The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Politics in North Carolina

country ruled by rich plantation owners, to
country of factories, mills, Mines power sta
lions, etc. This has had not only the effect
of creating tens of thousands of factory work.
but has also had an effect on the middle
and capitalist classes of the South.
The bosses, big and little, and their hangers
on, the writers, preachers, teachers, some
what split up. Shall they line up with the
big bankers of the North? Or with the small
southern factory owners? What is to be done
with the workers? How shall we treat them?
Shall we use the iron hand-the National
Guard, the electric chair, and the lynch rope
or shall we use the iron fist in the velvet
glove? Can we get away with sweet promises
to the workers? Shall we the American
Federation of Labor to do our dirty work
High tariff or low tariff?
There are the big questions in the minds of
the big bosses and the small bosses. These
are the questions in the minds of the boss poll
ticians-Gardner, Brogden Unison, Carpen-
ter, Simmons, all of them These are all class
questions. The bosses and their politicians
are asking themselves these questions more
than ever now because they see that the work
ers of North Carolina are beginning to come
out as clear, distinct political force under
the leadership of the Communist Party, the
revolutionary party of the workers and poor
farmers, Negro and white.
Enter Mr.. Judas Jimison
There is a split in the ranks of the polti-
clans. Some of them lean to the policy of the
great Northern bankers-open force against
the workers. Others towards the ''iron fist in
the velvet glove" policy with the workers
Still others try to base themselves on the
workers-to use the workers as ladders to
political success.
First among these takers is none other. than
the cheap lawyer factor, T. P. Unison, whose
very name is stencil in the nostrils of mill
tant workers. This rascal, after getting a
name for himself thru being member of the
legal defense staff of the Gastonia defendants
Deal, Miller, etc.,, finally betrayed these
workers and went over bag and baggage to
the side of the Manville-Jenckes and the capt.
talist class-where he always belonged.
He also tried to do his little best to see that
these fighting leaders were kept in Jail by
attaching money that did not belong to him.
And now this fraud throws his hat in the ring
for Congressman! He will publish his "plat-
form" in few days. That is will be ''lib
era" one, la La Toilette, (whom Unison
supported in. 1924, is foregone conclusion
Unison will make promises to the workers.
will try to act more progressive than all
the other candidates, but will run on the demo-
cratic party ticket. "Im Jeffersonian demo-
GRAFT" Unison says. He will try to fool the
workers with this slogan.
No workers of North Carolina should be
fooled by such as Tom Unison. No worker
should get the idea that Unison is better than
Bulwinkle, who was an open agent of Man.
ville-Jenckes and the mill barons all the time.
Every, worker must understand that Unison
is a tool of the capitalists, that they use him
because he is not a shop-worn as, for in
stance, Bulwinke. And that is why the Char
otte Observer writes of him, in making the
announcement that he will enter the demo-
cratic primaries (Dec. 81, 1925
"The former Methodist minister ct. p.
Unison has been known throughout