The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-12

women and children of the families
of the strikers, many of them sick,
to survive a period of bad weather
and the strike to be continued.
Their, attempt to destroy the col
cny is seen here as q further strike
breaking tactis Of the employers.
City police and mill owners thugs
have been in arbitrary possession of
the colony since Saturday, the day
after Chief Of Police Aderholt and
three of his deputies were shot dur
ing an attempt to shoot it up. They
have destroyed all the food in the
relief supplies and are deliberately
starving the strikers, their women
and children, in the hope of crush
ing them back to slavery in the Lo-
yay mill.
Move to Starve Strikers.
The announced intention of Alfred
Wagenknecht, executive secretary of
the w. I. r., now in Gastonia, to
send truckload of food into the
tent colony evidently provoked the
order to annihilate it.
State Senator Wooltz, who is city
attorney of Gastonia, yesterday
spoke to Defense Attorney Jimison
about closing down the w I. R.
tent colony. Wooltz claimed he was
afraid a mob would burn down the
tents and destroy everything. Jim
ison informed Wooltz that Wagon
knecht had charge of the tent col
cny as representative of the ma
tional office of the w. I. R. Also
that the ground was under the di-
rection of the W. I. R. and only the
W. I. R. had the power to handle
such matters.
Wagenlnecht stated that he was
about to inform Wooltz that the
tents will stay up and the union
headquarters would remain, also
that relief will continue to be dis
tributed. He added that he will alb
solutely oppose any attempt to close
down the tent colony no matter what
threats are made by mobs of the
company.
Beal in Monroe County Jail.
A writ of habeas corpus secured
in Charlotte yesterday smoked out
the authorities who have been keep
ing Fred Beal, southern organizer
of the National Textile Workers
Union, hidden in various jails. They
admitted that he has been in Mon
roe County Jail but have removed
him again to some other prison.
Attorney Unison, for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, Sunday asked
of the judge in Charlotte q writ
forcing the sheriffs and wardens of
jails in CASTOR County to allow
JG'iet Stuart Poyntz, national sec
rotary Of the I. L. D., and attorneys
to visit the arrested strikers. The
Judge asked for time, and yester-
day refused the writ.
Yesterday, however, the I. L. D.
attorney demanded a writ of habeas
corpus, to return all arrested strik-
ers for a hearing in Charlotte to-
day. There is law in North Caro-
lima filming any judge $1,000 if he
refuses to sign a reasonable writ of
habeas corpus when demanded. So
the Judge signed this writ, making
the cases returnable in Charlotte,
but tomorrow at 10 a. m.e -t.f
State Senator Nooltz, city attor-
ney for Gastonia. when he heard of
the writ, issued an order to hear the
cases at Gastonia, instead of at
Charlotte, at 8 a. m. tomorrow.
Today, from the same sources, a
statement was issued, postponing
the hearing until Friday. Such a
postponement of execution of a writ
Of habeas corpus is illegal without
consent of both parties.
Poyntz has made public state
ment pledging every resource of the
I. l.. d. and calling on every worker
to assist in the fight to defeat the
frame-up against the arrested strik-
ers, and Reid and Weisbord have
issued a statement for the N. T. w.
U. that it will fight increasingly to
win this strike and will intensity
the campaign to organize the whole
south.
Incite Race Hatred.
North Carolina newspapers are
publishing news stories that the
reason the police came to the W. L.
R. tent colony on Friday was be-
cause some of the strikers were
fighting over whether a Negro pic
ture should hang in the union head
quarters. This lie is being circu-
lated to create race prejudice among
the workers here and to further
stimulate lynch mobs.