The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-17
Communist Party Discussion Factory Workers Against Cunha0
TEARING OF At H.
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STRIKERS SOON
I. L. D. Pushes Fight
on Frame-Up

Continued from Poqe One)
Charlotte or on the way to or from
Charlotte, and they came in to pro-
tect their strike leaders.
In front of the workers were the
prisoners, some of them like Nc
Ginnis with clothes still caked with
blood from injuries inflicted by the
mill owners thugs, and Harrison,
the striker who was shot, with one
arm in a sling and partly healed
wound on the other.
Boss Has ii Lawyers.
Gathered around long table to
the right were the fourteen law
yers of the prosecution, including
Clyde Hooey, looking like Oscar
Wilde and considered the sharpest
lawyer in the state; and Major Bull
Wrinkle, who looks like well-bred
bull frog, and had a gun poking out
of his coat above his hip pocket.
Bulwinkle was there in his capacity
as special prosecutor and Manville-
Jenckes' attorney. Attorneys Man
gum and Carpenter did most of the
talking for the prosecution. The
company's battery of legal lights
made miserable showing. In the
first place, they have no case, even
from a legal standpoint. In the
second place, they have not had
time yet to complete the frame-up
on which they base their hopes of
electrocuting and failing the work
er defendants.
Magnum Incites.
AS the hearing progressed and
the controversy between Defense
Attorney. Unison and the prosecu-
ton grew heated, the legal array
gathered by Manyille-Jenckes began
to wilt. 1t wilted still more after
Magnum tried to stage demonstra-
ton against the defendants which
flivvered.
The prosecution staff included be.
sides Bulwinkle, attorney for Man
yille-Jenckes Co., Magnum, Dolley,
Whitake, Wooltz and Hoey, all at
torneys for cotton companies.
They were playing for time. In
addition they had three main points
they wished to put across, in which
they failed.
First, they wanted the court to re-
fuse to fix bail SO they could have
the amount fixed by Municipal
Judge Jones of Gastonia. Second,
they wanted ruling that the de-
fense had lost its rights to any fur
Their hearing previous to that of the
grand jury by its waving examina-
ton while the habeas corpus pro-
ceeding was pending. Third, they
wanted, ruling which would pre-
vent any examination of the evil
dence on which 13 workers are be-
ing held without bail on joint
charge of murder and assault with
intent to kill.
Shows Weak Case.
Theprosecution contended that its
principal material witnesses, the
two deputies, Roach and Gilbert,
were too badly wounded to come into
court or. even make dispositions.
Complainants' Bad Regulations.
Their emphasis on the necessity
Of having these two witnesses ex-
posed the weakness of their case.
They have the same five names
signed to all the complaints against
the defendants. These names are
those Of Poison, a VIGOROUSLY worth
less character whom no one will be-
lieve; Roach, who was fired from
the police force after beating up a
woman with blackjack; Ferguson,
a motorcycle cop, whose favorite
pastime has been abusing strikers;
Mason, a gambler just released
after serving six months; and john
son, said to be a gambler and drunk
ard. 1t is the prevailing opinion
here that the testimony of this crew
is worth exactly nothing.
But the Manville-Jenckes Com
pany quite obviously intends to rem
edy this basic defect in its rank
frame-up program by an army of
legal lights and the lavish use of
the quarter of million fund that
has been raised by the mill owners.
The International Labor Defense
has begun a campaign for bail
fund. It is necessary for tie most
complete exposure of the plot
against the strikers and organizers