The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-10
FRAMEUP MURDER
CHARGE AGAINST
Mill STRIKERS
Police Chief Shooting
Up Tents Is Killed

Continued from Pode One)
the strikers. Aderholt led repeated
bayonet charges of militia and depu-
ties against the picket line during
the first weeks of the strike, and
bayonetted men, women and chill
dren. Gilbert has slugged and used
his guns upon strikers with complete
recklessness for human life all
through the strike.
The strikers have been repeatedly
threatened by mill owners thugs
and police ever since the tent colony
and new union headquarters build
ing was erected that it would be
destroyed and the camp shot up. A
masked mob, several weeks ago, at
tackled the union and relief head
quarters at night and wrecked both
of them, destroying food and chop
ping the union building into bits.
Strikers were beaten and threatened
with death, the police did nothing to
prevent the outrage, no one was ar
rested, and a grand jury white
washed every one accused.
Many Assaults.
After the first assault on the tent
colony, Friday, heavily reinforced
squads of deputies and gunner
raided and destroyed again and
again. George Carter, visitor to
the tent colony from Chester, Pa,
was arrested and has been selected
by the police to stand trial on a
murder charge Of shooting the chief
Of police; Harrison, the Passaic N.
7. W. U. president, and Clarence
Miller, organizer for young work
ers here, are charged with shooting
! Deputy Sheriff Charles Roach.
Miller was cruelty beaten up by the
Loray bosses gunner after he was
arrested and while he was being
taken to jail. Lewis Mclaughlin,
active striker, is to be accused of
shooting Motorcycle Policeman
Charles Ferguson and Policeman
Thomas Gilbert. Many charges of
conspiracy" assault with intent to
murder accessory to murder" are
expected against the remaining
strikers arrested.
Sixty Jailed.
Mass terrorism against the strik-
ing textile workers of the Loray
mill is now raging in this company
owned town. More than go strilz-
ers have already been arrested,
while armed thugs deputized by the
local authorities, agents of the
bosses, searched the surrounding
countryside looking for Fred F..
Beal, National Textile Workers
Union organizer, until he was finally
arrested in Spartanburg, where he
had gone on organization work after
his return from Elizabethton.
All last night and early today,
deputies have been menacing the
strikers living in the tent colony
established here by the Workers In
ternational Relief. Without war
rants they have been invading the
tents and houses where the strikers
live.
In invading the ten colony of the
W. I. r. the deputies tore down
some of the tents and destroyed
them. Union and relief signs were
smashed. Every tent and home of
the strikers was invaded, some as
late as three in the morning. When
the workers protested against the
action, demanding a warrant, the
legalized thugs stated that nc war
rants are needed in North Carolina
All the men strikers found in the
tent colony were placed under ar.
rest, searched and taken to jail
handcuffed. Every striker that is
found is Immediately taken into Gus
tody. This is viewed as an attempt
t. smash the strike by one huge
blow.
Mcdonald, a striker with wooder
leg, could not walk fast enough tt
suit the deputies, and told them so
They answered that he would have
to.
Armed thugs with searchlight:
visited and searched the tent colony
more than dozen times during the
night. No consideration was giver
to the privacy of the strikers, most
of whom were asleep when the raid
ing party arrived.
Among those arrested are Amy
Shechter, manager of the Workers
international Relief station here
and Caroline Drew, relief worker
who has been active especially ir
organizing relief picnics, local re.
lief committees and collecting OF
food from surrounding territories.
The attempt to suppress the re.
lief by arrest Of w. I. r. workers
is regarded here as the carrying ont
of threats often made by the mil
bosses against this workers organ.
ization, and is part of the campaign
to starve the strikers back to theil
slavery.
The Gastonia Gazette is publish.
ing the most outrageous lies about
the attack on the workers. 1t is ar
attempt to provoke more violence
against the strikers. A deliberate
attempt is being made to stimulate
lynch mobs to kill the imprisoned
strikers.
The striking workers who have
not as yet been arrested expires.