The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
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kidnapping of Totherow. Legette
Blythe, feature writer of the Char
lotte Observer, goes so far as to
state: Perhaps some of the group
/ blythe means the thugs) may have
seized young Totherow and taken
him towards Whiteville, and per-
haps into South Carolina and left
him as the Charlotte Communist
( group contends. Perhaps it was an
other clever frame-up to create SYM
pathy and revive a racket that is
fast dying out around Charlotte and
Gastonia and from the Communist
standpoint needs reviving." Unfor-
tunately for Blythe's last theory the
hotel clerk admits seeing the lynch
gang.
David Clark, editor of the bosses
mill organ, the Cotton Textile Bull
letin, is trying to palm off the kid
mapping as a pure fiction. Never
theless, no other capitalist sheet
dares to deny the kidnapping out
right.
SaylOrs In Court
Here in Charlotte, C. D. Saylors,
textile worker and LID. organizer,
faces the Mecklinburg county court
today on a charge of perjury. When
he appears, he will also undoubtedly
be arrested on the murder warrant
against him. This charges that he
was one of those who defended the
Gastonia tent colony against the
police and mill owners gunmn June
| z. This is 4 frame-up; Saylors was
not there.
The cses against Saylors are
counter attack to his public eX-
posture Of Gastonia City Solilitor
Carpenter and Major Bulwinkle,
Manville Jenckes Co. attorney, Say
lors identified them as leaders in the
gang of thugs who took him, and
Organizers Ben Wells and C. M. Lell
out of house in Gastonia the night
of Sept. 8, drove them through three
counties and finally whipped and
beat Wells.
The perjury case against Saylors
is especially interesting at the pre-
sent time in North Carolina because
Carpenter is again a candidate for
political office and fears that this
exposure will ruin him politically,
as the workers will see through the
mill owners plot and make Carpen-
ter useless to the employers here.
Saylors will appear in court with
Frank Flowers, Charlotte lawyer
and member of the defense counsel
in the Gastonia case as his attorney.
The LID. is defending Saylors.
Try To Prison Saul
With Saylors will probably appear
George Saul, southern organizer of
the LID, charged with "inciting to
riot" carrying a concealed wea
pon," and other similar things. The
basis of the charge against Saul is
simply that he addressed a meeting
of workers at Mt. Holly, CASTOR
county, to tell them of the Gastonia
case.
New Foe Appears.
While this terror is raging against
the members and organizers OF
militant unions in the South, the
Charlotte conference of heads Of in
ternational unions in the A. F, L.
opens, today.
81 Gerson, organizer for the Ma
tional Textile Workers. Union now
at Charlotte, stated today:
civilian Green, Thomas Mae
Mahon and McGrady, all veteran
wreckers of labor unions, are lead
ing the holy war against the Com
munists, and against the National
Textile Workers Union, which
means against the southern work
ers.
"The main slogan under which
Green and his well paid henohmen
are rallying, is Eight the Commu-
nists and the Trade Union Unity
League"
"The chamber of commerce, the
capitalist newspapers, and various
civic organizations are breaking
their necks trying to out-do each
other in courtesy and cordially to
these high moguls of labor faker-
dom. Even the arch reactionary
and labor-hating Charlotte News is
most polite to William Green. New
ertheless, they utter a word of
warning to Green. The News says
editorially, Jan. 2: The economic
disadvantages which the American
Federation of Labor would face at
this particular time are tremendous.
Everywhere business and industry
are trying to clear a path through
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