The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-11
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ing, walking or marching in or with
such parade, march or demonstra-
ton, shall be prima facie evidence
of his or her engaging in or partici-
pating in such parade, march OF
demonstration" A fine of $50 or
an Imprisonment of so days is the
penalty for violation of the ordi-
nance. The ordinance just quoted
was amended to its present form on
April %, after the judge had de-
cided that in its previous form only
leaders of the picket line could be
held under the ordinance. w. H.
Moore, one of the strikers, in an af-
fidavit, tells of the carrying out of
the ordinance. He says when the
meetings have been dismissed and
the people have undertaken to leave
they have been met upon the streets
and highways by Gastonia police
men, by special deputies, alleged to
be under the direction of the sheriff
of Castor county and by guards,
alleged to be privately employed by
Manville-Jenckes Corporation, and
they have been dispersed and driven
from the sidewalks and streets,
many of them being dubbed and
beaten by the officers aforesaid and
many Of them having been lodged in
Jail, charged with violating an or
dinance of the city of Gastonia. "
This affiant further swears upon
information and belief that the al
legged ordinance was passed at the
instance of Manville-Jenckes Cor
poration, in order to interfere with
the rights of the striking employees,
and when it was discovered by the
city council and the Manville-
Jenckes Corporation that the ordi-
nance at first enacted did not stop
picketing, the city council met and
amended the ordinance so as to in
clude all people who undertook to
walk in groups upon the streets or
who undertook to picket the mills
CT the Manville-Jenckes Corpora
ton"
Tricks of Mill Bosses Fail.
The mill owners used every trick
known in strike in an attempt to
break up the National Textile Work
ers Union. The organizers for the
N. T. w. U. were informed several
hours before it took lace of the in
tcntion of the Manville-Jenckes Cor
poration. in cooperation wits the
city and county authorities, to carry
out a fake dynamiting of the mill,
i'll order to frame up the strike lead
ers, and the strike leaders so in
formed number of newspaper men
iii Charlotte. The dynamiting plot
failed, in spite of the fact that the
company had shut down section of
the mill entirely and were keeping
everyone away from it. An unsus-
pecting national guardsman. who
was not in on the plot, caught the
company stool-pigeon trying to plant
the dynamite. A special deputy de-
clared that he would take him to the
police station. Of course, this stool
pigeon dynamiter Disappeared"
These facts were reported in the
southern press.
Press Whips Up Lynching Spirit.
During the first few weeks of
the strike, an especial attempt was
made in the press to whip up a
lynching spirit against the organ
izers, and such papers as the Char
lotte observer" and the Gastonia
Gazette" daily called upon "patri-
otto citizens" to run the union or
ganizers out of town. Columns of
abuse were hurled at the heads of
the organizers. But the union con-
tinued to grow, and the strike was
spread. Fred Beal was framed up
on a charge Of abduction, but the
Superior Court was forced to release
him and dismiss the case, after the
Internationals Labor Defense had Sc
cured writ. of habeas corpus. An
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