Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
LABOR ORGANIZER
REVEALS THREATS
Green to Ask Hoover to Pro-
tect Union Workers in
Southern States.
sreeial Dispatch to The Star.

Srecisl Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, July l3.-William
Green. president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and George Googe
organizer. who reported yesterday that
his life had been threatened while he
was attempting to unionize the textile
mills in Ware Shoals. S. c., will leave
New York for Washington tomorrow,
where they will ask President Hoover
and the Federal authorities to guaran-
tee protection to organized labor in all
the Southern States.
This request will mark the opening
OF national campaign sponsored by
the United Textile Workers of America
to establish the right of labor unions
ito conduct legitimate labor activity in
all the Southern States without having
to fear assassination and sudden
death.
GO0ge Appeals to Richards.
Mr.. Googe. who returned to New
York Yesterday. having been told by
the sheriff of Ware Shoals that it
would not be safe for him after dark"
he said, had appealed to Gov. John G..
Richards of South Carolina for pro-
lection, but the governor, he said, had
given him no satisfaction.
The organizer and John E. Poole
representative of the textile union, re-
ported to Thomas F. Mcmahon, presi-
dent Of the union, that men armed
with rifles had entered their hotel in
Ware Shoals and threatened their
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to New York on the advice of j. T..
Glenn, the sheriff.
Officials of the union. attending a
quarterly meeting in the Bible House,
ordered Poole to return to the mill
town, and If the governor and sheriff
still refused to give him protection, to
bring armed men with him.
May Ask War Department Guard. ;
When Mr.. Green learned OF the
threats he and Mr.. Mcmahon said that
they also would seek protection from
the Department of Justice and If neces-
sary the War Department.
If 1 hadn't left Ware Shoals" Googe
said. the town would have been pre-
cipitated into a civil war. with the
strikers taking up arms against the
local police, who. 1t is believed, are
maintained by the textile mill and the
county. The town itself is not incor-
porsted."
As evidence of the bad feeling be-
tween the union and the State authori-
ties Mr.. Mcmahon showed a telegram
he had received from the governor in
reply for his demands for protection.
Telegram Is Held Impairment.
Your impertinent, threatening teIe-
gram addressed TO the governor of
South Carolina the telegram read,
has been received, and wish to as
sure you that your communication will
receive only such consideration and at
tention as communications of its char
acter deserve
No State executive" Mcmahon
wrote back. who understands his duty
as upholder of law and order for all
classes of citizens, would assume the
attitude you have taken in this in
stance You should welcome demand
from American citizens that the Con-
stitution should be lived up to-
Organization of the campaign to
abolish lynch law in the South will
get under way today at an open con-
ference In the home Of Mrs. Daniel
ODay, chairman of the Democratic
State Womens committee. Rye. N. Y.
Representatives of the Federal Coun-
Gil of Churches. the American Civil
Liberties Union. League for Industrial
Democracy. committee for American
conditions in textiles and the Workers
Educational Bureau of America have
been invited to attend.