The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
Defeat the GastOnia Terror

No should be fooled the role of the
special the r. ruling class
the Of keeping the working class in the ordinary
forms of state powerhe police, the udiciar executive
hnery the aors and hangmenhave adequate in the
the increasingly devastating exploitation the
OF the full force of state being brought into action against
enghening of peedup child slavery
The ruling class finds ordinary machinery cumbersome slow
state for the of creating eaga fascist bands
carry out its murderous policies
The Imprisonment and attempts railroad the electric chair
the sixteen organizers of the National Textile Workers Union
invoked against militant
danty defending themselves against
his The collapse the first trial revealed
sentiment for the strikers and against the capitalist class that
the terror resumed with increased force The identical officials
ton Of tie Gastona defendants left the court and proceeded
to utilize their positions of hoogans and organize them
cials of the utilized their police take
from the workers the few they possessed They wanted the
scs The prosecuting attorney Carpenter with special
the workers the kidnapping Immediately after the
collapse the legal trial but directed the drmng of the workers
and paved the way for the vile murder of Ella May Virgins
imagine that the of the state of North Carolina will take
action against the fascist murderers 1t will not act against its
creatures The trivia! fact that the participants in the
mob violence have been
These arrests only for the the
role of the chief butchers the capitalist class their
In Gastonia today the class
reached heights But is not isolated thing It.
thing alien to the rest of the country simply
degree the struggle of the working class against its capitalist
ton by state in an attempt crush
through terror the counerffensve of the
dence lesser degree sections United
extent OF the terror apparent when consider only few of the
outstanding the class the
of the strikers of New Orleans militia
workers in Marion and Eizabehon the breaking meetings
and wholesale arrests of Communists in New York Chicago
Pittsburgh and other parts of the country This systematic
ton OF fascist terror against the workers Gaston
fed With the relentless determination there
the mass mobilization of the working class In the shops factories
Mines mills the railroads. the workers. women,
Negro Masses the youth be modified to defeat this
to save from the electric chair the
heroca defended themselves against
termination on the night OF June 7th last
In the South must be directed toward the
Charlotte conference October which will signal
intensive struggle for the seven-hour day. higher
for Unemployment insurance capitalist naturalization
for the right to organize
everywhere there must be created Workers Defense Committees
to resist all fascist attacks they
take The fascist thugs and gunmen must be dsarmed
every industry section Of the country
must be called in Behalf OF the Gastona victims preparation for
strike of protest against the
cst attacks against the workers
sst with at hand the working
must the maximum of
and the Workers International Relief The
ruling class must be turned into counernsve the working
class. t-.;-