Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
Textile Union Workers Win
Opening Skirmish in Strike
FIogging Case. -
MOB VIOLENCE HEARING
RESUMED AT CHARLOTTE
Seven Men Held for Staying Wom-
an at Gastonia-Mass Funeral
Planned for Victim.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N. c., September I6-
The charge of conspiracy to overthrow
the State government preferred last Fri
day against eight textile union workers
and Communists was nolle pressed
when they appeared in City Recorders
Court today for preliminary hearing.
j. Frank Floyers, one of the inter-
national labor defense attorneys, and
his associate, Tom P. Jimison, appeared
in Recorders Court in behalf of the
eight men, but before they had an
opportunity to speak the case had been
dismissed.
"Just a subterfuge to hold these men
and try to keep them from the meeting
set for South Gastonia on Saturday."
Flowers said afterward in commenting
on the proceedings. 1T was plain that
these charges wouldn't stick"
Mob Hearing Resumed.
Two Loray mill employees took the
witness stand today and gave testimony
in an effort to establish an alibi for
their night superintendent, c. A. jolly.
one of the "A men arrested in Judge
Thomas j. Shaws inquiry into anti
Communist" mob violence in three
counties on the night Of September 9.
Judge Shaw's hearings were resumed
today after a week end recess
The two witnesses, w. A. Walker and
E. E. Roberts, testified that they saw
jolly several times during the night of
the mob activities. Walker said he saw
the superintendent on three occasions,
several hours apart. and Roberts said
Jolly passed through the weaving de-
partment of the mill in which he was
employed at half-hour intervals on the
night i'll question.
Six other Loray mill employees took
the witness stand in rapid succession
and Substantiated the testimony of
Walker and Roberts regarding Jollys
whereabouts. One of the six was q
brother-in-law of Mrs. Perry Lodge, q
States witness and the woman from
whose home c. D. Sayler, C. M Bell
and Ben Wells were kidnapped and the
latter hogged by the mob.
Plummer Stewart. attorney for the IL
men, indicated that he would continue
his practice OF presenting testimony BY
several witnesses in behalf of each Of
his clients. An effort was made to
establish an alibi for c. NJ Ferguson,
one OF the accused men, at SATURDAYS
hearing.
Others Testify.
Now that you have heard these men
who know jolly" Mr.. Stewart said, ad-
dressing Judge Shaw. we want to take
the testimony of 2 more of the
defendants, Horace Lane and Oscar
Goodman, and 10 others VINO know
about their activities on the night Of
September g."
Lane was sworn and said he and
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scheduled speaking at the Pinckney
mill, but that their car broke down
They were later deputized, he said, by
CASTOR County deputy sheriff to as
Sist in patrol duty at the Pinckney
plant where trouble was expected"
He AIDED that he armed himself with q
pistol.
Lane testified that he did not know
Lell or Wells.
We're you acquainted with saylor?"
Yes, Saylor was working for me and
I fred him when we found out he was
trying to organize our help" Lane re-
piled.
Lane is an overseer in the spinning
rooms in the Myers mill.
He declared that the expected "trou-
BILE" did not materialize, and that Mrs.
Lodges home was approximately three
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duty.
Staying Brings Complication.
The staying Of a woman active In
strikers relief work during Saturdays
mob activities against Communists and
labor organizers, with the subsequent
arrest of seven men, has brought further
complications to North Gastonia courts.
which now have before them five trials
and hearings growing out of violence in
textile mill strikes.
Of1cialS and workers of the Com
munist party and the National Textile
Workers Union, who stated after the
mob f1ogging and kidnapping Of some
Of their members that they had heard
threats against their lives from self
styled anti Communists" have adopt
ed q policy of shifting from hotel to
hotel or elsewhere, keeping their
whereabouts secret. Several attorneys
active i'll the strike cases have moved
from their homes to hotels. where they
shift their rooms from night 10 night.
Mass Meeting Planned.
Considerable attention was drawn to-
day to the announcement that the in
ternational labor defense would hold
mass funeral for Mrs. Ella May Wig
gins, who was shot to death during the
mob frenzy Saturday. Liston M. Oak
of New York. publicity director OF the
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