The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-23
MURDER PLOT"
TO COVER UP
FASCIST CRIME
Mill Bosses Press In
vents New One
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wake of a new announcement from
Governor o. Max Gardner of a
thorough" INVESTIGATION of the mill
mems reign of terror of the past
weeks, and also ten days before the
trial of the 10 Gastonia textile
workers for whom the electric chair
will be asked by the Manville-
Jenckes legal corps. While the jury
panel is being summoned, the local
papers are intesifying their propa-
ganda to poison their minds against
the defendants.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., Sept. 22.-
Plans to meet the terror and defeat
its purpose of smashing the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union were
made here this afternoon at con-
ference of organizers. The strategy
made necessary by the suppression
of rights to organize, strike and the
right of self defense, was discussed
by the organizers under the leader
ship of Hugo Oehler.
Every organizer, both Northern
and Southern, manifested an in
creased determination to answer the
terror with an intensified organiza-
tional drive reaching out to new
mills. This drive is part of the
preparation for the Southern Work
ers' Textile Conference to be held
here on October II.
1t is the objective of the bosses
and their black hundreds to prevent
this conference, but organizers and
active members of the N. T. W. are
resolved that not only shall it take
place, but that it will be even big
ger than expected before the recent
outbreak of terrorism, and that this
conference shall initiate general
struggle of Southern textile work
srs.
Nearly fifty organizers were at
the conference today. They re-
ported that while the terror has
temporarily prevented mass meet
ings and organization work gen.
orally, still it has aroused the work
ers to indignant protest and in
creased the mood for struggle and
the sentiment for the union.
The workers realize the role of
the state as an agency of thu CAPT
talists IN the class war which is
taking Lace in the South. IL the
past few weeks southern workers
have learned the lessons of a de-
cade of class struggle.
The report of today's conference,
released to the press, delete the
ss.rynes of the organizers present and
dc not tell where they are from,
since such information would en-
danger their lives. Everyone known
as active in the union is singled out
for attack by the fascists who have
threatened that during the coming
week preceding the trials opening,
there will be one beating every
night.
The fascists who have taken COM
plete control of CASTOR County and
whose gangs reach into other coun~
ties and even into South Carolina
with the active cooperation CT pas
sive consent of the police officials
and the encouragement Of the capt.
talist press try to crush the union
by terror.
A meeting is held somewhere
nearly every night. Yesterdays
meeting took place at the WIR tent
colony near Gastonia. The Loray
gang knew nothing about it until it
was all over. Nearly two hundred
workers heard Caroline Drew out
line plans for strengthening the W.
[. R. and the N. T. w.
sour answer to the bosses will
be a stronger union and more mill
tant struggle for better conditions"
she said.