The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
Mebilning the Travelling Statesmen
to Aid a Legal Lynching

XXTHAT travelling salesman says in general is of little
w consequence Most of the horde of individuals that
travel given territories throughout the United States
peddg goods of sort another would have to strain
their brains in long school to become low grade
We will not speculate at this time the problem
of whether they statesmen because they gnoramuses
gnoramuses because they travelling statesmen 1t
too much like the question: Which first the chicken
the egg?
But this welknown characteristic is divers occasions
put good by the capitalist class At less
lar intervals these worthless called into the home office
for sales lecture by windbag who tells them what to
say when they the road If state local political
campaign they given arguments in favor of certain
capitalist candidates who under obligations to the boss
to his clique In the most pompou arrogant backapplng
these megaphones carry out their instructions and
repeat with variations what they have been told to say by
the office spokesman.
One of these specimen, commenting upon the trial of
the Gastonia prisoners, boasted
napAe@If jury pay
dene the law and the first ballot eectroeu
damn one of them
The utterances of this miserable whelp must not be
garded as the Examinations of Individual. In thou
sand different forms these sentiments being pub
ey expressed throughout the newly ndustrazed South 1t
part of the general ynchng campaign against the Gas
ona prisoners that being carried under the direction
of the chambers of the bankers the ndustriass
and the whole ruling class The expoters of labor mob
zng every force at their command to stop the of
strikes that has swept the South and to arrest the
ment of the working class for abolition of long hours of TOLL
low wages and the terrific speedup (sretchout). They
want to make example of the strikers and strike leaders
who trial Charlotte in order to nst terror into
the hearts of the workers in that part of the country
The Charlotte trials calculated to complete the job
that Chief of Police Aderho and his drunken and dpraved
subordinates did achieve the night of June 7 when
they attacked the tent colony with murderous intent and
defeated by the heroic resistance of the strikers.
The very fact that these and of the work
ing class held for trial for daring to defend themselves
sufficient proof that the murder conspiracy that failed the
night of June It'll in Gasona is being carried out in other
forms Charlotte Every that be bought brbed
ntimdated aligned the side of the bosses and their
conspiracy to wreak the Gastonia victims
Against this infamous conspiracy the working class of
the nation and of the world must fight with every at
hand Not for second must worker uccumb to the
Illusion carefully broadcast by the liberals who aiding
the execuoners that capitalist justice is anything but
instrument of oppression and terror against the working
class Only the might of the working class will defeat the
conspiracy to legally lynch the workers trial in Char
lotte
The trial itself must be followed step by step order
to expose to the whole world the methods by which capital
ism maintains its rule against the working class Let every
working man. and child during the ten days coec-
ton for the Gasona victims contribute all that is possible
that the fight be carried out to the endwhch must
be the return of these workers to the fighting ranks of labor