The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
LABOR DEFE NSE
URGES AID FOR
CASTOR WORKERS
Calls Working Clsss to
Recall Ella Virgins

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the band of murderers that attacked
the strikers truck in open daylight
on last Saturday afternoon, sending
an assassin's bullet into the frail
body of Mrs. Ella May Virgins, 3d.
year-old mill worker, mother of five
children.
These BLACK Hundreds" that have
grown out of ManviIle-Jenckes
Committee of 100" were modified
on Saturday near the Loray Mill
where the workers went on strike
last April LIST. They operated in the
light of day with Judge N. A. Town
send, personal representative of
Governor o. Max Gardner. the mill
owner, present in Gastonia with 25
heavily AIRED deputy sheriffs re-
crulted from he American Legion,
which is no different than the Som
mlttee OF 100." Gardner and Town
send can make a roll of their So
called best citizens" of Gastonia
and they will have the list of those
who joined in the assassination on
an open highway of Ella May Wig
gins, the murder bullet piercing her
right breast, her only crime being
her desire to participate in a work
ers' mass meeting at South Gas
tona to help build the power of
labor in the industry that had
robbed her O. youth, of the best
years of her life, that now took her
life that 1t might plumber and rob
her children md generations vet
unborn.
Workers! The international La
Dor Defense is fighting for all la
Tor. 1t supports the prosecuted tex
Tile strikers of the South in their
efforts to organize, defending them
against mob violence and judicial
tyranny.
Saturdays campaign of murder
was the fourth attack of the fascist
Black Hundreds" launched against
the Gastonia textile strikers. First
the masked Committee of 100" in
a night of violence, april 81 de-
stroyed the union headquarters and
the supply station of the Workers
international Relief, scattering the
food intended for the strikers upon
the roadside. Next the police chief,
Aderholt, on the night of June 7th,
led the Committee of 100" in it's
attack on the strikers tent COLONY.
this attao being completely trust
rated, however, by the heroic resist
ance of the strikers. Next came
last Monday nights murderous at
tack on the three strike organizers,
Wells, Saylor and Lell, when the
would-be lynchers even sought the
lives of the lawyers for the impris-
oned 16 strikers and organizers fac
ing death in the electric chair. The
outbreak of violence last Saturday,
like all the rest, if not actually led
by the police themselves, was al
lowed full freedom to satiate its
APPETITE for workers blood.
Workers! The international Labor
Defense calls on you to rally in great
er numbers than ever to the assist
ance of Southern textile labor. Sup
port their struggle to defend them
selves, to organize, to strike, to i'm
prove their standard of living, the
lowest in the whole nation.
This support steadily growing,
must be developed a thousandfold.
The standard of the international
Labor Defense, planted in the South,
must stand against every attack of
the textile mill barons and all their
1t can only do this
through receiving the answering
support of labor the nation over.
Workers! Fight on in the spirit
of Ella May Virgins. Though dead.
she lives in the growing ranks of
class conscious labor. Labor will
never forget.
Workersl Help build broad de-
Tense conferences in every city in
the land under the leadership of the
International Labor Defense, which
shall include unorganized workers
from shop, mill, mine and railroad;
representatives from workers fra
ternal organizations; rank and file
workers from the unions affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor and Independent unions.
Workers! Defeat the attempts of
the mill barons and their mobs to
intimidate the whole population of
Castor and Mecklenberg Counties.
The workers in the South are with
the strikers against the bosses.
Flood the Mecklenberg County Jail,
Charlotte, North Carolina, with pro-
test resolutions and messages of
greeting to the 10 strikers and or.
ganizers imprisoned there.
Workers! Organize protest demon
strations everywhere! Take up this
question everywhere that workers
gather! Labor in the textile in
dustry is under attack today. The
workers in steel, coal, oil, metal or
railroad industries will soon be in
gigantic strike struggles, to organ
ize, to fight wage cuts, to resist
lowering of their standard of liv-
ing.
Workers! Join the international
Labor Defense! Affiliate your or
ganization.
Workers! Help make the Two