The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-30

Judge Barnhill, presiding in the
trial of the sixteen Gastonia strik-
ers and organizers charged with
murder, has admitted in its entirety
the second bill of particulars brought
by the state, saying only that he
will not permit evidence relating to
the first section, i. e., conspiracy to
stop work in the Manville-Jenc
Co. by striking and picketing. But
this section stands, and the strikers
are being tried for it.
The strategy of the Manville-
Jenckes Co. has as its objective a
return to the old common law ruling
that unions and combinations of
workers for better conditions by
means of strike and other methods
are illegal, and workers who take
part in them are outlawed.
A conviction in this case will es-
tablish the precedent for the execu-
ton and failing of all workers whose
union activities force them to defend
themselves, and will likewise auto
matically outlaw strikes as move
ments calculated to produce violent
struggles.
The working class of the world
must struggle against this mass
murder campaign of the state of
North Carolina against unionism.
The second bill of particulars is
as follows:
Pursuant to the order of court
made in the above-entitled cause,
the solicitor for the state furnishes
to the prisoners counsel the follow
ing bill of particulars of the sub
stantive facts upon which the state
will rely for a conviction Of the de-
PENDANTS of the crime of murder,
with which they are charged in the
bill of indictment, to-wit:
That the prisoners and each of
them, together with other persons
to the solicitor unknown, at various
meetings held by them in their
union hall. in or near the City of
Gastonia, County of CASTOR, State
of North Carolina, at divers times
between the LIST day of April, 1929
and the 9Th day of June, 1929, at
divers other times and places to the
solicitor unknown, did unlawfully
combine, conspire, confederate and
agree together to prevent, hinder
and deter by violence, threats and
intimidation, the Manville-Jenckes
Company, a corporation duly credit
ed and existing under the law, and
then and there engaged in operating
a textile manufacturing plant in
said county and state, from retaining
and taking into it's employment
Clarence Jolly, James Farrow, Frank
West, Jessie Johnson and divers
other persons to the solicitor I'M
known, then and there being en-
ployed and engaged as textile labor
ers in said manufacturing plant, to
the great damage of the said Man
vile Jenckes Company, Clarence
Jolly, James Farrow, Frank West,
Jessie Johnson and others then and
there being employed; and in fur
therance of said combination, con-
spiracy and confederacy and agree
ment, did, on or about the 3rd day
of April, 1929, at or near the man
ufacturing plant of cril company, in
the County and State aforesaid, at
divers other times and places upon
the public streets or highways of
said City and County, the exact
times and places being to the solicit
tor unknown, by violence, thre@ts,
intimidations and assaults COM
mitted upon divers and sundry en-
ployees of the Manville-Jenckes Co.,
attempt to hinder, delay and prevent
the said employees Of said company
from freely going to and from the
manufacturing plant of said COM
pany for tie purpose of performing
work or labor in said plant, in order
to prevent said company and its
workmen employed in its plant from
carrying on the ordinary operations
of said plant; and in furtherance of
said unlawful combination, conspir-
acy and agreement, did at the times
and places aforesaid, resist the at
tempts of the police and other peace
officers of the city and county afore-
said to discharge their lawful duty
of undertaking to keep the streets
and highways of said city and coun-
ty free and unobstructed, so that
the employees of said manufacturing
plant might freely and without fear
or molestation go to and from said