New Britain herald., 1929-11-04
Red" Hendricks Urges New York Meeting to Help Gastonia Murder Case Defendants-Gives Eloquent Plea for Men.

New York, Nov. 4 CUP) - For five hours yesterday the commit mist doctrine came spilling in song and story out Of 10000 throats but when all the noise was over, Red" Hendricks Of Pincy Greek, x. C., had captured the snow with stumb- ling speech that lasted two minutes.
 Madison Square Garden, accus- toned as it is 10 the turmoil Of circus. rodco and the prize ring, never housed so bizarre a gather ing. And no pugilist, flushed with gore and victory, ever felt such rush and roar Of roof-spltting cheers as went out for Hendricks.
 Came Direct from Jail
 He had journeyed from the Char lol." jail where his comrades were taken after being convicted of shooting police chief and his face was as white as Mrs. Bonnie Neal said it was on the night he stormed into her home, shouting: "Ader- holts been shot"
 Hendricks glared at the mcro- phone; he had stage fright because inadvertently he was being forced 10 compete with speakers wise in the Uiles Of oratory. Eloquence was as fiery as any crimson plume or banner in the Garden, rose 10 speak. But 1t was apparent, from the time the first clipped sentence tumbled from his lips. that here was the star of the afternoon.
 'T ain't no speaker and never was" Hendricks said. "I ain't never been scared for myself or expected anything but what all workers get the worst Of it. But l come up here for 10 plead hard with you 10 help and help quick cause our comrades down there in Mecklen- burg county jail in Charlotte are in danger such as I hope 10 God you never get to know.
 In Terrible Danger
 'ThcF're in mean danger -torri- ble danger-and they ain't got soul to appeal to except you folks way up here. You know better than l can tell you that they cant ap- peal to no court nor any other power that can stand in the sight Of them even if they was total in- noCnnt. Not only do they have the miserics in Jail-and if you ain't been 10 jail you don't know misery but there's nothing as I can see to keep them from being strung up any minute. I'm scared for them and l pleads hard with you all 10 help your best They send you greeting, comrades. All they is guilty of is believing that they got a right as workers to organize for good conditions and they have got right to self defense.
 "The only reason I'm here Is cause my bail is lowest and I come hoping and thinking hard to make you know how bad it is with them all. They salute you comrades. They ask your help"
 He sat down and for a moment there was silence for his mountain dialect-like three paragraphs out Of "The Little Shepherd of King dom Come"-fell strangely on the ears of persons accustomed to the brittle jargon of New York. Then came the cheers and the strange spectacle of 10000 communists traditional foes Of capitalism-wax- ing enthusiastic in a pile of stone and steel that had been built with the might and money Of 600 mil lionaires.
 Still Think of Hendricks
 When the cheering finally foated away into the rafters the organiz- CTS of the rally sought in vain 10 rocapture the frenzy. They sang the 1nternationalc; 15 year old Jessie Panz explained that children did not have 10 work in communist Russia; someone denounced Norman