The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
FRAMEP ATTEMPT
WORKERS WON'T
LET BOSSES BURN
Us, SAYS BEAL
Tells of Frame Up in
GastOnia
BY FRED E. BEAL.


ture of the National Textile Work
ers Union is assured. The workers
throughout the entire South now
know that this union is here to
stay. For a while the Southern
workers looked upon us with a sort
Of indifference, due to the many
sell-outs handed out to them by the
leaders of the United Textile Work
ers Union. Now that they have
seen us in action, fighting the
bosses terror, their press, going to
iail with them, breathing the
breath of .militancy-they are join
ing in great numbers.
Our union has won the respect of
all the honest workers in the South.
The bosses are furious. They will
stop at nothing to smash our union.
A Committee of Thugs.
Two months or so ago the Man
Hille-Jenckes Co. announced the for
nation of the Committee of One
Hundred" This Committee" is
made up of imported and local
thugs, strikebreakers, scabs, some
business men, all under the direc-
ton Of the Manville-Jenckes Co.
here is no doubt but that it wss
this Committee" that tore down our
first union headquarters and relief
store under the very nose of the
National Guard and deputies.
The gunner that did this job
held up the strikers in the hall and
forced them into the streets while
they used crow-bars and axes from
the Loray mill to tear down the
building. None of the strikers were
armed.
The gunner held the striking
guards prisoners until the arrival
of the National Guards. who
promptly arrested the strikers and
turned them over to the city police.
These strikers are still held on
lJond for trying to protect their own
property. Gastonia justicel Capt.
t.list Justice! Law and order!
.buliQ new ElSdUu ItSEs.
The strikers then decided to build
new headquarters with their own
hands and protect it from the
bosses gang Of thugs and hood
lun1s. A new plot of land Was oh
tanned and the union hall built. The
local bosses paper, the Gastonia
Gazette, always hostile TO the work
ars' interest, became extremely bit
ter when thew saw the new union
meant business. They would like
TO keep all unions opt-even the
'akers' outfit, the U. T. ". (Some-
lines workeM who are led by fax
ers can get the upper hand and
there's no telling what might hap
SEN But between a takers union
and a real militant union the first
is the lesser Of the two evils fol-
the bosses.
This paper came out for the U
r. W-having in mind that two
unions in the strike would cause q
split. But in this they failed tt
count upon the good common~sense
md militant spirit of the strikers
Mcmahon of the U. T. w. came tt
Gastonia. registered at the best no.
lei, but departed in a hurry and ait
bounced that "the U. t. w. wculC
keep away from Gastonia."
All of us men prisoners are to-
gather in one room, which has foul
cells. Each cell has four hunks
All cells let out into small hall
~ feet by 6 inches. One end has
toilet and wash-stand, the other
a barred door leading into run
around. We read, write, have dis
cussions, sing, play cards, eat the
Good things sent in by the Interna
tional Labor Defense and workers
throughout the country.
We are very anxious to receive
letters from workers everywhere
and promise to answer every let
ter. We can do this because W.
have lots of time on our hands am
can send out as many letters as W.
want. We can receive most any
thing.
The time is drawing near-Jul,
29-when the bosses will try tt
legally murder us all wholesale. Thu
workers of the world will not stant
by and watch them burn US all lik'
they did Sacco and Vanzetti!