The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-26
Carolina Justice" and the Southern Press

Union who have dared to threaten
the open-shop with it's starvation
wages, 12-hour day and stretch-out
system, it's ruthless exploitation of
mill workers, hitherto cheap, docile
and unorganized," and who are now
in revolt led by the N. T. w. U.
1t is also significant that on the
same editorial page of the Char
lotte News for July IL on which are
printed the above stirring appeals
for respect for the majesty of the
law, there appears a third editorial,
entitled: GIT is WITHIN OUR OWN
HOUSE."
eve wonder sometimes if there
are any people around here who are
foolish and deluded enough to har-
Dor the thought that the Commun-
list debauchery that has been in
progress in Gastonia is strictly and
purely a Gastonia affair, that we
have nothing here in Charlotte to
worry about, that the trouble lies
entirely across the river. The
entire south has this problem not
at its door but right inside its own
house.
THAT the Communist rebellion is
definitely planned to show itself on
Southern battlefields can not intel
ligently be questioned, 1t is only ac-
cidental that Gastonia was chosen
as the first spot on which to stack
arms and has later been accepted as
Southern headquarters by the Com
munist International. There is
no way for US to escape the bane-
fulness Of it, neither is there a way
for US to hold ourselves immune to
the evils and sinister subleties CT
the movement"
eff the bolt of blackness known as
Bolshevism hits in Gastonia and
turns things topsy- turvy there, it
produces its like effects throughout
other communities :"
VA IliC SAINT page IfllS CIldllp1OH
of All that is Sacred in America
gives as its Bible Thought for the
day:
"MAN'S EXTREMITY, GODS
OPPORTUNITY-'When my soul
tainted within me 1 remembered the
Lord: and my prayer came in unto
thee, into thine holy temple"
Keep Their Powder Dry.
The mill owners are not quite re-
duced to this extremity! They have
many instruments much more effec-
tive than "the Lord" They may
have their meek and humble SER
wants, the clergymen, praying to
God to rid them of these pests, the
Communists, even as in Biblical
times the priests prayed to be rid
of the plague of locusts, or, as Job
prayed to be rid of his running
sores. But the mill owners leave
this sort Of nonsense to their
priests. They resort to other and
more material means to save their
sacred institutions" -meaning the
stretch-out, wage-cuts, the open
shop, the profit system-they have
recourse to the police, the militia,
the courts, the government, and, if
necessary, to lynching.
An interesting transformation has
taken place in the editorial policies
of the southern capitalist press. At
first almost all papers joined with
the Gastonia Gazette in bowling for
the blood of the leaders of the N. T.
w. U. after the shooting. The edi.
tors convicted the strikers out OF
court Of the crime Of being union
organizers, Communists, atheists,
etc, etc. 1t was taken for granted
that if they were all these terrible
things, they were ipso facto murder
ers, or at least potentially criminals
of the most degraded kind and ought
to be lynched, electrocuted or jailed
on general principles.
Workers Not Fooled.
Then few outstanding opponents
Of liberalism came out with their
criticism Of this campaign to lynch
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