The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
TWO DAY DRIVE
MUST Increase
DEFENSE FUNDS
Save Castor Strikers,
Prisoners from Terror

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and Imprisonment of those who were
murderously attacked and NAL
treated. These are the naked facts
exposing the aims of the growing
mill barons' terror against the bru-
tally exploited toiling masses,
Gastonia was the scene of the
heroic strike struggles of the Man
yille-Jenckes mill workers who
fought against the infamous speed
up known as "the stretch-out sys-
tenn" The strikers went on the
picket line, faced militia bayonets,
were beaten and jailed, driven from
their homes and finally on June 7,
the police headed by their chief,
AderhoIt, raided the strikers tent
colony with results now known to
the workers of the entire world.
Committee of 100 Attacks.
The struggle in North Carolina
moves forward from the period in
which the masked Committee of
100," in the dead of night, destroyed
the strikers relief and union head
quarters at Gastonia, to the present
period in which the unmasked fas-
cist BLACK Hundreds" of the mill
and Mecklenberg Counties, seeking
to terrorize the whole population
with rope, lash and gun.
Boss Press Lies.
The employers and their poison
Gus press lie when they claim that
even a single worker enlists in their
lynching mebs. The workers in the
South are in a desperate struggle
against their exploiters, shown IN
the whole series of strikes that has
swept through the Southern textile
industry.
Mistrial Boon To Bosses.
The mistrial is boon to the
prosecution. 1t eliminates the jury
which was prepared to acquit them.
1t removes the danger of an i'm
mediate acquittal or dismissal OF
the case on the grounds of no evil
dence. 1t prevents the weak per-
jured case of the prosecution from
going on the record and serving as
the basis for a reversal on appeal.
The mistrial prevented the defense
from delivering the immediate and
effective rebuttal they had pre-
pared, to destroy before the work
ers of the nation the case of the
prosecution.
Labor Must Mobilize.
Labor must mobilize against this
fascist terror of the mill owners. 1t
must rock the nation with the thun-
der of its protest. Mass demon
strations must be held in all indus
trial centers, great and small.
Every trade union hall must ring
with support for the Gastonia
strikers and organizers facing the
electric chair, support for the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union in its
efforts to unionize the southern tex
tile industry.
Will Attack Elsewhere Too.
The attack against southern labor
today becomes the campaign against
workers elsewhere tomorrow. Today
it is the textile industry. Tomor-
row it will be the industries of coal,
steel, oil, railroad or metal. This
effort at the complete subjugation
of the American working class,
with a continual lowering of its
standard of living, marks an in
creasing effort at perfecting the
war preparations of American i'm
perialism, especially in its growing
attack against the workers. Rush
Immediately kilograms and resolu-
tions of protest to Gastonia prison
ers at Mecklenburg County Court
House, Charlotte, N. c.!
Workers! Support the Southern
textile workers in their struggle to