The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-03
Save THE union
ACTION SCARES
REACTIONARIES
Calls Cops to Break Up
Relief Meetings

ACNItttftttVU gfOHt U4O O'tOJ
vania-O Ohio Relief Committee, brand
ing it as camouflaged organization
to "sow the seeds of Communist doc.
trine" among the striking miners. He
states that the strike in Pennsylvania
has been "free from large-scale vic.
lence" and that "no lives have beer
lost and few have been seriously in
jured." BY insinuation, Manly would
give the impression that the Commun.
lists are urging violence and endanger-
ing the lives of the miners for the
mere sake of raising hell.
If Basil Manly were not a lackey
of the $4,000 per year "labor lead
ers" who are running the United Mine
Workers Union, he could easily find
out that the Pennsylvania Ohio Min.
ers' Relief Committee,is not "camoa.
flaged" Communist organization, but
a committee of militant striking Goa
miners of many shades of political
opinion, organized to help feed and
clothe the strikers and their families
a task which has been grossly neg
lected by the high-salaried lieutenants
of John l.. Lewis.
Allowed Two Cents a Week.
Mr.. Manly admits in one of his
articles that the relief allowance pei
head to families of strikers in the
Pittsburgh district is only nine cents
per head and in outlying districts less
than two cents. Surely nobody, not
even a $4,000 a year labor skate
will contend that this pittance is suf-
ficient to provide adequate nourish-
ment for a human being for week!
The Pennsylvania-Ohio Relief Com
mittee was organized to give as much
relief as possible to the strikers and
to encourage them to carry on g
militant fight to win the strike. AL
ready it is giving relief to more than
one hundred mining CAMS and the
rank and file are grateful But Il
the committee supplied the miners and
their dependents with poison instead
of wholesome food and warm clothing
the. highly-paid organizers could mo-
feel more outraged. Orders are now
being issued by the Lewis Murray
Pagan machine that any local accept
ing relief-if nine cents per head per
week or as low as two cents, can be
legitimatoly called reliof.-fro,,, thr
Pennsylvania Ohio Miners Relief Com.
mittee will be cut off the relief list
of the district office of the United
Mine Workers.
Camouflaged Strikebreaking.
There is welI-founded suspicion
among the rank and file of the min
ers that the officialdom is trying t.
break the strike by starving the strik.
ers and their families. The labor Of
ficials at U. M. w. of A. headquarter.
are on much better terms with tht
coal operators than they are with tht
militants in the union. When Franz
Hefferly, international representative
in charge of the Allegheny Valley To-
Gals, wanted to rotify the North Bas
sener local that a relief committe,
meeting would be held at New Ken
sineton, he called up the scab Goa
company's office. to notify Tho 'ors
70 send representative 70 the meet
ing. And when the meeting was hell
the main business was a denunciatior
of the progressives and the Pennsyl
vania-Ohio Relief Committee which
was stoutly defended BY the repre-
sentatives Of the relief committee,
present.
All over Western Pennsylvania tn,
reactionary machine is lining up It,
forces for a fight on the progressives
Internationally (dis) organizer.
are busy spreading false reports about
the progressive leaders.
The Lewis machine in Pittsburgh /:
now resorting to the extreme of pre-