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Last week the jury showed the strain of four long weeks of pondering complex banking documents and technicalities. They looked tired when young Judge M. V. Barnhill (who two years ago presided at the labor war trials in Gastonia) read his charge to them. This took him five hours. Then the jurors filed...
...Communist strike last week in Paterson, N. J., great silk manufacturing centre of the U. S. Sponsor for the walkout was William Zebulon Foster's radical National Textile Workers' Union whose agents and inciters took such woe and bloodshed to the cotton textile industry in and around Gastonia, N. C. two years ago (TIME, April 8, 1929 et seq.). Paterson's hard streets are historically fertile soil for labor disturbances; twice within the last decade have they been harrowed by major textile strikes...
Strikes by Communists, or led by Com- munists, were Witness Wood's chief topic. He said the needletrade walkouts at Passaic, N. J. (TIME, March 15, 1926 et seq.), at New Bedford, Mass. (TIME, June 2, 1928), at Gastonia, N. C. (TIME, April 15, 1929 et seq.) were started by Reds who appealed to "parlor pinks" for "relief funds," but who disappeared when such money stopped coming in. He urged strict anti-Red legislation but discounted the affects of the Reds among U. S. work- ingmen: "They never won a strike in the U. S. . . . So far as taking this...
TIME'S source for lynching information was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which set down as a "lynching" the shooting of Ella Wiggins, white, in Gastonia last September. She was killed when a mob sprayed bullets in a truckful of men and women going to a Communist mass meeting (TIME, Sept...
...afford to be ignorant of the social ferment which goes on in the world around him, and theatens to involve him as employer or employee, taxlevyer or taxpayer in our time. This course will not introduce him to the manifestations of these doctrines now current in Harbin or in Gastonia, but it will enable him to learn something of the ideas held by anarchists, social...