The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-18
Bv LISTON OAK.

BY LIST0N OAK.
GASTONIA, N. c., July 17.-The
defense counsel met yesterday at
the Asheville office of Judge Car
YER to make plans for the building
of the strongest possible case to re-
lease the Is textile unionists held
in the CASTOR County Jail for trial
July 20 on murder charges.
The International Labor Defense
realizes, however, that the strong
est defense is the building of a pow
crful National Textile Workers
Union and the N. T. W. U. is re-
doubling its organization activities,
Organize to Organize.
A conference was held today at
union headquarters near the tent
colony outside of Gastonia. Organ
i2er Hugo Oehler and William Muir
doch conferred with local organizers
and active members on launching
an organization campaign leading to
the July % Southern Textile Work
ers' Conference at Bessemer City.
Strenuous efforts will be made to
get large representation from as
many mills as time and forces make
possible The meeting at the tent
colony was addressed by Oehler,
Murdoch, Wagenknecht of the Work
crs International Relief, and Dewey
Martin.
Gray Mill Workers Come.
There were delegates from many
other mills and an especially large
delegation from the Gray mill at
Gastonia.
The conference was announced
and forces were organized to be-
gin the campaign.
A meeting at Bessemer City the
night before last had Yves Williams
as chairman, with Oehler and Muir.
doch as speakers. The speakers
were welcomed by the strikers. A
meeting was held last night at the
Rex mill, at Gsstonia, with the
same speakers and local organizers.
Loray Incites Brutality.
1t is openly stated here that the
Loray mill bosses are much dissat
isfied with the Committee of One
Hundred thugs and gunner and are
calling them towards and insisting
that they be more aggressive and
brutal toward the strikers and union
members.
The bosses are astonished and
alarmed at the rapid growth of the
National Textile Workers Union.
The Manville-Jenckes Co., which
owns the Loray mill, is known to be
Planning the organization of a
Committee of One Hundred" at its
High Shoals mill, where the work
ers arc rebelling. This is the re-
suit of the increasing discomfort of
the textile mill workers.
Try Bribery.
Four leading strikers in Gastonia
we're approached by representatives
of the Loray mill management and
begged to come back to work, at
double wages for themselves, and
told they could have a nice union
inside the mill without outside agi-
tators" interfering
The strikers answered:
eve have had your kind of COM
pany union before, and it did us no
good. Now we want our own union
and we prefer outside agitators to
the bosses. You have made prom
ises before, and broken them. You
would pay us double wages for a
week or two and then cut wages
worse than ever before. We are
going to keep on fighting until we
force you to recognize our union and
grant It's demands"
Five families at the Arlington
mill have received eviction notices
after being discharged for joining
the union.
w. I. r. Grows.
The Workers international Relief
Gastonia Committee met Monday
afternoon for routine work. Its or
ganization is growing rapidly.
The Labor Sports Club held q
meeting yesterday afternoon to COM
plete the organization of baseball
teams in CASTOR and Bessemer.
Leon Josephson arrived yesterday
from Trenton, to join the counsel of
the defense, engaged by the Inter-
national Labor Defense. He issued
statement that: