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...trial grew out of a prolonged strike, led by Communist organizations, in textile mills about Gastonia (TIME, June 17). Long had bad blood brewed between strikers and police. Strikers, ejected from company homes, pitched a tent colony on the outskirts of town. On the night of June 7 Chief of Police Orville F. Aderholt had gone to this colony where a disturbance threatened. In the dark a fight started. Chief Aderholt was killed, three other peace officers wounded. Fifty persons were arrested. The 16 defendants before Judge Barnhill were those charged with the murder...
...weeks through Gastonia, dominated by large cotton mill interests, had swirled passion and prejudice against the strikers. So bitter was this feeling that defense counsel asked Judge Barnhill to move the case elsewhere. As a sample of local sentiment, they offered an editorial in a Gastonia paper: "The blood of our beloved chief cries out to high heaven for vengeance. The shooting was part of a deep-laid scheme of Russian Anarchists. Gaston County has already been too lenient with these despicable curs and snakes from the dives of Passaic, Hoboken and New York...
...week a street car* strike in New Orleans attained that prominence. Two strikers were killed, five trolleys were burned to the trucks, a car barn was dynamited, trackage was destroyed, switches cemented. The only other strike so far this year to "go rough" in like fashion has been at Gastonia, N. C. (see below...
...Gastonia, N. C. Some 1,000 textile workers continued to hold out for union recognition, following riots and charges of murder for the killing of a police chief (TIME, June...
...shop, no office door was opened one morning last week in Gastonia, N. C. Grim-faced, sullen men lounged about silent streets. They were waiting for the funeral of Chief of Police Orville F. Aderholt, murdered in a gun fight with textile strikers...