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ANOTHER textile.
ORGANIZER shot
Boss Gunmen Attempt
to Kill Below

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. %
The terror of the mill bosses con-
tinues, and shows the real reasons
for the attempt to electrocute the
Gastonia defendants. The mill boss
es are trying by legal trickery and
illegal violence to kill off all union
organizers.
Another National Textile Work
ers Union member was shot and
wounded by mill bosses thugs last
week, at Kings Mountain.
Charles Bellew, active member of
the National Textile Workers
Union, has reported to the office
in Charlotte an attack upon him,
which proves the mill bosses reign
of terror continues, and that the life
of every organizer and active men,
Der of the N. T. w. U. is in danger.
Bellew was discharged from the
Cora Mill in Kings Mountain for
union activity. He was looking for
another job, and at the same time
getting union members. When he
went back to the Cora mill to talk
to friends there, he was attacked
by three of the bosses thugs.
"Get the hell out of here, or we'll
kill you!" they shouted, waving
their guns at Bellew. AS he ran,
several shots were fired at him.
One bullet grazed his side, inflict-
ing a painful flesh wound. He fell,
but was able to crawl through the
grass and weeds into some tall
brush where he hid. After night
fall, some of his fellow members of
the union came looking for him, and
kept him in workers house until
the next night. Then he was taken
to his mothers home and cared for
until he recovered sufficiently to
report to the union headquarters in
I Charlotte Friday.
| Since he was shot, Bellew has re-
ceived a threatening letter from the
bosses thugs, telling him that next
time they will kill him.
Cleo Tessneair is back on the job
of organizing textile workers into
the union. He has recovered from
Continued on Page Three)
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I. u. u. |. meet
TOMORROW NIGHT
I AUSTRIAN LABOR
IT FIGHTS FASC|SM

ghe metropolitan Area Trade
. Union un.5y Conference which will
he led tomorrow night at irving
pa. Isw'ng Flace and 18th ST.,
will hear report on the Cleveland
. Trace Union Unity Conference by
William z. Foster. general secre-
tary of the T.U.U.L.
Foster will take up in great de-
tail the achievements of thot his
toric conference, reciting the deci-
sions of the labor gathering which
was attended by 800 delegates
Henry SAFER, chairman of the
New York delegation to the Cleve-
land conference will report on the
applications of the conference de-
cisions to the labor movement of
New York and New Jersey.
Otto Hall will take up the ques-
ton CT organizing the Negro
workers
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SUMMARY OF THE CASE OF
GASTONIA WORKERS.

December, 1878, freu Deal,
Southern District Organizer of
the National Textile Workers
Union, begins organizing union
local in Charlotte and Gastonia.
April 2, 1929, $500 workers of
the Loray Mill in Gastonia of the
Manville-Jenckes Company strike
under the banner Of the National
Textile Workers Union when
several union members are fired.
April 1S, the Workers Inter-
national Relief Store raided by
band of masked men; break
down building and destroy food
supplies under the nose of the
militia.
Grand Jury Investigation" is
whitewash for mill fascists.
June 7, drunken Gastonia pO-
lice and mill hirelings attack and
fire into Workers international
Relief tent colony in Gastonia,
after breaking up a picket line.
Police Chief Aderh0lt is killed,
two policemen and one union or
ganizer are wounded.
The same night the colony is
raided again, II men and women
thrown in Jail, gassed and beaten.
Of these % are held for murder
or murderous assault.
July 80, the trial opens in Gas
tonia with 13 men and 8 women
charged with murder and s other
strikers and organizers charged
with murderous assault.
July 30, after workers through
out country protest vigorously
against the attempt to railroad
the textile workers to death, a
change of venue to Charlotte,
Mecklenberg County, granted.
August 2, Amy Schechter, Vera
Buch and Sophie Melvin, three
women charged with murder are
released on bond, with indication
from prosecution that charge
would be changed to murderous
assault. The prosecution changes
its tactics to make easier the
electrocutiOn of the 13 men.
August 10, trial of seven held
on charges of assault with secret
weapons with intent to kill is
postponed to October Is; no
change of venue for the denfend-
ants held on this charge.
Freed on $4,000 bail each, they
return to campaign to rally sup
port for defense conducted by In
ternational Labor Defense, and
for the Charlotte Conference and
intensified struggle of textile
workers of the South.
August 26, trial of 16 textile
workers charged with murder
opens in Charlotte, N. c. Man.
ville-Jenckes attorneys, represent.
ing the state, demand chair for
13 men defendants.
Sept. 9, after a juror is called
INSANE" Judge Barnhill declares
mistrial. Five jurors announce
acquittal was almost certain be.
cause of weakness of prosecution
case. simultaneously, organized
fascist black hundred led by
Loray mill attorneys and police
and made up of mill foremen,
petty business men, ETC., insti-
tute reign of terror. Kidnap and
flog union leaders, dynamite
headquarters and murder Ella
May, active unionist.
Farcical investigation results
in whitewash of Bulwinkle, Car.
penter and other leaders.
Sept. 25, company union an.
nounced for southern textile
workers, and governor threatens
to outlaw union in North Caro-
lima.
Sept. 80, attempt to send 13
cxtile workers to chair and
others to penitentary resumed in
trial, while terror continues in
attempt to intimidate union men,
bers and prospective jurors alike.
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PrOfintern Calls All Workers
to Save GastOnia Defendants
Red International of Labor Unions Condemns
Murder0us ElectrocutiOn Plan of Bosses
CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. 29.

The Red International of Labor
Unions (Profintern), numbering
millions of members throughout the
world, with headquarters in Moscow,
has issued an appeal for the solid
arity of the working class of the
world to free the 90 Gastonia pris-
oners, siteen of whom go on trial
for the lives in Charlotte, N. c.,
today.
The text of the appeal was cabled
to the International Labor Defense,
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16 and Wilkes-Barre, Oct. 1s.
Mother Ella Reeve Bloor is tour
ing the Pacific Coast.
Ben Wells, who was flogged by
tour the Middle West.
Rothschild Francis, Negro editor
of "Liberator" Of the Virgin Islands,
who recently served Is months in
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workers of the steel and coal dis
tricts of Pennsylvania.
Louis Sass will speak before Hun
garian workers in 10 cities with the
aim of gaining 5000 new members
in 100 branches by the first of 1880.
He will talk at Portage, Pa, Oct.
Z: Pittsburgh. Oct. s and 9; Fair
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mount, w. Va, Oct. 10; Detroit,
Mich, Oct. IL and II; Chicago,
Cleveland, Oct. 1S and 10; Akron,
o., Oct. 20; Buffalo, Oct. 21 and %;
Philadelphia, Oct. 23; New Bruins
wick, N. j., Oct. "a; New York, Oct.
25; and Bridgeport, Conn, Oct. 26.
The International Labor Defense
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WORKERS SCHOOL
OPENS ToN|GH 7

Tonight at the Workers Center
the opening assembly of all students
will take place on the fifth floor
in the large auditorium of the
Workers School.
The purpose of the assembly is
to acquaint' the students with the
organization Of the school. the
teaching methods used and the
matter Of text books. Also the
teachers Of the various depart
ments Of the school will be out
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GAST0NlA TRIAL RE0PENS TODAY IN WORLD SPOTLIGHT

Sixteen Gastonld
tertiLe strikers
md organizers go
ing on trial again
today in Charlotte.
Thirteen nte1, are
charged 1Vith first
degree murder aud
the state is trying
to railroad them
20 th e electric
chair. The three
1Com,en are charged
aUith second degree
murder and face
long prison terms.
The solidarity of
the 1Oorking class
will saUe them.
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Jail for daring to expose American
Imperialism, will talk in Washing
ton, Baltimore, Wilmington, Phila-
delphia, Chester and New York.
G. Lloyd, I. o. Ford and Sadie
Van Veen, will sour the Ohio dis
trict, including 105 cities.
Sonia Kroll will speak to the
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WORKERS DEMEND RELEASE; ACTIVELY
ORGANIZE, AS MILL PROSECUTION ADDS
LEGAL PROCESS TO ITS TERRORISM
Schemng Number of PerempOry Challenges and Pack
jury Determined Eliminate 6 Unoniss from Struggle
Reign of Lynch Terror by Mill Owners Black Hundreds Intended to
Check Mobilization of Masses Frghen Witnesses
BULLETIN.

Sept 30 ne o
meemg b
October
aeadt o
for lie
N Gatoni begin n
of
the
Of
and be
the
enoring
the changeof venu
of
in the first Charlotte month
night the emisia
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so E. 18th St., which is defending
the Gastonia prisoners, and to the
Trade Union Unity League, w.
18th St., which is the American Sec
tion of the R. I. L. U.
Mill Owners Murderers.
"The powerful Southern textile
barons are determined to murder
these heroic working class leaders
in their attempts to prevent the rev.
olutionary National Textile Workers
Union from organizing the hundreds
! Continued on Page Three)
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delphia, Oct. 21.
Mike Harris, youth organizer for
the National Textile Workers Union
in Gastonia, will speak to youth
conferences and meetings in Phila-
delphia, tonight; Detroit and Cleve-
land, Oct. 5 and 6; Chicago, Pitts
burgh. Oct. II and IL; Buffalo, Oct,
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and 5; Detroit, Oct. 6; Toledo, Oct
Z Chicago, Oct. 8; Milwaukee, Oct
9; Minneapolis, Oct. 10; Duluth, Oct
IL; st. Paul, Oct. 12; Chicago, Oct
13; st. Louis, Oct. ID and 15; Gin
cinnati, Oct. 16; Pittsburgh, Oct
Is and 10; Washington, Oct. 20
Baltimore, evening Of Oct. 20: Phiia
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BAZAAR WILL AID
SIXTEEN

With the murder trial of the six
teen Gatonsia strikers and organ
izers coming up again today in
Charlotte, N. c, the need for
strengthening the Daily Worker and
Morning Freiheit, the only Amer
Continued on Page Two)
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Ten organizers for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense are now tour
ing the United States to awaken the
American working class to the full
dangers of the Gastonia conspiracy.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz will tour the
following cities: Rochester, Oct. Q:
Buffalo, Oct. 8; Cleveland. Oct. A
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kidnapped Organizer DeH WeliS
of the National Textile Work
ers' Union, and C. D. Saylors
and C. M. Lell, and later
flogged Wells into unconscious
ness. A part of this gang
paraded in autos to Charlotte with
the expressed intention of lynching
the defense counsel, and union
leaders.
This was followed Sept. II by an
attempt to lynch Organizer Frank
Fortner at Dallas. He drove away
his attackers with gunfire.
Eight organizers were arrested
Sept. II, and charged with sedition.
The case had to be dropped, as
there was no evidence for the
prosecution.
Murder Woman Unionist.
On Sept. IA, the South Gastonia
mass meeting was broken up by
mill gangsters who murdered Ella
May, woman organizer of the
N.T.W.
On Sept. 18, mill gunmen kid
mapped Cleo Tessner, an N.T.W.
organizer, and flogged him nearly
to death, after attempting to lynch
him. The same night, thugs in so
automobiles chased Organizers Car
oil, Phifer and Shepard and tried to
lynch them. This murder gang was
| led by Policeman Roach, one of the
AderhOlt raiders, and an important
prosecution witness in the Gastonia
case. These are the tactics of the
prosecution.
/ The Defendants.
Those workers charged with mur-
der in the first degree and held for
electrocution if the mill owners
state can get a conviction are: Fred
Erwin Beal, Louis Mclaughlin,
William McGinnis, George Carter,
X. O. Byers, Joseph Harrison, I.
c. Heffner, Robert Allen, Russell
Knight, N. F. Gibbons, X. Y. Hem
bricks, Delmar Hampton and Clar-
ence Miller.
Miller was originally charged
with assault, and was out on bond.
When he appeared in Charlotte for
the trial which ended in msitriai,
he was promoted" at the request of
the prosecution, to the group held
for the chair.
Amy Schechter, Sophie Melvin.
and Vera Bush, the three women de-
fendanst on trial in this case, were
all original indicted for first degree
murder. The prosecution, at the
beginning of the first Charlotte
trial, changed the charge, thinking
evidently that they would stand a
better chance of conviction if they
, made a gesture towards chivalry.
Another Case Follows.
There are also seven workers
charged with assault with intent to
kill, and held on $3.50 bonds, whose
trial date is set for some time in
! Continued on Page Three)
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urges all workers who want to pro-
test against the mill barons' terror
to join the organization and swell
the membership by $4,000. I,
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Build Up the United Front Of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up--at the Enterprises! I'm!
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For 8 Workers-Farmers Gopernmen
To Organize tbe Unorganized
Against IwperiaIist War
For the @0-Honr Week
Milford chronicle., 1929-05-17

Green, Mrs. Ida Hughes, Mrs. Alice
Simon. From Seaford: Mrs. Wilbur
Hurley; Bridgeville, Mrs. Walton
Owens, Miss Betty Ruos; Cannon,
Mrs. Charles WEIGH, Miss Anna
Short; Georgetown, Mrs. Harold
Purnell; Lewes, Mrs. Earl Hudson;
Wilmington, Mrs. Led. Mace; Laurel,
Mrs. A. W. Baker, Mrs. Housed;
frankfort, Mrs. Norman Chandler;
Chincoteague, Va, Mrs. Stanley
burlington, Mrs. Walter Clark, Mrs.
Robert Keas, Jr., Mrs. John Winder,
Mrs. Sallie Rowley, Mrs. Wilbur
Davis, Mrs. Robert Keas, Sr., Mrs.
Josephine Gillies, Mrs. Flora Roe.
Bridge prizes were won by Mrs.
Josephine Keas, Mrs. Wilbur Davis,
Mrs. Flora Roe.
Give Hundred" prize was won
by Mrs. John Malin.
The draw prize was awarded to
Mrs. Jennie Biehn.
The house was beautifully deco
rated with wild flowers. The table
decorations and favors were carried
out in the apple blossoms"
Milford chronicle., 1929-05-17
Bridgevine

Mrs. George Culver is spending a
few days here with Mr.. and Mrs. Al
Culver.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brown spent
Sunday with relatives at Seaford.
Miss Esther Burriss, of Philadel-
phia, visited Mrs. Fred Butler here
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall Wiley were
visitors in MillsborO on Sunday
last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Calhoun and
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Williams, of Mil
ford, are spending the week in
Baltimore, Md, attending the Tall
Cedars Convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Wiley, of
Lewes, spent Mothers Day at the
home of their respective parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stuart, Jr., of
Seaford, were visitors at the home
of their sister, Mrs. c. H. Brown,
on Friday last.
Mrs. Herman Wiley and daughter
Georgia were weekend visitors in
Wilmington, where she attended the
wedding of cousin.
Miss Anna Layton, of Chester, Pa.
spent Mothers Day with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Layton.
Miss Margaret Mitchell visited
her mother over the weekend.
Mrs. Charles Calhoun spent week
end with her son Luther Calhoun.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Brewington,
of Delmar, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Anna Dickerson, her mother.
Miss Mary Kinder, who is a
teacher in Milford School, spent
the weekend with her parents
here.
Milford chronicle., 1929-05-17

Miss Anna Larrimore spent week
end in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. Warrington
and daughter spent Sunday at Sal
isbury, Md.
Miss Eleanor Willin, who is at
tending a business school in Will
mington, spent weekend here with
her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Williams and
children, of Milford, spent last Sun
day with her mother, Mrs. Margaret
Young.
o. ]. Wiley is spending several
days with his son, James Wiley,
at Lewes.
Mrs. Archie Beebe, of Milford,
spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs.
Margaret Young.
Mrs. Nettie w. Bowden, of West
Chester, Pa, entertained a host of
her friends at a bridge luncheon
given at the Oriole Tea Room in
this town. Those present were:
From West Chester: Mrs. Jennie
Biehn, Mrs. Joe Pusey, Mrs. Flor
ence DeHaven, Mrs. Helen Englun,
Mrs. Curtis Kiech, Mrs. Jennie NAL
in, Mrs. Laird, Mrs. Irwin Reagan,
Mrs. John Simon, Mrs. Mary Davis,
Mrs. Mary Matthews, Mrs. Joe
Rhoades, Mrs. Paul Ford, Mrs. John
Malin, Mrs. Mae Madried, Mrs. Rau
Milford chronicle., 1929-05-17
Warwick

Farm work is very much retarded
in this section, owing to the con-
tinued cold and rainy weather.
Traces of Jack Frost were obserV-
ed by the early risers on Saturday
morning.
The Franklin City excursion train
brought number of visitors to this
vicinity on Sunday.
Several from here attended the
Ladies Aid of Central NJ. E. Church
on Thursday evening and were de-
Iightfully entertained at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Warrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Barto and the
formers mother, were entertained
at dinner on Mothers Day" by Mr..
and Mrs. E. R. Blizzard in George
town. The other guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Barto, Miss Edith Barto
and friend, D. Birney, and Mrs.
Laura Cohee, all of Philadelphia,
also Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Cohee
of Georgetown.
The Warwick colored school held
their commencement exercises on
Friday evening. The Misses Elnora
J. Street and Iona Johnson were
eighth grade graduates and are pre-
pared to enter high school next
term.
Miss Ethel Burton returned from
Wilmington on Sunday and will |
spend some time with Mr.. and Mrs.
A. II. Lingo. J
Milford chronicle., 1929-05-17
Long Neck

The Ladies' Aid will hold it's next
meeting the third Thursday evening
| in June which will be the goth, with
Mrs. Iva Barto. Every one cor
daily invited.
1t surely did look like "Old times"
to see Central Church so well filed
as it was Sunday, with those who
left their homes to hear the very
impressive Mothers Day Sermon by
Rev. Green. 1t is very encouraging
to our pastor and he promises us
even a better sermon May 26, as a
Memorial Address. Come back one
and all.
Mr., and Mrs. w. D. Steele enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. John Steele
and daughter Betty, of Stockley, on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis MCGEE, Mr..
and Mrs. Lloyd MCGEE and family,
of Milton, spent Sunday with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ward MCGEE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Parsons and
daughter Edna were callers with
Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Jarvis, of
GAINESVILLE, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Lingo were
callers with Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford
Green on Friday evening.
Mrs. Martha JONES, of Harring-
ton, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Garry Massey.
Mrs. Amanda Moore is spending
some time in Wilmington with her
daughter, Mrs. George Niblett, who
is suffering from nervous attack.
VIM. Davidson, of Lewes, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. War
rington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Esham and
son, Junior, spent Sunday with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. R.
Lingo.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Wilson had as
their callers on Sunday Mr.. and
Mrs. Alton Thoroughbred, of Phila-
delphia, Misses Hilda and Aline
also Frank and Cliff
ford Thoroughbred, of near Mills
borO.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Warrington
and boys, John and Henry, and Mr..
and Mrs. M. R. Lenhart were Satur-
lay evening callers on Mrs. D. D.
Steele
Milford chronicle., 1929-05-17
Frankford

Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis Emory of Do
yer was a recent visitor to her aunt
Mrs. w. S. Long, Jr.
The property occupied by Benjam-
in Mclaughlin has been neatly re-
painted.
Mrs. Mollie Hickman is spending
a few days in Dover with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Fraley OF
philadelphia recently spent a few
DAYS here with Mrs. Fraley's father
Peter C. B. Hudson. They were re-
turning home after months visit
in Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Mary Huxford who has been
snending the winter in Philadelphia
with her daughter, Mrs. Norman A:
Gum, has returned to Frankfort ana
opened her home for the summer
The Century Club met at tine home
of Mrs. Walter Phillips on trl1ay
evening, May 8. Mrs. Ward w. Da-
sew presided. Regular routine Dusl-
ness was transacted. The program
for the evening was on Child wei
fare and was arranged by Mrs; hen
~ Tunnel. Mrs. A. L. Howard gave
wit and humor, Mrs. Morgan l. Gu,l
gave current events. This was IOl-
lowed bv a very interesting account
of the work which is being done py
fine health clinic for Sussex county
nv Miss Leona Dingle who IS EN-
Moved as a nurse for Sussex county
and has southeastern Sussex for her
territory. Miss Dingle is a graduate
of fine IT. of P. Hospital and handled
her subject admirably ana pest OF
all she is one of our own town girls
When the News-Journal Special
pulls out of Wilmington bright ana
early Saturday morning, May 49,
with it's group of $50 hustlers VINO
won a two day trip to the WORLDS
greatest city, by inducing people TO
take a six months Introductory SUD-
scription to the Morning News or
the Evening Journal, Frankfort Will
be well represented. The contest,
sponsored by the News-Journal
Company, called for twenty-five new
readers per boy. When the good peo-
ME of our town learn that the two
enterprising young lads who act as
local agents for the News-Journal
had entered the competition, they
got behind the boys and helped them
to win. 1t is commendable that a
community of this size should CO.
operate so completely in good pro-
1ect that it has the distinction OF
sending two representatives to New
Cork while many larger towns Will
not be represented. The lucky boys |
who will be in the base ball, Babe
Ruth, Broadway party are Edwin &.
Croker, a freshman in the Frank
ford High School, who is IL years
old and c. David, his IL year old
brother, a pupil of the seventh grade
the boys are the sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. Gilbert Croker.
The following delegates were
elected to attend the annual confer
ence of the State Federation OF Wo-
mems Clubs to be held in Whining
ton the early part of June: MISS
Lizzie Robinson, Mrs. Henry Tunnel
alternate, Mrs. Morgan T. Gum.