The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
CAST0NIA MILL
STRIKERS DEFY
THUGS TO SHOOT
Refuse to Move From
Company Property

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move up to Manville-Jenckes. The
strikers are sleeping in the open air
and cooking in the open air foof
supplied them by the Workers In.
ternational Relief. The offer of the
company to store the furniture wa
spurned by the strikers.
Trains of trucks are arriving
bringing scabs to occupy the houses
One family, brought from Georgia
refused to go to work in the Loray
mill as soon as it saw the situation
More tents are urgently needed to
house sick strikers, and small chill
dren, and expectant mothers. Funds
for the purchase of tents should be
rushed to Workers international Re-
lief, One Union Square, New York.
County Staryes Strikers.
GREENVILLE, N. c., May S.
The strike committee today formu-
lated clear-cut demands for the
Poinsett mill of the Brandon cor
poration. There are four Brandon
mills which have been on strike for
about six weeks, and when starving
strikers yesterday sent delegation
to the county authorities who have
been pretending sympathy for them,
and asked that some of the surplus
in the Greenville county treasury
be expended to save the lives of
workers out on strike. The answer
was a flat refusal.
Giving Greenyille county funds
to strikers is unlawful" County At
torney James H. Price informed
members Of the Greenville county
delegation, in session here. This is
expected to decrease considerable
the prestige of State Representative
H. c. Godfrey, of Spartanburg, who
has been telling the textile workers
not to join the National Textile
Workers Union because you don't
need a union, the state and county
will take care of you. Godfrey did
go through the formality of asking
Governor John G. Richards for an
extra session of the legislature to
Investigate the textile situation"
but this request, mild as it was, the
governor yesterday emphatically re-
jected.
Chicago Tag Days.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 8.-As an
answer to the eyictions of the tex
tile strikers, many workers. organi-
cations throughout Chicago are hav-
ing special membership meetings
this week for the mobilization for
the Tag Day Saturday and Sunday.
Not only food must be furnished
the strikers, but fund must i'm
be set up for tents, so
that these workers and their fam
lilies have roof over their heads.
Seventeen Tag Day stations have
been set up throughout the city,
where supplies will be furnished the
volunteers. The stations are as fol-
lows: Downtown: Needle Trades
Workers Ind. Union, % South Wells
ST.; Millinery Workers Union, Local
so, ITO N. State st. North Side:
Finnish Workers Club, 2409 North
Halstead St.; 4556 North Crawford
Ave. South Side; Revnost pUdu,
1910 West 18th ST.; Radnik, 1923 So.
Looms ST.; Wins, BIG So. Halstead
St.; American Negro Labor Con-
gress, Room 204, 1922 South Michi-
gan Ave-; Parsons Studio, 5706
Stony Island Ave; Pullman Workers
Club, 1854 East 9th st. West Side:
Freiheit, 1901 West Roosevelt Rd.;
Freiheit Singing Society, 1897 West
Roosevelt Rd. Northwest Side: Fol-
kets Hus, 2733 Hirsh Blvd; Jewish
Workers Club, 2736 West Division
ST.; Workers Book Store, 2021 West
Division St.; Russian Workers Club,
1923 w. Division ST.; Ukrainian
Workers Club, 1852 West Chicago
Ave.
There will also be station at the
Workers International Relief Chi
cago headquarters, % South Lincoln
ST., Chicago.
Gary Conference Sunday.
A Lake County Conference for
the relief of the southern textile
strikers will be held in Gary, 215
West 18th ST., at 2 p. m. Sunday.
There will be delegates represented
from Hammond, East Chicago, Whit
ing and Gary. Plans will be made
for thorough campaign for relief,
also an extensive organizational
drive for the Workers international
Relief.
Dewey Martin, a southern textile
striker, Fannie Rudd, field organ
izer for the w. l. r., and H. c. Gar
ner, former secretary of the Miners
Relief Conference will address the
conference.
Resolution Protests Evictions.
At the session of the w. C. Pro-
test Convention held at 1901 Roose-
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