The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-26
THREAT TO TURN
OHIO MILITIA
LOOSE ON MINERS
Terrorism Unab Bile to
Halt Mass Picketing

ST. GAINESVILLE, Ohio, (By
MaiD Marching to the Belmont
county jail at st. Gainesville, Ohio to
demonstrate against the arrest of five
militant miners on the picket line
earlier in the day, A of 200 women
we're arrested here early Saturday
afternoon, April 81.
140O More Out.
The five arrests this morning are
outgrowths Of intensified mass picket
ing carried on here ever since the is
suance of the strike call for April
16 by the Save-the- Union Committee.
The Save the Union Committee call
in Ohio which resulted in the walk
Jut OF 1400 miners in the. Elm Grove,
West Virginia as we'll as the effective
Stacking up of operations in mines on
strike IN Eastern Ohio, was also the
signal for mass picketing which led
TO the arrest of 81 men and women
Monday and Tuesday at the Mutton
Hollow mine of the Shadyside Coal
Company near Lansing, seven miles
from here. The 81, charged with OBJ
structing the public highway, were
still in jail when the new arrests oc-
Cured today.
eve thought that Tuesdays arrests
would discourage this mass picketing
business advocated by that Save-the-
Union crowd" said Lyle Hardesty to-
day. "They come right back for more
today though and there wasn't any
thing we could do except arrest five
of their leading men to show them
that we still thought mass picketing
wouldn't get them anything. They
don't seem to believe it." The five
arrested today are widely known in
their section as active progressives in
behalf of the Save-the- Union move
ment. They are: John Barto, Albert
Bitker, Robert Sivert, Oscar Guynn,
and Charles Huggerd.
Following the arrest of the five, the
pickets, including some 500 men,
women and children held an i'm
promptu mass meeting at Mutton
Hollow and decided to demonstrate in
the courthouse square at st. Claires-
Vile opposite the building in which
their fellow strikers were incar-
cerated.
Two tear bombs had been thrown at
groups of women pickets in front Of
the Mutton Hollow mine. The five
arrests were made only after the gas
proved useless in dispensing the
miners.
Upon hearing of the plan, Sheriff
Hardesty became unduly alarmed and
called upon the Ohio National Guard
detachment stationed at st. Claires-
vile for "relief duty" The strikers
had modified every available motor
vehicle for their march from Lans-
ing to the Belmont county seat.
Orderly March.
The men, reluctant to give the
deputies and guardsmen an excuse for
violence by appearing in the town,
remained at the edge of St. Clairesv
vile while the women proceeded to
the center of the town. Though there
was no show of disorder the women
were seized Unfortunately by the
forty full armed national guardsmen
and fifteen deputies and marched
summarily to the Jail where they will
remain until the time of their hear
ing Monday morning unless bail is
obtained for them in the meantime.
The National Guard is in ''no mood
for trifling," Sheriff Hardesty inti-
mated. of this mass picketing keeps
up, l have been assured of the ut
most cooperation from the National
Guard" he said today. The measures
of the authorities to stem the pro-
gressive tide as expressed through
militant strike action will become i'm
mediately moro severe unless the
wholesale jailin~s succeed in break
ing the spirit of the pickets.
LESLIE.