The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
MASS PROTEST
ON Mill Terror
Defense Conferences
Follow Protest Meets

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Newcastle and Liverpool American
consulates, poster parades have
taken place Outside of them, and sew
eral populations are prepared, in
GLIDING one from the workers OF
London to the American ambassa-
dor. A group called on the Amer
lean consul in Plymouth and pro-
tested.
The Communist Party is calling
mass meetings in many other cities
throughout the country, and the In
ternational Labor Defense is ar
ranging united front conferences in
every large industrial city.
Greetings Come.
The Workers Life, of Sydney
Australia, cables the greetings OF
Australian workers, and states that
the Australian papers are featuring
the hysterical, lahor-hating prosecu-
ton.
The Workers and Peasants Bloc
and the Communist Party of Mexico
sent telegram of greetings to the
seven Gastonia prisoners and has
pledged nationwide protests on be-
half of the textile strikers.
The Mexican message was sent
from a conference of delegates who
met at Mexico City Saturday and
Sunday. They reported that demon
STATIONS had already been held in
twenty Mexican cities.
Oslo Workers Greet.
A similar message of greetings
was received yesterday by cable
from Oslo, Norway, in which the
Confederation of Trade Unions and
the Norwegian Labor Party indi-
Gated their sympathies with the
strikers in danger of 80 year terms
on trial at Charlotte. The Norwe-
gian workers also sent a contribu-
ton of $4,000.
Railroaded.
The mill owners, with the whole
force fthe capitalist class behind
them, have succeeded in railroading
the seven members of the militant
National Textile Workers Union to
long terms behind the bars, where
they cannot lead the fight against
the stretch-out system, starvation
wages, long hours, and child labor.
The mill owners prosecution selected
a jury that would do its bidding, and
inflamed the prejudices of that jury
to secure convictions. In this, the
prosecution had the close co-opera-
ton of Judge Barnhill throughout
the trial. 1t has once more been
clearly and conclusively demonstrate
ed that the impartiality of capitalist
courts is an illusion, that justice in
these courts is always capitalist
class justice.
Prejudice, Terror.
The tremendous force of the capt.
talist class, thrown into the Char
lotte court room during the past few
days through the prosecution, the
Judge and the whole machinery OF
capitalist law succeeded in prejudic-
ing and terrorizing those jurors who
were not bought outright. The mil
owners and the southern capitalist
class generally could not afford to
lose the first great legal battle be-
tween capital an abdlor here, Moth
ing was spared to defeat the work
ing class in it's determination to set
free these class war prisoners. But
the American working class has
only just begun to fight for the
freedom Of these defendants. This
victory of capitalist justice will only
serve to spur workers to greater
fort, more militant struggle. The
fight will go on.
| Skilled Agent Of Bosses.
Barnhill has played his part as an
agen Of capitalist justice with con-
summate skill, winning praise from
capitalist, liberal social press as
"just and upright judge" He has
served the mill owners we'll at every