The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-26
By LISTON OAK.

ACU DSdiy V SId DuCIl, LOUIS NC
Laughlin, Amy Schechter, and eleven
other strikers and union organizers
of the National Textile Workers
Union are held without bond in the
CASTOR county Jail charged with the
murder of Chief of Police Aderholt
on the night of June 7th. They are
also charged with secret assault with
intent to kill and conspiracy. Eight
others are out on $3.50 bond charged
with conspiracy in the above killing
and with assault; with intent to kill.
The Carolina press, and in fact
most of the southern press, have
given this case wide publicity. They
recognize, in confused sort of way,
the tremendous significance for the
South involved in this case. the
strike from which it arose, and the
emergence in the South of the class
conscious proletariat.
Almost with unanimity the Caro-
lima press has loudly proclaimed
that "these strikers, Bolsheviks de-
serving of drastic punishment though
they are, will get justice" What is
Carolina justice" that they are ris-
ing to defend from defamation on
the part of northern foreign agi-
tators"? What is the conception of
a fair trial that the bourgeoisie of
the Tar Heel state holds?
Judges Preach.
There is an enormous amount of
local patriotism here. Whether it
is their weather or their courts the
bourgeoisie are eloquently indignant
at any criticism made by foreign
ers." They are immensely proud of
their religion, their home brew,
their climate, their chivalry,-even
of their backwardness culturally, po-
litically and economically, it some
times seems. Any politician hoping
for advancement must be a staunch
upholder of religion, of the status
quo, of the Jim-Crow system, of
everything southern. Every editor
and lawyer must be able to illus
trate his speech or story with Bib
lical references. Every judge must
be able to preach sermon extern
poraneously.
When a jury at Chester, S. c.,
found Rafe King guilty of the muir
der of his wife few days ago, the
judge, j. K. Henry, pronounced SEN
tence: death by electrocution as
provided by law, and may God have
mercy on your SOUL" King nervous
ly licked his lips on which there was
a sickly smile, and started falter-
ingly towards the table of the de-
Tense counsel. But as though it
were not enough punishment for a
man to burn in the electric chair,
Judge Henry halted him for addi-
tional torture.
Cruel and Unusual.
"The state can make no other use
for you than as an example to deter
others from horrible life," unctu-
ously preached the venerable judge.
That's the only use the state can
make Of you. 1t has been verified
and verified: He that soweth to the
flesh, shall Of the flesh reap corrup-
ton. And he that soweth to the
wind, shall of the wind reap whirl-
wind | wish that it could be writ
ten across the heavens so that all
GU ryoung men could see it."
"You have led a purified life and
you have reaped the whirlwind. The
time that is given you before you go
to the chair is for you to mediate
and prepare yourself. And that is
the only hope for you,-repentance
before God"
With an expression as of a great
duty well done, the jurist finished
his sermon.
Thereupon the Rev. E. B. Hunter,
who had King arrested stool
pigeon of the Lord" as it were
dropped into a chair beside the con-
dcnncd man and proceeded to make