The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-17

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of these Al are assault with
brought Tuesday, according to
the order secured yesterday
from Judge Harding, to his
court in Charlotte, to have their
hearing along with the II held over
from Fridays hearing.
Many of these At are strikers
whose names were just learned by
the defense within the last few days.
They were arrested in indiscriminate
raids on the strikers tents following
the first police attack in which Chief
of Police Aderholt was killed and
three of his followers wounded while
trying to shoot up the tent colony.
Held Inc0mmunicado.
The prisoners have been held in
communicate for a week, starved,
forced to sleep packed like sardines
on the cement floors of crowded cells,
and some of them badly beaten and
tortured in the effort to secure "con-
fessions" from them.
Collections for the defense of all
these workers are being conducted
this week in several big cities of the
country. The international Labor
Defense New York section has
started its week of tag days. All
workers are urged to go Immediately
to the office, 799 Broadway, and get
collection cans AID other equipment
at once.
At Factory Gates.
Great mass meetings Saturday and
today are berg held in Chicago, and
also a series of factory gate meet
ings, where workers coming out for
noon hour can be told the story of
the bloody plot to kill IS of their
fellow workers by electrocution, and
to sentence So more of them to long
prison terms.
Tomorrow night and Tuesday
night mass meetings are scheduled
for Detroit. Tuesday night there
will be another in Cleveland. All
workers are invited, and besides
resolutions to protest the police-mill
owners frame up of the strikers,
and the raid upon and destruction
of the tent colony, with it's resultant
eviction of strikers families, there
will be collection made for the de-
fense of these workers.
There is every indication that the
trial will be long and expensive.
Strikes Spread.
While these textile strikers are
facing trial for daring to interfere
with mill owners exploitation, they
are cheered by news smuggled in
that the revolt is spreading. Six
hundred workers struck last week at
the Lydia mill, at Clinton, S. c., de-
manding the discharge of a slave
driving foreman.
The Ware Shoals, mills in South
Carolina where 1000 are on strike,
are still tied up, although the United
Textile Workers and the South Caro-
lima Cancellation Board" are trying
to make another Elizabethton out Of
it. The board is sitting, and trying
to evolve a settlement that will put
the workers back to work with moth
ing gained.
At Mills mills in Greenville, S. c.,
$50 workers are still out, and de-
mand wage increases.
The National Textile Workers
Union continues to hold big mass
meetings in front of the Bessemer,
N. G. mills. The union is growing
rapidly.
Judge w. F. Harding, hearing
habeas corpus proceedings Friday
in Charlotte on 10 of those arrested
in Gastonia after the police shot
UP the strikers tent colony and got
their chief killed in the process, held
IL for a continuation of the hearing
Tuesday, without bail, held six for
continuation of the hearing Tues
day, without bail, held six for con-
tinuation on $4,000 bail each, and
released two.
The court room gave clear pic
ture of the class forces whose clash
in Gastonia has produced this his
toric case. Three hundred mill
workers jammed the room, and
others crowded the corridors. Two
hundred of these came in from Gas
tonia. They were strikers who had
heard of attempts on the part of the
mill bosses to raise lynch mob at
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