The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22

>the specd-up system and low
wages.
The picket line yesterday
morning was larger even than the
enormous picket-line Friday, which
was an answer to the vandalism and
answer to call from the strike COM
and militia on the strike and relief
headquarters the day before.
The masses of textile strikers and
sympathising workers from outside
of the city were greeted with the
official announcement of the Work
ers International Relief that it had
opened new food station in Pine
vile, N. c., where the workers of
the Chadwick-Hoskins mill are bat
ting the "stretch-out" (speed-up)
and wage cutting systems of the en-
ployers. The strikers are militantly
guarding the first relief station on
Henry St., Gastonia, which was re-
established Immediately after its de-
struction last week by the thugs of
the mill owners.
Get Injunction.
The textile workers assembled in
Gastonia yesterday and today in
answer OF a call from the strike COM
mittee for a great parade through
the streets of this textile town. An
injunction was served on Secretary
Truett of the National Textile Work
ers Union yesterday morning, pro-
hibiting the parade. The city coun-
Gil of Gastonia had met the night be-
fore in hurriedly-called special ses-
sion to pass city ordinance against
the parade and obtain an injunction
as a result of this action.
The strikers retaliated by holding
the biggest mass meetings seen here
yet, one meeting in the afternoon
and one in the evening.
Scab Tries Murder.
Troy Jones, the scab husband of
the militant striking textile worker,
Violet Jones, came into the after
noon meeting and attempted to throw
dynamite bomb at the speakers
stand while the father of his wife
was speaking for the vigorous con-
tinuation Of the strike.
Strikers in the audience frustrated
him, and he escaped by jumping
over the fence. He was arrested
when he came to the evening meet
ing, apparently to attempt another
act of violence.
Violet Jones is on speaking tour
with three other G-stonia strikers
through the North and West, col
lecting relief for the textile strik-
ers. Troy Jones, acting in the inter-
ests of the company, has sued the
union for $4,000 for "depriving him
of the services of his wife," because
of her tour in the North, and has
sworn out warrant for Organizers
Fred Beal and George Pershing,
charging abduction. The warrant
has not yet been served.
Striker Denounces Scab.
A telegram has been received
here, sent by Violet Jones to the
Loray local of the N. 7. w. u, stat
ing:
81 strongly protest against abduc-
tion frame-up against union organ
izers Beal and Pershing. l came
here of my own free will and am of
age. No scoundrel scab husband can
break this strike. Tell the workers
everything is fine. We all are work.
ing hard for relief. Clean out all
the scabs. The Northern workers are
behind us. Give this publicity
| VIOLET JONES, striker"
Strikers Speak.
The mass meetings in Gastonia
were addressed yesterday and today
by many local strikers, by Karl
Reeve and Paul Crouch, represent
ing the international Labor De-
tense; Organizer George Pershing,
and the union women organizers,
/ Vera Bush and Ellen Dawson.
Ellen Dawson was given a great
ovation by the strikers who saw her
arrested last Thursday as soon as
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