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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
North Carolina Cam0uflages Vengeance With
Fairness and Impartiality"

have, by changing the venue, "taken
the wind out of our sails" AS Judge
Barnhill said when granting the mo-
ton of the defense for a change of
venue, "if the trial is held in Gas
tonia it will always be said that pre-
JUDGE existed and the defendants
did not have a fair trial" This idea
is repeated editorially with varia-
lions in dozens of papers il the
South. Some of them only make it
more obvious than others that what
the capitalist class of the South
want is to give the trial every ap-
pearance of impartiality, which
could not be done in Gastonia. "We
don't want to give the radicals a
chance to say that they did not have
a fair trial" is the burden of the
editorials.
Cleverer Scheme.
In other words, convict the strik-
ers and union organizers of murder
and conspiracy to murder, get rid
of the Communists and militant
workers and their union, but do it
smoothly, respectfully, impartially,
judicially; no rough stuff such as
the Manville-Jenckes and their Gas
tonia gang pulled off. Don't shock
public opinion with the crudity dis
played heretofore. Try to camou-
flage the class issues involved. Don't
advertise Communism. Prevent the
union from getting publicity. Such
is the tactic of the state of North
Carolina.
In line with this is the move of the
prosecution in releasing the three
women organizers and Communists
on bail, and reducing the charge
against them to second degree muir
der. This is a fake gesture of "sou-
thern chivalry," calculated to appeal
to public opinion and build up this
illusion that the state is fair and
impartial, merciful to "defenseless"
girls, etc.
The Greensboro Daily News of
August says editorially:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
By LISTON NJ. OAK

The state of North Carolina cam
ouflages vengeance with fairness
and impartiality."
The defense counsel has won the
first skirmish with the prosecution
which is trying to railroad twent-
three members of the National Tex
tile Workers Union to electrocution
or the penitentiary. Thirty min
utes after the trial began on July
29th in Gastonia, the prosecution
was on the defensive. The weakness
of their case has already been made
apparent.
The state of North Carolina has
been forced to retreat from the orig
inal plan of. the Manville-Jenckes
prosecution to rush the trial rapidly
through the CASTOR county court, be-
fore a mill-owning judge, Hoyle
Sink, appointed by the mill-owning
governor, with a carefully picked
jury of mill owners and their de-
/ pendents and business men who de-
pend largely upon the patronage of
/ the mills. First, the governor was
forced to appoint Judge Barnhill to
replace Judge Sink. Second, Judge
Barnhill was forced to announce that
he would not try the case before a
CASTOR county jury but would bring
one in from an adjoining county to
Gastonia. Third, the Judge was
forced to grant the motion of the
! defense counsel for a change of
venue and the case was moved to
Mecklenburg county. Fourth, the
prosecution had to change the
charge against the three girls to Sec
ond degree murder.
Workers Did 1t.
How and why was all this done?
Largely because of the mass pres
sure of the workers. Today in Gas
ton county it would be hard to find
a mill worker who is not sympathetic
to the defendants even if he is not
yet member of the National Tex
tile Workers Union. Throughout
the South the radicalized workers
are in revolt or on the verge Of
revolt against the stretch out sys-
tenn, and are steadily organizing for
a fight for better conditions. The
mill owners and the machinery of
the state which they dominate fear
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Chapter XVII.
A THRUST INTO THE FUTURE.
1--WE SHALL GO ON"

THE restarng the factory was fixed the anniversary of the
have solemn sitting of the Town Soviet in the cmnn CLUB %
order to combine the historic umpha with the first
The Party Cleansing
Of Labor crowded with weay battered people full of blue smoke
sucatng confusion and patient expectation The people collect
ing together in their sweatamped hair chung their FORE
The Workers Inspection days.
quietly and unostentatiouy carrying strict revision
visitors from eleven till two Calm and severity regnd be-
The working despite compexity calmly and
powerfully with staff just as large before Only the elegant
Among the crowd bending papers,
qpe could mark no fear just there
what it meant, or that an inspection taking place.
CLEB factory and the Of
fees He from building building workshop workshop
self difficulty grapng tool and himself joining in the
work In the 1epashop he got into with saveev He
stopped work for moment cughd noisiy and black thick
hand pushed away with his shoulder
are you messing about here for damn i'll Do think
savelev upefed stared him with boohot deprived
you mustn't waste time to spit here wink blow nose
but only to work. Every second precious than whole
He shouting swearing brandshng wrench all few
sh savaev pushed him with his shoulder shook
"And what do know yourself, you I've been
know my job God damn iii And you wyyue still t b ad
the ears! You're still weakng kid You still your
breast while carrying loads my you are
swanking like a commander"
And II spit old beard There's lot like YOU always
ready to loaf around talk
All concerned about bey any,
thing about the general labor question
nothing to you'll"
CAVELIEV his fist high believing; looked like hairy
y shaggy old watchdog.
"Wordy bastard! Go to hell with damned ANIMAL"
Without stopping their work. the workmen laughing
with delight
"Give Chumalov in the jaw old whiskers on"
"Hit him in the mug Chumaov Bring old fellow to his
senses!"
Gb pulled himself together threw the tool the
laughed so loud that it filled the whole workshop
"We, what idiot and am! get angry, pail
My hands are itching, and I'm mad a hatter"
And off he to another department.
The repairing of the furnace and the crusher
The already working Wheels spinning pueys
eked into the mountains The
still silent with it's trucks their flights
and the safetyne beneath with The white
coc the factory which again
moved its hands; and night lit by
hour clearly one could read it a mile away
In the shop preparations for work being
work benches repaired the rubbish
Rivets had been brought Savchuk per-
spring freely covered with DUST shouting
the best at He and his
to place in the shop, getting everything ready
(TO Be Continued)
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Continued from PAGE -

tCOHttHNe0 tIOHt HDo ~
proletariat, on the basis of applying
new forms of the tactics of a united
front from below and of largely
drawing into the struggle the un.
organized masses (strike commit
tees in Germany, conferences of
workers. shop delegates, like those
that prepared the May Day strike
in Paris and Berlin). For this pur-
pose they must rush all their forces
into the industrial undertakings,
they must make of every factory a
fortress Of Communism. They must
make selection of the best ele-
ments of the old cadres, supple
menting them with new forces that
are rising in the process of class
battles from below, from the
masses; they must in planned and
systematic way develop self-criti-
cism which is the most important
instrument for the revolutionary re-
education and bolshevik steeling of
the Party cadres. From the point
of view of solving the central task
winning the majority of the work
ing class for Communism-it is
necessary to take all measures to
crystalline organizationally til e
political influence of the Communist
Parties.
In view Of the threat to num-
Der of parties who have hitherto
worked openly, of ban upon their
legal existence, the Tenth Plenum
of the ECCI makes it the duty of
these Parties Immediately and I'M
conditionally to take all necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Thesis on the international Situation

political and organizational meas
ures to develop by all possible
means a mass struggle against this
threat, to assure the continuation,
even an expansion of their mass
work also under conditions of
illegality, and to be ready at any
moment to combine illegal and legal
methods of work.
In the struggle against the threat
ening war danger, against the en-
ployers' offensive and against the
slanderous campaign of the re-
formists, all Communist Parties
must conduct an extended campaign
of making clear the colossal achieve
ments of Socialist construction in
the Soviet Union (the Five Year
Plan). Capitalist naturalization
which drives the proletariat more
and more to poverty must be con-
trasted by them with Socialist re-
construction carried out in the U.
S. S. Rand undertaking that is
becoming powerful lever for rails
ing the material and cultural stan
dards of the working class and Of
the toiling masses of the village.
II. At the same time all the
Parties must strengthen mos de-
cisively the activities of the Com
munists and of the revolutionary
trade union OF opposition in the re-
formist trade unions; in countries
where the trade union movement is
split they must work with all theil
energies in the interests of strength
ening the Red Trade Unions.
In order to strengthen the influ-
ence Of the Communists in the fac
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
(TO Be COntinued)

appeals for struggle against these
attempts, and considers that the
greatest danger at the present
period is the danger of the Commu-
mist Parties tagging behind the tenn
Pc of the development of the mass
revolutionary movement. The
Plenum of the ECCI appeals to all
the sections of the Comintern to
wage the most decisive struggle
against the laggard tendencies which
are reflection of social democratic
remnants, that must be overcome
if the Communist Parties are to
carry out their role of the vanguard
Of the proletarian movement Lead
ing the working class to new revo-
lutionary battles and victories. IL
saa. IL. 49,,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Emphasizes Right Wing Bankruptcy

Before the tremendous movement generated in the
worldwide demonstrations of August st against mperiast
and the defense of the Soviet Union had concluded
the class struggle in various parts of the world again burst
forth with elemental fury
half million textile workers in Britain refused to be
betrayed back to the slave pens by the wes of the labor
agents of imperialism at the head of the Two
hundred thousand workers of India went strike two days
after August LIST. On the day of Rumanan
workers died in the streets defianty facing the bullets of
the fascist police In Colombia the workers again rising
against the hirelings of Yankee despotsm.
Unnteruptedly continuously in every part of the cap
tast world grows the revolt of the against their
tyranncal oppressors. And yet in spite of all this there
elements but recently in the revolutionary movement
the type of Loveson and his followers who deny the rad
realization of the working class who at the Commu-
mist International estimate of this period of growing
rehabilitation of the
Life itself is daily emphasizing the total bankruptcy
of this right wing aggregation of political degenerates
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

a great danger also to practical
work. Without decisive struggle
and an overcoming of these oppor-
tunist vacillations, tie Communist
Parties will not be able actively to
carry out the revolutionary tasks
confronting them.
In conclusion, noting the increased
attempts on the part of the enemies
of the revolutionary proletarian
movement to separate the Commu-
mist Parties from the broad prole-
tartan masses (by means of expell-
ing the Communists from the trade
unions, taking them off from the
shops, prohibiting the Communist
press, the Communist organizations,
etc., the Plenum Of the ECCI
Ar3fns. s~x0tk2sxs, sieSi1ki
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rational development, have remained
entirely unsatisfactory and impera-
lively dictate the necessity of carry
ing out that turn towards work
among the masses which was de-
manded by the Fifth World Congress
Of the Y. C. I.
In countries where there is revo-
lutionary peasant movement and
national movement for liberation,
the main task must consist, besides
winning the majority of the work
ing class, in reinforcing the hege-
mony of the proletariat and the
leadership of the Communist Party
in this movement.
1t is the task of the entire Com
intern to aid in all possible ways
the creation and the strengthening
in the colonies of mass Communist
Parties, as Parties of the prole-
tariat, as the vanguard and the lead
ing force in the coming revolu-
tionary battles.
IL. 1t is necessary to steer a
firm course towards mass parties,
fighting both against the remnants
Of sectarianism and social demo-
cratic traditions and against the
remnants Of unprincipled faction
alism which in number Of parties
for instance the American) cramps
their further development and is one
of the causes that prevents them
from becoming a mass Party.
In number of sections of the
Comintern, like for instance the
Swedish one, there are still wide
spread Right oscillations which are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Remember Other Cases.

They have been made aware that
the workers of America have learned
the lessons of the Mooney-Billings,
Sacco-Vanzetti, and other cases in
the history of the American labor
movement. They figure that they
can accomplish their purpose just
as we'll in Charlotte as they could
in Gastonia. They think that they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

the effect upon these workers of
another Sacco-Vanzetti case" They
fear exposure of capitalist justice,
the disillusionment of the workers
who have already lost most of their
faith in the old shiboleths about de-
mocracy, equality, impartiality, fair
ness of the state. 1t may be said
that the Manville-Jenckes Company
has failed in two of its plans: first,
to lynch Fred Beal and run the other
union organizers and most active
strikers out of town and smash the
union; second, to rush the trial thru
before the l. L. D. and the N. 7. U.
had built up a nation wide defense
organization and modified the
forces of the aroused working class.
There has been for some time past
split in the battery of lawyers
for the prosecution: one group
directly hired by Manville-Jenckes,
led by Major Bulwinkle, who would
stop at nothing, whose methods are
crude and whose only desire is to
get rid of the troublesome foreign
agitators," and another group rep
resenting the southern capitalists
generally, who fear reaction against
them, for political and other reasons,
who are influenced by the mass pres
sure of the workers and the out
ragged popular sentiment throughout
the state, who want to send the de-
PENDANTS to the chair or penitenti-
airy as much as the others, but who
want to do it by "due process of
law" camouflaging the trial with
the usual trimmings of capitalist
Justice.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-03-02
A OF AVE MAN DEAD.
INHERITED GENEROSITY.
HUMAN SACRIFICES.
USEFUL WARNINGS.

Those that pity themselves because
their health is mot quite what it ought
to be" may consider Baron Won Huene-
field, vino died on the operating table,
undergoing his thirteenth operation
for an incurable disease OF the
stomach that had afflicted him for
years.
Suffering hopelessly, knowing that
he could not live long and must en-
dure many operations, Won Huenefeld
planned and carried out the German
Irish fight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Such courage and will power should
make others ashamed to complain.
-. Pierpont Morgan gives New
York Hospital two buildings worth
S0O0000 Giving seems to be in.
herited, as illustrated also in the case
OF the Rockefellers.
Mr. Morgan's father gave to New
York one of its finest institutions, a
great lyingin hospital,
Serious rioting IN India is caused
by report that Mohammedans kid
mapped Hindu children and sacrificed
them IN connection with the construc-
ton Of new bridge, The report
probably is not true
Once important works were usually
accompanied by human sacrifices.
Somebody was killed and buried under
the corner OF new building. A child
or adult was often killed and buried
IN a shallow hole in a field newly
planted. Knowing nothing about fer.
tilizers they observed with religious
awe that the grass grew greener
where the corpse was buried.
Madame Bella Pollack died In
Rumania. aged ll8, leaving twenty
one children. the Oldest eighty-fte.
and a fance who would have been
her third husband. Madame Pollsrx
Ne two aud one-half pounds OF b..,a
'rrad and pound OF sugar eve,
md was never i'll until her /,
Men often live long when Co.,
ellis them that they will soo,.
EARNING makes them careful
lelrose, twice Lord Mayor OF
,ngland, is dead, aged one hun. ~
Insurance company refused him d,
at risk seventy years ago.
The famous Luigi Corrsro became
iterested in his health when doctors
'ld hum at forty that he must ,o.n
e: He ate only twelve ounces Of
lid TODD, drank fifteen OUNCES Of
d vine daily died at one hundred
d iouI
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hcm:;e,. reuiau.ic, and with on intagi-
cation easily fired, he was rom Che
first = dreamer, and Margharita had
ever been ready to share his dreams.
The blood Of kings was in their veins,
TO lead him on to great things; and
she, Mareharita. his sister, his be-
loved sister, should be the mistress Of
MS destinies. Thus they had talked,
thus they had dreamed, and now from
The other side of the galf he looked
backward, and saw in his own life,
in the place Of those great deeds which
he had hoped to accomplish, one black
miserable chasm, and in hers, forget
fuiness of her high descent--for she
mad married this English merchants
eof,-and the grave. All! it was sad,
very sad!
"Childp he cried, "have you ever
heard the story Of my seizure and
imprisonment? No, you have not.
You shall hear it. You shall judge
between me and them. Listen! When
l was ycung man, Italy seemed
trembling on the verge of revolu-
ton. The history Of It all you know.
You know that the country was honey
combed with secret societies, more or
less dangerous. TO one Of these 7
belonged. We called our Order the
Order of the White Hyacinth.' We
were all young, ardent and i,npetuous,
md we imagined ourselves the apostles
Of the coming liberation. Yet we
never advocated bloodshed; we never
really traDsgressed the law. We gave
lectures, we published pamphlets. We
were set of boy dreamers with wild
thecrieS-communists, most Of us. But
;..er. vas not one who would not have
died to save Our country the misery Of
c:,'ii W.r--not one, not one! Even
:. Jrlen wore our flower, and were
m.t,ed associates OF Our Order. We
J e>i.ei selves that Our aims were
|; H., . society that ever ex-
&c. W. re harmless than ours
) sly Ill l swear it Bear me wit
IS, Oh, ny Cd, if what l say be
~ :rue~
I-e W.; a strong man again. The
'a.iiy was gone; his reason was
vel. He stood before this dark, tall
RI. who, with ciasped hands. was
drinking in every word, and ne spoke
nth all the swelling dignity 81 one
w'ho has suffered unjustly.
by some means or other Our
'ociety fell under The suspicion CT the
government. The edict vent forth
hat we should be iyckel Up. We
heard the mandate with indignation.
We were young and hot-blooded, aud
re were conscious that we had done
40 harn,-that we were innocent o. the
things ascribed &c us. We Swore that
We would carry or or society. bit in
ecret. Before then, everything had
been open; we mad had recognized
meeting place, the ri;bjic lad attended
our lectures, ladies had worn the white
hyacinth openly at receptions ard balls. |
Now, all was changed, We met i'll
secret ard Under tJH. Still or aim !
-" har:.fess. 0;le cause ai2ae was (
, I'D &c CIR rules Il difc-olt lar /
: s. ND we al; subscribed to-
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operas, until ali Fuf6ps k6sw 81 hei
fame. When l was exied wal
given seven days In which to make
my adieux. l went to her, and de-
clared my love. She did not abso-
lutely reject me, nor did she accept
me. She asked for time for con-
sideration. I could give her none
I begged her to leave the country with
me. Alas she would not Perhaps
l was too passionate, too precipitate
1t may have been SO; I cannot say.
l went away alone and left her. !
plunged into gay life at Paris; !
dwelt among the loneliest mountains Of
Switzerland; I endured the dullnssS Of
this cold gray London, and the G;a--
IIPgatio9 Of Yisppa' Il Ys W n Msl
One by one they pallsd upon Be. No
manner Of life, no change Of sse9s
could cure me Of my love. I fol ",
and / knew that my heart was break
ing. You and I, Margharih, coaa4 Of
race whose love and hatred are
eternaip
She crept into his arms, and he
went on, holding her there
Back l came at the peril Of my
life; content to die, II Il were only 81
her feet. I found her cold and
changed; blaming me even TOR my
rashness, desiring even my absence.
Not a word of pity to sweeten those
weary days of exile; not word Of
hope to repay me for all that I had
risked to see her again. Soon I knew
the rcason-another love had stolen
away her heart. There was an Eng
lishman visiting her daily at Palermo :;
and she told me calmly one day that
she loved him, and intended to be-
come his wife. She forgot my long
years OF devoted service; she forgot
her own unspoker, yet understood.
promise; she forgot all that had
suffered for her. she !orgot that her
words must sound to ire as the death
warrant of all joy and happiness in
this world. Ard she forgc., tco, that
| was Marioni Was l wroag, |
wonder, MarSharso. that I quarreied
with him You are a child, and yet
my instinct tells re TIA; you have a
woman's judgment! lei .r-. should
| have stepped aside, and lie, him WIN
her, without a bow"
"You woalG have heen a coward ii
YOU had' she cried. "You fought
him! Tell lie that you fought hiin?"
"Margharita, you arc trul daue!i-
te- of your countrv~ the o., E,an
cried. "you are Marioii' Listen!
] irsul:ed MIN He declined TO right
! struck him across the face in a rub-
lie restaurant, ard forced hin, to as
cept nv challenge The thing W.
arranged. We stood :a,@ TO face cn
the sand, sword in land. TIE wori
had bcen given! His LIE wSs Al az
mercy; mi. mind, Margharita, ;la1
no thought OF taking II without. giving
him fair chance. J Intended 10 NJ.
init ny sword vas f r. .'r1, -" ..
thct 7 woiilf; have SAL 'n -. i = !
~ tiie woman whnr' ;.:,..e = - - ,
my Gie ard 60 ur3;f;, i;c ;l.n-e;i
should have chosen. Mas rot that |
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tindbergh. on his way from Miami
to Panama, hoped of" on his
twenty-seyenth birthday
Only twenty-seven, and his name is
known wherever men are civilized.
Only twenty-seven, and already he
has conquered the ocean, and, what is
more important. the respect OF every
man and woman.
This young Americans history
makes millions of others feel as
Caesar did when he read the life of
Alexander the Great and suddenly
burst into tears, realizing that Alex
lander had conquered the world when
he was younger than Caesar was then.
Herbert Hoover may find import
ant aviation work for Lindbergh."
Nothing more probable. An engineer
knows that somebody who knows how
to do what you want done is valuable.
Mr., Hoover understands the engi-
neering part of flying and all its i'm
portance, from mail carrying to ma
sional defense.
Colonel Lindbergh understands the
hving part. A fine combination.