Margaret Larkin -- Left Wing Journalist
 
Lewis, Nell Battle -- Liberal North Carolinian, sympathizer

Mary Heaton Vorse -- Radical Journalist, wrote Strike! a novelistic account of the Gastonia strike.

Vera Buch -- Fred Bealís deputy organizer, arrived April 5, 1929.

Amy Schechter -- Young, wealthy, Jewish Communist organizer from New York.

Ella May Wiggins -- Striker, former spinner at American Mills in Bessemer City; martyr for labor.

Bertha Thomkins -- Mother and worker who attacked one of N.C. Militia members during first confrontation of strike (April 5, 1929.)

Fred Erwin Beal -- NTWU organizer, sent to Gastonia, February 1929. From Lawrence, Massacheusets, textile worker since age 14.

George Pershing -- Communist Party activist, sent by Daily Worker and Young Communist League to help Beal.
 
 

O. Max Gardner -- Governor of North Carolina. Also, owner of Lily Mills in Shelby, North Carolina.

Clyde R. Hoey -- One of lead lawyers in Adderholt trial. From Shelby, N.C.

H.A. Query -- Gazette Editor.

Love and Grey: Loray mill founders.  For information on the Love family, click here.

J. L. Baugh -- The replacement for Johnstone as Loray general superintendant.

Major A.L. Bulwinkle -- Prosecutor in Adderholt case; memeber of Board of Deacons of Holy         Evangelical Lutheran Church, American Legion Post, and Lions Club. Re-elected to Congress in 1930.

Sherriff Lineberger - Gaston Country Sherriff

John G. Carpenter -- County solicitor.