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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29
Satellites of the Charlotte Trial

Seventy-five per cent of the spec
taters in the courtroom are mill
hands, and the boys sense it. I
saw them all in the Gastonia jail
the other day: Clarence Miller had
just finished leading a discussion on
Trade Union Tactics in the eight by
ten cell where they have simmered
for the past three months in the
heat of North Carolina summer.
Here they are in court: Beal, blonde,
CANAL, cheerful, in his -shirtsleeves,
acknowledging long-distance greet
ings from fellow-workers and friends
in the courtroom; Louis MacLaugh-
lin, Vera Buch, Amy Schechter,
Russell Knight, Joseph Harrison,
his arm full of gunshot wounds
from the rifles of Chief Aderholt's
drunken deputies; Clarence Miller,
William McGinnis, K. Y. ("Red")
Hendryx, K. o. Byers, Robert Allen,
N. F. Gibson, Sophie Melvin, George
Carter, ]. c. Heffner.
"VOUR father told me to tell you
! he'd try to come over here from
Kings Mountain and see You in a
couple of days." l told young Heff-
ner, while the county clerk was
drawing out the names Of prospec-
tive tax-paying jurors. Young Heff-
ner, one of the boys for whom Solic-
itor Carpenter will respectfully ask
the electric chair, is only II years
old.
II worked in the mill since l was
H." the young mill hand said. "My
first job was in the Regain Mill at
Bessemer City. l worked there for
about year. l was doffing in the
twister room. l then went to work
in the Arlington Mill and stayed
there about two years. Shortly
after the strike in the Loray Mill
began in April l got job there.
But didn't want to scab and there
fore left and joined the union, and
I've been with it since"
l had met young Heffner's father,
who.i 81, at the l. L. D. conferenc,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29

is fluent, suave and at the same
time belligerent. He reads the Bill
of Particulars which he character
ICES as vague, evasive and loose
general dragnet for all the de-
PENDANTS" The lawyer reads the
document prepared by the prosecu-
tiQn;.
''The defendants did on or
about the 7th day of June, 1929,
with force and arms and in said
county, in said state, pursuant to
an unlawful combination, conspir-
acy, confederation and agreement
heretofore entered into between
them and divers other evil
disposed persons, to the jurors
unknown, feloniously, wilfully
and with malice aforethought,
did kill and murder o. F. Alder
holt, contrary to the statute in
such cases made and provided
and against the peace and dig
nifty of the state"
Hays has learned something
about militancy in the South.
! The other day he went over to
see the "boys" while they were still
in the Gastonia Jail.
what are you going to do if
you get out? ?" Hays asked K. O.
Byers thru the bars. "Are you
going back to the Eoray mill?"
Hell, mol" Byers replied, "Pm
union organizer from now or
even if l have to live on breac
and water"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29
One Way to Aid Class War Prisoners

TT is certainly tribute to revolutionary movement
that class prisoners have had to write requests for
books to read One of the things the class conscious
workers do for these victims of capitalist vengeance
to enable them to obtain the literature they need to enable
them to read and study thereby equppng themselves
wage the fight more effectively against capitalism when they
return to the ranks of the working class
According to reports from the international Labor De-
tense many requests for books have from prisoners and
fund being collected for the purpose of obtaining books
for them Such books must be direct from the publish
and the L. D. has made arrangements whereby books
for prisoners can be obtained at discount
In the revolutionary history Of czarist Russia many Of
the future leaders of the revolution advantage periods
of Imprisonment to themselves deoogcaly for the
tasks history imposed upon them Many of class
prisoners today will be leaders of the revolution
We must aid q do4i t? .ake atvantoeo Of their
imprisonment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29
KuOmintang Admits
Overcrowding Jails

NANKING-(By MaiD The au-
thorities have at last been compelled
to acknowledge the horrible over
crowding of the prisons. The Tsao
Ho-ching prison at Nantac has 1,500
prisoners altho built for but 800.
Persons hereafter convicted by
courtmarital-mainly alleged "Com-
munists"-will be sent to the former
military academy at Soochow. This
has been converted into a Jail.
1t is announced in this connection
that model" prison will shortly
be constructed at Chinkiang, the
capital of Kiahgsu Province. 1t will
cose 100000. 1t seems that the
Kuomintang is going to specialize
on building jails!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29
Vol Screams for Sky
High Tariff in Paper
'of Engraver Fax ers

WASHINGTON-(By MaiD AN
attack on all those who have criti-
cized the labor takers for their de-
mand for a high tariff is made by
Matthew Woll in the current issue
of the "Photo Engraver," journal of
the labor takers of the Photo
Engravers Union. High tariff is
necessary. to maintain high stand
ards for American labor" states
Woll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29

ITO be continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29
BY SENDER GARLIN.


THEY started the trial of the 16
Gastonia strikers and strike lead
ers in real Southern fashion. yell
hev tub git out" .one of Sheriff r.
wins lieutenants told the Negroes
sitting up in the Jim Crow balcony
as the Mecklenburg county court
room was beginning to fill up. And,
of course, they got out. There were
over 100 of them altogether, most
Of them in working clothes, some of
them in overalls. Some Of them,
less cowed than the others, lowered
about the corridors and every now
and again peered thru the open door
of the courtroom. They had come
early to be sure to get seats and
were kicked out five minutes before
the trial opened to make place for
% whites who came late.
The three girl defendants, Amy
Schechter, Vera Bush and Sophie
Melvin had a tough time crashing
in on the trial. They ambled lies
urely into the court room. They came
in before the boys arrived and sat
down in the places arranged for the
prisoners. These girls are apparent
ly better known to thousands of mill
workers down here in the Piedmont
section than. they are to the Char
lotte ward-heelers. One of them,
layal court attendants dashed over
to the girls and said challengingly:
eye CANT set here. These places
are for the prisoners"
THE court hoase grounds looked like
university campus, but the COM
parison is only skin deep, for in this
great stone building tit cost heaps
to build, proud citizens say will be
enacted, during the next three or
four weeks, one of the most signi-
ficant trials in the history Of the
American labor movement. 1t must
look like flair" trial. The high
priced Blackstones hired by the Man
ville-Jenckes Company have decided
on that point, alright. None Of your
cco-Vanzetti, A. Mitchell Palmer
trials here, ladies and gentlemen.
It'll give the game away and put
everybody wise. Don't want machine
guns, mounted thugs on prancing
steeds, don't want brassy military
bands playing the "Star Spangled
Banner" outside the wide windows
of the courtroom. Gentlemen, let's
put this thing over pretty. :.
Besides, friends, in the great state
Of North Carolina (owned by Mellon
and Duke) everything is jake No
chance of getting them mill hands
on this jury. You've got 10 own
property and pay taxes to the county
to make the grade. These fellows
that don't own nothing don't know
right from wrong, anyhow. Twelve
jurors, good men ard true, taxpay-
ers-we can depend on them all
alright. 49,.
THE Gastonia Gazette 1.-THE Classy
Gazette, the mill hands call it,
it's bit too vociferous, too noisy
some of the good citizens think
The Charlotte Observer and the
Charlotte News, they're little more
subtle in this fair trial stuff: "The
jury shouldn't care if the defend
ants are bomb throwers, niger low
ers, .gangsters from the dives Of
Hoboken and New York--all it needs
to know is: did these agitators shoot
our sainted Chief Aderholt?" Pref
ty slick, isn't it?
The prisoners are led into the
courtroom from the country Jail on
the upper floor and take their seats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29

soldiers the target for their bullets!
They risk of immunity if l may
working classes, those tragis to the
slaughter provide splendid food powder in time
spit forth what left in them of the trad
martial and of those
ings Ministers?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29
oyERWoRKEp. KILLS SELF

CHESTER, N. Y, Aug. 2S.-The
blackened and blistered body Of
George Cornwell, %, was found at
the base of 75-foot power trans
mission tower near here today, five
days after he left note in his car
indicating suicide intentions.
He had worked his way through
Cornell University, being graduated
this year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29

The prisoners are led into the
courtroom from the country Jail on
the upper floor and take their sests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29

to do with it), he did indeed appear before
the court martial held at Casablanca on the
18th of January, 1926. The court con-
demned him to two months imprisonment
and fined him 200 francs with remission
of sentence, which means that they SEN
fenced him to nothing at all. A hypocritical
sentence worth less than no trial at all.
What palmer method could there be of
telling N. C. O.'s of the Colonial and other
infantry regiments that they would be very
foolish to put themselves out should they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29

AS for dunkard been told that in the
circumstance who had ndsputaoy
committed murder with (mken identify had nothing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29
DEM AND INCREASE

LONDON-(By MaiD.-London
engineering workers are demanding
| a wage increase Of 81 a week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-05-30
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.

each and every year by the County
Commissioners OF Garrett County.
3. The County Commissioners of
Garrett County be and the same are
hereby authorized, directed and en-
powered to levy the sum of Eight
Hundred Dollars ($8O0.00) annually
for the above purposes on the as
sessable property of said County. Be
fore the County Commissioners shall
be required to pay the aforesaid sums
of money, the said Commissioners
shall have the power to require the
officers of said fire departments to
appear before them and show to the
satisfaction of said Commissioners
that any sums of money paid by the
said Commissioners to the said fire
departments under this Act have been
expended for the purposes set forth
in this Act, and also that said fire
departments are active fire fighting
organizations. In the event said fire
departments hereinbefore mentioned
cease to remain active fire fighting
organizations or have not used the
moneys appropriated to them for the
sole purposes set forth in this Act,
then this Act shall become null and
void.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted.
That this Act shall take effect June
l, 1929.
Approved March s, 1929.
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CHAPTER Al

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with
amendments Chapter 408 of the
Acts of 1927 so as to continue the
payment therein provided and to
provide for an annual payment of
two hundred dollars ($200.00) to
the Grantsville Volunteer Fire De-
partment.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
Chapter 40S of the Acts of 1927 be
and it is hereby repealed and re-en-
acted with amendments so as to read
as follows:
l. The County Commissioners of
Garrett County be and they are here
by authorized, empowered and di-
rected to pay the sum of Six Hundred
Dollars ($600.00) annually to the
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department,
and the sum of Two Hundred Dollars
($200.00) annually to the Grantsville
Volunteer Fire Department, so long
as each of said fire departments re-
mains an active fire fighting organi-
cation, for their benefit, said sums of
money to be used by the said fire de-
partments for the purchase, repair or
maintenance of fire fighting equip
ment.
2. Such payments shall be made
on the first day of September in
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PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.

roads under his supervision, and
where in his discretion necessity ex-
lists, have authority to construct any
system or systems of drain or drains
to drain water from the highways o
neighboring lands. Existing drainage
systems or courses are to remain
open until altered or closed by order
of the proper supervisor. No unau-
thorized person shall close or alter
any existing drainage system or
course or close or alter any drainage
system or course authorized in the
future; and any person convicted be-
fore any Justice of the Peace of Gar
rett County for violating any of the
provisions of this section shall be
fined not less than five dollars 1851
nor more than twenty-five dollars
($25). In case of damage to prop
erty occurring after June l, 1929, by
reason of the existence of any pres
ent or future authorized drainage sys-
tenn, the County Commissioners shall
appoint one appraiser, the landowner
a second, and these two shall appoint
a third. These three appraisers shall
appraise the damage to the property
in question and such appraisal shall
be final. The County Commissioners
of Garrett County shall upon demand
pay to the damaged person the
amount appraised as his damage.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That this Act shall take effect June
l, 1929.
Approved March 8, 1929.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-05-30
CHAPTER %

AN ACT to add a new section to Ar
ticle IL of the Public Local Laws Of
Maryland (1888 Edition) title Gar
rett County," subtitle "Roads,"
said new section to be known as
Section 204A to follow immedi-
ately after Section 204 of said Ar
ticle, as amended by Chaper l of
the Acts of 1910, giving to each
Road Supervisor of said County au-
thority to drain water from the
roads under his supervision to
neighboring land where such drain
age is deemed necessary by such
Supervisor; to establish penalty
for the unauthorized closing or al
tering of existing and future au-
thorized drainage systems; and to
provide for assessment of DANA
ages caused to such neighboring
land by such drainage systems after
June l, 1929.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
a new section be and it is hereby add
ed to Article IL of the Public Local
Laws of Maryland 1883 Edition), IT,
tie Garrett County," subtitle
Roads," said new section to be known
as Section 204A, to follow immedi-
ately after Section 204 of said Article,
and to read as follows:
204AEach Supervisor of Roads of
Garrett County shall, in the case Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-05-30
CHAPTER A

AN ACT to add two new sections to
Article II of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1888 Ed
tom, title Garrett County," to be
under subtitle "Swanton," to be
known as Sections 224A and 224B
and to follow Immediately after
Section 224 of said Article, provid-
ing that the County Commissioners
shall pay certain sum annually to
the village of Swanton for street
and sidewalk improvements and
priding for committee of citi-
zens to expend said money.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
two new sections be and they are
hereby added to Article II of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Mary
land (18S8 Edition), title Garrett
County," to be under subtitle "Swan-
ton," to be known as Sections 224A
and 224B, to follow Immediately after
Section 224 of said Article, and to
read as follows:
224A. At the time of making the
county levy in each year, the County
Commissioners of Garrett County
shall levy one hundred and fifty dol
lars ($150.00), to be collected by the
County Treasurer and to be turned
over to a committee of citizens of the
village of Swanton, in said county, for
the purpose of improving the streets
and sidewalks in said village.
224B. The committee of citizens to
expend the money in improving the
streets and sidewalks, as provided in
the preceding section, shall serve
without compensation and shall be
composed of R. W. Sheckells, Lemuel
Friend and Arthur H. Green. In case
of vacancy in said committee, the
remaining members shall name his
successor, who must be a resident of
the village of Swanton.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That this Act shall take effect June
l, 1929
Approved March 8, 1929.
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CHAPTER ago

AN ACT to prohibit for two years
from June l, 1929, the taking or
catching of fish from or in the Lit
tie Savage River in Garrett County,
Maryland, and providing penalties
for any violation of the provisions
of this Act.
Section /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
it shall be unlawful for any person for
period of two years from June 1,
1929, to take or catch fish from or in
the Little Savage River in Garrett
County Maryland. Any person violat-
ing the provisions of this Act shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction fined not less than five
dollars ($5.00) nor more than fifty
dollars ($50.00).
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That this Act shall take effect June
l, 1929.
APPROVED April II, 1929.
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CHAPTER 1896.

AN ACT to authorize and empower
the Mayor and Council of Friends
vile to close two alleys in the town
of Friendsville, in Garrett County,
being first an alley rum ng through
block X in said town from First Az
enue to Second Avenue, and second,
an alley running through the same
block from Oak street to Chestnut
street, and to empower commission
ers to be appointed by the said
Mayor and Council of Friendsville
to award compensation to any per-
son or persons owning property in
said block X who may be affected
by closing of said alleys.
| Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Mayor and Council of Friends
vile be and they are hereby author
lied and empowered to close two al
leys in Block X in the town of
Friendsville, to-wit that alley run
ming from First to Second Avenue
and the alley running from Oak Street
to Chestnut Street in said town of
Friendsville. And the Mayor and
Council of Friendsville may provide
lOG dSCGIldlIllIlS WllcIilSI dlly anu w lletI
amount in value of damages will be
caused thereby to the owner or pos
SCISSOR of any property lying in said
Block X through which said alleys
pass which ought to be compensated,
by the appointment of commissioners
to assess the same and for assessing
and levying generally on the whole
assessable property within the said
town of Friendsville, or especially on
the property benefited, the whole or
any part of the damages and expenses
incurred in closing the said alleys. The
Mayor and Council of Friendsville
may have power to grant appeals to
the Circuit Court for Garrett County
from the decision of any commission
ers or other persons appointed by viz
tue of any ordinances to ascertain the
damages occasioned by the closing OF
said alleys and for the securing to the
person or persons injured the right,
on application within thirty (30) days
from the return of the report Of the
commissioners, to have decided by
jury trial whether any, and what dam
age he, she or they have sustained;
to provide for the collecting and pay
ing of the compensation awarded to
any person before said alleys shall be
closed, and to enact all ordinances
from time to time necessary and prop
er to the exercise of the powers grant
ed in this Act; provided that before
the Mayor and Council of Friends
vile proceed to execute any OF the
powers vested in them by this Act, at
least thirty (30) days notice shall be
given of any application which may be
made by them for the passage of any
such ordinance by such means as they
may or shall prescribe and by personal
notice in writing served, by registered
mall twenty (2O) days before upon
each property holder to be affected
by the passage of the proposed ordi-
nance, provided that said parties are
residents of Maryland.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That this Act shall take effect on the
first day of June, 1929.
Approved April IL, 1929.
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PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.

male dog or spayed female dog and
Three Dollars $500 for each unspay-
ed female dog of said county. Said
Constables shall in all respects take
the place of the several Constables in
the several election districts of said
county formerly charged with the
duty of collecting said license fees in
Garrett County under Sections 206 to
208, inclusive, of Article 81 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland 1924
EDITION., title Revenue and Taxes"
subtitle Taxation of Dogs" but in
all respects, except as herein express
ly provided, said entire subtitle con-
sisting of Sections 2O6 to PIP, inclu-
sive, of said Article 81 shall continue
to apply to Garrett County.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted.
That all Acts and parts of Acts in
consistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed to the extent of such incon-
sistency.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That this Act shall take effect June
1, 1929.
Approved March s, 1929.
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PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.

see that no boats shall be permitted
to ply the waters of this Lake that are
not complying with the Federal regu-
lations, or which are polluting the
waters with oil or other waste, and
the said Conservation Commissioner
his deputies and game wardens are
hereby authorized and empowered to
arrest anyone using his motor boat in
violation of the above regulations and
shall be further empowered to remove
such boats from said Lake until the
owner or operator of said boat has
corrected these irregularities.
10. Any persons violating any of
the provisions of this Act shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof before any
Justice of the Peace of Garrett Coun-
ty, or before the Circuit Court of said
county, shall be fined not less than ten
dollars (S10) nor more than fifty dol
lars ($50) for each offense and shall
stand committed to Jail until said fine
together with the costs of prosecution
are paid.
II. All laws or parts of laws, eth
er general or local, inconsistent with
the provisions of this Act be and the
same are hereby repealed to the eX-
tent of such inconsistency.
IL. Nothing in this Act shall be
considered in any manner as chang
ing, modifying or charging any of
the terms of the lease from Youghio-
gheny Hydro-Electric Corporation
and the Eastern Land Company to the
State of Maryland for the use of Con-
servation Department of the area in
volved, nor to affect in any manner the
rights, privileges and reservations of
the lessons therein.
Is. This Act shall continue in force
only during the continuance of the
lease from the Youghiogheny Hydro
Electric Corporation and the Eastern
Land Company to the State of Mary
land or any renewal or renewals Of
said leases.
Approved April II, 1929.
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CHAPTER 800

AN ACT to authorize and direct the
County Commissioners of Garrett
County to levy Seven Hundred and
Fifty Dollars (S750.00) annually fol-
the expenses Of the Sheriff of said
County.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
the County Commissioners of Garrett
County be and they are hereby au-
thorized and directed to levy Seven
Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($750.0O)
annually for the expenses of the Sher-
iff of said County.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted
That this Act shall take effect June
/, 1929.
Approved April II, 1929.
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