The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-05
WhitewashingProceed
in Ella May Murder

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will become as notorious before the
workers of the land, and of other
nations, as the Gastonia trial, which
is an effort to halt the organization
Of the unorganized textile workers
in the South.
Growing unemployment, even in
the building and metal trades in
Chicago, coupled with the increasing
speed-up, is developing a flaming
discomfort in the ranks of labor
throughout the Chicago district,
which the employing class fears, es-
pecially in such large plants as the
Western Electric, the Northwestern
Railroad Shops, the Mccormick Har-
vester Plant, the Pullman shops, and
the steel mills at Waukegan, South
Chicago, Hammond and Gary. The
effort is being made to use the sedi-
ton act to combat this radicaliza-
ton process in the ranks of the
workers. The International Labor
Defense will resist this attack to the
utmost.
Hathaway Out, Held.
Especially infamous is the set
ting of extortionate bail in the cases
of those already under arrest in
Guiding Clarence A. Hathaway, Chi
|cago district organizer of the CON-
munist Party; Hiels Kjar, Stephen
Zinich, M. Borich, Irving Hermann
and Samuel Milerem. While bail
is fixed at $4,000 in most of these
cases, twice and three times this
maount is demanded in property as
security; ridiculously low valuations
have been set on some of the pieces
of real estate offered. Under these
circumstances only Hathaway has
been released, although the 1nterna-
tional abor Defense is making every
possible effort to secure the freedom
Of the others as WE'LL"
The attorneys now in the case are
David j. Bentall and Albert Gold
man.
Moulders' Protest.
The International Moulders
Union, Local 233, of Chicago, which
is the largest local in the union and
has LOO members, has adopted
sharp resolution condemning the
terror against textile workers in the
South, particularly the Marion mas
sacre and the Gastonia trial. 1t
says of the Gastonia trial;
"The strikers and the organizers
refused to allow themselves to be
shot in cold blood, but instead put
up resistance worthy of good and
loyal union men, and in the fighting
which followed the police chief
Aderholt was fatally wounded.
"The attempt of the Southern mill
bosses to electrocute the defendants
end to sentence them to long prison
terms is a plot to drive the Unions
out of the South, so that the bosses
may continue their speed up Of
workers and their starvation wages
by keeping them unorganized.
eve demand the unconditional
freedom of all the prisoners, their
immediate liberation, so that they
may again take their place in the
ranks of the Southern textile work
ers to carry on their tasks of or
ganizing the South"
II
Whitewashing Proceeds,
GASTONIA, N. c., Nov. A.
Judge P. A. McElry, selected by
Governor Gardner to conduct the
whitewashing of the murderers of
Ella May, has ordered the arrest of
16 persons, whose names are with
held. The hearings start tomorrow,
with 40 witnesses subpoenaed. The
action of the grand jury in simply
refusing to indict number of kill
ers, all mill bosses and superintend-
ents, mill gunner, etc., after they
were lucHLlllcu, udo lOuSSu oo iHoSA
mass resentment, that McElroy was
sent in to do the job more skillfully.
1t is even possible there may be
fake trial, as in the case of the kid
nappers of Wells.
Bulwinkle Shows Connection.
A. L. Bulwinkle, chief counsel for
the Manville-Jenckes Co., openly
made connection between this COM
pany and its city and county author
tiles this morning when he asked
that the list of 16 men for whom
warrants were issued be handed to
him and he would see that all APP
peared at the next session
Judge McElroy stated today that
no secret sessions OF tire court would
be held, aid that fell sessions would
start tomorrow mt rnii G, The delay
being at the request of Solicitor
Carpenter, Of Gastonia, who gave as