The daily worker., 1929-07-26
The Attempt TO Railroad
IS Strikers TO EzeCtY0CutlOn
Workers Follow Every Detail of Attempt to
Murder Fifteen
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tanning the heart of Southern industry today.
Some eight months
previously had been made unOnze the Souhe
1922 when representative Of the racOary American Federation
section and then disappeared with the funds four
12-Hour Day.
Today textile workers are subjected to the 12hour day.
enduring torturng peedup system living hack and getting paid
So and $40 week. whereas the North the approximately
twice that wage
The struggle County, where Gas
tonia is situated and there 129 textile mills hum day night
On April 2200 textile workers responded
left their looms unended the LOay MILL owned by
brutality rampant with fascist methods prevailing but the strikers
factories.
Tents
The climax the strike
the Chief of Police o. F. Aderhot led
where the strikers lived after having been dspod from the
day Textile Workers Union had sched
uled second wal-ou the ManvieJenkes mill Many of the
workers remaining in the mills sympathetic to the strikers
fully so of them had picket
line of the strikers moved past their windows that night
The pkeng demonstration
strike gotten by the mill and they mobzed
policemen special deputies actually physically
terminate the uno Guns were to be their arguments against the
rapidly growing union
Stone Strike Leader.
The first h chat day occurred the meeting
Of the organizers speak oopgeons
bosses stoned her The strikers quahed this began
their advance in the picket line toward the mill.
One block from the mill the police and deputies down
the picket line vicousy parade
beaten and cokd into by the forces led by Chief
ard back their The police triumphant
In their tents the strikers bound their
their plans The excitement had begun die the
The enaged mill baron seeing their ideal kingdom threatened bv
stubborn fighting n T. W. u, decided night
About nine o'clock Chief of Police AdehO and his police
by whiskey, drove to the
The workers had formed armed guard camp
night The camp had before been dd and the supplies of the
strikers sent by the Workers international Relief
No God-Damned Search Warrant"
The police rushed the
marded search war
rant" the police said, and attacked the guard
shot fired Harrison
tile Workers Union fell to the ground the rattle of gunpay followed
Then night of terror The fascist Committee of One Hundred
organized by the mill bearing about
their to identify another arrested striker that
stronghold ynchng rang with rumo of
proposed death parties against the unionists
Arrested.
Seentyone strikers arrested that night
the most active held for murder and others
Bea r. O. Byers w. NJ McGnnes Louis Mclaughlin George W.
ell Knight N Gibson Y Hendricks Amy schecher Sophie
Melvin Demar Hampton
The capitalist of the South has repeatedly blood
of the strikers
I. L. D. Rallying Workers
The International Labor Defense, Street New
City, brought nationwide campaign for defense
and publicity The L. D. attorneys fighting
removed from CASTOR where
panel of less than 1000 bourgeoi whom
the textile mills There 1 Al law in the state that Jurors must be
nfmed against the organizers of the National
Unlon
The lawyers for the defense frankly keptical fate
the workers the tried Gasto Under
dions CASTOR that turned
ynched of the attorneys for the defense has
Only Mass Pressure Them.
The of the workers workers from
the electric chair long terms in prison. The
refused the gmate'
increasing watchfune protest can prevent this
murder
Two Main
In the publicity being
Labor Defense the for which Workers
Union fought being stressed These issues
better conditions.
The right of workers to defend themselves
saughs of the OsscOnOed police
These two issues the utmost
working class and the l. l.. D. of
publicity the fact that the strikers murder
they fOstered these principles South
CONTRIBUTION BLANK
INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE