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Transcription: Smash the Murder Frame-up! / Defend the Gastonia Textile Workers! / 14 SOUTHERN TEXTILE STRIKERS / (members of the National Textile Workers Union) / CHARGED WITH MURDER FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR / EMERGENCY CALL! / GIVE! GIVE! GIVE! / 8 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS / All the organizers and leading strikers, members of the National Textile Workers Union have been arrested on the murder charge. The workers have been driven from their tent colony. The police of Gastonia, upon the direct order of the mill owners attacked the workers' headquarters and their tent colony, fired shots into the tents, where women and children were sleeping and began shooting at the strikers and beating them with their guns. In the struggle which followed, Chief of Police Aderholt was killed. The first to fall wounded in the attack of the policeman was an organizer for the N.T.W.U., Joseph Harrison. / DEFEND THE RIGHT OF THE SOUTHERN WORKERS TO ORGANIZE! / A mass Sacco-Vanzetti frame-up in Gastonia. / The entire American working class is challenged / The International Labor Defense is defending these heroic strikers. / The 14 Southern Textile Workers shall not die -- All must be freed at once. -- Their cause is your cause. / Thousands of dollars are needed to defend these militant strikers. / RUSH ALL FUNDS to the NATIONAL OFFICE of the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE / 80 East 11th Street, New York, N.Y.

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