Word: gastonia
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Murder or something like it was the prelude. When Chief of Police Orville O. F. Aderholt fell before a blaze of shotguns, his body riddled, his life oozing, Gastonia, N. C. howled for his killer...
...told Marthy, thank God a man who believeth in Jesus Christ is not dead. "We know that we are not very high in society, but God loves us. ... O, what would Jesus say if he passed through Marion? He's weepin' at all this scenery." At Gastonia. The Marion murders gave North Carolina its sixth textile tangle now current in the courts. One of the other trials, that of 16 workers accused of murdering the police chief of Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers...
...were it merely a case of "growing pains" in industry, not many people would regard the situation as a menace to American economic life. It is the shadowy connection with the Communist organizations of Russia that alarms the average American, and he sees in the Marion and Gastonia riots a threat of the violence that may spread to every section of our industrial life. The very thought of red Russian influence in American industry is a bugbear to the normal business...
North Carolina's labor troubles were by no means confined to the Communist-led strike at Gastonia and its aftermath, the Charlotte murder trial (see above). At the Blue Ridge foothill town of Marion, an-other textile strike, directed by the conservative United Textile Workers of America, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, "went rough" last week, led to the summoning of National Guardsmen...
Declared President B. M. Hart of the Clinchfield Mill: "I will meet only with my own employes. I cannot see that there is any difference between this so-called conservative union and the Communist union at Gastonia. They act alike...