The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-27

~ city police and mill gunmen,
he Communist Party of France,
rkers' protest against the legal
murder contemplated in the
Gastonia case. Miller explains
to the French workers the rea-
sons for the mill bosses at
tempt to kill him and his fellow
workers. His letter, in part, is as
follows:
Hand of the Government.
eve have read in tn press of the
action of your congress in express
ing a protest for our Imprisonment
and for the attempt to electrocute
us through the employment of cap
italist Justice We have also read
of the action of the United States
government official in refusing to
accept the protest resolution pre-
sented by your delegation headed by
Comrade Marcel Cachin. The Off
cial refused to accept the protest
on the basis of a technicality that
it is the government of North Caro-
lima and not the federal govern
menb that is prosecuting US. The
same kind of a legal technicality.
only on a larger scale, is being used
to railroad US to the electric chair.
This government official failed to
say, though, that the federal gov
ernment, through its departments of
labor and justice, is also part of
the united front against us in Gas
tonia.
"One of their officials, by the
name of Wood, played a prominent
part in the early days of the strike
in Gastonia by helping the bosses to
formulate their methods of strug
gle against us. The post office de-
partment refused to carry letters
that called on the workers to stop
the attempt of the mill bosses to
legally murder 13 of US and to save
10 more workers from long terms of
Imprisonment. Such is the 'impar-
tiality' of the federal government.
"In the last week the bosses have
again resorted to terroristic meth
DDS like those on June 7, when we
were forced to shoot to defend our
selves.
What They Fight For.
"The latest attacks against the
workers show the gains that our
union has made amongst the tex
tile workers of this southern sec
tion of the United States. Ration
alization Of industry, speed-up sys-
TEN, II and u hours a day work,
low wages of from Sc to $40 per
week, most miserable homes that
owned by the capitalist mill owners
and that are congregated into mill
villages, are some of the hardships
that the workers have to endure.
The workers are revolving and
fighting back, with the result that
the union and the Communist Party
and the Youth League are making
stride sforward. The southern
workers, who till recently in most
cases had not even heard about a
union are now taking their place as
section of the militant American
workers.
Big Mass Meetings.
Despite the frantic efforts of the
mill owners and county authorities
to prevent it, an enthusiastic meet
ing of 300 workers was held last
night at Winston Salem. George
Saul, representing the International
Labor Defense, was the principal
speaker, and the workers assembled
passed a resolution unanimously de-
nouncing the attacks of the bosses
black hundreds and the attempt of
the Manville-Jenckes prosecution to
electrocute the Gastonia defendants.
At the last minute the county Of
ficails revoked the permit to hold
the meeting in the court house, and
gave as their reason that it was a
meeting plotting to overthrow the
government. The meeting was held
on the courthouse steps, and, al
though it rained all day, the re-
sponse of the workers was splendid.
Many American Federation of La
Dor members were there, and these
frankly expressed their disgust with
the strikebreaking tactics of the
United Textile Workers.
Must Limit Challenges.
There are rumors from the camp