The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
DISCOVER PLOTS.
TO RAID TENTS,
DYNAMITE RELIEF
Special Committee to
Sell Daily Worker
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NO0'"''NSNSO CHt ugS OFtt
tabeas corpus writs for the hear
ing of At of the arrested strikers
in Charlotte.
In Gastonia, where the framed
workers lie in Jail, the Lorav strik-
ers have moved to the new tent
colony, just outside of the city linz
its. 1t was established by the
Workers international Relief after
the police raids had driven workers
from the first tent colony. Con-
slant threats by mill agents have
been made against this news colony.
eliminating Friday in a plot to or
ganize $50 of the mill company's
men, attack the colony and tear
down the tents, dump the strikers
furniture into the creek, load the
strikers families on trucks without
license plates and kidnap them over
the state line into South Carolina.
Illustrate Conspiracy.
The determination of the strikers
to defend their tents and families
and their awareness that the raid
was scheduled fer Friday, appa-
rently defeated the outrage.
Another plot was discovered to
blow up the Workers International
Relief office at 512 West Airline
St, Gastonia. Exposure of this
scheme also Frustrated it, but
others are known to be in prepara-
ton.
Sell Daily Worker.
Dewey Ward and Gladys Wallace
are in charge of a committee selling
and distributing the Daily Worker,
Labor Unity and the W. I. R. peri
odical, Solidarity. Strikers boys
are covering Gastonia and other
mill towns with these periodicals,
placing them on the news stands
and attempting to establish regular
routes.
A Loray scab, when asked by the
strike newsboy to buy copy of the
Daily Worker, answered: II don't
need that, I know how to work"
TIL boy told him: "This Daily
Worker tells you how to keep from
working your fool head off for the
Loray BOSSES"
0rpanizatiGp Progresses.
Newsboys and organizers in a
fleet of eight autos have been sent
in all directions to announce mass
meetings to be held at the new tent
colony. A. Wagenknecht, national
secretary of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, Thursday addressed a
of potential organizers,
composed of strikers and southern
mill workers, and plans were made
to organize for the National Textile
Workers Union throughout the
county and state. Letters and COM
mittees are continually arriving,
asking for organizers from the
union for their localities.
An Independent Textile Union at
Danville, Va, RENTED $50 for Gas
tonia relief, and asked for speaker.
Gastonia City Engineer Leeper
Friday with a police
guard at the tent colony to deliver
IA tents confiscated from the old
tent colony and placed in storage
by the city. This was a few hours
before the contemplated masked
mob raid.
The Gastonia city officials have
stated that they intend asking the
w. I. R. to remove three tents still
standing on the property where the
union hall now held by Gastonia
deputies was erected, Wagenknecht
stated Immediately that the W. 1. r.
would refuse, that it demands the
return of the union hall and the
leased plot on which it stands and
that the deputies be elected.
Flooring is being laid to make
possible the storing of considerable
quantities of potatoes, cabbage.
onions and beets collected for strike
relief for the w. l. R. To check
the rapidly increasing pellagra Ia
disease caused by q too restricted
diet) distribution of green vege-
tables and 35 gallons of buttermilk
was made Thursday.