The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-05
No Illusions on GastOnia

NO 1IluSIOHS Ou UdStOitld
THE change of venue which transferred the
Gastona prisoners from that city to the neighborng
county seat of Charlotte, n c. by indicates de-
sire on the part the be fair and impartial
move calculated to deceive the working of the United
States that has already, in large numbers shown deter
mnaon fight against this attempt at egazed murder
the part of the ackeys of the Manveenckes corporation
The southern textile workers shown that they will
resist the sretchout system fight for living and the
egh-hour day. is because the National Textile Workers
Union is coordnating force waging drive that has already
set in motion tremendous movement that will embrace the
100000 textile workers of the South that the national and
local leaders of the union today in the shadow OF the
electric chair In preparing for the legal murder of these
workers business elements of Gastona ackeys of the mill
owners were modified terrorist bands with the gnor
ant and vicious Gastonia Gazette carrying campaign of
Indictment to ynchng Even lawyers for the defense
threatened with the stores and streets of Gasto
The whole murder setting exposed to the working class
by revolutionary press and by the demonstrations under
the leadership of the international Labor Defense
On the eve of the trial the Bessemer City Southern Tex
tile Conference held and created machinery for leading
the mass movement in united drive for economic de-
mands of the southern mill slaves
The change of venue was gesture the part of the
court to try to the illusion of fairness partaity
and Justice try to offset the effect of the working class
demonstrations All the deceptive talk of the prosecution
that the is to be tried its merits and that the
social political and religious views of the defendants not
on trial. merely part of the attempt to arrest the move
ment of the working class to berate the victims of the mill
For workers to succumb to such illusions to yield
to the wes of the assassns and make certain in Charlotte
the repetition large scale of the murders of Sacco and
Vanzett
There is one fundamental fact that always be kept
That that the courts part of the machinery the CAPT
tast state The state exists for onto enable
the ruling class maintain its rule and impose its will by
violence upon the working class There such
thing impartial capitalist court The court that tries
the Gastonia Victims whether it sits in Charlotte else
where part of the machinery of class suppression main
tanned part Of the government of the country and it will
strive to stop the movement of the Southern mill
workers by making example of the Gastonia prisoners
There is only one thing that will the Gastonia vic
tins from egazed judicial class murder and that is the
mass action the working class of the United States and of
the world.
1t imperative if these workers to be granted their
freedom that the most determined militant and aggressive
campaign be carried in their behalf We have made it i'm
possible for the conspators pepetrae their crime against
the working class in Gasona We must continue and in
tensfy the drive and make impossible for them to
out their plot anywhere.
The wisest publicity must be given this Not only
all workers America be aroused but the international
working class must again. in larger numbers than in the
Sacco and Vanzet struggle vent their fury against the
murderous hirengs of American Imperialism the deestbe
Uncle Shyok of the world the expoter butcher of the
working class