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farce, their presence means at least
bluff at legal responsibility for
what goes on in the camp. With their
removal the situation is left COM
pletely in the control Of the Coal and
Iron gunner, responsible to none but
the coal company that hires them.
And then too, the one railroad into
the camp is owned by the company,
so that it's despotic rule can reach out
beyond its own mine, and force the
smaller mine owners in the section to
remain shutdown, even though most
Of them are willing to operate on a
union basis, by refusing to provide
them with railroad cars in which to
ship out their coal.
Some Born Scabs."
The scabs come hurrying along the
road with their dinner buckets-some
regular Sinking scab types cab-
bins their trade, some men re jest
naturally born scabs," one of the
Negro pickets puts it; and some are
miners from non-union fields where
things are so bad that the men think
even working in striking mines will
be better. But many are men tricked
into coming down under false pre-
fences by the employment agencies
in Pittsburgh and other cities acting
for the Terminal Coal Company.
Three Negroes stop eagerly as a
picket approaches them-they want
to get out of the camp only the COM
pany refuses to give them a cent Of
pay and they're penniless and unable
to pay their fare out. It's useless for
them to wait in hope of getting any
thing out of the company--they'll only
be put off from pay to pay, fortnight
after fortnight, the pickets tell them,
and the union will pay their fare out.
The Yellow Dogs approach the group
threateningly and trooper gallop-
ing through reins up sharply-the
men hurry on. They will be cut by
night.
Quit The Mine.
Up in the Miners Hall, large
room in the second story of frame
building away from the company
property, a dozen men just brought
in by the pickets are sitting around
and warming themselves at the stove.
They will get their fare back to the
city, and wait under the protection of
the strikers till traintime Two hag-
gard Polish miners tell how they left
West Virginia, with the starvation
conditions prevailing in the mines
since the operators succeeded in
smashing the union and opening up
on an open shop basis, tramped
around Pittsburgh looking for work,
and were hired by the Avella No. 3
mine superintendent down at the en-
ployment agency in search of scabs.
mo trouble at the Mines" they were
told, good houses"
Were Tricked.
AS soon as they reached the train
they saw they had been tricked-but
then it was too late, they were herded
into separate scab car under guard
of Coal and Iron police, with guns
ready and locked in with the guards
as soon as the car was filled. None
was allowed to leave the train until
it reached Avella station, where more
Coal and Iron police and troopers with
guns and tear-bombs hurried them
into automobiles and rushed them to
the scab stockade.
Next morning, when they again in
sisted on getting out, the company
officials demanded a dollars pay
ment for the nights lodging" and
put them under arrest by the Coal
and Iron police until the dollar was
paid.
A group of Negroes say that they
were sent down from an agency for