The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-30
New Bill of Particulars at
Charlotte Outlaws Strikes
Claims Organization of Workers Is Illegal and
Those Who Take Part in Them Are Outlaws

plant, and particularly, did on the
3rd day of April, 1929, actually OBJ
struct the street Immediately in
front of said manufacturing plant,
not only with their presence, but by
making such threats of violence and
intimidations against said employees
as to render it necessary for the
police and other peace officers of
said city and county to attempt to
clear said street and guard the mill
gates, so as to prevent the said de-
PENDANTS and divers other persons
to the solicitor unknown, from going
into the mill of said company and
assaulting, beating and wounding
the agents, employees and laborers
therein engaged in the discharge of
their duties, and in said attempt, did
violently resist the efforts of the
officers aforesaid in keeping the
street clear, and preventing said de-
PENDANTS and others from entering
the gates and premises of said
manufacturing plant, and while so
resisting, did assault several of the
police officers of said city, including
the deceased, Aderholt, and there
after, in furtherance of said unlaw-
full combination, conspiracy and
agreement, did at meeting in the
union hall of the defendants, held
on the night of June z, 1929, unlaw-
fully combine, conspire and agree to
proceed from said union hall on said
night, together with divers other
conspirators and confederates, to
the manufacturing plant of said
company, and by force and violence,
expel said employees from said
plant, and after so agreed, combined
and conspired, the defendant Beal,
did then md there order and direct
his co-defendants and divers other
conspirators and confederates to the
solicitor unknown, to proceed to the
manufacturing plant of the Man
ville-Jenckes Company, and by force,
violence, threats and intimidation,
drag the employees of said company
from said manufacturing plant, I'M
less they could be persuaded to vol
unfairly leave the same; and in fur
therance of said conspiracy, orders
and directions, certain of said de-
PENDANTS, together with other CO.
conspirators and confederates to the
unknown, did forthwith riot
ously, tumultously and unlawfully
proceed along the streets of the City
of Gastonia in the direction of the
plant of said COM
pany, for the purpose aforesaid, I'M
til they had reached West Franklin
Avenue, when and where they were
met by the deceased, Aderholt, and
certain other policemen of the City
of Gastonia, who then and there or
dered the defendants and their CO.
conspirators, and confederates to de-
sist from proceeding further in the
direction of said mill, and to dis
perse when and where the said riot
out and tumultuous assembly, real
izing that for the time being, it was
useless to resist the officers of the
law, returning to the Union Hall
of said defendants, which had there
tofore been heavily guarded with
shot guns by certain said defend
ants, including Robert Allen. X. o.
Byers, George Carter, N. F. Gibson,
Delmar Hampton, Joseph Harrison,
J. C. Heffner, X. Y. Hendricks, Rus
sci Knight, Clarence Miller, W. M.
McGinnis and Louis Mclaughlin,
and, ordered by the said Beal, by
and with the consent and approval
of the other defendants, conspirators
and confederates, by the use Of said
deadly weapons, to resist and pre-
vent at all hazards the police off,
GERS of said city from entering the
premises of said Union Headquar-
tiers, in the lawful discharge Of their
duties, and to arrest any other per-
sons who might come upon the SAID
premises and bring them before the
said Beal and his co-conspirators for
the purpose of inflicting upon them
such punishment as they might deem
proper; and in furtherance OF the
combinations conspiracies and
agreements then and there thereto
fore entered into, and realizing that
it would be necessary to completely
rid themselves of police interference
in order to carry out and consum-
mate their unlawful purpose OF clos
ing said mill in the manner and by
the means aforesaid, the said de-
PENDANTS, other than Vera Bush,
Amy Schechter End Sophie Melvin
after their return to the strike head
quarters, as afor-sa..i, when the de-
ceased and several other policemen,
in response to the opportunities OF
certain citizens living near said
strike headquarters, had peacefully
entered upon the lot upon which said
union hall was located, for the pur-
pose of Investigating the cause Oh
the trouble, which had been report
ed to them, being then and there
encouraged by the said said Fred
Beal, Vera Bush, Amy Schechter and
Sophie Melvin to shoot and kill the
deceased and others of his subordi-
mates, did forthwith, without cause,
excuse or Qualifications, and while
the deceased had his back turned to
them, and while he and others OF his
subordinates were leaving the union
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