The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
CASTOR DEFENSE
CREETS T.U. U. c..
Hail Conference in End
Week of Trial

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the U. T. w. and the A. F. of L.
Only the strong fighting power of
the left wing can lead the work
ers of the South, black and white,
in struggles against the bosses,
their police and courts and against
the traitorous leadership of the
A. F. of l.. In all these struggles
the I. L. ID. must move forward
with the n. T. w. U. as the shield
of the workers against the bosses
prosecution. Support the Gastonia
defense, free our fellow workers,
uphold the right to organize,
strike and defend themselves
against the vicious attack of the
bosses and their agents; rally the
masses of American workers to
defeat the murderous union
smashing plots of Southern textile
BOSSES"
Through the past week steady
stream of veniremen has passed in
and out of the Mecklenburg County
court house, from whom the prose
cution and the defense selected only
seven jurors of the twelve who will
render a verdict on the charge of
murder against sixteen members of
the National Textile Workers Union.
Out of the 500 veniremen drawn for
examination only 125 remained this
morning for examination. 1t will
probably be impossible to select five
more jurors from among these who
are acceptable to both prosecution
and defense. Several hundred more
veniremen will have to be drawn in
this event. The trial will not start
before Wednesday, according to all
indications. Defense, prosecution
and newspaper reporters here all
agree on only one point-that this
trial, the most important that has
ever taken place in the South, will
almost certainly last a month or
more.
What First Week Proves.
The first weeks events prove
clearly that: (1) The prosecution
will try to have unionism outlawed
and organizing, striking and self
defense made criminal offenses pun
ishable by death. (2) That the state
has no definite specific facts upon
which to base it's indictment, as
shown by the failure of the Man
ville-Jenckes' lawyers to write sec
ond bill of particulars in accordance
with the argument of the defense
counsel, which was upheld by the
court that the defendants are en-
titled to know these alleged facts.
(3) That although the Southern
capitalist press continues it's edi-
torial bowling that this is an or
binary murder trial even the prose
cution no longer can keep up this
pretense, as shown by the character
of the questions they ask the venire-
men, clearly proving that they re-
alize very we'll the significance of
the outcome of the trial and its
bearing upon the future Of the labor
movement in the South, and by the
fact that the selection of the jurors
depends upon their answer to the
questions as to whether they are
prejudiced against labor unions, or
ganizers, Communism and radical re-
ligious beliefs.
(4) The pretense of impartiality
of the prosecution has broken down,
as shown, for instance, by the fact
that the state is desperately trying
to get on the jury business men who
openly admit prejudice.
(5) That the searchlight of ma
tional publicity and the campaign
of the international Labor Defense
to arouse workers to the support of
the defense by mass protest has
forced a complete change of line of
the state and Of capitalist news
papers, the attempt now being made
to electrocute the union organizers
by due process of law with every APP
pearance of impartiality preserving
the illusion of democratic even
handed justice OF the courts as an
agency of call the people"
(6) That the l. l.. D. analyses
Of the state of inflamed prejudice