The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-19
Middle Class Liberals and Socialists Join the
Gastonia Frame-Up.


killed in this way including Wesley Everest, Frank Little
of other uncompromisng fighters against the
capitalist class have thus met physical DEATH
The wealth accumulated by the rich of the South was
ground from the blood and toll of the black The strug
giles of the Negro for better living conditions
therefore the greatest to the boss class Every
seron of the Negroes for the right to better life matter
how remote may have seemed from economic questions,
met with brutal attacks from the upper class whites who
frequently succeeded in foong white workers into fol-
lowing them In the South for these the lynch
weapon svas mainly directed against Negroes.
With the beginning the efficiency production ira
onazaton) program especially that feature of it which
resulted in the process of ndustrazaton in the South large
of poor white country and village folk drawn
into the factories The struggle of these workers, many
Negroes among them, begins to the growing
profits of the BOSSES The tradition of lynch law strong
the bosses turn against all workers. black and
white.
In the Gastonia, and in the Elzabethton strikes
lynch mobs loose In Eizabehton they found porty
prosperous looking group of A F. L. representatives whose
mission the sangsers did not understand at first An under
standing reached and the lynch mob called off,
Vol and DUPONT the labor leader and the rayon magnate
got together the Wall Street financed Civic Federation of
which they both active members and the Elzabethton
workers found themselves betrayed.
In Gastonia the lynch mob found group of what
the middle class liberals had to admit fearless,
getc and determined who loyal to their tasks
Such group of organizers led by the Communist Party and
the militant National Textile Workers Union the bosses
Guided could not be expected to betay the workers and
had to be lynched.
E A whole series of such attempts made. Pershng
Bea and others had dynamite thrown at them Another
day only the miraculous appearance of union automobile
saved Pershng from the hands of mob Food supplies for
relief destroyed The union and relief headquarters
attacked with rifles, bayonets and Women and
children well mercessy beaten up by depu-
ties while picket duty And finally group of boodhirsty
thugs headed by Aderhot tried to wipe out with the
methods those previously used the colony up by
the workers after the textile barons had evicted them
1t defense of this colony that the workers made
stand Better than to have these fa homes destroyed
better than their food taken
better than to be shot down in meek submission these work
(all honor to theO defended themselves mianty
worker should and prevented the attempted
1t is well known that the lynch mobs in the south are
largely recruited from the middle class If the middle class
of the north do not physically participate in the nchngs
they certainly their southern brothers in their
activities This encouragement given not only by the
reaconary of the northern middle class but by the
called liberals and socialists.
The Nation of June 49, organ of the middle class liberals
and socialists carries sharp criticism of the Communists
they tried house the workers company
evcted them The Nation believes that would have been
better had the Communists let the workers out the
streets not to offend the mill owners. They say
Certainly the foolhardy in attempting
maintain colony of strikers at white heat of enthusiasm,
weeks after the strike had been lost when there scarcely
legal outlet for the enthusiasm.
With the above quotation the Nation joins the lynch
obs of the south who crying that the strikers fight
ing unawfuly and must be taught lesson. The Nation
also joins the lynch crowd when tries to paint the thug
Aderholt, angel of peace who victim of the
strikers
Inc 1acC CnaC AQernOU met MS VIGOROUS END on
of the tent colony must be explained in order make
him angel the Nation prints the obvious fairy tale
that he with his armed deputies hearing reports
of fight in the colony between two strikers The Gastonia
strikers only laugh bitterly at this frameup theory
As if to their nfamy the Nation goats
the faseood that the feeling of the community against
the strike leaders, If the community consists of the local
boss press and the bar association than this is true But
the community consists of the of toers then this
lie written only justify and the legal murder
proceedings taking place
The Nation concludes that he strikers in both Gastonia
and Ezabethon have had dangerous lesson in the inus
tice of established authority Why dangerous? must
ask very necessary lesson to the workers. believe
Dangerous only to the capitalist system with it's open
fneup by the big bourgeose and it's hidden support to
frameup by the little bourgeoisie
They try to throw fear into the Communists and praise
to the local police gangsters, when they say "only the
of the local officers has saved the Communist
leaders of the strike from being ynched We have already
in yesterdays issue printed the facts to how Fred Bea
escaped with his life These the lies of the Nation
and need not be reprinted here Throughout the strike
the artness of the workers guard which saved the
leaders well strikers from yncing. The workers of
vho thel in