The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-14
FORTY MORE Will
Be EvICTED IN The
GASTONIA STRIKE
Vote to Defy Deputies;
Homeless Strikers
Keep Scabs Awake
Score SenateC Committee
|Ousted Relief Station
Moving. to Tent
Score SenateC Committee

GASTONIA, May 13.-The strik-
ers have voted to defy forty more
evictions, notices of which were
served today by representatives of
the Manville Jenckes Mills Co.
All night long the pickets seren-
AIDED the scabs who have been or
dered to move into the company
houses from which strikers were
thrown several days ago. Strike
songs and yells testified to the good
spirit and solidarity of the evicted
strikers, and gave the scabs some
thing to think about during their
nights rest.
Picnic For Relief.
A big picnic held yesterday at
Hillcrest under the auspices of the
Workers international Relief was
attended by many workers from
surrounding towns. Many joined
the W.I.R. The speakers were AL
fred Wagenknecht, national secre-
tary of the WI.R., Fred E. Beal,
organizer for the National Textile
Workers Union, Gladys Wallace
and Russell Knight.
Score Senate Treachery.
WASHINGTON, May 13.-The
-Gastonia strikers delegation, which
arrived here to testify before the
Senate Committee on Manufactures
supposed to be hearing testimony on
a resolution by Senator Wheeler OF
Montana to prove starvation in the
Southern strike area, has filed with
the committee letter fearlessly ex-
posing the trickery of the committee
in adjourning as soon as they heard
the Gastonia strikers had arrived.
The statement criticised La Fol-
lette, Senators Wheeler and Over
man, of North Carolina, for failing
to give them (the delegation) a
hearing
"You declared to US that you fa-
vored an investigations" the state
ment to La Toilette said, "but you
did not lift a finger to help US in
our efforts to reveal to workers OF
America the slave conditions under
which we work and the efforts OF
the National Textile Workers Union
to better these conditions.
"We made repeated efforts to see
Senator Wheeler and were told that
the senator was ill, although we
met Wheeler later in the Senate
corridor"
EvictiOns in Bessemer.
GASTONIA, N. c., May 13.-Gold-
bergs Mill in Bessemer City is evict-
ing the striking workers. Three
families were driven from the COM
pany-owned houses and more are
scheduled to be thrown out on the
streets today.
Those evicted include the Crowley
family with three children, Williams
family with seven children and Pearl
Barnett, secretary of the local
Workers International Relief Com
mittee. The Barnett family consists
of four people. In spite of the evic-
tions the picket lines in Bessemer
City are growing daily as more
strikers take an active part in the
strike activities.
Gastonia strikers arriving at the
Workers international Relief store
here this morning found the door
barred with a heavy lock and chain
which means that the w. l. R. has
again been evicted. The w. l. r.
Committee and the strike committee
held meetings today in a smaller
store on the same street. The w. l.
r. and the National Textile Workers
Union have just been notified that
they must Immediately vacate the
small store also.
Relief distribution in the future
will be given to the striking workers
in an open lot in the center of Loray,
and in a workers lunch room con-
Quoted by a friendly mountaineer,
who is former coal miner.
The Workers International Relief
was informed today that the Loray
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