The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-15
YOUNG WORKERS
CALLED TO SMASH
CASTOR FRAMEUP
Communist Youth in
Statement

To All Young Workers When
policemen and gangsters marched
against the Gastonia strikers in the
evening of June 7, the young strik-
ers fought in the front ranks
against the provocation of these
hirelings of the Manville-Jenckes
Co, When Police Chief Alderholt
fired the first shot into crowd of
workers standing ready to defend
their tent colony, Joe Harrison. a
youth organizer of the National Tex
7 tile Workers Union, was one of the
4 first workers to fall wounded, and
Clarence Miller, organizer of the
Communist Youth League, was
among the first to be arrested and
badly beaten by the raiders.
Fear Of the success Of a mass
meeting, called to spread the strike
and bring out the rest of the work
ers in the Loray Mill, led to this
new display of brutality on the part
OF the company forces. 1t was the
young militants who reorgarized a
night picket line after the arrests
and marched down to the mill to
carry on the struggle. Edith Saun-
ders and Sophie Melvin, children's
strike organizers, were arrested on
this line and choked by the thugs
until they were black in the face.
They are now being held together in
ere cell in the Gastonia. jail.
Many Young.
A big proportion of the more than
100 arrested are young workers. Al
most all Of the members Of the
Communist Youth League arc now
in Jail. All the youth organizers OF
the National Textile Workers Union
are facing serious charges of muir
der or instigation to murder. Clar-
once Miller, with Joe Harrison, are
being framed up over a charge Of
having fired at the policemen. All
stand in the greatest danger before
i the lynch spirit which is being
whipped into flame by the Gas
tonia Classy" Gazette.
The youth have played a big role
in the strike in Gastonia as in other
strikes throughout the south. They
have showed the greatest militancy.
They have been the best organizers
for the union and the best fighters
on the picket line. Now they are
fighting in the front lines to defend
their fellow-workers against this
latest attack. Now they are among
the moss active in answering the
attack of the bosses by building the
union and fighting to spread the
strike. Young strikers have re-
placed older strikers in the reorgan-
lied guard which will continue to
defend the tat colony against the
losses terror and which will try to
prevent all efforts of company and
city officials to smash this colony
which the workers have built up.
I These young southern strikers are
/ fighting day and night to defend
their union, their families and their
tent homes against the attacks of
the company's hired thugs and po-
Ecemen. You must come to the de-
tense of the young fighters of Gas
tonia in their struggle for better
conditions and organization. Fight
shoulder to shoulder with the newest
detschments in the struggle of the
workers in the United States.
Young workers of the United
States! Rally to the support of the
young fighters of Gastonia. North
Carolina. Show your solidarity with
the struggles of the southern work
crs who are proving their growing
militancy.
Support in every way possible the
campaign Of the International La
Dor Defense fer the freedom of the
GO arrested strikers! Hold immedi-
ately affairs and mass meetings and
demonstrate that you will not let
the mill owners and the capitalist
state railroad single Gastonia mill
tant to the electric chair!
Remember Centralia! Remember
Sacco-V anzetti Defeat this latest
frame-up of militant workers. Fight
together under the leadership of the
Communist Youth League-the only
leader of the young workers of the
United States.
Spread the strike! Organize the
\ unorganized young workers! Smash
J the bosses terror! Defend yourself
and your fellow-workers against the
attacks of the bosses!
National Executive Committee,
Communist Youth League, U. S. A.;
John Harvey, executive secretary.