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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
By CHARLES ALEXANDER

Negro Member of the Gdstonia Labor Jury)
The anniversary of the strike at the Loray
mill of the Manville-Jenckes Company of Gas
tonia has tremendous significance in the strug-
gle of the American working class, and par
ticularly to the millions of miserably exploited
Negro workers in the United States. The out
come of that strike is now history, but seven
Gastonia prisoners are facing lit years in
prison. Their appeal comes up j. the Supreme
Court of North Carolina in April
The mill barons and their hangers-on in the
South, previous to the strike, broadcast far and
wide the complete subservience of their work.
ers on the basis of which they dreamed of
reaping fabulous profits sucked from the very
blood of the southern workers. And it can be
imagined what were the horrors that gripped
them when on the morning of April 2, 1879,
the workers of the Loray mill IN Gastonia, re-
fusing to submit any longer to slavery, rob-
berry and plumber, left their machines, downed
tools-struck, under the militant leadership of
the National Textile Workers Union. few
weeks previous, the workers of the Bemberg
and Glanzstoff mills in Elizabethtown, Tenn,
had also come out on strike under the treacher-
Gus leadership of the American Federation of
Labor, and were betrayed.
Full Equality.
The N. T. W. u, affiliated to the Trade
Union Unity League, led and fought for the
organization of Negro and white workers to-
gether into the same union on the basis of full
equality. To the Negro masses of the South
and of the entire country this was indeed sig
nificant. The N. T. w. u. not only put forward
the organization of Negro and white workers
together, it also raised the banner of full racial,
social and political equality for the Negro
masses. The terror of the southern bourgeois
knew no bounds when they saw the breaking
down of their age-long barrier of white superb
ority" and the unity of Negro and white work
ers for common struggle against the mill own
erS.
They resorted to all possible devices in an at
tempt to break the solidarity of the Negro and
white workers.
But the white workers began to see
that the factories, mills works, banks,
and all the riches of the country were in
the hands of the capitalists, they saw
side by side with the lOud-mouthed
phrases of democracy a perpetual en-
slavement of millions of workers and
continuous poverty, and they asked of
the mill barons: Where is your lauded
Superiority? Not for the toiling
masses but for the capitalist class.
Unable to break the spirit of the workers by
the utilization of fascist means, National
Guard, thugs, gangsters, police raids, etc.,),
the mill barons proceeded to other means-that
of legal lynching. The writer happens to be
one of the Negro members of the Labor Jury
which attended the second trial of the Gastonia
defendants. And it is important to say espe-
cially at this time when the appeal of the de-
PENDANTS is near at hand that the verdict of
the Labor Jury is that the defendants are NOT
GUILTY, and that the whole capitalist class of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
Gastonia Marked Smashing OF
Race Barrier for Workers

North Carolina is guilty of the murder, rob-
berry and plumber of the textile workers.
The Real Issue.
The defendants were tried not because they
committed any offense, but purely because of
their views and militant struggle in the in
terest of the toling textile masses. Not only
were political, economic and religious views the
central points during the whole trial, but the
racial issue was brought to the forefront with
all intensity.
Race Issue In Trial.
To bring the Importance of this case to the
working GLASS; to show how the racial issue was
utilized, both in an attempt to keep up the
division between Negro and white workers, and
to render them helpless prey to these vultures
of capitalism, and to rally the Negro and white
workers of the whole land to defeat this vicious
sentence shall state an incident which took
place during the trial when one of the defense
witnesses was on the stand. Dewey Martin,
one of the organizers of the National Textile
Workers Union is on the stand, and is being
cross-examned by Cansler one of the attorneys
for the mill owners
"Mr Martin, did you speak from the
same platform with Otto Hall, Negro
Communist, who advocated social equal
ity for Negroes?'
"Yes."
Cansler, "Your honor, move that the
:. testimony of this witness be impeached.
as it is i'll violation of the laws of the
state of North Carolina, which is against
social equality for Negroes"
Attorney for the Defense: Object.
His honor, the bought and paid for tool
of the mill bar0ns, Collection overruled"
Aud en- +bo +oct;roopv Of Oeu,ev Martin vitoI
to the case of the defendants was impeached
and not permitted to the credit of the defense,
because he admitted speaking from the same
platform with Negro worker.
y Union Organize Bath.
While this situation was going on in the
court room, the textile workers were busy
outside, organizing Negro and white workers
together, and perfecting their organizational
plans for the southern convention of the Ma
tonal Textile Workers Union convention in
Charlotte. This convention was symbol of
the growing class consciousness of the south
workers. 1t demonstrated very clearly
the breaking down of racial barriers between
Negro and white workers, and call to go
forward into militant struggle. The conven-
ton attended by hundreds of textile and other
workers of the South, with delegates coming
from five different southern states, and with
Is Negro delegates who sat together with
the white delegates, and took active part in
the formulation of plans for successfully COM
batting the exploitation of the southern
bosses was indeed historic
Every Negro and white worker, conscious
of his condition must make the struggle of
Gastona live, and there is no other way in
which this can be done better than by joining
the Trade Union Unity League, the Inter-
national Labor Defense, and let us carry on the
fight, not only for the release of the Gastona
prisoners, but for our final liberation from
capitalist oppression and slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
By JACK HARDY.

In 1928 the National Office of the Commu-
mist Party sent its first organizer into the
cotton growing states Many scoffed and
ridicued the idea. The obstacles in the way
were too many; the power of the capitalist
class was too great; the industrial and agri-
cultural proetariat in that section of the
country was backward and reactionary; many
Ct them were ilterate; they were too indi-
vidualistic for mass action, etc.
A Year of Achievements.
The achievements of the past year have
answered the sceptics better chan any words
could ever do. The results of years steady
work have netted gains for our movement
which have exceeded our most optimistic
hopes. In the South, as elsewhere in the
couat,y, the Communist Party has emerged
from the stage where it was small propa-
ganda group 1t has become stalwart leader
of the masses--a recognized and feared leader
Of the proletariat in its class battles.
with years of activity elsewhere
The Party can not, at this point, relax one
iota in its southern work. Quite the con-
trary, our activities in that section of the
country must be redoubled and intensified.
Tor in no section of the country do the econ
omic conditions of the toiling masses offer
better opportunities for our Party to flourish
and grow. In no section of the country do
the workers suffer equal or greater explota-
ton.
Cheap Labor"
Of. this the capitalist class boasts in thou
sands of. paid advertisements and reams of
publicity matter. The secretary of the Gas
tonia Chamber of Commerce. for example,
wrote as follows to the representative of
northern manufacturers.
Wages in Gastouia range from IS to 20
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
Hard Battle But a Glorious One
BY FRED ERWIN BEAL.
(Sentenced to II to 20 years.)

The history of American industrial strug-
giles probably does not contain more slgnl-
ficant event than the strike of 1000 textile
workers in the Loray village, Gastonia, North
Carolina, April 1st 1929
Since then Gastonia and the entire South
has held the attention of the whole country
and the world.
Since then Gastonia and the entire South
has held the attention of the whole country
and the world.
The first mill in the South to strike under
the auspices of the National Textile Workers
Union was the Loray psill of the Manville-
Jenckes company at Gastonia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

them from going into the militant workers
N. T. w. U.
1t is hard struggle but glorious one
for the southern workers.
The start was made April 1, 1929. The
end will be when the textile workers along
with other workers, do away with all ex-
ploitation and run the industry for their own
benefit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

shown such
striking re-
suits in our
work in the
South.
In slight
m nTC
than a year
what was
PRACTICAL Y
unk no wn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
BY BILL DUNE.

In no section of the class struggle has the
application Of the line of the Tenth Plenum Of
the Communist International for our Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
Enslave Whole Families.

The mill workers were living on starvation
wages. Whole families worked in the mill
in order to make both ends meet and even
then they found themselves in debt. Father,
mother and children often worked side by
side. The family lived in two, three or four
room shacks. They often had to take in
boarders The wages averaged $11 and $12
a week. Efficiency experts" stood over the
workers-with stop watch stretching out the
work. They worked 60 and more hours a
week.
The strike came about because of the in
tense exploitation of these workers. 1t
reached its limit. The rebellion began
Mass Meeting.
The strike began on Monday. The Sat-
urday before big mass meeting-the first
in the open held by the N. T. w. Twas held
close to the mill. Everyone knew that many
workers would be fired on Monday for at
tending the meeting.
The local votel to strike if any member
was fired. Headquarters were obtained on
Franklin Ave. near the mill and preparations
made for the coming struggle. Temporary
headquarters of the union were in a workers
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-06
University Follies
Proves 'Mistifying'

Grand Forks, N. D, May 6.-tR-
The audience was mystified and the
orchestra "mstified" but the scene
was striking when q steam curtain,
used for the first time in the north
west, was introduced at the first
showing of the University Fickertail
Follies to q capacity house last night.
An old threshing engine; worn by
long hours. Of chugging In grain
fields, stood near the stage door and
forced steam through small holes IN
q pipe hidden among the stage foot
lights.
When the cloud Of steam poured
forth. brilliant lights played upon 1t,
mystifying the audience while the
steam condensing a. it rolled away,
engulfed the orchestra In . mild rain.
Reports have It that the musicians
viii wear slickers ct tonight's and
Wednesday nights performances.
This years Follies, composed OF .
variety Of comedy, music and dane
ing acts, won the approval Of the
first-nighters.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-06
us. HASRESOURCES
| OF $7,34S,49S,000
Decrease Of 1896, 900
Since December 81 Shown ;
by Pole Report

Washington, May 6.-ReAggre-
gate resources Of the 1916 National
banks in the United States. Alaska,
and Hawaii were t27,348.4o8,O00 on
March n.
John w. Pole, comptroller Of the
currency, announced the figure today.
The total was q decrease Of $685.
985 900 since Dec. 81, the date Of the
preceding bank call.
It also was q decrease Of 4l,673.-
1000 in resources since the call OF
March n, 1929.
Loans and discounts. including re-
discounts, on last March ~, were
$l4,648,7 53, 1000. q decrease Of $501.-
203, 900 in three months and q de-
crease of 1901 ,l73, 900 in the year.
Total deposits on March n were
$2l $40, 97S,O00. q drop Of $1,132.-
$4,000 In three months and Of
81 ,231 ,902, 900 In the year.
In the total deposits. bank deposits
amounted to $10,364,Q21. 900 and time
deposits were 48,514,864,0 900.
In the time deposits, savings depos-
it's totaled 1904. $4,000 and repre-
sented 15,576,402 savings accounts.
Capital stock paid in was shown to
be 81, 704, 400, 900, . decrease Of $4,000
in three months but IA increase Of
81 1877 900 In the year.
Surplus and undivided profits a.
Negating 5000, $50 900 showed in.
crease Of ~, 1870, 900 In three months
and $27, 669, 900 In the year.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-06
VIM. THOMPSON, 50,
DIES OF APOPLEXY
Wilton Resident Being Taken to
Old Ontario Home for Inter.
ment in listoWel

william Thompson, 80. died at
HAS Monday night at Wilton, as a
result Of apoplexy, after five days ILL
ness. Funeral arrangements are for
interment at Listowel. Ontario. for
which place the body will be started
tonight, accompanied by a son, r. e.
Thompson, manager here for the
Washburn Ignite Coal company.
This afternoon at 2:30 services
were held at the home Of DR.. r. G.
Thompson, another son, at Wilton,
these being conducted by Rev. G.. w.
Stewart, Mandan, q member Of the
Thompson family by marriage.
Mr.. Thompson had been in the
United States Is years, coming here
from the province Of Ontario. where
he had engaged in merchandising
prior to his migration into the states.
He wa born there October 13, 1840,
the son Of John Thompson, who had
come from England and Mary
Moore) Thompson, from Scotland.
He was therefore, aged 30 years. six
months and "a days.
DR.. r. G. Thompson, Wilton. and
r. e. Thompson, this city. are his
sons. Daughters include Mrs. J. G.
Anderson, Glendale, Calf; Mrs. J. 8.
Meyers, Lindsey, Ont: Mrs. Harry Ri
ley, Toronto. A brother, John Thomp-
son, lives in Winnipeg; and there are
two sisters, Mrs. John Livingston, Jr..
and Mrs. Cyrus Hacking, Listowel
Ontario.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-06
JUDGE G0SS BURIED
AT MNOT SERVICES
hustio1s eirdzsll, Burr, Chris.
tianson and Nuessle At.
tend Last Rites

Funeral services for Judge z. b.
GosS, former district and supreme
court Judge in North Dakota, who
died March q at San Diego, Calf,
were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon
at the Methodist Episcopal church in
Minot.
Supreme Court Justices L. E. Bird
zell, A. e.. Burr, A. M. Christianson,
and w. L. Nuessle, and e. ]. Taylor,
clerk of the supreme court, left Bis
narck to attend the funeral and In
terment rites.
Accompanying the body from CAL
ifornia to Minot were Mrs. Goss and
daughter. Marian, and Mrs. I. M.
Wright, San Diego, and Miss Mabel
Wright, Spokane, Wash, mother and
sister respectively Of Mrs. Gloss. Mr..
and Mrs. r. v. Addison. Rockford,
Mich, the latter q sister Of Judge
Goss, arrived in Minot Sunday.
The Rev. George o. Parish, pastor
Of the church. was to preach the
funeral sermon. Four other Metho-
dist ministers also yer expected to
have a part In the services. including
Rev. T. A. Olsen, jamestown, Rev. ].
q. Moore, Grand Forks, Rev. Frank
Hollett, Helena, Mont, and Rev. Ben
jamin Babcock, Minot.
The Masonic bodies Of Minot of
which Judge Goss was a member also
were to have q part in the services.
Pallbearers were to be J. H. Tomp-
kins, william Dunnell, F. B. LAM
bert. e. D.. Kelley, r. z. Barron and
g. D.. Colcord.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-06
.HEALTHIEST COMMUNITIES ARE
WEALTHIEST, SAYS JUNCMAN
Public Health Services Increase
Earning Power Of Their
Territories
URGES MORE HEALTH UNITS
Adequate Facilities for North
Dakota Rural Districts Is
Recommended

Grand Forks, N. D., May 6.-(F-
Public health officers from all parts
Of North Dakota gathered here today
for their annual meeting and check
up Of health conditions throughout
the state. Several health authorities
from neighboring states were sched-
uled to give addresses.
In a paper delivered this afternoon,
DR.. ]. d. Jungman, epidemiologist
for the state health department, as
serted that there is a direct connec-
ton between health and earning
power and that the healthiest COM
munities always are the wealthiest.
Money spent in public health serv-
ices, he said, brings q high return In
increased earning power Of the COM
munity.
Urging the establishment OF full
time county or district health units,
with a competent man at the head of
each, Or. Jungman said such public
employees would act first as advisers
to their communities. second as an
executive and third as an enforce
ment officer to see that rules laid
down for the benefit Of the entire
community were obeyed.
Prevents Epidemics
A health unit. he said, would pre-.
vent epidemics, help save the lives Of
children, prolong the lives of adult!
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new ENGLAND FIRE
VICTIMS WILLREST
IN SINGLE CASKET
Mrs. Walter Braun and Little
Sister Will Be Buried at
Services Wednesday.

New England, May 6.-R}-One
funeral service and one casket will
mark the committal to the grave
Wednesday afternoon Of Mrs. Walter
Braun, ~, and her sister. Gladys ia
cobsen. nine. who burned to death in
q fire at the Braun farm home near
heee early Monday.
one casket Win hold the remains Of
the two bodies. each charred beyond
recognition. The funeral services Will
be held In the Norwegian Lutheran
church in the Daglum community. Is
miles northwest Of New England, at
one p. m. Wednesday.
States Attorney G. P. Brownlee,
Amidon, and Coroner John Homelvig
visited the scene Of the tragedy this
afternoon and decided an inquest I'M
necessary.
Husband Recovering
Walter Braun, husband Of the dead
woman, was recovering today from
burns about the face and head and
from severe cuts on both legs. sus-
tanned while trying to rescue his wife
and her sister from the flames.
Braun said he pushed his wife
through a window Of their home aft
er the fire was discovered and then
followed her. In the excitement they
forgot the little girl until she
screamed. Mrs. Braun attempted to
enter the burning house but her hus.
band pushed her back. A second time
she tried to 60 to the rescue and a
second time Braun pushed her back,
asking her to let him do 1t, he said.
Braun then ran around the house
and pushed in q window In an at
tempt to reach the girl. AS he did 80
his wife entered through q door, the
flame-eaten floor sank beneath her;
Braun grasped vainly at her up
stretched hand and the flames beat
him back.
Braun Suffers Shock
Mrs. Braun and her sister were
daughters Of Mrs. Eline Jacobsen, q
widow living near here. In addition
to her husband and mother. Mrs
Braun leaves three brothers, Helmer,
Sigurd and Oscar, and two sisters
Agnes and Esther, all living near
here.
Braun is the son Of Mrs. Bertha
Braun, near New England.
His physician said tonight Braun
suffered from shock as result Of the
tragedy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-06
Two Women Injured in
Dickinson Auto Crash

Dickinson. N. D., May 6.-lnez and
Margaret Weeks, Haley, N. D.. both
were hurt, Margaret seriously, when
the light cat in which they were
driving with their two sisters was
struck BY another q on q street in
tersection In the residence part Of
Dickinson Monday afternoon and
turned over.
Ines received q bad scalp cut while
Margaret suffered q broken collar
bone and is believed to have internal
injuries. The car which struck them
was driven by william L. Smith,
road contractor Of Steele, who Is
working on several projects In this
county.
Margaret was taken to the local
hospital after an examination at the
Dickinson clinic.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-06
SOUTHWEST TORNADOES TAKE
LIVES OF TWO IN WIDE SWEEP
Oklahoma, Kansas and Ne.
braska Hit Second Time in
Week by Twisters
FARM LANDS DEVASTATED
Heavy Crop Damage Reported
From the Winds Fury and
Hail Accompaniment

Kansas City, May 6.-(F-lnvaded
by tornado winds for the second time
in four days. the southwest today
counted a further toll Of two lives and
thousands Of dollars damage. exacted
In Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.
Loosing their fury in western Okla
homa, q series Of small twisters last
night swept over farm lands into
central Kansas and north into south
central Nebraska.
Mrs. G. 7. Bush and q Is year old
negro boy named Edwards were kill
ed In Blaine county, Oklahoma, near
Greenfield.
Approximately 30 persons were
known to have been injured, few
dangerously.
Damage In Thousands
Damage was believed to total thou
sands Of dollars, although complete
reports were not available because Of
crippled transportation and commun-
ication.
At Walters, Okla, where three cot
ton gins and q dozen homes were
ra1ed. Loss was estimated at $4,000
Central Kansas losses, rear LAngdon
Chase, Ellinwood and Lorraine were
estimated unofficially at approx.
mately 100000.
Tornadoes. striking central Ne.
braska points, early last night injured
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Burglars Adept at
Taking Care of Baby

Chicago. May 6.-R-The loving
care displayed by two burglars for a
baby was the one beautiful feature Of
the robbery, Of the Edward solovy
apartment yesterday.
The burglars met Mrs. Solovy IN
the hall and escorted her with pistols
into the apartment. They took the
baby from her arms and bound her
to q chair.
The baby began to cry. The bur
glars stopped their burglartng and
freed Mrs. Solovy's arms, into which
they placed the infant. They figured
the baby was hungry, 30 they went to
the ice box and got some milk. This
they prepared expertly under Mrs
Solovy's directions.
Having reduced the little one to q
point Of gurgling content, the burglars
gathered up jeWelry valued At $l2Qo
and went away. -
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-06
2 KILLED, 1MHURT,
DISORDER GROWS
THROUGHOUT INDIA
Mahatna Sits In Barred Cell
Spinning Cotton, Emblem
Of Movement
POLICE KILL DELHI RIOTERS
Sympathy Strikes Called, Courts
Picketed, Railway ssrv.
ice Hihdered

Poona, India, May 6.-(RHWide-
spread disorder, with two persons
killed and up to 100 wounded, Is the
answer Of Mahatna Gandhi's fol-
lowers to the British governments
arrest Of 'the holy one"
While the veteran Nationalist lead
er sat behind the barred window Of
his cell in Yeroda prison, calmly and
industriously spinning cotton on hts
miniature Charka-emblem Of the
Nationalist movement-trouble oc-
Cured in many parts Of tho restless
peninsula.
The most serious trouble broke out
today at Delhi where police fired on
rioters and killed two.
Hold Up Trains
At Calcutta IS Nationalists were In
jured in a clash with the police when
they attempted to interrupt railway
service between Calcutta and Tekal
Chat. A mob estimated at 5000 took
part in the disturbance, many Of them
lying on the tracks to hold up trains
Half of the textile mills In Bombay,
which has two-thirds Of the spindles
in all India, closed as the result Of .
voorhees, day proclaimed because d
the arrest of the Mahatma.
A sympathy strike at Jullundhur
resulted in the injury Of at least 30
persons who fought with tho police.
Two were reported in serious oondi-
ton.
Disperse Women Pickets
Police at Delhi dispersed women
volunteers who were picketing the
courts by charging them With their
sticks.
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