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Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1929 a TWU.U.L. REPLIES | “NO TO GITLOW RESOLUTIONS Rights Disguise Basic Gastonia Issues (Continued from Page One) | country to learn from this historic} st le and serve notice on the 7 P capitalist ciass that it will not be Comrades writes us the following: terrorized in its struggle for the) “We want to inform you what overthrow of capitalism and the es- took place at our unit meeting last tablishment of a workers republic.” | Dight, Aug. 4 Line Contradictory. “The Lovestone group came to The fundamental struggle against |the meeting well organized; they rationalization is not developed, and| brought with them such elements as the resolution was deemed com-|Sam Lifshitz (brother of Solomon pletely contradictory to the line of| Dy who hasn’t been to a the Gastonia defense, to the line of| meeting since Januaty, who the Trade Union Unity Leagu nd r participates in anything ex- not in line with the telegram sent|cept when it comes to raise his to the Gastonia defendants earlier in| hand. the séssion. Methods of the Lovestone Opposition. Lovestone, in his struggle against the Central Committee, is continu. g the old tactics of factional war- fare, forgetting that at the present time is not a struggle between two groups in the Party, but be- tween the Communist International our Party on the one hand, st the renegade Lovestone and is group. , From San Antonio, a group of irst thing that the Love- did was to take up the sus- sented on the floor, a tremendous DECHEE END Conta ue es PARTY LIFE | Shaffer and J. Leveen, and taking | that there is no place for such ele- away the right of these two com-|ments in our | trades of participating at the meet-| therefore for unity in the Party and Communist Party, | PPh adaadsact , | ey in our unit. + “They admitted of wanting to “yy, + [carry through such a resolution awe Yeading Lovestonnitens J: Shak against the Comintern, and they 5... and Solomon -Lifshita,¥ said that they will do it.” | My as ieee re sure that our Party will gain mor I The “political” | arguments of | hen such Qiein sete will an out of -ovestoné against the Party leader- the Party.” |ship and the Communist Interna- ain |tional are the same used by Can-| (Signed) SARAH LEVEEN, }non and the “Forwards” to discredit LIZZIE SHAFFER, Jour Party leadership, which is the JOE LEVEEN, | aim of Lovestone. His supporters PB. LAGUTCHIK, | do not hesitate to resort to the low- | P. LAGUTCHIK, | est kind of arguments against some MARY FITATOFF, | of our Party leaders. The comrades | from San Antonia write: | Our Party membership under- “They accused several of our | stands well the purpose of Love- | Central Executive Committee com-jstone’s struggle against the Party 1ades with such as Comrade Olgin|and the Communist International, is a ‘job holder,’ and they also said | and quickly exposes his social demo- that the Communist préss are noth-| cratic role and supports the Cen- ing but fakes and lies; they said|tral Executive Committee in its that the First of August was noth- | struggle for the line of the Commu- ing but a ‘joke’ and a ‘failure’; they | nist International in America and Iso coutinue to spread Lovestone|for the establishment of a united | Propaganda among our comrades. |Party in the United States of | “After all these facts we know | America. No” shook the hall. The telegram sent to the textile workers facing the Charlotte court was accepted as the line of the reso- lution adopted. “Delegates from all industries and| all parts of the U. S. meeting in} WAVE OF TERROR of their unswerving support against the attempt of the textile mill own-| S. Anti-Imperialist | (500 Boston Workers “COMMITTEE 100" | At International Youth Day Meeting BOSTON, Sept. 8.—International | Youth Day was celebrated by the) young workers of Boston in a demonstration held at Appleton and} TRIES TO LYNCH New Raid Reflects ers and their government to take} the lives of 13 of you and send 10 more to prison for long terms,” the endorsed document declared. “The struggle in the southern tex- tile industry,” it continues, “is part of the international crisis in the tex-| tile industry which is part of the crisis of world capitalism which leads straight to another imperial war. The raid on the N. T. W. U headquarters on June 7, the mass a Tremont Streets, Friday, September | League Protests 5 at 8 p.m. Despite the terrorism (Continued from Page One) _ |0f,¢he Police which ee | Labor Defense, 80 East Eleventh|Communist League members and| St., room 402, New York City, from jone Party member for the distribu-| Mexico City today. |tion of the International Youth Day The furious white terror now gen-/Jeaflet, popularizing the open-air| eral in Mexico and Latin-America,| meeting; the meeting was attended in the colonies and semicolonies of jby over 500 young and adult work-| American imperialism, has drawn/ers who expressed their solidarity sharp protest from working class or-| with the Gastonia prisoners and/| _ | ganizations of the United States and | strikers and pledged themselves for} What Happened June 7 (Continued from Page One) matter a god damn; get the hell out or we'll kill you, you bastards.” Dewey Martin told the driver to keep on going: “Drive right on to the speaking grounds.” Seize Martin. Leaders of the mob jumped on the running board of the car and yelled: “We know you, god damn a demand for its immediate cessa-|the defense of the Soviet Union and arrests, the attempt to railroad 13/115, 4 special campaign is now be-|the fight against preparations for| ili ‘k to thi lectri - ata errs ie Pe eee ing waged against the repeated the coming war. preparations of Wall Street im. W2V¢ of deportations in Mexico. | Speakers were: A. B. Daniels, perialism. The United States Section of the| District Organizer of the Young All-America Anti-Imperialist| Communist League; Nell Amter, League and the International Labor | Alice Halpern, and Michael Dunn |Defense have drawn up the follow-| for the Young Communist League ing declaration: and Jackson Wales for the Commu- families and union headquarters for| There is an intensification of the | nist Party. which you are fighting. These are| White terror in Mexico at this mo- fundamental working class issues Ment. A new drive is on against | “We pledge ourselves to uphold the right of workers to self-defense, the right to organize, to strike, to picket, and to protect our lives, we will never surrender. Any wav the Commur st Party; the printing | ing on these lines we condemn as Plant of the Machete, official organ cowardly opportunism,” the resolu-|0f the Communist Party of Mexico | tion pointed out. has been confiscated. There is “The growing mass pressure, al-|threat of deportation against all) ready compelled the change of venue foreign born workers active in the| to Charlotte. Mass pressure like-|reVolutionary labor movement of : wise compells the state to make a| Mexico. _ : | pretense of impartially in the hope, The drive against the Commu-| of covering up the frame-up fea-, nist Party is one of the terms of | tures of the trial and of hiding the Surrender to American imperialism, naked class issues. Only an increase the elimination of all anti-imperial- | of mass pressure can defeat the| ist forces in Mexico. To permit this | murder plot of the mill owners and drive means to weaken the resistance | their agents. For this,” it declares /0f the working masses, to leave in conclusion, “we pledge ourselves them without leaders in their strug- | to fight. We pledge our fullest sup- gle for better working conditions | port to the I. L. D. and the joint and for independence from Yankee campaign of the I. L. D. and the W. imperialism. Whatever support we wT BR can give them means a powerful} The resolution on the Labor Party force against Yankee imperialism. | presented by Gitlow differed in no| What does the deportation drive way from the old, discarded theory mean? It means death for many of of the united front from on top. This| the ablest leaders in the revolu- the convention opposed, and the tionary movement in Mexico, Vene- resolution adopted stressed the zuela and other countries, necessity for a united front from) Julio Mella, the world-known below “for the furtherance of work-|Cuban revolutionary, was murdered ing class demands for the seven-|a@ year ago in Mexico by tools of hour-day, social insurance, etc., etc, the Cuban government. Guadalupe and for the ending of capitalist ex- Rodriguez, of Durango, Mexico, was} ploitation. murdered by the Mexican govern-| “Whereas the class struggle must ment only a few months ago, be carried on in every field and by, Not only in Mexico is the terror every means,” the resolution begins, raging. In Venezuela many work- “and whereas the pressure of inten- ers are up in arms fighting against | sified exploitation by the barons of Gomez. In Yucatan, on the chicle| trustified capitalism linked up ever|plantations, Indian workers re-| more closely with the capitalist state belled against the inhuman condi- gives rise to a growing radicalization tions only to have the Mexican gov- of the masses, and ernment send troops against them. | “Whereas, under these conditions| Shall we permit Cuban workers every industrial fight is trans- be deported to Cuba, where they! formed in a political struggle. face death from the rifle or from “Be it resolved that by this jn-|sharks? Have we forgotten the augural convention of the TUUL| arms of Cuban workers, found in the that its program and activities (or-| bellies of sharks? Shall we permit ganization of the unorganized, of these attacks to go om without rais- Negro proletarians, etc.) must helping our voices? 4 lay the basis for a broad mass party,| Cuba, Mexico, and the other Latin a Labor Party which unlike the American countries are colonies and British Labor Party, will not be a|semi-colonies of American imperial- tool of imperialism and will bring ism. The American government together all workers on a basis of| which has whipped the Mexican gov- united front action, organized from | ernment into line, is the one really below, against the democratic, re-| responsible for the present terror. publican parties and their hench-| Despite all persecutions the work- men, the Thomases and Mustes (so-| ing masses of Latin-America are called socialist party, progressives,| struggling, are fighting — back. ete.) for the furtherance of working | Strengthen their arms. Give them class demands for the seven hour|all possible support. day, for social insurance, etc. and) Down with American imperialism for the ending of capitalist exploita-| and its tool the Mexican bourgeoisie! tion, | Stop the deportation drive in “And Whereas, such an organiza-| Mexico! tion on the basis of a united front! Demand the cessation of the from below represents a stage to be| white terror in Mexico! massing of the workers for ane Give aid to the deported workers! sharper and sharper class struggle) _ International Labor Defense, under the guidance of a revolution-| _y Louis Engdahl, Secretary. ary proletarian Party. This conven-| __Ajj American ‘Anti-Imperial- tion instructs the National Executive ist League, U. & Section, Committee to formulate the condi- Scott Nearing, Chairman; s , 3 tions under which a campaign for a William Simons, Secretary, rains mass Party of Labor can be hed, ~ taki: into tt both | ° Pe on nal conditions, in such, SOCial Democrat Yields to Fascist Demands on focal and national conditions, in such 2 way that no reformist weakening} Austrian Constitution (Wireless by Inprecorr.) of our struggle can result therefrom, VIENNA, Sept. 8.—The social mist elements sneak .” This resolution was sdopted with an enthusiastic burst of applause. | democrat Renner, former prime min- 3a \ister of Austria, gave an interview — Fi ‘ahne of Austria |i, declaring social democracy uppressed 12 Times was not opposed to reforming the constitution with an aim to uni- (Wireless by Inprecorr.) formity with the German constitu- VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 8.—The | tion. Rote Fahne publishes an article to-| The interview means that the so- day showing that since February it WRECK FREIMEIT CHICAGO OFFICE Yellow Socialists Aid Jingoists, Fascisti (Continued from Page One) Freiheit and other Communist | papers, the landlord of the building | in which the Chicago office of the | Freiheit is located has been pre- | vailed on to order the Freiheit to | move, eu eke: | Attack Cleveland Meeting. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 8.— Police yesterday broke up an open air mass meeting of Cleveland workers, who were demonstrating against British imperialist-Zionist attacks on the Arabian masses, who are in rebellion against their op-| pressors, Five workers were ar-| rested. Fifteen hundred workers attended the meeting. The local Zionist-| fascisti attempted to disrupt the darity of the workers at the dem- you! Go get off that car.” They opencd the door and -~-bbed Mar- tin. He was hit twice with black- |jacks in the face and was pulled half way out of the auto. Oehler and the others held Mar- tin, realizing that if he was taken | out of the car he would be murdered. | The mob of hired thugs and bosses then broke every window and the | windshield of the car with black- jacks and stones. Oehler was hit over the head with pop-bottles from two sides. His hands and face were | badly cut and bruised. Mike Harris | and Si Gerson were blackjacked. The | others were also hit with sticks and stones thrown into the car. | Follow With Shotguns, | The union organizers succeeded in pulling Martin back into the car and slammed the door, Realizing that they were outnumbered twenty to one by the armed thugs and would be slaughtered if they did not move quickly, they ordered the taxi driver to start the car. The driver, also hit in the attack, drove off with sluggers hanging on the outside, still hitting through the broken win- dows with hottles and blackjacks. These finally dropped off and got into their car, which followed the union organizers closely with shot guns pointed at the organizers. Police Laugh. Gerson and Oehler state they saw men in the mob brandishing guns and pistols in the air and shouting jthreats. Policemen stood around laughing. When a truck-load of union mem- |levelled at the workers. Frank H. |bers from Gastonia arrived a few| meeting, Jewish bourgeois women|minutes later they were driven off) being especially active, but the soli- |by the armed mob, who held guns | VILEST SLANDER “SAYSILD WANTS ALL GONVIGUED Ag: oreCharlotte Observer Stoops Lowest Yet (Continud from Page One) and organizers and their union, and against the organization that is de- |fending them against the vengeance {of the mill owners, has continued without interruption since the call- ling of the strike at the Loray mill on April 2. It has increased in mali- ciousness since the chief of police of \Gastonia lost his life in the service of the Manville-Jenckes Co, in an attack upon the headquarters of the National Textile Workers Union, with the announced intention of {carrying out of the oft repeated threat, of “cleaning out that bunch of Reds.” Result of Lies. This campaign of vilification has |borne fruit as proven by. the exam- jination of over four hundred venire- men in the selection of a jury dur- ing the past week. Almost all | middle class and capitalist class ele- jments admitted under examination |their prejudice against the defend- \ants, the result of reading the Char- |lotte capitalist papers. The majority of the unskilled workers and the poor farmers that said they believed | the defendants innocent. proof of the class character of this trial. Another Absurd Yarn. This latest lie is so patently ab- surd and false that it is hardly necessary to answer it. The work- ers who support the I, L. D, and the defense of the sixteen members of the N. T. W. U., know that the or- gan of the Duke Powe interests is their enemy just as the Loray strikers know that the Manville- Jenckes Company is their class enemy. The Observer is a capi- talist paper and will not print the truth about any oz_ -ization that is based upon the class ctruggle, with a militant program against the bosses and their agents. The New York Times is another such organ of capitalism that has printed this de- spicable lie, repeated in various Southern papers, the Forwards and the Volkzeitung, It is only necessary to point out that the I. L. D., which has been the shield of the workers in many a bit- ter struggle, fighting constantly against legal persecution of workers, has conducted a national campaign to rally the working class to the support of the defense in the Gas- tonia case. The I, L, D. has raised thousands of dollars with which to finance a very expensive legal fight for the freedom of the defendants. The I. L. D. has engaged nine at- torneys, the best legal talent avail- able, inely*ing not only such dis- tinguished and able attorneys as Dr. John Randolph Neal of Tennessee and Arthur Garfield Hays, of New York, but the most prominent mem- ber of the local bar. If the I. L. D. had the remotest idea of making martyrs of the defendants, it would have been the easiest matter in the world, It would only have been necessary to have allowed the Man- ville-Jenclees Company to carry out their original plot to railroad the case thru the Gaston County Court, before a jury inflamed with pre- judice and a mill owning judge, |Hoyle Sink, without providing them with such a battery of able lawyers. Why the Defense. How do the editors of these re- actionary sheets reconcile’ their con- onstration frustrated their attempts. | Kirkland, organizer for the Work- |temptible libel with the facts? Why The Zionist-fascisti and yellow ers International Relief and Inter-| does the I. L. D. spend an estimated socialists then resorted to opening /national Labor Defense, who was |amount of $50,000 for the legal de- a meeting on the other side of the beaten there last week, was also|fense of the class war prisoners? Ave. One of the Zionist speakers at this meeting was a certain Robins, notorious as an open shop- per. Other Zionist speakers were socialists. Police Aid Zionists. The police started their attempts to break the workers’ meeting by telling I. Amter, the chairman of the Anti-Zionist meeting that the meeting must end at 10 p. m. As J. Louis Engdahl, of the In- ternational Labor Defense, was speaking, the police tried to stop the meeting by kicking out the box which Engdahl was using as a plat- form, The workers then raised Engdahl on their shoulders. The police were nonplussed, and then, with clubs drawn, began @ brutal assault on the workers. The police clubbed men and women alike, severely injuring many. The work- ers resisted this brutal atteck by the police, and the latter made a second assault. ‘ Sing Rebel Songs. The workers finally marched down the street singing revolution- ary songs. The five arrested are Sadie Van Veen, Betty Gannett, Andrews, Kingston and Bohus. A large group of Young Commu- nists and sympathizers marched to the police station to which the ar- rested workers were taken and picketed the station. The meeting demonstrated the united front of police, Zionist fas- cisti, and reactionary labor mislead- ers. The splendid response of those who sympathize with the Commu- nist stand against the British im- perialists and their flunkeys, the Zionists, and the resistance of the workers to the police showed that that the Cleveland workers will wage a determined fight against the Zionist fascisti, Build Up the United Front of cialists are preparing to submit to received 25 summonses and was sup-| fascist demands for constitutional ‘pressed twajve times. reform, ‘ j ‘ the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! day. Union to Hold Meetings. Hugo Oehler said last night: “The attack this afternoon signifies a |mobilization of the mill owners, led by the Manville-Jenckes Company for offensive against the N. T. W. Alarmed by the rapidity with which the union is growing, and realizing that we are organizing for a gen- eral struggle for better conditions to be initiated by the Charlotte con- ference, the mill owners are deter- mined to stop at nothing to smash the militant union. There is great danger of a-repetition of the murder- ous attack of June 7, when Gastonia Police and the Committee of 100 co- operated in the attempt at another Ludlow massacre, “This vicious attack of the Man- ville-Jenckeg hirelings is the begin- ning of a new attempt to terrorize the workers, The members of the themsely. We will hold ‘meetings. in South Gastonia. The mill own- ers cannot hire enough thugs to stop the workers from organizing. The progress of the union will not be stopped by the terrorists by the prairies: fascist methods 6f the iT Workers Defense Corps. After treatment by a doctor, the organizers went to McAdenville in order not to disappoint the workers who had gathered there. Despite his injuries, Oehler spoke to the largest meeting yet held there, and 700 workers cheered him when he declared that the work of organizing for a struggle against the stretch-out will go on despite the terrorism of the bosses, The committee of 100 had threatened to break up this meeting also, but the workers were organized into a de- fense corps, and there was no trou- ble. Successful meetings were also held last night at Kings Mountain with 300 present and at Bessemer City where there were 125 workers. N. T, W. will cotninte to ening street, at 147th St. and Kinsman |driven off and threatened yester-| Why do we insist thruout the United States that the defendants must be returned to the ranks of the mili- tant labor movement to organize and lead the exploited workers in a struggle for better conditions? Why have we repeated over and over again that “the working class has enough marty: ’. Unconditional freedom for every one of the de- fendants”? Why are we fighting day and night to prevent “another Sacco-Vanzetti case”? Your logic is queer, Mr. Capitalist Editor. You are a loyal lackey of the master class, but facts adequately disprove your lies. No one familiar with the work of the I. L. D., not even the reporters on these papers, believe for one moment in the malicious ac- cusation you have made. Your pur- pose is not so much to damage the reputation of the I. L, D.,—this you cannot do—but to help the mill owners to send the defendants to the electric chair. You will fail. The defendants must go free. What is it specifically that the capitalist papers object to in the I, L. D, propaganda? In the at- tacks upon it they do not mention apything specific. This is because they object to the class character of this propaganda. The I. L. D. does ness men and bosses to support o: this organization, as do the. Ameri- can Federation of Labor organiza- tions. The I, L. D. is a working class organization and appeals to workers, and its function is to pro- tect workers in their struggles with legal aid and mass support. Class Issi ‘ ues, The capitalist papers are annoyed that the I. L. D, continually points out the class nature of the trial, The prosecution and other agents of the bosses assert, although they know it is not true, that this is “an or- dinary murder trial.” They would like the workers to believe this non- sense, Everything about the trial, its origin, the habeas corpus™hear- ings, the bill of particulars as well not try nor expect to win over ey May Lead Slaughter , . 4 4 Lord Reading, head butcher for British imperialism in India many years, who may be dragged out to lead the slaughter of Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine. as the bill of indictment, the exam- ination of the veniremen, amply Prove that the issues involved are class issues,—the right «f labor to organize, siike, picket, and defend| themselves. The capitalist class is desperately trying to hide this fact, GASTONIA CASE STATE'S WITNESS SEES THRU WALL Defense Brings Out the | Masked Mob Raid (Continued from Page One) fore defense lawyers when he was questioned by them a few days ago. At that time he testified: “I went |fine; it might have been’a man and it might have been a woman” Ado About Cardboard. | Another “star” witness of the prosecution, Mrs. Tom Jenkins, tes- tified that on the night of the shoot- ing she saw Beal and several other defendants put a piece of cardboard up against one -broken pane in a winjow in the inner office of the union building. She heard no con- versation of any kind, but it is un- derstood that the state will try to show that it was here that the con- \spiracy was formed. “Haven’t you ever seen anyone |pull a shade over a window?” At- jtorney McCall asked the witness | contemptuously. This witness reported she heard up to the corner to use the phone. Beal tell the strikers: “Go to the I went into the Long drug store, but |mill, drag them out”—a further the phone was in use, so I tried to | Variation of Beal's alleged remark telephone in the undertaking par-| Upon which the prosecution pins so lor nearby, but was not able to get|much hope. These were the only |words she heard Beal say, the wit- for’ anyone.” Admits “No Trouble.” Additional evidence, that there was absolutely no “trouble” at the union headquarters, the e: given for the subsequent raid on the tent colony, was found in the admission by Jackson that he told his chief: “There is no trouble at the union headquarters, and there lis no’ use going there.” W. P. Upton, a Gastonia deputy He ler on | sheriff, was the next witnes: | told of arresting Clarence M —and are enraged that they cannot|the night of the June 7 attack on do it. The reason for their fury is! the tent colony, and quoted him as that the I. L. D. has proven the|saying that he ordered Aderholt correctness of its policy in this case,|and the other officers off the lot and its statement that the issues are |;when they appeared. the rights of workers, especially the right of self-defense aga‘nst vicious attacks of the hirelings of the mill) owners, has b.2n proven to the hilt over and over again. The capitalist papers are enraged not because the I, L. D, shares their desire to elec- trocute Fred Beal and his comrades, but on the contrary because we stand between the vengeance of the mill owners and the defendants, the shield of victimized workers. In recent years, the I. L. D. has defended many cases involving is- sues similar to those at stake in the Gastonia case. The I. L. D. has de- fended workers eases: The Shifrin case, in which one strike leader was indicted for murder when he defended himself against the attacks of five thugs hired to “get” him; the Greco-Carillo case, in which the two defendants sent a letter to the I. L. D. stating that “if it had not been for the I. L. D, we would undoubtedly have been electrocuted”; the campaign, still going on, to free Tom Mooney and Billings from San Quentin peni- tentiary in California where they have been for the past 13 years, sentenced to life imprisonment on| framed-up evidence; the Woodlawn Sedition cases, in which 22 steel workers were arrested in Pennsyl- vania;: the Mineola case, where 9 furriers were charged with criminal assault; the Passaic and New Bed- ford cases, where 850 strikers were arrested, and thousands of dot!ars spent bythe I. L. D. to free them; the Cheswick cases, where the I. L. D, defended 5 workers charged with violation of the Sedition law; the Canter case, now being appealed, in which Canter was charged with libel for carrying a placard denouncing Judge Thayer as a murderer for sentencing Sacco and Vanzettti to electrocution; the cases of Minerich and many other miners who resisted the terrorism of the thugs and strikebreakers hired by the coal com- panies,—these and hundreds of other cases of workers suffering from the brutality and terrorism of the capitalist class, prove the value to the working class of the I. L. D. as a shield from “capitalist justice.” Workers Must Aid, in the following] The deputy testified that after arresting Miller he searched him and found a number of cartridges in his pocket. This is flatly denied by Miller, who declares that fol- lowing his arrest he asked why he was heing held, and was told there was no charge lodged against him. | Four days elapsed before a formal |charge was made against him, and he added to the list of those charged | with murder. i Masked Mob Raid. At this point defense counsel | asked the deputy whether hc knew |that the first headquarters of the strikers and the Workers Interna- | tional Relief station were destroyed | by a masked mob at 2 a. m. April |18, at which time the food for the | |strikers and their families was |thrown into the street. The na- tional guard was stationed only three blocks away, it was brought |cut by the questioning. The de- lfense is expected to show later in |not until the grand jury met was | ‘ness testified, nothing before and nothing after. The defense lawyer brought out the fact that both Mrs. Jenkins and her husband had on a number of occasions asked the union guards to also protect their home as they jwWere in constant fear of attacks by |drunken deputies and hired mill thugs. Witness Tripped. Spectators laughed, and the judge ‘rapped his gavel, when, comment- ing on the witness’ assertion that the strikers indulged in profanity |defense attorney McCall remarked, “these defendants were not indicted for cussing.” The witness later again betrayed herself when, after she had stated that she had never seen the tents |back of the union hall because of |the trees, she estimated that the distance between her home and the |tents about three blocks, She was considerably confused when defense lawyers called her attention to this inconsistancy. Toward the close of the session, Hoey for the prosecution, referred to the union guards as “gunmen.” \Arthur Garfield Hays was on his jfeet at once and denounced this as an obvious attempt to prejudice the | jury. After the judge ruled out the use of the word, Hoey barked out |that he would not take a lecture | from any defense lawyer. Additional fireworks were provi- |ded when Defense Attorney Adams asked that the jury be removed and jassailed Solicitor Carpenter on the continued presence in the court- home building of the dummy re- | set dling the dead chief of police |the trial that the police and the which the prosecution paraded be- national guard worked hand in hand | fore the jury when it opened its with the mill thugs of the “Com- case on Thursday. Adams demanded mittee of 100” in its destruction of | that the “ghastly object” be re- the strikers’ headquarters and the | moved from the building, and gave | relief station. \the prosecution a hauling over the __ Hoey’s Wild Charge. leoals for resorting to this cheap Pricked by the description of the \trick. The judge denied Adams mo- attack on these headquarters, Clyde | tion, but ordered the solicitor to | Hoey, attorney for the prosecution, | Jock jt up, presumably where the leaped to his feet and made the fan- tastic charge that the strikers de- stroyed their own headquarters. “There is not a word of truth in your statement,” defense. lawyer Adams shouted. One of the frailest witnesses yet | put on by the state was in thie per- son of Grace Duffy, who testified that she lives across the street from the union headquarters. She said |home and from there heard the | shots on the union lot. Attorney Jimison, for the defense, brought out the fact that there is a house between this porch and the vniol lot and he commented sarcas- tically upon her ability to “see around the curve.” Changes Testimony. This remarkable person, who ad- | mitted under cross-examination that |she works in the main office of the |she stood on a side porch of her| jury could not. see it, | Carpenter hinted that the pro- secution would drag the effigy out | again during the course of.the trial. In -Friday’s session, Policeman Gilbert told a story as much mixed and contradictory as the other prose- cution witnesses. Fought svith Family. Gilbert’ also denied that only a | month ago he got into a fight with ‘his own family, who called for help. \Another denial was that several |Gastonia bootleggers have accused | him of confiscating for his own use jor sale their stocks of liquor. Al- |though Gilbert said, “No,” to the | question: “Didn’t you ecently have a fight with a man named Hoyle?” he admitted trouble with the Bos- | wick boys many years ago. He still bears on his person the marks of | that fight. He denied that he had renewed the fight with them this Again the International Labor|Loray mill, and got a job after Defense calls upon the working class |June 7, testified that she heard “a|/Y°™ : of America to rally to the support |lot of shots, about 150.” She said| Gilbert’s story conflicted with of the defense of the sixteen mili-|that the shots came from the rear, | Roach’s and Mason's as to who fired tant leaders of the Southern textile but later, on the stand, changed her and as to identity of the guard whom workers, Return them to the ranks|mind and said they came from the he disarmed. of the National Textile Workers Union to lead the coming struggle against the stretch out and starva- tion wages that will be initiated by the Southern Textile Workers Con- ference on October 12th and 13th at Charlotte, the scene of the trial. Defend the right of workers to organize, strike and picket. Up- hold the right of strikers to defend their lives, their union, and their families against the murderous at- tacks of the bosses and their hire- lings. Unconditional freedom for every defendant in the Gastonia case! The working class has enough martyrs. Save the union organizers and strik- ers from the vengeance of the mill owners! side and rear. Prior to her testi- mony, the highest number of shots jestimated was 15, Apparently in return for her services in helping the attempt to convict the unionists on trial, the young woman, Jimison brought out, was last week promoted to be secre- |tary to the first purchasing agent jof the Loray mill. Her father is a well-paid carpenter in the plant. She said that, “during the speak- ing,” she heard someone shout: “Form a picket line; go to the mill jand into the mill.” Questioned about the nature of the voice of the person shouting, she admitted she was unable to see. She replied: “It wasn’t so terribly coarse, and it wasn’t so terribly He denied that he |saw any pickets on the way to the ‘tent colony or that he took part in breaking up the picket line, although he admitted he had seen McLaugh- |lin and McGinnis (defendants), only once before, he had no difficulty in identifying both at.a glance in the dark as the strikers who fired first. Whalen, Roosevelt, in Plan. for State Prison ALBANY, Sept. 8.—A new $15,- 000,000 state prison near New York will enable Polices: Commissioner Whalen to dispose of the hundreds of prisoners—many of them active in the workers’ movement when the \“enforcement campaign” starts, SPEND YOUR VACATION IN CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER THIS WILL BE.THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents, Take car direct to Camp—20 cents, ; CAMP NITGEDAIGET Telephone Beacon 731 Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL ‘=n, Ge pinks arta kaneis a: i 5 ie Oe ee a eet ert aE a lee PA aig Ee ee ee