The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-12
VICIOUS LIES ON
CASTON|ASPREAD
Workers Hit SANDER
Against W.I.R.
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ing children in the w. /. R. tent col
ony as reported by the Gastonia Ga
zette."
That this is just one more of the
lies about the union, the relief and
the defense organizations, is the
opinion of those living in the tent
colony. /. L. d. representatives here
consider this part of the campaign
of villification on the part of the
prosecution and the Manville-
Jenckes' controlled city authorities
to prejudice public opinion and rail
road the defendants to electrocution
or the penitentiary.
Every striker in the tent colony
that could be reached this morning
signed the following:
"We brand the reports in the Ga
zette, Observer and other papers
coming from Craig as lies intended
to prejudice the public against our
union and our arrested fellow-work-
ers. These statements are without
foundation. The w. l. r. has sup
piled us with food, clothing and shell
ter since the Manville-Jenckes Com
pany threw us out on the street.
eve have not seen a hungry or
ragged strikers child or family in
the tent colony. The only Cases of
pellagra were started by the star,
J walton wages we had to live cn when
we worked for the Loray mill.
"The sanitary inspector has made
daily inspections and failed to find
any excuse for registering eom-
plant and making trouble toe US.
We plsdse or continued support to
the National Textile Workers Union,
the Workers international Relief end
the International LABOR Defense"
Mr.. and Mrs. Browder, who were
the ones questioned by Craig, deny
making the complaints attributed te
them. Craig quoted Caroline Drew
as saying that "the strikers must
henceforth shift for themselves.
What Drew actually said was that
the National Textile. Workers Union
is sending the strikers into mills
throughout CASTOR County to do or
ganizational work for the Charlotte
conference and the coming struggle
against low wages and the stretch
out system.
Strikers Reply.
At the regular weekly meeting OF
the Gastonia branch of the Workers
International relief, Thursday night
Aug. 8, the following resolution was
passed. 1t was further decided that
this resolution be presented to all
the newspapers as an answer to the
slanderous attacks being made.
| The meeting was attended by
every striker in the Workers Inter-
national Relief tent colony, many
strikers and other members:
ever since the workers of the
Manville-Jenckes Loray mill came
out on strike, many lies and SLAM
ders have been written in the press,
especially the Gastonia Gazette,
about our union, the National Tex
tile Workers Union, our conditions
and wages in the mill, our organ
iyorc opd oroo ;1 +;ooa ,,,b;oI Lo,,
supported and helped us, such as the
Workers International Relief and the
international Labor Defense.
"The editorial in the Gastonia
Gazette of Aug. and other news
paper reports are deliberate false
hoods of such nature as to whip
up sentiment against the strikers
and organizers in Jail.
List the Facts.
! eve, the members of the w. I. r.
branch of Gastonia, who know the
facts, want to make them clear to
everyone.
The average wage in the Loray
mill is S11 week, the work day II
hours. The conditions in the mill
and houses are very bad. The
stretch-out system is in effect. That
is why the workers struck on April
l, under the leadership of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union.
Wages are so low the workers
could barely keep from starving,
When the strike was called they
were without food. The union. and
especially the w. I. R., has taken
care of them since.
W. /. r. Supplies Food.
"The W. I. R. has supplied the
following items of food: flour, meal.
sugar, coffee milk, buttermilk, mo-
lasses, potatoes, lard, fat back, cab
bage, tomatoes, onions, salt, canned
goods, beans, rice and greens.
"The w. I. R. found houses and
tents for the strikers when the Man
ville-Jenckes Co. threw hundreds
into the roads in all kinds of wea-
Their, regardless of whether children
and women were sick.
COMMITTEES of strikers, with the
help Of the organizers, have given
out relief, found houses for evicted