The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

the miners must pay for before they
lea get bread. Again this meeting of
miners in their hunger was advised
to put off any action and give the
rotten government until nine that
evening to provide relief. The meet
ing was then adjourned to nine p. m.
Mayor Offers Excuses.
At nine p. m. the theatre was
packed to the roof and hundreds of
miners unable to get inside waited
in the biting, frosty wind, hudded to-
gether in alleyways and store door
ways. A telegram was read from the
tory government telling the miners
that they were going to try and get a
coal order from the G. N. r., and that
if the town would give relief, the gov
eminent would back up the bonds
that the town would sell to raise the
money.
The mayor of the town was present,
and pointed out to the miners that it
WOuAu Ldh0 5OAno TIME W put SuSA
bonds on the market to raise the
money, that the first thing that the
law called for was ten days notice
Of a rate-payers' meeting to authorize
the borrowing of the money.
A motion was put that the mayor
and the district officer of the miners
union go at once to see the wholesale
dealers, and have them open up their
stores that night to supply those who
had nothing to eat This motion was
carried, but it was plainly evident that
the mayor and the miners union Off
Gals were afraid to leave the meeting
to visit the wholesalers as the plat
form vacated might be the signal for
the meeting breaking up and raiding
starting.
"onIy Fools Have No Breakfast"
1t was a funny situation for these
men on that platform. To stay where
they were was to refuse to do about
the only and the last thing to avoid
raid; to go meant that the meeting
would break up and raiding start. One
move either way and the powder key
would blow up. At last these few faith
full men to the working class left that
meeting of hungry men in search of
food.
They had gone about five minutes
when some one shouted, cav, hell
What's the use waiting round here" In
an instant the hungry crowd were on
the street, one miner shouting, "Only
fool shall have no breakfast to-
morrow"
One Ressted-in Hospital.
The merchants who were raided
acted humanely towards the miners.
One said, well, suppose they need
the goods more than do" and opened
his door and let the crowd in. Another
merchant said, well, that was the
quickest turnover | ever made. For
months I have had my soul worried
out of me trying to meet my debts.
Now it's all gone and l can go home
and sleep soundly for once" Only one
store had an owner who was foolish
enough to try and resist these thous-
ands Of hungry men. He's in the
hospital today.
Meantime the raiding continues. A
new fear has taken possession Of the
men, the soldiers will be sent in, the
only solution that grit and tory stupi-
dity knows for the correction of hun
ger and despair; so the miners having
started, cannot but try to lay up some
thing against the coming tory stupi-
dity. The miners are learning slowly
and exceedingly painfully that the
gloved hand of toryism that they
grasped so warmly in June last year,
was the hypocritical mailed fist of
capitalism.
Since writing the above the total
stores raided has risen to eleven.