The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-29
WILL WORKERS
At CONFERENCE
WANT Is FREED
Dem on str a tion for
Gastonia Defense

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toups in all the old unions will be
rganized, and a real campaign in
ituted to organize the morgan
Eed.
Other speakers were Juliet Stuart
oyntz, who represented the Inter
ational Labor Defense here during
be days that followed the arrests;
tugo Oehler, William Murdoch,
Dewey Martin, and Clarius Michael
on, all organizers for the N. T. W.
T., and other local speakers.
A letter from Fred Beal, South
organizer of the N. T. w. U.
d one of the defendants charged
,4Sh murder, was received with
heers. Beal declared his faith in
he workers, not the courts, to save
nose who go on trial tomorrow, and
aid:
"This is not merely the trial of
fifteen of US for murder but involves
he fundamental rights of workers
organize, strike and defend them
elves. We appeal to the American
Forkers to support the I. L. D.,
ecause so much more than our lives
at stake. The future of the N.
W. and the whole left wing mill
ant unionism in the South depends
. a very great extent on the out
pine of the trial.
After the meeting was over, the
800 present staged a demonstra-
ion with placards against the rail
oading of the workers and organ
GERS on trial tomorrow. They de-
handed their immediate and uncon-
itional release, and pledged them
elves and all those they represent
Id, to an unceasing fight to save
hem from the wrath of the mill
Iwners and their state and county
fficialdom.
At the same time, many events
how that the section of the popu-
|lation of CASTOR county from which
! e jurors will be drawn is thorough
propagandaized already by these
fme papers and other agencies Of
ne mill owners in favor of electro
futing these innocent men, not real
y for shooting Aderholt, but just
because they dared to lead strike,
md to organize the workers.
Last night, Attorney Unison and
pther defense attorneys were coming
put of a restaurant in Gastonia when
lthey were met by gang of the
mill owners friends, who cursed him
foully and threatened, "We1l get
you before you get out of town"
A list Of the prospective jurors
for the trial tomorrow has been Sc
cured by the l. L. D. Two-thirds of
The names are those of mill superin-
Eendents, bosses, the mills best Gus
tomers, and hangers-on of the "mill
Erowd." Many of them are the names
pf men who have already expressed
extreme prejudice against the de-
PENDANTS. A clear cut attempt to
hck the jury is in progress.
The Bessemer City Conference
5ted to call another conference with
|sn even wider basis, to meet in Char
hottie, two months from now.
The situation is more tense than
1t has been at any time since the
shooting. The whole South is
Watching what they know is the
biggest event for years, and all
realize that one of the historic bat
ties of capital and labor starts to-
morrow. The presence in Gasonia
of over 40 newspaper reporters
from all over the country shows the
Importance placed on this case.
All of the employers press of the
South publishes similar editorials in
Itoday's papers. All agree that the
defendants will get fair trial, and
that the issues of Communism, etc.,
should not be injected.
Resolutions were adopted by the
conference today, on the defense of
the Gastonia victims, organization,
support of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief and International La
Dor. Defense, work among women,
naturalization and the war DANGER
The resolution on organization
analysed the wave of wage cuts and
speed-up ("stretch-out') that the
bosses started, and the wave Of
strikes with which the workers Of
the South have resisted it. 1t out
lined methods for more complete
,yionization of the southern textile
\ lorkers.
U Members of the audience COM
pared pay envelopes, showing the
low wages the textile
workers in the South were getting.
For instance E. S., a woman spin
ner, for So hours work in a cotton
mill at Kings Mountain, got $3.50.
Wages ranged around 81, $3.50 and
$40 per week for many of the
workers.