The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
.ELIzABETHTON TO
Get STRIKECALL
Leaflets Exposing Sell
Out Being Reprinted

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, June 6.
The arrested National Textile
Workers Union organizers here are
making rapid progress with their
plans to reprint with additions the
leaflet exposing the sell-out of the
strike by the United Textile Work
ers, and calling a mass meeting to
"Renew the Strike" and "Smash the
Blacklist"
These leaflets were stolen by
federal officers led to the boarding
house of William F. Dunno, and
John Harvey, organizers of the
N. T. w. U.
Adding to Blacklist.
While the National Textile Work
ers' Union organizers were held I'M
der arrest, for four hours the fed
eral officers and Kelley searched
their rooms for names and addresses
of Elizabethton workers, evidently
seeking for additions to the already
extensive mill company and United
Textile Worker blacklist. They
found no names.
The deputies tried to pass Kelley
off as "a government man." but he
was Immediately recognized by
Dewey Martin, Gastonia striker,
and by Dunno and Fred Beal. -
U. T. w. Started Raid.
"Kelley's presence proves eonclu-
sively," said Dunno, tonight, that
the raid was instigated by him and
other U. T. W. officials.
"The purpose of the raid was
clearly to prevent the distribution
of the leaflet exposing the sell-out
by the U. T. w. officials and calling
upon the workers to renew the
struggle against the blacklist and
starvation wages.
Preparations are being made to
reprint the leaflet with up-to-date
1 additions and distribute it. More
workers are being blaklisted and
denied work every day. Disgust
with the United Textile Workers is
increasing daily, as the workers see
more clearly the trap they have been
led into"
Take W.I.R. Leaflets.
The city and county forces have
been modified to prevent the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union liter
allure from reaching the workers.
All highways leading into the mill
districts are patrolled.
John Harvey was stopped on the
road recently, searched and 500
Workers international Relief leaf
lets taken from him.
While the deputies had Dunno in
custody, the landlady of the board
ing house he lived in sent tele-
gram for him to the office of the
International Labor Defense, an
nouncing his arrest.
When the Elizabethton deputy
found this out, he tried to have the
message held in the Western Union
office in johnson City. He was too
late, and then tried by threats to
force Dunno and Harvey to sign an
other message saying they were not
arrested. They refused to send any
such message.
Calls All Picketing "Crime."
Chancellor S. F. Miller, before
whom the So rayon strikers were
tried for violation of the injunction
granted in a previous strike has SEN
fenced three to ten days in jail anG
$50 fine (the limit and fined AZ
others for amounts ranging from
$40 to s25. Seven were dismissed
for lack of evidence.
Miller, in SO page "opinion" at
tempts to set precedent in injunc-
ton cases that can be used in every
strike in every industry in the coun-
try. He describes all forms of
picketing as essentially illegal and
criminal; he tries to cite constitu-
tional authority for use of the state
troops by the mill companies in their
fight to break the strike of the
workers.
"There can be no such thing as
peaceful picketing," the judge said.
mo more than there can be chaste
vuIgarity, peaceful mobbing or law
full lynching. To constitute intimi-
dation it is not necessary that there
should be any direct threat, still less
any violence"
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