The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-11
Rally in Support of Gastonia Strikers!


THE reply of the American working class to the capital
is class attack carried out by the local police against
the tent colony of the Gasona textile mill strikers colony
must be two-fod:
Frst-Defense of the of strikers, members of
the National Textile Workers Union arrested and facing
ramedup charges of murder result of the death of the
employing class leader of the attempted of work
ers, Chief of Police Aderholt.
Second characterization of the campaign for the or
ganzaon of the unorganzed especially in the basic indus
tries in spite of all obstacles and the struggles at Gastonia
and Ezabethon have again emphasized that these great
and many.
Defense of the strikers involves the whole question of
working class tactics in wagng the class struggle in the
present period of capitalist development marked by the
Capitalization of industry in great monopoes that completely
dominate local. county, state and national governments using
them more than in fighting the toiling masses.
Militant workers the nation over will applaud the sue
with which the Gastonia strikers defended their tent
colony They had not organized their Workers Defense
Corps in vain Instead of many and children
of the working class massacred as has too often been the
in the past ludlow, Calumet Everett Aabama) the
only fatal casualty the side of the woudbe assassn
the attacking police There will be no funerals of work.
result of last Friday nights attack in which is
significant the first to fall Joseph Harrison president
of the Passac Local of the National Textile Workers Union
who lies seriously wounded in Gastonia hospital,
victim of the first broadside of murderous fire let loose by
Aderholts invading army.
In the case of the wrecking of the Mill Workers
Union headquarters and the offices of the Workers Inter
national Relief and last weeks attack the tent colony the
bougeose turns its full wrath Negro and white workers
alike 1t must be noted clearly again that the employing
class ynchers do not discriminate to color in the class
struggle Today the ynchng appetite that RACES through the
Caronas hunges for the blood of white workers we'll
black for the strikers arrested at Gastonia we'll
the life of Fred Bea taken prisoner while union bust
South Carolina There is color line in the class
1t is boss against worker irrespective of color nation
atty religion.
The best and only effective defense of the Gastona
This assistance will be sabotaged and fought at every
by the official regime Of the American Federation of Labor
with its socialist and Music ackeys who have already
charged provocative act of the stool pigeons detectives
gunmen police and mltiamen at Ezabethton against the
Tennessee strikers in Happy Valley This part of the
uste-Sociast campaign to drive the
strikers back to their jobs to force acceptance of of the
most abject surrenders in all American labor history upon
of the most groups of strikers that have
declared war against their exploters.
The defense of the Gastona strikers brings before the
whole working Glass; therefore the growing effort to develop
the campaign for class struggle trade unonsm in the United
States based the organization of the millions of
gained in heavy industry
Defense of the Gastonia strikers means an offensive
against the employing Glass; through ralying the toing
fight class struggle basis against the ndus
trial peace policies of the A F. of L. Socialist Music
traitors doing the bidding of their capitalist masters
Labor has failed in the past to respond in such
crisis 1t rallied in defense of Meyer Haywood and Petit
bone facing the gaows Idaho it saved Mooney and Bill
ngs from the hangmans it did not win their free
dom entirely it to the defense of the Centraa victims
Washington it gave support in defiance of the gov
eminent raids carried out against the Communist Party Con-
vention at Brdgeman, Michigan in 1922 that not one
of the Is indicted ever remained in prison.
The charge against the Communists in that year as
that they responsible for the strike sweep
ing the country
Labor must mobilize again in of the most crucial
struggles in its entire history to support the effort of the
unorganzed textile workers to build left wing industrial
in the newly ndusriaized South where capital from
the North seeks increasing profits.
The extent of the support given the Gasonia strikers
by workers throughout the nation will mark the readiness
of labor everywhere build militant organizations in all in
dustry.
The POrtes Gil Reaction in Mexico.
President Pores Gil is doing everything in his power to
make himself acceptable to the reaction especially to