The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-25
GASTONIA Sheet
POURS VENOM ON
MILL STRIKERS
Calls for Murder of
Frameup Victims

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there is no such thing. There are
no strikers around the camp.
Nine-tenths of them never worked
in the Loray mill in all their days,
and many of them are worthless
degenerates who see in the camp
a chance for free food and lodg-
ing. They are gathering together
in this area the rag tag and bob
tail element from many of the
mills in the county, a regular
breeding place Of anarchy, atheism
and lawlessness. Other gunner
and thugs from the North will be
added"
The jobless workers have beer
tried and convicted by the Gastonia
Gazette. 1t remains only to pass
and execute the sentence. "Majol
Bulwinklevitch! His Imperial High.
ness, car of all the Manville-
Jenckes properties, orders you tc
lead forth your loyal Loray Cos
sacks and ride down this rabble!"
The camp referred to is the Work
ers International Relief colony out
side Gastonia city limits.
eff the city of Gastonia could
bar the previous camp from re-
establishing on its former site
near the Loray, the scene of the
tragic death of Chief Aderholt,
can the county not do something
to prevent these vipers from get
ting another foothold?"
What has changed the tune sung
by the Gastonia Gazette in the days
when cheapest and most efficient
labor in the world" was one of its
favorite angles of appeal to north
ern capitalists to invest in Gas
tonia? The southern mill workers
have begun to demand payment in
something more tangible than edi-
torial panegyrics. They want and
intend to have higher wages, better
working conditions-and a union
which fights for their interests and
which they run and control.
In the eyes of the mill owners
press, of which the Gastonia Ga
zette is the most blatant example,
the mill workers who have the cour-
age to demand higher standard of
living and the intelligence to know
that this means struggle against the
powerful mill barons, and that this
in turn needs powerful organiza-
ton embracing all workers in the
industry, are the lowest type of hu-
mainly - worthless degenerates,
"rag tag" and "bobtail elements"
"vipers," "riff raft" etc.
Pursuing the same theme, the
Gastonia Gazette under the caption,
"Are We Going To Put Up With
It?", says: "There is no justifiable
need for feeding any so-called strik-
ers, for there are no strikers. All
those who wanted to go back to
work have had that opportunity,
and those who are hanging on
around do so for the simple reason
that they do not want to work"
The old sturdy rogue" theory
again. How much truth there is to
the Gazette's statement of there
being work for everybody-includ-
ing members Of the National Tex
tile Workers-is shown by letter
which the not too clever editor of
the Gazette publishes on the same
page from which we quote the above
extracts. The letter, signed C. A.
Newman, says:
"The way some mill superin-
tendents are treating the work
ers found to be members of the
National Textile Workers Union
is going to hurt, and hurt bad.
a.. When families are dis
charged .r belonging to the union
it will be next to impossible for
them to obtain work in other
mills. They will have to go to
the Communists for food and shell
ter"
The whole struggle in and around
Gastonia has been fought by the
workers under the leadership Of the
N. 7. w. to create a condition where
the mill workers will be able to fix
the terms on which they are en-
ployed, instead of having to accept
whatever the mill barons offer. 1t
is precisely this that causes the Ca
zette to froth at the mouth.
"Not Permitted To Remain"
"The colony" says the Gazette,
constitutes a real menace to this
community and ought not to be per-
mitted to remain"
Just little while ago the Teth-
eroe family, with baby sick with
chickenpox, was evicted by the mill
owners and the Gastonia authorities.
Their furniture was thrown into the
street-and this is only one of many
similar instances.
But such halfway measures do
not satisfy the mouthpiece of the
mill owners. 1t Graves stronger
food on which to nourish its sadis-
tic hatred of the mill workers, union
organizers and relief organizations.
1t is trying to justify and organize
another armed raid. 1t wants the
new tent colony destroyed--and with
it such jobless workers as refuse to
disown the N.T.W.U.
Machine Guns"