The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
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|Charlotte Observer
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Tending them against the vengeance
of the mill owners, has continued
without interruption since the call
ing of the strike at the Loray mill
on April 2. 1t has increased in mali
ciousness since the chief of police of
Gastonia lost his life in the service
of the Manville-Jenckes Co. in an
attack upon the headquarters of the
National Textile Workers Union,
with the announced intention of
carrying out of the oft repeated
threat, of Cleaning out that bunch
of Reds"
Result of Lies.
This campaign of vilification has
borne fruit as proven by the exam
nation of over four hundred venire-
men in the selection Of a jury dur
! ing the past week. Almost all
middle class and capitalist class ele-
ments admitted under examination
their prejudice against the defend
ants, the result of reading the Char
lotte capitalist papers. The majority
of the unskilled workers and the
poor farmers that said they believed
the defendants innocent. Another
proof of the class character of this
trial.
Absurd Yarn.
This latest lie is so patiently alb
| e,,,I oAl FALSE That - ie ka,I1tr
necessary to answer it. The work.
ers who support the l. L. D. and the
defense of the sixteen members of
the N. T. w. u, know that the or
gan of the Duke Powc- interests is
their enemy just as the Loray
strikers know that the Manville-
Jenckes Company is their class
enemy. The Observer is CAPT.
talist paper and will not print the
truth about any o.. :ization that is
based upon the class struggle, with
a militant program against the
bosses and their agents. The New
York Times is another such organ of
capitalism that has printed this de-
spicable lie, repeated in various
Southern papers, the Forwards and
the Volkzeitung.
1t is only necessary to point out
that the /. L. D., which has been the
shield of the workers in many bit
ter struggle, fighting constantly
against legal persecution of workers,
has conducted a national campaign
to rally the working class to the
support Of the defense in the Gas
tonia case. The /. L. D. has raised
thousands of dollars with which to
finance very expensive legal fight
for the freedom of the defendants.
The /. L. D. has engaged nine at
torneys, the best legal talent avail
able, inelv ling not only such dis
tinguished and able attorneys as DR..
John Randolph Neal Of Tennessee
and Arthur Garfield Hays, of New
York, but the most prominent men,
Der of the local bar. If the I. L. D.
had the remotest idea Of making
martyrs of the defendants, it would
have been the easiest matter in the
world. 1t would only have been
necessary to have allowed the Man
ville-Jencbes Company to carry out
their original plot to railroad the
cease thru the CASTOR County Court,
before a jury inflamed with pre-
judice and a mill owning judge,
Hoyle Sink, without providing them
with such battery of able lawyers.
Why the Defense.
How do the editors of these re-
dictionary sheets reconcile their con-
temptible libel with the facts? Why
does the l. L. D. spend an estimated
amount of $4,000 for the legal de-
tense of the class war prisoners ?
Why do we insist thruout the United
States that the defendants must be
returned to the ranks of the mill
tant labor movement to organize and
lead the exploited workers in a
struggle for better conditions? Why
have we repeated over and over
again that "the working class has
enough marty. Unconditional
freedom for every one of the de-
fendants"? Why are we fighting
day and night to prevent another
Sacco-Vanzetti CASE? Your logic
is queer, Mr.. Capitalist Editor. You
are a loyal lackey of the master
class, but facts adequately disprove
your lies. No one familiar with the
work of the l. L. D., not even the
reporters on these papers, believe
for one moment in the malicious ac-
cusation you have made. Your pur-
pose is not 50 much to damage the
reputation of the I. L. D.,-this you
cannot debut to help the mill
owners to send the defendants to the
electric chair. You will fail. The
defendants must 60 free.
What is it specifically that the
capitalist papers object to in the
/. L. d. propaganda? In the at
tacks upon It they do not mention
anything specific. This is because
they object to the class character of
this propaganda. The I. L. D. does
not try nor expect to win over BUSH
ness men and bosses to support Of
this organization, as do the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor organiza-
tions. The I. L. D. is q working
class organization and appeals ia
] workers. and ita function Ia to nro-