The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24
Company Justice In
Pennsylvania Strike

Continued from Page One)
then and stab ami shoot other scabs
and prostitutes drunken squabbles
within the st0e =, OF attack union
men. One Of scabs charged the
constable wib ming him ito stop
carrying a IL ased in his work at
the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Cor
pOration mine"
Fine Two Children.
A few days ago Edmondson also
fined two children OF loclsed-out Cow
erdale miners, 10 and - years of age,
for picking coal off a slate pile.
Regarding the other justice of
the peace whose decisions have been
reversed, A. w. Mcmillan of Car
negie pittsburgh Coal, Carnegie
Steel, United States Steel) the min
ers of LOCALS 797 at Carnegie and
2105 at Federal have issued a leaflet
bitterly denouncing his hostility to-
ward the miners and undisguised ac-
tivities as Pittsburgh Coal Company
agent:
$50 the People May Know the
Truth About the Coal Strike and
Andy McMillan-Justice of the
Peace.
begins the leaflet. Then, after a de-
scription of the way in which ''the
Pittsburgh Coal Company has thrown
peaceful and law-abiding communi-
ties, including Carnegie, Toms Run
and vicinity in western Pennsylvania,
into industrial and civil strife by rea-
son of the importation of more than
10000 strikebreakers coupled with
the activities Of about 400 gunner
and thugs, known as Coal and Iron
police and otherwise. =" the leaflet
declares:
Quoting the Magistrate.
ga. W. Mcmillan, justice of the
peace of Carnegie, to whom all
striking miners, their pickets, or
their suspected sympathizers, ar
rested on trivial or false charges
on complaint of either imported
strike-breakers or by gunner of
the company, state police or deputy
sheriffs, are brought for trial. has
repeatedly shown marked bitter
prejudice in the interest of the
Pittsburgh Coal Company and
against the striking miners as
buns and "lOafers"; stating
plainly also that pickets, strikers
or sympathizers have no right to
be around the mines, and that were
he, (McMillan) an officer, he would
arrest them on sight"
And that I'm the light of his un-
fair, bitterly prejudiced and insult
ing attitude, so plainly and EN-
phatically stated in hearings of
strike cases, A. w. Mcmillan stands
convicted as an avowed enemy of
the United Mine Workers and or
gamzed labor in general. In face
or his denunciation Of pickets, strik-
ers, and sympathizers, coupled with
his denial of our lawful right to
peacefully picket -. d fair trial
and justice for us ard our people in
his court is unthinkable. :"
The peace officer, constable. squire
or sheriff, who does not toe the mark
is apt to find himself out of a lob. AT
the Provident mine in eastern Ohio.
belonging to the Clarkson Coal Com
pany, the sheriff and deputies do not
work together with the mine guards
During recent row between pick
cts and mine guards, arralgned the
previous day for stealing furniture
from an evicted miners susSe, s. .eriff
Hardesty sent in his deputy, joseph
Baker to quiet things down. One of
the guards tried to draw his gun. and
the deputy struck out at him. The
mine superintendent filed charges of
assault and battery against the dep
uty, and the coal company Immediately
issued the following statement:
1--WE have discussed and axe dis
cussing the ACCESSIBILITY of seeking
the removal of Sheriff Hardesty.
We have been unable TO secure pro-
lection from his office and we feel
that he and his deputies are partial
to the United Mine Workers"