The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01

| Sunmey and l arrived in Lum-
| berton about $50 on tile bus and
were spotted Immediately by bosses
thugs who followed US 20 The home
Of Local Organizer T. NJ Caulde.
Aftefward we were told by the gang
to leave town. When we started
from the mill village we We're fol
lowed bv the gang which increased
al the time There were about l25
/ losses and their tools. They fired
two shots, mostly to freighten us,
l think, hut that failed to scare us.
We went to the Western Union
and sent telegram and while wait
ing for an answer we were APP
preached by the gang and told that
we had only 35 minutes to leave
town.
We got the answer and went to
hotel and were followed in there
by the mob, which waited all night
in the lobby for us
| Told You to Get Out"
When we came down in the morn
ing the chase started again. Sum-
mey said: "Well. Tut, let's go eat. ?"
We went to cafe. Summey was
eating and I started for my brief
ease. | got taxi. When l started
to get IN the taxi, a Chrysler coach
stopped and Walt Blanton said,
"You god damned Red, I told you
tc get out OF town"
There were five of the TIL gs in
the Chrysler which belonged to an
0verseer of the Mansfield mill.
got in the taxi and started. We got
only or 6 blocks and the driver
noticed the big machine following
us. Q
The driver stopped and put me
out and drove on.
The other machine loaded with
gunner stopped and took me and
drove to the house of Fellow Work
er Caulde. While they held me in
the machine, the driver, big burly
thug went into the house of Fellow
Worker Caulde to get my brief case.
Mrs. Caulde wouldn't let them have
my things, so they took me in and
got my brief case and then they
took me back to the machine and
searched me and found | didn't have
gat, so taen they threw me back
ir the machine and piled in around
me and began cursing me and say
ing they were going to lynch ME.
They took me to the Dresden mill
and called out the second hands and
fixers ana said: Here he is. boys,
the damn organizer, red and ALL"
Stirring Him Up"
Some of the bosses tools yelled,
"String him up," and other yelled,
"Take him to the swamps and hang
him or drown him!'
After three different places like
this, there was another thug got III
the machine with orders from the
( bosses to "Take that god damned
son of bitch of a Red out of town
and see that he don't come back"
They filled their tank with gas
and started out. They took me down
to No 20 highway toward Whining
ton, N. c., about Is or 80 miles
then turned off on . lonely dirt road
through a very swampy country.
All the way was showed about and
cussed, anG was told that this was
the last time that | would see any
Of my friends and that | had better
fray. They told me that they were
going to go back and get that ''god
damned old cripple son Of bitch,
Summey," and that old bastard of
an old Caulde," and thai they were
going to kill them and all other
union organizers that came around
Lumberton.
We were about 10 or Is miles
| out on the dirt road and they stop
ped and told me to get out. When
l got out, they all crowded around
cursing and trying to make ne beg
and pray. Then they drove off and
left me TO get out the hest way ]
could. In leaving they said: "If
you ever come bacl, or say anything
about this we will hunt you up and
kill you"
After walking and hitchhiking to
Marion, S. c., l sent a telegram and
hitchhiked on to Florence, S. c., and
sent telegram, and spent the night
and Friday morning came back to
Charlotte, n G.
Attack or Cauide.
The thugs had the sheriff tiisa-m
Fellow Worker Caulde on his way
back from Charlotte and put him
in Jail on the framed-ur charge of
assault. And when the trial came
up, / was in Lumberton court house
but they wouldn't let me testify on
The threats that had been made
against Cauide.
The trial all the way through was
ere of the rottenest frame ups I
ever heard of. The prosecutor was
one of the biggest clowns ever
saw and he acted all the way thru
Just like some comedian. This was
for a purpose. The purpose was to
railroad worker to the chain gang,
and but for the International LABOR
Defense defending him the bosses
would have given this worker all
the time they wanted to. But the
case was appealed, and Caulde will
be bailcd out.
plan With Prosecutor.