The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-15
GREEN ADVISES
TEXTILE Meeting
AGAINST STRIKES.
AFL Talks as Marion
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rotten housing conditions, etc. Nor
did he advocate any organization of
defense corps to battle against the
will owners terror gangs, such as
killed Ella May in Gastonia, and six
members of the A. F. L. union in
Marion.
Instead, he put in most of his time
campaigning for the Wheeler resolu-
ton in the Senate, for an investiga-
ton of Southern conditions.
"We will again press for action
on this resolution" said Green, after
admitting that the senate had simply
laid it away in committee to die.
Had senatorial committee gone
into the South and reported its find
ings there would have been no blood
she'd" Green continued blandly. "In
the South it will be a case of history
repeating itself. We had the same
situation in the steel mills and the
coal mines"
For some reason Green did not
say that the steel mills are still un-
organized, and that the senatorial
investigation of the coal mines last
year was followed by a sell out by
the A. F. L. and a campaign of ter
ror by the bosses.
Scheme to Fight N. I. w.
This conference is attended by
tn, heads of 104 unions and was
called by the Toronto Convention.
Its main purpose is to devise some
way to stop the spread of the tex
tile workers real union, the N. T.
w. u, throughout the South. 1t
will try to convince the mill owners
that they should cooperate in sup
pressing Communist unionism."
President Mcmahon, of the U. t. W.
on his return from the Toronto con-
vention wired the head of the South
ern Textile Association, then in con-
vention, and suggested, 1--WE assist
you in REIMBURSEMENT of wage sched-
ule and hours to stabilize labor con-
ditions." The mill bosses insulted
him and turned him down. Green's
prestige is needed to make them see
who their friends are.
MARION, N. c., Nov. 14.-Judge
G. V. Cowper used the famous tao
tics of the Gastonia case today, by
an apparently fair ruling for the
record, and then another ruling, de-
signed to throw the advantage to
the mill owners prosecutors. He
ruled that mere assaults on an in
dividual, even though he were the
president of mill company, did
not constitute rebellion against the
state of North Carolina, one of the
charges on which the five strikers
and Alfred Hoffman, organizer of
the U. T. w. are being tried.
At the same time, the judge ruled
that any act of violence by the
"mob" could be used, if conspiracy
were shown, to prove the case
against all the defendants.
The grand jury proceeded while
court was in session to indict all the
defendants and fifty other strikers
of assist and resisting an officer
becauce they are charged with hav-
ing objected to the mill thugs evict-
ing them from their homes.
The jury was completed today.
The men on trial are J. Hugh
Hall, Del Lewis, w. L. Hogan,
and Yves Fowler. With them is be-
ing Alfred Hoffman, organizer of
the U. T. w. whose really ridiculous
anxiety since the strike started to
keep it orderly, safe and sane, and
sell it out at the first opportunity
has not prevente,' his being included
with some of the militant strikers.
1t was Hoffman who advised the
pickets to parade with your bibles,
not with guns" and got six of them
killed that way. But he is on trial
too.
The trial of eight deputies who
admitted firing on the strikers v.:3Ti
at the time six of the latter were
killed will come up later, and they
will be whiteWashed.