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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-06
Italy and Holy See to
Trade Notifications

Rome, June 6.-GP,-Exchangc of
notifications of the iateran accords
between the italian government and
the Holy See will take place tomor-
row in Cardinal Gasparri's own
apartments in the vatican city. It
was announced today that the pro-
ceedings would be very brief. con-
fined to the exchange itself and to
the drawing up and signature Of the
proces.verbal attesting the ex-
change.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-06

reached its 4Sth milestone OF tele-
phone progress In Bismarck the
company or the employees dot not r.
tend TO rest on their oars content In
the achievement Of the past.
1T devolvoe upon U.s." he pointed
out. ITO permit the past development
Of the service to strengthen eur ~
lief that the telepaons oe the future
will benefit the people OF Bismarck
and the state Of North Dakota to IN
ever increasing extent"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-06
u. s. GUNBOAT AGROUND

Shanghai. June 6.-H1-The United
States gunboat Luzon, SIS tons was
aground today at the breakwater at
the mouth OF the Hwang Pu Kiang.
but was in no danger. It was expect
ed to be refloated at high tide S q.
M. Friday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-06

OF miles over the telephone wires
with q moderate conversational tone.
Operates $1,000 In N. D.
The history Of telephone develop.
ment In the state of North Dakota
about parallels that Of Bismarck. Tel.
ephonc exchanges were started here
and there growing as time went on
and finally being connected With 9TH
er communities.
At the present time the Northwest
ern Bell Telephone company operates
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-06

Above Is shown Bismarcks first brick building, where the first telephone
switchboard was installed here: The telephone company shared the second
floor Of the structure with the u. s. weather bureau. Below was . furniture
store operated BY Jacob Cheap Jake" Hananen. who believed in advertising.
. the sign on the side Of the building indicates The first switchboard now
Is on display At the stste capitol the Northwestern Bell company having
made Z gift OF 1t recently to the state historical society. This building stood
1t Main avenue and Third street o n the site now occupied by the winston
Newell company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17

grasp the significance of unioniza-
ton have put up determined fight
for better conditions in the mills and
in their homes.
They are still fighting for their
class. They have been brutally mis-
treated by the bosses and their for
ces. Women and children have been
slugged on the picket lines, and
thrown in jail. Fifteen men and
women, of whom | am one, are now
confined to Jail awaiting trial on a
framed up murder charge, all be-
cause they had the backbone to stand
up and defy the bosses and their
hired tools.
Picture for yourself the circum-
stances. The city ruled by the demo-
Gratis, the county ruled by the re-
publicans, both parties ruled by the
financial power of the Manville-
Jenckes Co.
Now is the time, workers every
where should rally to the aid Of
these militant fighters who are try
ing to help free the working class.
RUSSELL KNIGHT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
WORKERS ARE
OUR ONLY Hope
So Writes Framed Up
Striker

"The only hope for freedom is the
workers." writes Lewis Mclaughlin,
one Of the is Gastonia strikers whom
the bosses would like to see gotten
rid of.
Il know workers all over the coun-
try are fighting for me-" Workers,
these brave fighters trust you in
their hour of need. Rally to them.
l was working in the twister room
when the N. T. w. U. called a
strike in the Loray mill. 1 was MAX
ing S13.75 per week. l was always
being asked to do extra work for
these wages. 1t seemed impossible
to satisfy the boss man.
The Gastonia Gazette claims that
l am an imported gunman. This
proves that they are not telling the
truth. l have been working in mills
ever since was twelve years old
| had worked in the Loray once be-
fore and | know what | am talking
about when say that conditions
were getting worse all the time.
came out on strike on April /
and have done everything could tc
help win our strike. | have always
been loyal to the union. The bosses
here in Gastonia want to smash the
union. They want to get rid of al
union members. | am one Of those
they want to put out of their way
l am in CASTOR County Jail charged
with murder. 1t is a framed ur
charge. Fellow workers / am not
able to help myself.
/ am here because / was fighting
for my class. l know workers al
over the country are fighting fol
me. This is the only hope l have fol
freedom.
LEWIS MCLAUGHLIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
WE'RE FIGHTING
FOR OUR RIGHTS"
SAYS PRISONER
Robert Allen Writes to
daily" Readers

Editors Note:-Robert Allen,
one of the Gastonia mill strikers,
who is local secretary of the
Workers International Relief in
Gastonia. He is one Of the Is
striking workers framed up and
held on a charge of murder in Cas-
tonia prison. Here is letter
from him:
I want to state to the readers of
the Daily Worker that when the
strike started in Gastonia on April
2, that was the day that the bust
ness men of the city turned against
the workers. Why did the business
men kick against the workers strik-
ing for more pay?
I will tell you the reason why
they kicked.
They well know that once the
strikers get organized they will
will have say-so and have right
to run the business their way. They
are strictly against that part of it.
For these many long years they
have had the workers in slavery and
could hog the workers out of their
money, and they see that for these
many long years that they have
gained enough money off the poor
laboring class of people to keep
them going for the rest of their
lives. They say: eve have got
plenty from the workers and here
we have got children coming up in
the world and we want them to be
rich and wealthy, and if the work.
ers get organized into union then
our children won't have a chance to
gain anything off the workers like
we did. So we are going to fight
the union; we are going to have to
keep the workers down somehow"
Can you realize such thing, men
like that fighting against the work.
ers after they have got all the poor
workers have got, after they beat
them out of their money and gave
them nothing for it?
Many workers had to 60 home and
face their loving wives and maybe
two or three children and see them
ragged and crying for something to
eat. And his wife, whom he dearly
loves, with just one or two old
dresses and not one fit to wear. And
the rich business men sit back and
laugh at him.
We used to go to the mill, work
hard all day for IL or IL hours a
day, the boss right in behind us all
day, and they wouldn't even give us
a chance to stop and hardly to get
a drink of water.
| Comrades, do you know that why
most Of the people today are or
the chain gang? They can't make
enough to keep q wife and children
in clothes and bread and the world
knows that man that loves his
wife will not see her or his children
starve? Rather than see his fam.
lily starve he is going to run chances
So what happens here? 1t hap
pens he is caught and sent up thu
road. So there is his wife, who j:
probably weak and sickly, and cam
work, left on the mercy Of the PEG
pie.
Readers, peruse this closely ant
think of the Gastonia strikers who
are fighting for their rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
Marine Workers Stand
Back of Defense and
Relief Picnic, July q

The Marine Workers League,
which has already held two big
demonstrations on the waterfront
for the Gastonia strikers defense,
in letter issued yesterday from its
national headquarters, % South ST.,
calls on all workers in the marine
industry to attend the defense and
relief picnic for Gastonia strikers,
July 81, at Pleasant Bay Park.
"The Marine Workers League
pledges itself to carry on a cam.
paign on all ships leaving the
United States for the release Of the
20 framed textile strikers" says the
letter.
The N. T. w. has called an At
lantic Coast conference of marine
workers ia meet in New York, Au-
gust 17-18.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
A STRIKERS AMBITION
Would Denote HIS Entire Lite to Union

The ambition of X. Y. Hendryx,
me Of the Gastonia strikers whom
The courts owned By the mill bosses
are trying to railroad to electrocu-
zion, is to spend his life in helping
10 build up a militant union for the
souther.l textile workers. Long
lays in CASTOR County prison have
,een unable to dim this ambition.
Read what Hendryx writes to the
yorkers of the U. S.
CASTOR County Jail.
I have been working in textile
ills ever since / was nine years
Id. / can do anything in a spin
ing room and have been section
and in several mills. / was never
tired because | could not do my
york. When / worked in Loray it
seemed that ! could not satisfy
ham. All they know there Is r'--
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17

on it and then when you do they
want you to step a little faster.
was one of the first to come
out when the N. 7. w. U. called a
strike in Loray on April 2. Because
| worked hard to win our strike and
to build union that would better
conditions in Loray the bosses want
ed to get rid Of me. One night they
came and dragged me out of bed
and carried me to the city hall and
locked me up. Now l am in the
CASTOR County Jail charged with
murder. / have never committed
any crime. | am here because !
was loyal union worker. The muir
der charge is a frame-up. When /
get out of this | am going to spend
all my life helping to build union
that will better conditions for south
ern textile workers.--K. Y. HEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
'DOcile SLAVES :
Handed Bosses
A Big Surprise
CASTOR County Jail,
CASTOR, N. C.

On April /, the National Textile
Workers Union called strike among
the oppressed workers Of the Loray
Mill here in Gastonia, also in Besse-
mer City, nearby.
The docile slaves Of southern in
dustry, as they are fondly called by
the Chamber of Commerce, inn
mediately and with spirit that was
surprising due to years of oppression
rallied to the call of their brothers
everywhere, the proletarian masses,
and came out on strike.
Since then, these people whom the
bosses called ignorant and unable to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
CASTOR County Jail,
Gastonia, North Carolina

81 want all the workers all over
the world to know how the workers
in Gastonia are treated by the
bosses that run the Loray mill. Just
think of the workers who have shaved
for the Loray many years and the
bosses say to so many of them, oh
how good you work. Why is this
said By them?
"Listen, | will tell you. They are
working them for nothing and they
are getting all the money and they
stand back and laugh among them
selves at you working so hard. They
are getting all the money and you
get nothing.
"But when the strike was called
you should have heard them. They
called us everything but humans,
and said we were nothing but a
bunch of loafers, never did any work,
to hear them tell it. Just think Of
the workers shaving for them for
many long years and they had the
heart to throw them out Of their
homes.
"You can see what the police stand
for; they stand for throwing the
poor worker out in the cold rain with
his little children. Readers, you can
see what the Gastonia strikers are
going through.
'Look how they have got Is Of US
in Jail charged with murder, but we
are not guilty Of any crime; just for
trying to better the working condi-
tions Of the laboring class Of
people"
DALI HAMPTON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
CASTOR County JaiY,
Gastonia, North Carolina.

am a Loray striker and I am
going to stick to the union, for I
have been worked and shaved in the
textile mill long enough Tor the
amount of pay I have been getting.
And, another thing, / have got
mother who works; she is go years
old and l have seen her work hard
all day long in the Loray mill. She
was a spooler and the bosses were
very mean in the spooler depart
ment.
When the strike was called she
came out on strike and has worked
faithfully in the strike.
These hired thugs of the Loray
knocked her down one night and
Kicked her glasses off her face and
swore they would kill her. l want
you readers to just think and say
whether you would work for such
people as this. Just think of your
mother, the best friend you have,
being knocked down and the glasses
kicked off her face by such men as
this.
Would you work for these people?
No, you wouldn't. My mother is
not the only woman the thugs hit.
I have seen them hit others, too;
for all they have done to the Cas-
tonia strikers is enough to turn any
body against them, and will never
work for them any more till they
come to our union. Readers when
you read this, think of the Gas
tonia strikers who are in Jail and
accused Of murder. I want you all
to know we are a happy bunch of
boys, for we know we are not guilty
Of the crime we are charged with.
BILL McGINNIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17

Here is letter from X. Q. Byers,
another one of the strikers whom
the mill bosses are trying to send
to the electric chair:
CASTOR County Jail,
Gastonia, North Carolina.
/ have been in Gastonia for three
years, was born and raised in North
Carolina. I was working in Loray
when the strike was called and I
was making S14.20 a week before
the strike. Isran SO cards. Each
night 9,120 pounds were run through
these 20 cards. At the end of each
week $4,000 pounds of cotton were
1un through these cards.
Now, think of this: l made S14.20
and ran 3S cards so hours a week.
Then the mill bosses think | ought
to work for that all my life; they
don't want me to strike. Why?
Because they know that if the strike
is won they can't have their way;
they can't make me run So cards
for S14.20 a week, and they know
they can't have all the say-so.
I was black-balled from the mill
just before Christmas because they
wanted us to run these many cards
and oil them and clean them up 8
times night, and a whole lot more
they wanted done. but % of us re-
fused to do this, so we got black
balled. But we were hired back,
for they saw they could not get no.
body else to do this work.
came out on strike the first day
of April. There were about 1,700
of US who came out.
They even went down in Georgia
and told some people there was a
new mill put UP and they needed
hands to run it. They had some of
them sell their furniture and told
them they would buy them more
and give them S18 and 500 a week;
but when the hands got here they
IOuHu J1lht IL was al q llC- IHCy
did not get their furniture back that
they had shaved hard so many years
for
The bosses tried every way they
could to break the strike; they hired
men and swore them in as deputy
sheriffs. Some of the men were
bootleggers and men that never
worked in their lives, men that didn't
realize that mill workers were hui
mans.
just think of such men taking
rifles with bayonets on them and
going out and stabbing old women
who were attending to their own
business; and they think l will work
for such men as that. Not at all,
unless they will come to our union
and give us a decent wage and 8
hours day. Readers, ! would write
more, but / will give the rest of the
boys with me room in the Daily
Worker. Just look for my next ar
ticle some other time.
X. o. BYERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
Trying
to. Railroad Us
TO Death CHAIR
CASTOR County Jail,

| have been working in mills
since l was 10 years old. l can
10 anything in cotton mill. |
was running speeders in the
-oray when the N. 7. w. U. called
strike in April. | joined the
union and did everything | could
to help win the strike. / want to
see a good union in the south so
that conditions will get better. /
nave worked in about 40 mills and
know conditions are bad all over
the south.
/ am in CASTOR prison charged
with murder. / am here because
| was loyal to the union, not be-
cause | committed any crime. The
bosses are trying to railroad me
because they want to get rid of
all good union members.
N, +. GIBSON,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
GQstOulQ NIL
Workers Meet
Nth Support

Editors Note.-The following
is a letter qOritten By q Gastonia
yorker in--until his trial comes
up IN Gastonia. He is a striker
and he is under charge of "as-
sauJt qVith intent to kill"
The city aUhere these strikers
are staying at present cannot be
stated.
by d Worker Correspondent
About ten more days for our
trial. We are two of the eight
workers who have been charged
with assault with intent to kilP'
by the Gastonia frame-up and
were bailed out by the Interna-
tionaI Labor Defense which paid
$3.50.
We have been in many places
and have found very coed people,
especially in the Communist Par
ty. / want to say that they are
doing all they can to help smash
the Gastonia frame-up against
the fifteen workers who have
been charged with murder, who
are now in the Gastonia jails
awaiting for trial.
We have not made any public
speeches but have told to many
workers of the rotten conditions
prevailing for the Gastonia tex
tile workers, and about the frame
\ up of the cors mittee of one hun
dred, and about the way tie tent
colony of the strikers was raided.
The workers we have met are
in great sympathy with the Gas
tonia strikers and viii do all in
their power to help the Gastonia
workers win.
Sincerely yours,
d. E. Mcdonald and C. NJ. Lell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
The Workers. Answer Is
I'VE WOutLet Them DE-

I'VE won't let the textile the
correspondents of the Daily Worker
the aid of the Is framed mill workers of asonia whom
the Carolina mill bosses and their courts attempting to railroad
to the electric chair
workers the factories Of them textile mill workers them
every of the United States expressing their so
Gasonia prisoners Don't stand
by while the mill have their with the lives of Fred Bea
facing erouon Today print
the letters written by mill workers from all s. in support
of the Gastonia strikers.
From Easthampton Mill Slave.
Boyston Mills what slavery the mills We also
suffer from slave and speedp just like our brother workers
Wen going keep still while the Gastonia court tries
New England let's hold meetings for brothers in danger down
am night worker Boylston There's
slavery The windows shut tight against fresh Here
Doffng. doff, then IL and
have 1922 machines each workers for the
Twisting. while had twisters then got 10
running IL for the of $171O.
There beam They have to
put of the beams weigh
much 700 lbs.-PETE.
From Texas Mill Slave.
(By MaDwe waiting for the time when
the National Textile Workers Union reaches Texas Meanwhile
mill Shaving y hours week. for So
s45o week We ourselves getting treated like the Gastona
Some day well do what they did want to send
of greeting Fred Bea and the other framed Gastona
strikers There interest in the ameup hun
dreds of Mexican workers in the Texas mils-xIMINEz
The Hooper Mills Slaves Are With You!
BALTIMORE Md. (By Mai).-I of the Gastonia
strikers when they Baltimore and of the workers
the Textile Mills helped
with the little could The workers in Baltimore will
hold demonstrations against the frameup.
the Hooper Mill here made work 10 hours day
low that it's almost impossible live Them We've started
Mill Worker the
Textile fighting
figh the Gaona strikers The
Hooper slaves are with you-HooPER SLAVE
New Bedford Slaves Greet Gastonia Strikers.
NEW BEDFORD (By Mai-The textile workers in New Bed
leadership the National Textile Work
Union then the mill committees This 1928, when had
real honest leaders the first time Fred Bea of the
who led We learned love Fred Now down Gasto the
mill bosses IA mill strikers for
because he helped the like he helped
Fellow workers, don't let the mill do this Let's hold big
meetings the New Bedford let hear
voices in Gastona
textile worker for have been strikes
okou but everything of the takers
of American Federation of Textile and the United
tile Workers, who sold
the pemaquid Mill They the workers "a
frames where used have IL Of 81
We fight leadership of the N.
T. W.-PEMAQUID SLAVE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
18TH FRAMEUP
VICTIM WRITES
Guilty of Trying to
Better Conditions

Dali Hampton is the latest Gas
tonia striker to be framed up on a
murder charge, because he was a
good and militant union man. His
letter to the American workers fol-
lows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
1000 WORKERS PERISH.

LONDON (By Mail) 1.-The Daily
Express correspondent at Constan-
tinople reported tonight that the
death toll in Trebizond floods might
reach 1000. Ten villages were en-
quilted, the dispatch said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
WORKER KILLED IN FALL.

A homeless worker, identified by
the police as Andrew Reardon,
rolled off the roof of a four-story
building in West End Ave. early this
morning and died two hours later in
Flower Hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
PRISONER TELLS
HOW old Mother
Shaved IN Mill
T h u gs Be at Up 60
Year Old Worker

"Think of us Gastonia strikers
who are in Jail on murder charges
when you read this" writes Bill Nc
Ginnis, one of the strikers whom
the mill bosses would like to put
cut Of the way. Workers, will you
let the bosses murder these strik-
ers?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17

Build shop committees and draw
the more militant members into
the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-17
WE'LL STICK TO
END, FRAME-UP
VICTIM SAYS
Byers Tells How He
Was Blacklisted

Here is letter from X. O. Byers,
another one of the strikers whom
the mill bosses are trying to send
to the electric chair:
CASTOR County Jail,
Gastonia, North Carolina.