The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
GREEN'S AGENT
BOASTS he Will
BETRAY STRIKE
Boasts He Can Betray
Ware Shoals Strike
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Relief, effective measures to over
come the terror Of evictions, on
which the employers have relied for
great results.
The Gastonia tent colony, organ
lied as commune, with its own ad-
ministration,. and its armed guards
to prevent the mill owners agents
from making a sudden masked mob
raid on the headquarters of the
union OF from poisoning the water
supply, is a source of inspiration
and the pride of innumerable
awakening workers of the Carolina
textile region.
Organize New Locals.
From Gastonia, organizers of the
union and committees representing
the w. /. r. go out to all surround
ing towns forming groups of work
ers which will soon be locals of the
National Textile Workers Union.
Some locals have been organized al
ready, the ..test was in Cranmerton,
Sunday.
The employers in all surrounding
towns. are desperately afraid of the
this new union movement and are
trying to stop it by discharging
unionists,
The strikers are all asking for
the flour sacks from which the
Workers international Relief dis
tributes flour. They used the sacks
to make underwear for the children.
The clothing of the strikers is very
ragged. Many still wear their
winter underwear in spite of the
heat because they have no summer
underwear.
Patent Dope VS. Union.
The Manville-Jenekes Co. has
given the corner of West Franklin
and Loray SITS. to another medicine
show. They hope that the strikers
will be drawn to the medicine faker
instead of the union meetings. Sew
eral weeks ago the mill men loaned
their lot to a medicine show for the
same purpose, but they were not
successful, as the workers ignored
it and attended the union meetings.
Farmers Sympathetic.
A committee consisting of Amy
Scheehter, Jesse Franks and Bertha
Westwood have gone on trip to
Kannapolis and Mooresyille to or
ganize Workers International Re-
lief branches. They will arrange
meetings that will be held in those
two mill towns very soon.
Most of the farmers in the nearby
territory plant only cotton, and
while they are very sympathetic to
the strikers are unable to con-
tribute any food to the Workers In
ternational Relief. The bulk of the
support for the strikers must come
from the working class throughout
the country. All donations should
be rushed to the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, l Union Square. New
York City.
Sell Soda for Strike.
To help raise funds for relief, a
group of Loray mill strikers sell
soda in the surrounding country
every day. The profits are turned
over to the Workers international
Relief to be used to purchase food.
The Workers International Relief
office, which is now established in
tent, is open every day from 9 in
the morning until 9 o'clock at night.
From 8 a. m. until l a. m. Robert
Allen, secretary of the w. l. R.
Committee, is at the desk which was
built by the strikers, where he takes
I'm all questions of relief. From l
p. m. until $3.50 p. M, Bertha Craw-
ford, chairman of the W. I. R., is
on duty. B. Keaton, w. I. r. store
manager, takes over the desk at
$50 D. m. and is on duty until 9
T.. m.
Strikers Plant Flowers.
The w. I. K. Committee is im-
proving the spring that furnishes
water to the colony. An 18-inch
terra Gotta pipe-is being installed to
increase the amount of water that
can be obtained.
The strikers eat outside of the
tents. The weather is very hot and
there is very little shade. However
due to the crowded condition of the
tents, they are compelled to eat out
doors. Flower pots have been placed
outside of many of the tents to give
the colony more homelike impress
sion. A chicken coop has also been
built, old sacks being used for ar
enclosure.
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