The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Death for Workers

Think it over The effort now being made give the
court proceedings atmosphere of fairness to the de-
clearly the result of the fact that increasing
mass of the working class there and elsewhere is beginning
that the prosecution act of class vengeance
court in which the defendants have not the slightest
chance The big business owners and rulers of North Caro-
lima Gin this the head of the State government is not
as usual servant of the big capitalists but is himself
one of the big expoters of textile laborreaze that if
large of working people begin to understand the
nature of the struggle in the courtroom at Charlotte it
become nexpeden for them to proceed with the of
electrocuting unionsm out Of their textile mills and
great losses them lin increased wages) may result
Yet there is such thing possible fair trial in
that court at Charlotte. Is >s l-5es.e..- ,,* ISL.
The whole machinery of Justice is built for purpose
Would the whole organization of the mill workers result In
compelling the mill owners to up to some slight extent
the exploitation of workers twelve hours day at $40
and SIP week. and thus diminish the profits of the owners
This the only question which really the machinery
of the law constructed by and for the ruling class. Those
who organize the mill wagesaves would normally be found
guilty" by the machinery of law which is made and admin
istered by and for the mill "Gultyof what? 1t
does not matter what long it is something that inter-
feres with the squeezing of profits from starvation
In the second bill of particulars introduced by the State
clear that the underlying principle of the prosecution
the principle of the old English Common Law: that
combination of working people for the of extracting
out of employer is crime This underlying
principle applied in simple form hundred
ago England in the first textile factories when the custom
work children, young six DID, from two
O'Clock in the morning until late the next night it
possible keep them awake with stick. This under
lying principle is the Justice of the law that is being admin
tered the of the 16 labor organizers in North
Carolina today That the meaning of the statement of
cotton salesman Charlotte: eff that jury would
pay attention to the evidence the law and vote the
first ballot to electrocute every damn one of them.
What could prevent the cotton mill capitalists from
burning death the electric chair those
who threatened to make it necessary for them
to pay little wages to their slaves the waking
up thousands and tens of thousands of other wageaves
to understand the nature of such proceeding The mass
awakening might make it inexpedien to proceed with the
wage-saves.
In this case in North Carolina we innocent
babies paraded the fair drawers of the of jury
men-urymen who however, must be property holders to
try the propertyess workers We have change of
to another identical court administering the capitalist
law the inherent capitalist purpose And have
order compelling the prosecutor to rewre the bill of
particulars in words envelopng the principle
that combination of working people for the purpose
making employers them wages is criminal conspir
acy and must receive the vengeance of the capitalist law
Shysters professional betrayers of the working class
such the Rev. Norman Thomas leader of the socialist
party are trying their help the mill
the illusion of fair trial" k.%W - "a.
But we recall the of many other struggles of the
workers with the Justice of the capitalist class In
important labor case far recall where the program
conviction for the labor defendant the first gesture
always was decision favor of the defendant In the
Mooney the first act in the trial of the first defendant
Warren Billings, denuncation of the prosecutor by old
Judge Dunn whose connection with the chamber of
which managing the conviction, is now so well known
If there such gesture at the beginning of the Sacco
Vanzett case it only because there wide
interest at the beginning toward the end when the
movement at white heat and worldwide that the
heartlesy criminal farce of far investigation (by
vious prominent citizens the prelude to the legal
murder the organizers of slaves against the Massa
chusetts mill aa arc l.;s.s .4 - nv re Is,
AT costs the workers everywhere be stirred up
understand this thoroughly that the ruling class
will be compelled to decide that it expedent not to
proceed this time to the bloody crime against the working
class which they propose. 80 sI ts}1a5s5 81 ,VO
1t is of the class struggle of the struggle
of the mill to crush their wageaves down into
submission to unbearabe exploitation struggle OF the
harrassed and and children of the textile mills
to win little relief from the killing of the strechout
system and starvation wages The charge of murder of
Aderhot has nothing to do with it except convenient
peex Any acts committed by of the defendants
in sedefence after they had been the victims of repeated
violent assaults intended to force them to crawl back
beaten slaves into the mills of the BOSSES = q N LIZ
1t is not "far trial" .l.o# ssSF
1t is of the wealthy miLowners, through the state
legal machinery owned and controlled by themselves at
tempting to quiet the minds of tens of thousands of mill
workers with theatrical stuff in order to 60 ahead with the
application of grim death the electric chair depressing
influence upon wages &4s @E tsa~<& AZ 5sB IL K