The daily worker., 1929-09-17
one DAY STRIKE FOR FUNERAL OF ELLA MAY WlGClNS!
Build Workers Defense Com
mittees---Disarm the Fascist
Thugs Who Murdered Ella
May Wiggins! .


der of Ella May Virgins will not be punished by the law
This already indicated by the charge placed against them
not of murder but of second degree murder or man
slaughter Note the difference When Fred Beal and the
Others of the sixteen workers and union organizers de-
the charge murder carrying with 1t auto
macay penalty and permitting bail On the other hand
May Virgins murdered by mill superintendent and their
automobiles heavily armed for the purpose
running numbering mill workers their to
meeting But the guilty mill agents and gunmen who
beyond slightest doubt committed deliberate pemedtated mu
der charged onse and released bail of
$1,000, rdcuousy for the mill owners to produce
that Governor Gardener rich textile mill
owner appointed Solicitor investigate the previous mob
after the victims mad declared that Carpenter one OF the
nsators the mob Add the arrest of the victims OF
conspiracy overthrow the state with few puny
guns everyone that the mill owners supern-
murder expeditions powered rifles and automatic
pistols Everybody that the mob that ogged Wells and mur
still exists standing
organization divided into smaller active
as ever in roaming the streets country trying the
mill workers.
operate the arming of the fascist bands
the whole machinery of the law helps to organize
protects them in their crimes shown
that policemen and state prosecutors participated the
the criminal acts of the bands
them light of the murderers of Ella May
blotter the fact of week. shown
h produced for criminal agent of
the rsin owners caueht in crime
No temporary gestures "farn" be made
the arrest of of the for the murder
shameful release ridiculous
signed by workers must firmly keep mind
that the crush the union
railroad the defendants of Gasona to death on the electric chair
apparatus will do nothing punish the murderers
Ella Virgins but will seek and find some sort of false bs
other to realese them
will proceed to
vice chair Fred Bea and the other
the swollen profits the mill
government the courts the police etc
entire remains today just the
the blood proceed
unhinded profits of the mill workers with still more
pressure the strech-out and starvation
Why police handful of the mill agents for
Staying" hey call it murder) Ella May Virgins?
was only an arrest "among only out Of
the hundreds of thousands of mill workers
Why they eight who under arrest
consprng overthrow the state with hafdozen shotguns
the urder of Ella May
of the of the mill workers aroused
intended Such charges
workers from attending mn
made with the intention Of them through
to conviction.
pracy be seen the result of
of the working class
t2 has done anything for the
And action
only thing will do anything for them in the future.
that they few
But numbers will count only if modified
workers trial in the Gastona
class
the North Carolina mills has
y mill owners has thrown oft the mask OF de
mocracy" andh has, with fascist violence
developments the rensyng sharpness
United States this time and the
of notifications.
Every every MILL factory shop and must be
the CHASTITY facts of the murder Of Fila May Wggns
with the the call defend the right of
class TO organize and their working
duty building the mills and shops their Workers Defense
Committees!