The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-03
GOVERNOR SENDS
STATE MILITIA
Deputies First Volley
Did Most Damage
BULLETIN.

M AXIOM, n. g., Oct. 2.-SherIff
Adkins admitted last night that he
started the attack on the strikers
by hurting tear gas bombs at them.
The sheriff admits only one bomb;
witnesses say there were more.
Blood has been found on the road
zoe yards from the mill, showing
that ore of the strikers was pursued
and shot there by the deputies.
MARION. n. c., Oct. Troops
were ordered here by Governor o.
Max Gardner to cope with strike
disorders arrived at S:15 tonight,
Carrying rifles and full field
equipment. they marched with ban
ners flying, up the main street of
Marion to their headquarters.
MARION, N. c., Oct. q
Three workers were killed and
four others fatally injured,
and % were wounded alto
gether, this morning when
Sheriff Adkins of Mcdowell
County with squad of armed depu
ties led murderous attack on t
picket line.
The night shift in the M
Manufacturing Company's
mill here struck last night
the blacklisting of 10 n.
dent Mcmahon of the itc
tile Workers Union, V ID ii
misleading the Marion ! CHI
field strike, about three We ago,
in collaboration with Judge Town
send, personal representative of
Governor Gardner, sold out this
strike, on the basis of nothing
gained but the blacklist.
However, NJ c NJ h on evidently
failed for reasons of his own to let
the workers he had bet rayed in on
this little secret, or to convince those
who found it out that it was all
right.
When eighty workers of the night
shift lost patience last night and
wwalked out, others came to join
them. and at $50 this morning,
when the day shift came down to go
to work, they found the night shift
mass picketing.
Sheriff Adkins and his deputized
mill owners gunner were on the
job, heavily armed. Seeing wea-
pons, some of the strikers equipped
themselves with clubs. The depu-
ties, under Adkins direct orders,
disarmed one striker and started
handwriting him. Reports are that
the other strikers demanded his re-
lease.
The sheriff, of course, alleges
that they fired on him, but ths
strikers absolutely deny this. 1t has
not been proved that any of them
had guns with which to fire. The
sheriff and his men fired a volley
directly into the crowd of mass
/ pickets, during the argument over
the arrested man, and although
desultory shooting followed. most
of those hit were shot down in this
first volley. In the first volley,
particularly, Sam Vickers and Ran
dolph Hall, strikers, were killed, and
George Jonas was so badly wounded
that he died shortly before noon.
Among the wounded are James
Mills, shot in stomach, condition
serious; George McCombs, shot in
neck, thumb and wrist, condition
serious; Luther Ryson, wounds in
stomach, condition serious; w. S.
Black, shot in neck, condition SER
ious; Bonn Minish, head wound back
of right ear; T. L. Carver, shot in
neck; James Roberts, shot in alb
domen, condition serious; John
Wykle, Elsie Ballard. Kermit Fen
der, P. S. Long, Lucy Sparks, W.
M. Sparks, A. M. Koon Addie Hol-
lar, Taylor Green, less seriously in
jured.
The sheriff and w. w. Neal,
state senator and connected with
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