The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-06
TEXTILE WORKERS
|. CHEER BEAL. AS
He LEAVES CELL
Bailed Gastonia Victim
Halls LeaksVille Mill
Strike in Speech
Whitewashing Slayers
Killers of Ella May Are
Identified; Boss Men

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Nov. s.
Two hundred workers from a dozen
different mills, including a delega-
| tion from the Leaksville strikers,
waited two hours this morning to
greet Fred Beal on his release on
| $4,000 bail. Beal was southern or
ganizer of the National Textile
Workers Union when arrested in
The Gastonia case, and was made a
principal objective of the railroad
ing schemes of the mill bosses and
their state.
The workers cheered when Beal
appeared. He spoke from the court
house steps and was interrupted
constantly by applause and cheers.
When he said, addressing himself to
the Leaksville delegation, "They
will try TO do the same to you as
they did to your fellow workers in
Gastonia," half dozen voices
shouted, "They better notp'
odtu Ipu u 4NtftI lDptdh.
A mill worker stood up ard said,
"The Loray mill crowd told US we
would never hear you speak again,
but we hear you now"
Once more the crowd cheered.
Beal's appearance was dramaric.
Men and women rushed to hug him.
Then they embraced one another
AS he spoke from the courthouse
steps in his New England drawl,
quite evidently under great emo
tional strain, his slow speech
seemed to fit in perfectly with the
soft southern voices murmuriag ap-
proval after every sentence.
Here To Stay.
Beal said; "The National Textile
Workers Union is in the South to
stay. It makes no difference if
they Jail me for 20 years and Jail
six others of our fellow workers
who fought for our union and whose
only crime was to fight for and de-
fend our union against the Man
ville-Jenckes thugs. They can Jail
organizers and members OF our
union but they cannot jail our
union. Our union is growing in the
South, it is leading the fight against
the stretch-out, for the right to
workers self defense, and the
whole struggle of the southern
workers, especially in the textile in
dustry against all attempts to con-
tinue the present system of indus
trial slavery. Our fight is the fight
of the whole working class. l am
at the disposal of the National Tex
tile Workers Union. I shall go
wherever they send me. Our first
task while continuing our drive for
militant industrial unionism in the
textile industry is to build, together
with the International Labor De-
fense, through whose efforts and the
protest of the workers they have
mobilized l am free, a powerful
movement to liberate our fellow
workers and to smash the scheme of
legal and extra-legal terror against
our union an dthe whole working
class in the South, the terror that is
typified in the persons of Solicitor
Carpenter and Major Bulwinkle."
Many Interviews.
AS far South as Atlanta and
Georgia, newspapers and newspaper
associations have called Beal on
long distance rnr interviews. Beal
will go directly to New York, where
he will be greeted by a workers
demonstration and will appear be-
fore thousands of workers at a
meeting Friday, Nov. Is. He will
tour the country for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense for short
time, speaking to rally workers in
protest against the terror, and to
gain the freedom of his six fell
low workers in the Gastonia case.
Fake Hearings.
Today's progress of the "investi-
CATION" into the murder of Ella
May, n. 7. W. U. organizer killed
while in truck with other work
ers of Bessemer who had tried to
attend a union meeting in South
Gastonia, serves only to confirm
previous estimates that it is a white
wash proceeding. Not by any Off
cial procedure but by the logic Of
events beyond control of the county
authorities the outstanding fact is
disclosed that all the members OF
the black hundred band, including
those for whom warrants are issued,
are superintendent, foremen, over
seers, clerical workers, and hangers
on of the Manville-Jenckes Loray
mill.
| No cruder farce under the cam
outage of law-enforcement was
ever staged. Solicitor Carpenter OF
Gastonia, himself one of the gang
leaders, appears as 'prosecuSor,"