The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-12
CASTONIA POLICE
DESTROY striker
COLONY OF Tents
Move to Prevent Food
Coming to Families

the strikers, but the Committee OF
One Hundred, the Loray mill own
ers' gunner, are creating terror
throughout the city.
Pressure On Lot Owners.
There is a report here that the
owner of the lot which was leased
to the N. T. w. U. for the erection
of the union headquarters was
asked by the city authorities to give
permission for them to tear down
the building.
! William Rice, owner of the tent
colony lot, is said to have given the
city permission to dismantle the
tent colony, the lumber to be taken
by Rice and the tents and Strikers
furniture stored. No one knows
whether this is true or not.
1t is clear that the destruction Of
the tent colony by the city is an at
tempt to dispense the witnesses to
the shooting Friday, who might ap-
pear in defense of the arrested strik-
ers when they are put on trial.
1t is clearly established by credi-
bic witnesses that the Manville-
Jenckes gunner burned down COM
pany houses last night, to give a
fresh excuse for mob action and to
increase the terror.
Men who We're employed in the
Loray mill at the time of the shoot
ing stated yesterday before three
witnesses that the first attack on
the speakers at the tent colony meet
ing Friday night was organized by
the fascist committee of the Man
ville-J enckes bosses at the mill. The
bosses were heard ordering their
hirelings to throw eggs at the
speakers, when the demonstration
before the Loray mill was being or
ganized.
These witnesses state that Chief
of Police Aderholt, after his police
line turned back the strikers picket
demonstration Friday, ordered the
Committee of One Hundred to arm
dllQ COlle OuC VI IIlG Hill.
'Shoot To KILL"
This mill worker heard Aderholt
order the Committee of One Hun
dred to go to the tent colony with
the police and "shoot to kill"
He saw this gang of mill bosses
gunner shoot up the colony, tear
down the tents, and loot the union
headquarters after the shooting of
the officers and the strike leader,
Harrison. ...
This National Textile Workers
Union member further stated he
was in Gastonia the night Fred
Beal, union organizer, was taken
through by the police, who were in
structed by the city solicitor not to
stop. He saw the mob waiting for
Beal. Members of the mob said
''Take him out and end him."
"Send Him in Coffin"
He overheard a remark made in
the court house yesterday, eff Jimi-
son comes to Gastonia, return him
to Charlotte in a coffin!" (Jimison
is the attorney for the International
Labor Defense.)
was informed yesterday in Char
lotte that it was "inadvisable" for
me to come to Gastonia, as would
be assaulted. l arrived here with
an attorney to serve writ of
habeas corpus on Sheriff Line
berger of CASTOR county, demanding
that Union Organizer Vera Bush,
relief workers Carolina Drew, Amy
Schechter, Sophie Melvin, Bertha
Crawford, Edith Saunders, organ
izers and strikers Marie Wilton,
K. o. Byers, X. Y. Hendricks, w. M.
McGinnis, Russell Knight, Tom Helf,
j. R. Pittman, Horace Lloyd, Geo.
w. Carter, Louis Mclaughlin, Jo-
seph Harrison, Clarence Miller and
N. T. w. Southern Organizer Fred
Beal, be brought before Superior
Court Judge W. F. Harding at Char
lotte tomorrow at ten in the morn
ing for preliminary hearings.
Still Incommunicado.
Drew, Schechter, and all the 9TH
ers are still held incommunicado.
The Gastonia city authorities have
attempted to secure the consent of
Beal and Vera Bush to dismantle
the tent colony. They refused.
The attorney for the international
Labor Defense, Tom Unison, in
formed the city authorities that the
w. I. R. and it's executive secretary
were in charge of the tent colony.
He also told them where / could be
found, but they made no effort to
get in touch with me.
Torture Arrested Strikers.
My answer to a request for dis
mantling the colony would have been
a refusal. The policy of the Work
ers international Relief is exactly
the. opposite. We are determined to
increase the size of the colony and
increase the distribution of relief.
A crowd of workers went out to
the tent grounds last night, having
heard that there would be meet
ing there. The deputies turned them
back.
Reports from the Jail are current
here that the strikers arrested and
held there are being mistreated.
They are being assaulted in their
cells by the police. They are being
"third degreed," and drenched with