were then
used as a basis to frame up active
strikers with charges carrying pen
alties of years in prison. The old
well-worn tactics of bosses to break
strikes have been used again in
Marion.
Bosses Troops.
MAX Gardner in sending in troops
into the Marion strike area has
shown himself again, as in the Gas
tonia strike and elsewhere, the SER
vile tool of the cotton mill barons,
himself, indeed one of them, using
the whole forces of the state govern
ment to break strikes, to attempt to
destroy workers organizations and
the movement for better living and
working conditions which is spread
ing everywhere among the toiling
masses Of the southern cotton mills.
ga. Hoffman, so-called leader of
the Marion strike, is not leading the
Marion strikers in their struggle but
has abandoned the fight at the cru
cial moment according to the fami-
liar tactics of the U.T.W. and ALL.
He is putting up no resistance to the
introduction of military forces, is
taking no steps to resist their at
tacks upon the workers and their
breaking of the picket lines. In the
most cowardly fashion he has ac-
quisced in the breaking of the strike
by the Governors tactics of force
and violence: on the one hand the
velvet glove of mediation, on the
other. armed force.
"The international Labor Defense
has been in touch with the Marion
strike for the last month, ready to
step in and defend the strikers
against attempts to break up the
picket lines and use force to break
the strike. The LID, which defends
all workers victimized in their labor
struggle regardless of their views
or organization, offered its service
to the Marion workers a month ago
to secure bail, legal aid and defense.
Last Friday, after the entrance of
the military forces and the mass ar
rests, the LID. wired an offer of
assistance to the imprisoned strikers
of bail, legal aid and moral and
financial support. The LID. warns
the Marion strikers against the en-
ployment Of lawyers who are COM
pany agents only to defeat them and
serve the interests of the bosses.