The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
WORKERS IN THREE MORE
SOUTHERN MILLS WALK OUT
AS STRIKE WAVE SPREADS
Workers International Relief Opening First
Station; Labor Defense on Scene
Farmers Aid Strike; Official "Mediators" Fail
in Efforts to Crush Walllouts
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GASTONIA, N. c., April Sin
line with plans to tie up all mills
belonging to the Chadwick-Haskins
and Manville-Jenckes interests here,
the National Textile Workers Union
declared strikes today against the
High Shoals plant of the Manville-
Jenckes Co. and against the Chad
wick-Haskins mill in Pineville, nine
miles south of Charlotte.
By unanimous decisions the work
ers at the Chadwik-Haskins Mill,
at a meeting where Organizer Fred
E. Beal reported, joined the general
strike movement sweeping the
South. The workers in this mill are
to go on strike today.
To Call Out Is Mills.
When the day shift employed in
the High Shoals plant of the Man
ville-Jenckes Co. completes its
days work and leave the looms, no
night shift will stream in to keep
the looms running. The strike here
begins tien.
Preparations are being completed
for the calling out of at least Is
mills before this week ends, these
strikes being first steps in that di-
rection.
Meanwhile word is received that
another mill in South Carolina is
crippled by a strike of large frac-
ton of the operatives. This oc-
Cured yesterday in the Orr Mills
at Anderson, where the strike
against the bigger Anderson mills
is still going on.
Despite the menacing presence of
the five companies of troops here,
the spirit of the strikers is tremend-
ously high.
w. /. r. on Scene.
Determination of the striking
thousands in the Loray Mill here
was stiffened still more by the COM
ing in of the Workers International
Relief. Amy Schechter, sent down
here from the national headquarters
of that organization in New York,
has already arranged for relief
headquarters and will soon be ready
to open, according to her statement.
Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor
Defender, has also come into the
strike bearing offers of the Inter
national Labor Defense to assist in
defending the strikers arrested.
During his stay here he has already
arranged for an attorney to appear
for the arrested strikers in court.
Farmers Aid.
Farmers in the surrounding coun-
tryside come into town expressing
the greatest sympathy for the strik-
ing workers. Though fearfully i'm
poverished themselves, they never
theless volunteer provisions for the
relief of strikers. Plans are under
way for an organized drive to cam
vass the countryside for food.
The Loray local of the N. 7. W.
is issuing mimeographed leaflets to
answer the venomous full page ads
appearing in the Gastonia Gazette,
which actually call for violence
against the strike leaders. The
union calls on the strikers to pre-
pare themselves for attacks by the
organized business interests.
Official Strikebreakers Fail.
GREENVILLE, S. c., April s.
All efforts of mill owners and de-
partment of labor "mediators" to end
the dozen strikes now on in this state
have failed. Workers stick to their
demands. Strikers are also becom-
ing insistent in their demands on
| their strike committees to ally them
selves with the National Textile
Workers. Union strike movement.
Particularly impressive was the
reception given the news that the
Workers international Relief is al
ready establishing the first relief
store. The strikers here, still un-
affiliated, have not organized any
relief machinery.