The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
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bayoneted a striker, while one of
the women was severely beaten by
the deputies.
When Amy Schechter attempted
to enter the store, she was driven
out with bayonets and placed I'M
Ger arrest.
Boss Orders Assault.
The deputized scabs and gunner
at the Loray mill are taking their
orders from some mysterious Mr..
Heney, who stays in the back
ground inside the mill and gives in
structions to make bayonet charges.
He is thought to be northern Of
fetal of the company.
When Organizer George Pershing
went to the Rex mill, about mile
from the Loray mill, yesterday, to
address the textile workers, Arm
strong, the owner of the mill, came
cut with gang of armed scabs,
who leveled revolvers at Pershing
and the strikers, and We're about to
carry out Armstrong; instructions
to the scabs to "lynch that agita-
tor" when Organizer Fred Beal
drove up in an automobile and took
Pershing on the running board out
of gunshot range.
Arrest Beal.
Today Beal was arrested in Char
lotte at the office of the union at
torney, Tom Jimmison, on the
charges preferred by the scab, Troy
Jones, who has been inspired by his
employers to swear out warrants for
the abduction" of his wife, the
striker, Violet Jones, who is now
touring the north and west, collect
ing money for the strike. Jones is
suing the union for $4,000, charg-
ing thai she has been Sustaining"
him until she joined the union, and
he is now deprived of her services"
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Amy Schechter, Vera Bush, or
eanizer for the National Textile
Workers Union, and 40 strikers ar
rested yesterday, were today re-
leased from Jail. Those arrested in
Guided nine women.
Russell Knight, an active striker,
who addressed the strikers mass
meeting before his arrest yesterday
on the picket line, is still held in
jail. He was convicted today and
the case is being appealed.
The cases of Clarence Townsend,
J. Valentine, Roy Stroud, Lewis Nc
Laughlin, W. T. Hayden, ]. B. By
airs, J. G. McGinnas, w. M. McGin-
nas, W. M. Boring and Doyle Lee
were in court today and all were
continued until tomorrow, when
Judge Caps promises to render a
decision.
Charges against these, as also
against Schechter, Vera Bush, Ada
Howell, Ella King and Ruby McMa-
hon, who were released today while
their cases were continued, include:
"Parading without permit, blocking
the sidewalk, refusing to move on,
Using rrofane language, blocking
traffic, etc."
Woman Terribly Beaten.
Ada Howell was badly beaten; to-
cay her face is swollen and much
discolored and she is weak from loss
of blood. Policeman Prather did
this, and although Deputy Binde-
man, who committed the error of
beating and bayoneting reporter
for a Charlotte paper yesterday, has
been fired from the force, Prather,
who beat up an old woman, is still
/ kept on it.
Carl Reeve, International Labor
Defense representative here, has re-
peatedly and publicly charged that
the militia was removed from the
strike area on purpose to permit
just such inhuman assaults as this,
with less apparent stigma to the
state administration.
He states that local agents of
the National Securities Co. are for
the first time in labor history re-
fusing to handle the bonds of strik-
ers arrested, and that the /. l.. D.
is forced to make other arrange
Inents to get bends here.