The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-05
The Daily Worker Is
For Us--Save It., , Says
Gastonia Mill Striker

ITS always in the midst of big fight
against the bosses that we workers realize
what the Daily Worker means to us. guess
if we Gastonia strikers had no Daily Worker,
the fight would be thousand times harder
than it is now.''
R. Pitman is one of the Gastonia workers whom the
mill bosses of Gasona thru courts which they control
eager to frame up
He is of the eight Gastonia mill strikers against
whom the bosses courts have frame up charges assault
with intent to kill He is in New York to aid the nterna
ona Labor Defense in its campaign against the attempt of
tonia strikers to the electric chair.
1--WE Gastonia workers much to the Daily Worker,
that just have to bring home the American workers the
fact that the mill bosses going to have their if the
strikers lose the only that is fighting for the Daily
Worker.
" think the Daily Worker is the only workers paper.
All the papers have down in Carolina tell nothing but lies
about the strikers.
'The Gastona Gazette is by the Manvlle-Jenckes
Co. and the other mill BOSSES If there hell the Gas
ona Gazette has told enough lies from the beginning of the
strike up to now to sink CASTOR County.
T breaches violence against the strikers against all
the workers. while the Daily Worker defends tell
we just can't lose the Daily Worker.
'The Daily Worker has taught us workers in Gasona all
about the struggles of the workers not only Gastona but
also all the world We knew about this before,
because the boss papers didn't print it. But don't read
the Gastonia bosses all read the Daily Worker
81 say that every American worker must help the Daily
Worker pull thru" t-t.
Another mill striker from Gastonia, now in New York
for the International Labor Defense John Brewer He
Joined Pitman in appealing the workers the Daily
Worker.
Il and all the Gastona strikers have the Daily
Worker from the beginning of the strike said Brewer land
we know that can't do without it. knew there
that always fighting for the workers. before
strike brought the Daily Worker but all know what
the Daily Worker means to now in Gastonia.
Its thru the Daily Worker that we know that workers
all over the country with and will help fight the
frameup by the Manvle-Je Jenckes Co.
"The Daily Worker is fighting for us; keep it alive"
But merely to keep the paper alive not enough With
only four it in the condition of soldier with third
of his body shot away its effectiveness the class war now
raging every industrial front inconcevably reduced
We must go back to six pages either that or COM
pee suspension The revolutionary tradition of the Daily
will not allow 1t to take any halfway mill
tant working class readers will chip in with total $1,000
day for the remainder of the emergency campaign
cannot but believe that they will the faith of the Gasona
strikers in the ndomitabilty of will gorously
vndicated.
Think these statements by strikers fresh from
the front line OF the class struggle Gastonia bring
contributions in send them telegraph special de-
livery or air mail to the Daily Worker 28 Union Square,
New York City, The business office will be open until $50
tonight to receive and tabulate ali contributions
l. III