The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-16
| DEAD, ANOTHER
DYING; CUNMAN
UNDER ARREST
Mine Town Virtually
in State of Siege

PITTSTON, Nov. 15.-Mur.
der, inspired by the coal bar
ons and carried out by the
henchmen of the Lewis ma
chine, broke loose again here
yesterday with the result that one
militant miner is dead and another
is now in a hospital on the point
of death.
Jacob Loyack, 21, together with
his brother, Mike, 23, were last
night shot down in cold blood by
their cousin, John Loyack, while
the two brothers were running to
the assistance of their father, who
was being beaten up by scab in
the employ of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company. The younger broth
er, fatally wounded by shot in the
abdomen, died several hours after
wards. His brother Mike, hit in the
thigh, is in a serious condition. The
killer is in Jail.
Murderer. Lewis Henchman.
The murderer, a follower of the
Lewis-Boylan machine, and a for
mer secretary of No. ID colliery,
carried to a conclusion threats and
warnings which the hirelings of the
Lewis-Boylan machine in the an
thracite have been making to the
miners who are on strike against
the vicious contractor system and
other evils.
Pittston has been turned virtually
into an armed camp. Over one hun
dred state troopers parade the
streets, preventing all gatherings of
miners and forcing them indoors
even from their own porches. A
number of meetings have been
viciously broken up at the orders
of Mayor Gillespie and the county
sheriff. The Chamber of Commerce
has issued a warning to the coal
diggers to go back to their pits.
All efforts are being made to Gre
ate an atmosphere of hysteria and
terrorization, in order to break the
resistance of the coal diggers.
Miners Reused TO Mass Fury.
News of the shooting spread rap
idly among the mine workers, who
have been reused to the strongest
determination to fight the coal op-
orators and Lewis terror. A huge
demonstration is being planned at
the funeral of the murdered mill
tant, which is to be held either Sat
urday or Sunday.
The brutal and open shooting of
the two militant strikers occurred
under similar circumstances which
resulted in the murder last spring
of Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly.
These two leaders in the anthracite
were brutally murdered by the paid
gunmen of the then Cappellinni ma
chine. Since then Cappellinni has
been ousted. In his place Lewis has
set up another henchman, William
Roylan, who together with the op-
orators is carrying out the same
policies of terror and murder.
The shooting of the two Loyack
brothers occurred last night about
o'clock in the Port Griffith section
of Pittston. John Loyack, father of
the two men, was suddenly attacked
by a Pennsylvania Coal Company
scab, who later gave the name of
Joe "Greeny." A younger son of
the old miner ran for his two older
brothers, who were at the time in
poolroom conducted by Tom Wach-
novsky. John Loyack, the murderer,
had evidently been observing the
beating up of che old miner from
the window of a store conducted by
Steve Rushin, another Boylan fol-
lower, in which the murderer had
been hiding ready apparently to de-
fend the first gangster.
Murderer Opens Fire.
When the two brothers rushed
from the poolroom to defend their
father, the murderer stepped from
the store and opened fire. Both men
dropped. Rushin, who had also
stepped from the store, ran out to
the fallen form of the miners and
kicked them viciously.
Several days ago this same
Rushin, who is one of the Lewis
Boylan gangsters, fired number
of shots at striking miners. This
was complained of to the local au-
thorities, but no action was taken
against him due to the connection
between the police and the Boylan
machine.
A mass funeral is being planned
for the dead miner for either Sat-
urday or Sunday, at which thou
sands of miners will participate.
The McGarry leadership of cow
ardicc and betrayal which has con-