The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-25
Facing Electrocution.

among those arrested and held for
trial
Facing Electrocution.
Deliberate Indictment to the lynch
ing of the strikers failed, at the
time, because the community is in
general friendly to them, and the
Manville-Jenckes Co., has now hired
a swarm of attorneys to have them
electrocuted after trial" in the local
courts.
Those held on double charges of
murder and assault are: Fred BeaI,
Louis Mclaughlin, Amy Schechter,
William McGinnis, Vera Bush,
George Carter, Sophie Melvin, X. O.
Byers, Joseph Harrison, I. C. Hef-
finer, Robert Allen, Russell Knight,
N. F. Gibbons, and K. Y. Hendricks.
Those now out on bonds waiting
trial for assault with intent to kill"
are: Ernest Martin, Walter Lloyd,
Clarence Miller, Clarence Townsend,
D. F. Mcdonald, Robert Litoff, C.
M. Lell.
Burn Fiery Cross.
Threats were circulated in Gas
tonia Friday that the Ku Klux Khan
intended to raid the new strikers
tent colony established by the Work
ers International Relief. These
rumors were traced to Manville-
Jenckes sources.
After large mass meeting at the
tent colony last night, which was ad-
dressed by Juliet Stuart Poyntz of
the International Labor Defense and
Alfred Wagenknecht, of the Work
ers International Relief, three mill
owners agents planted a fiery cross,
made of timber, draped with rags
soaked in kerosene, to give the APP
pearance of a X. X. K. threat
against the strikers.
The three cross-bumers i'm
ran away, and the strikers
captured the charred remnants of
the cross, which they have in the
colony now. No one was frightened
by this attack.
Dolley Wants Guns.
Major Dolley, of the North Caro-
lima state militia, the commander
of the guardsmen brou. hit into Gas
tonia several weeks ago by the Man.
ville-Jenckes Co., and one OF the at
torneyo hired for the prosecution in
the present frameup, was recently
overheard to say that the best way
to defeat the stril-- s and destroy
their tent colony is to bring in
machine guns. !
The Gastonia Gazette is publishing
a story, quite false, that Edgar Pass
more, one of the released, and four
teen other Gastonia strikers are 60
ing to Moscow to attend world
Soviet Congress"
The Gazette is demanding that the |
county suppress the tent colony.
The Gazette has found another
easy way to fill the columns of it's
paper, aside from quoting from the
Daily Worker. One of the profess
sional patriotic organizations, which
exists by selling detective service
and fake news" to manufacturers
t can %heedle or brighten with DOGGY
,ales. sent sample of its wares to
The Gastonia Gazette. The story pur-
ported to be an account Of the for
nation of the National Textile
Workers Union. The Gazette pub
ished it prominently, and has writ
EN- several lengthy editorials on it
since.
It's main emphasis now is on the
attempt to prove that the Southern
strikers have no real grievances, but
hat the whole idea of striking
against the 10 or twelve hour day,
he $40 average weekly wage, and
hid slavery is foreign idea" 1t
likes to play on the theory that the
communists someway are misleading
he strikers, by helping them to get
etter hours, wages and conditions in
Mills and homes.
The Gazette and it's detective COM
amy friends hopelessly confuse the
National Textile Workers Union, the
United Textile Workers and the
1uste group of fake progressives.
fuste, for instance, is labeled as a
Communist, and an attempt is made !
o create case against the Gas
onia strikers by stating that most ;
f Muste's followers are foreign
orn.
Big Meeting in Bessemer.
Another large meeting sas held /
n Bessemer City. Poyntz and Paul
,rouch were the speakers. The Gas
onia and Bessemer meetings en-
husiastically applauded the news of
he release of the prisoners charged
With assault.
Applications of strikers to join the
ent colony are steadily increasing.
'unds for more tents are needed. and
hould be sent to Union Square,
lew York, to the national office of
he Workers international Relief.
Yesterday marked the maximum ,
elief distribution at the tent colony: |
load of potatoes, meat, coffee,
our and cornmeal.
White Collar Slaves