The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
Unions and Other
Workers Groups
Aid Mine Relief

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 20.-The
number of wTEers' organizations,
fraternal, educational, social, as we'll
as labor unions, which are needing the
call of the Pennsylvania Ohio Miners
Relief Committee for money to aid
the locked-out coal miners is growing.
Organizations in many industrial
centers, in steel towns, among the
unorganized miners, are forming
central committees for the collection
of money thru dances, concerts, ba-
zaars and by the use of official con-
tributior lists.
The king Women's Club,
Luzerne Pa, raised $50 by giving a
dance. A joint dance by lodges 33
SNIP, Al SPZ, A SSSS, 304 HBz
netted $158.75 for miners relief. The
Finnish Ladies Club of Monessen Pa,
sent in $50. The Finnish Educational
Asso., of Cleveland $43.20.
Kansas City Women Busy.
A bazaar given by the miners re-
lief committee of Kansas City re-
suited in S125 for relief. Lodges 210
SNIP, Savez Sloboda, 1875 HBZ or
gained a dance and made $89 The
Himlerville, KY, Workmens Sick aid
Death Benefit Asso., collected $120.
Lodge $50 HBZ, Duquense, Pa, col
lected SCI. Brownsville, Pa, lodges
1913 SNIP donated $3.50 and 333
HBZ $65.35. The Croatian FraternaI
Union, Ebert, w. Va, sent in $50.
The Slovak Workers Society, Lans-
ford, Pa, S75. Contribution lists cir
culated IN McKees Rocks, Pa, Brought
SAP. Siovak Workers Lodge Of
Newark, N. ]. RENTED $50. Croatian
Fraternal Union sos, Kansas City,
$50.
Urge More Affairs.
There are hundreds of industrial
centers in the country where a joint
arrangement between workers organ
izations can be entered into, to hold
an affair for the benefit of the strik-
ing miners and their families.
Organize Conference.
The organization of miners relief
conferences in the larger industrial
centers is progressing rapidly FIRE.
liminary steps to establish a con-
ference in Detroit have been taken
and secretary for relief work in
that city will soon be named by the
Pennsylvania Ohio Relief Committee,
which has it's central office in Pitts
burgh.
In Philadelphia.
Clara Thomas, who functioned so
ably in other relief drives in Phila-
detpia, will act as miners relief secre--
tary for that CITY, ; In Pittsburgh a
broad relief conference has been called
to meet in Walton Hall, 220 Stanwix
ST., Sunday Dec. II, at 2 p. m. The
East Pittsburgh relief conference will
take place in the Workers Home,
Mort North l., and Electric Avesue, Sunday
Nov. 27, at II p. m.
Esther Schweitzer, who has also
had valuable experience in similar
campaigns in the past, will act as
miners relief secretary in Cleveland
and has begun the task of organizing
a relief conference. The organization
of the New York City relief confer
ence will take place on Dec. A. Charles
Mitchell will act as New York re-
lief secretary. Announcements of ac-
tive relief drives in cities west of De-
troit will be told of at an early date.
Smaller cities should also have
their relief committees, should con-
stitute central bodies thru which re-
lief work could be carried on in a
systematic and organized manner.
Emphasis is at this time made upon
the collection of money. But cam
paigns for clothing, shoes, stockings
can also be undertaken, for many
miners children are entirely in
adequately clad for the winter
months, many hundreds being with
out shoes or stockings. Those who
desire to be of aid should address the
Pennsylvania Ohio Miners Relief
Committee, Gil Penn Ave, Pitts
burgh, Pa.