The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
CHARGE EIGHT CAST0NIA lNI0NHTS WITH SEDlTION
Disarming Workers Is But
a Preparation for a Blood
Bath i'm GastOnia Today

The raiding of private houses and disarming of the
strikers strike leaders in Gastonia and vicinity have but
one meaning The mill and their murderous vassals
the police and private thugs and gunmen preparing
of the most monstrous boodbaths for the workers the
history of the country The strategy pursued in arresng
workers and sezng their weapons with which they have
prepared defend themselves their and children from
fienish tortures and violent DEATH is precisely that which
tried the night of June 7h when the workers de-
Tended themselves against murderous attack On that
night the police chosen to clear the path for the
of the posse called he committee of hundred
whose leaders had boasted that they would wipe OUT the
tent colony That every man. woman and chd IN the colony
not killed by the agents of the mill due solely
to the fact that the workers defended themselves.
police and the seizure of Friday
class North Carolina and the bankers
Street. newly South
insgato of these murder plots Governor Max Gardner him
self mill and hence epoter Of and children
the murder With the depraved
cynicism political of capitalist class insists Prose
cutor CARPENTER heading committee to investigate fascist raid
which Carpenter himself played leading fact the leading part
indulge the fmaes of Governor
country in the murder of scco and Vanze Fuller appointed
ocate murder Lowell Grant and stratton pretend pass upon
the procedure of Judge Thay Not the boodtreakd Fuller
appointed Thayer to his acts.
appointment investigate the mob he led
b d ses st G pb any I an of the mast
vicinity
abolished that wholesale of murder is being
chief instigator.
the attack is of
historical significance that the ruling class that has,
through relentless every upon
working families brought conditions where
the rather death endure
the of the mills In spite of the boodhiry ypng of the
Gazette the Charlotte News other
be melted take action against
strikers leaders The ruling class itself has bribe
special and personally lead them in attacks its
working Carpenter representative of Governor Gardner
charged with direction of the attack strike leaders imme
dately after the mistra and the dismissal of the jury
the workers the of the
that be held today South Gsonia At the time the
authorities all the munitions workers they lay
their hands they themselves openly establish verabe arsenal
house behind the Workers International Relief tent colony where
the meeting be held In order further the
the reptile venemousy to ncte ynchng spirit
all the the capitalist class The Charlotte Observer
cites murder:
eff the Communists persist in their announced determination
to hold rally South Gastona Saturday they do it at
their That the the good of the
community who have been awabidng about long they
stand it."
There is this that stands between the
heroic workers Gasonia and that
their defend themselves is to be hoped that thou
sands of workers will mobilize such numbers and attacked de-
fend themselves with such determination that ascm North Caro-
lima will blow from which will
Every worker, revolutionary will today
await the the battle front Goni will
by the heroic mill until they defeated the mill
and their fascist bands.
While these children daily
death the firing e the least that workers elsewhere
that they have funds with which the fight
where collections taken the the international
Labor Defense and Workers International Relief for funds enable
the fight to be carried to a victorious conclusion