The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
from Paae Onel

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their like to drive the workers into
war again es in 1917, and declared
the miners war was the war against
the coal operators and their servants,
the state troopers, he had the whole
meeting enthusiastically with him.
New to Women.
The Ladies' Auxiharies in this sec
ton are new, and the women hesitated
about taking the floor. Only one of
them speaks readily and without fear
"a small, sturdy, sun-burned young
Slav miners wife, with straight bob
bed brown hair, high cheek bones, and
lively green-gray eyes. She was in
the thick of the troopers attack last
July, and was horribly beaten up in
her own home, and witnessed to the
full the brutalities and obscenities of
these guardians of law and order
among her neighbors.
For Sophie, the state constabulary
has become the symbol of the whole
struggle, and every time she speaks
she gets around to them pretty soon.
The miners like to hear, her. but some
times the chairman of the meeting
will rap gently when her language be-
comes too lurid She talks in Slavish
at meetings, but when she begins
speaking of the troopers she falls into
good NAnglo-Saxon English. Then at
the next meeting when she asks for
the floor, Sophie will say; "Mr. Chair
man, give my floor-me promise no
tell state police dirty son-of-a-bitch
no more" Then she gets the floor
The Straight Story.
This is the way that Sophie tells
of the coming of the troopers to Rem
ton as she saw it from her house in
the patch" as they call the section
of mining town where the company
houses stand and it is the way that
others around there agree it happen
ed too:
Il was standing on my porch. Then
I see two coming on horses them
state troopers-so many ladies and
men standing there. And then the
crowd running away as quick as they
could run to their houses.
''Then they come to my porch; both
state troopers on horses. Then one
say to the other-'Get off your horse
and beat them to death over there
Then he get off and he run up on the
porch next door, and the women run
in the house and lock themselves in
the house.
"And he break the lock, and go in
the door of the house, and the man
was sick in bed. And he give two
cracks to the lady over the hips with
his mace, and the sick man scared
and shivering to see them beating his
own wife in the house.
Knocked Unconscious.
"When / hear that noise | run on
the porch; then he climb over the
bannister and say, Now | get YOU
And the other guy say, GO ahead
now-beat her up now you got here
there Then he slammed me one over
the hips and he pushed me-'Go in,
go in, before ! hit you another one'
And l was saying, please, please
don't hit me- Then he said, What,
what, and he come through the screen
door with his mace, and he hit me
in the chest Oh, how it hurt me, it
hurt me yet! Then l fall over and
my little girl thought I dead; and she
said, Mamma, mamma, did they kill
your After while I get up, and
say, No, he no kill me- And for long
time was all black and blue and
sick, weeks, and couldn't work.
"Then he run down the steps to
the next neighbor and say: 4 hit
you, l hit you for sure if you no go
in She screamed and said: Wait,
wait, / got lots of time to go in And
he said, You beat it, you son-of-a-
bitch, I'll beat you up too
$40 A Day For 1t.
"Then further up, he went there
too, and was chasing people. And
there was an old lady on the porch at
that house, and she hollered: 'C'mon,
you son-of-a-bitch, d'you think I'm
scared of you. You going to beat me
like thatp Then he run across the
ditch and get up there and hollers,
Wait, you son-of- a-bitch, or I'll get
you tool And she say: Good for you
to chase people, you getting $40 every
day for it, and she wasn't going in
for him."
And SO the chase went on late into
the night. And for couple of weeks
afterwards the troopers tried to ter
rorize the strikers, rode up onto the
porches of the houses, chased the chill
dren on their way to and from school,
and insulted the women. Then, a
month after the Renton raid came
Cheswick, and the Renton miners got
further instruction in capitalist meth
DDS Of warfare on the workers The
town Of Cheswick is only 8 or 9 miles
away from the Renton mines, and a
number Of Renton strikers and their
! families were present when the cos