The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-04
MILL OFFICIALS
ORDERED KILLING

MAhlON, IN. u, OcL. o.
While the fourth to die of the
strikers at the Marion Manu-
featuring company bled his life
away today in the hospital, his
brother and other witnesses
told of the brutal and unprovoked
attack by the sheriff's deputies yes
terday morning, in whcih tear gas
and bullets deliberately aimed from
guns held in both hands shot to
pieces a picket line, % wounded in
addition to those killed, and four
of the wounded still expected to die.
Not content with massacring four
strikers, and wounding % more, the
mill owners sheriff and deputies
here have obtained warrants against
38 of those their bullets did not ac-
tually kill. They are all charged
with rebellion, riot, assault with in
tent to kill, trespass and illegal as
semblage. The victims who failed
to die when ordered by the sheriff,
and who are now held for no one
knows what sort of sentences in
prison are: Charles Fitzgerald. Til
den Carver, Lonnie Bryson, Jim
Bryson, Roush Mills, Ed Johnson,
Kirk Lunsford, Yves Fowler, Roy
Minish, Will Webb, John Wykle, W.
X. Styles, Spurgeon Bradley, Bur-
gin Stacy, Del Lewis, Jeter Paris,
Sambo Duncan, Wiley Newland,
Davey Mills, Allen Stewart, George
Buckner, W. G. Hall, Roy Woody,
Lawrence Bradley. Willie Gilmore,
Abner Elmore Buchanan, Jack Par
ker, Willard Johnson, Willie Allison,
Daniel Frady, McClain Bradley,
George McCombs, Charlie Taylor,
W. M, Sparks. W. S. Black, Gudger
Clark, Ed Redden, and C. G..
Sprouse.
Carver Wykle, McCombs and
others are among those in the hos
pital with serious wounds.
Pretend To Prosecute Killers.
Warrants charging murder, with
out specifying the degree, were is
sued today against Sheriff Oscar
Adkins, 10 of his deputies, and four
employees of the Marion mill. Each
warrant had four counts-one for
each of the four men killed.
All through the night, Luther
Bryson, % years of age, bled con-
tinuously. He died at seven o'clock
this morning. His brother Jim told
of the killing:
"They (Sheriff Adkins of Nc
Dowell County and his thugs) shot
tear gas mot our faces, and then
fired from revolvers. When the gas
cleared | was the only man stand
ing. Near me there were fourteen
on the ground, an, two were already
dead. | saw three deputies hold up
wounded man and were beating
him"
Jim Bryson and others, including
18-yearold S. Long, lying on hos
pital bed told of the killing of Jonas,
the man the sheriff alleges attacked
him with stick, the action on
which he bases his excuse for the
massacre. Jonas was 65 years old,
and partly paralyzed The sheriff
dubbed him over the head, and
handcuffed him. Jonas was then
shot, during the several minutes
when bullets were poured into the
picket line. After the shooting,
Jonas was picked up, and dubbed
mot unconsciousness, then loaded
into a car, head downward, with no
attempt made to staunch his wound
carried bleeding to the hospital. He
was placed on the operating table
and found dead from loss of blood
After he died, and not before, q
deputy came and took off the hand
cuffs.
Strikers told of seeing another OF
the wounded thrown in car and
beaten up by deputies on his way to
the hospital
Others heard the mill officials
just before the shooting, denouncine
the strikers in speeches to the dep.
uties, and demanding that they
should all be shot down. Strikers
say they saw Mill Superintendent
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