A dusty motor bus last week rumbled up the highway from Gastonia to Charlotte, N. C. Its passengers were 16 young Communists, three of them women. All were prisoners of the State of North Carolina. All were charged with first-degree murder.
At Charlotte they were put on trial for their lives. Radical organizations throughout the land screamed that the case was "a vicious capitalistic frame-up." North Carolina justice bent backward to preserve impartiality, to prevent the remotest semblance of another Sacco-Vanzetti case.
The murder charge grew out of the textile strike at...
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