The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
WHITSETtT mine
WORKERS'F|GHT
ON TWO FRONTS
Bosses and Union Off
ciaIs Oppose Them


Especial TO The Daily Worker)
| PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept. 17-No
measures are too mean for the Pitts
burgh Coal company to use In advanc-
ing lie campaign Of union destruction.
II has already opened two Of it's mines
the Whitsett Mine and the Banning
No. under the 1917 scale and II Is
busy herdIna soabs to get coal pro-
dueed.
Eviction notices have ben served
on miners residing on company prop
erty who refuse to seab upon their
union. The state police have been
mohiIIxed and are showing up In force
on horseback at the gates Of the COM
pany property every day to protect
the seabs.
Women and Children ON Picket Line.
! The coal miners at Whitsett, who
have been out OF work for more than
20 months consistently refusing to
accept any lower scale of wages with
their wives and children are going on
the picket line every morning. Cur
iously enuf, union oiicials who have
established their headquarters about
10 miles from the mine meet upon the
picket line to the bewilderment of
the rank and file miners who never
before have seen them so active. But
It is now becoming clear to them why
the officials appear on the picket line.
Scabs were recruited by Pitts
burgh employment agencies. At first
many men returned when they found
the actual conditions but little by lit
tie a full crew was established. The
coal miners by their usually active
method of picketing could easily have
prevented the company from recruit
ing full scab crewsif they had been
permitted to go ahead in the aggres-
sive manner they had intended to
pursue but the officials were there to
soft pedal. They asked the rank and
file members to remain quiet while
the scabs passed by to go into the
mines. These tactics naturally play
directly into the hands of the op-
orators and the mine is now working
almost with complete crew.
officials "AetIvlty" Becomes
| Clear.
One Of the picketing coal miners
from Jacobs Greek expressed his un.
derstanding by saying, that this is a
very effective method for the Pitts
burgh Coal company to gradually open
the mines one by one, wipe out the
union and make District Five a non.
union territory 81
He continued, "the Pittsburgh Coal
company is the same everywhere. no
matter what mine is operated. It
will not do to soft pedal in one place
and try to fight it in another. As soon
as the company tries to operate with
scabs in one place it should be fought
definitely in every instance. How
ever, while the operators are flag
rantly disregarding the agreement our
officials have tried to interpret the
agreement to mean no fight whatever.
Such methods won't do for only the
operators are to gain"
Open On 1917 Scale.
1t is rumored that Banning No. 1
and Banning No. will soon follow
suit and open up on the basis of the
1917 scale. The company is even
trying to organize a union of its
own, a union of scabs, mounted state
police will always be available. More
eviction notices will be made while
the officials continue to soft pedal and
to advocate nonresistance.
What to Do.
Now is the time for the Whitsett
miners together with the soft coal
miners Of America to declare their
solidarity with the striking anthra-
cite miners. John l.. Lewis has said
There will be no backward STEP"
now is the time for him to prove IL.
The coal operators are fighting the
union men in Whitsett just as they
are fighting the union turnout the en-.
tire country.
A general strike of the coal industry
is the method by which the present
attack can be met successfully. The
miners must demand that their lead.
arg call a national af,;Iyn a. -n.x. A. !.