The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-04
HELP CAME IN NICK
OF Time; HUNGER,
COLD TOOK TOLL
Food, Clothing, Soap,
Save Lives in Penna.

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Pennsylvania think of the relief work
conducted in New York by the local
Pennsylvania Ohio Colorado Miners
Relief Committee is brought out
graphically by letter just received
at the New York Office, 799 Broad
way, from the men actually engaged
in distributing the food and clo.hlng
sent to the miners as expressing the
good will of New York workers. The
letter is filled with human interest
it tells of workers actually saved nom
death by the receipt OF little food.
The International Workers Relief
is cooperating with the Miners Re-
lief Committee. It is as follows:
Fannie Rudd, Secretary,
Pennsylvania Ohio Colorado Miners
Relief Committee
799 Broadway
New York City
Dear Fellow Workers:
We wish to express the sincere APP
probation Of one hundred and ten
mining camps and Local Unions OF
the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca for your recent remittances total
ling 100000. This generous amount
Of money will provide food for thou
sands of children and miners wives,
who, considering the present critical
situation, are given food first. By
this we mean that in many camps
there is not enough food to go around
and in many instances miners on re-
lief committees have come to our Of
fees who had not eaten for two days.
Glad to See Food.
The citation of the miners and their
families in the camps can not be
imagined when truck loads of food
arrive purchased by the money your
committee sends us. Women and chill
dren crowd around the union halls,
with their baskets in their arms, and
wait patiently until the relief COM
mittees and their assistants weigh
out, into two pound bags, the rice,
beans, sugar, flour, cornmeal, peas,
oatmeal and other nutritious foods
we ship them. We make it point
to inform the local union relief COM
mittees where the money comes from,
and your committee has received
much praise by the striking miners,
especially when they learned of your
successful tag day.
Clothing Life Saver.
The three tons of clothing you
shipped US were also equitably dis
tributed. A miner called this morn
ing for a suit Of underwear for his
boy. He told us that the boy only
had one suit, which was washed every
Saturday after the boy went to bed.
1t was from your shipment that we
provided him with two additional
suits of underwear. Besides, the
thousands of overcoats for men, coats
for women, which you sent us were
especially welcome during this zero
weather We still meet many miners
in all the camps who battle on in this
struggle without even an overcoat to
keep them warm. With icicles hang
ing from their unshaven faces. they
arrive at the picket coffee stations,
frozen to the bone. Their faces are
unwashed and hundreds go for week
without washing because there is no
soap. Your remittance enabled us to
rush to the mining camps 10000
cakes of soap so that these miners
and their wives could again enjoy a
little of the cleanliness of former
days.
Gave Medical Care.
Your remittances also enabled us
to give medical service in many
camps. The physicians in the camps
are usually coal operators doctors,
being induced by subsidy from the
compensation law, to stick close to
the bosses in this struggle. In many
instances these doctors have refused
\ to come to the aid Of strikers
\ families and sick miners and mem
bers of their families have lain abed
for days before medical aid could be
given them. We are now assisting,
with the money RENTED to US, in
giving medical aid to these miners
families, who because of exposure due
to life in the barracks and because
Of undernourishment, are more sub
ject to illness than before the strike
and lockout occurred.
Miners Send Thanks.
We hope that your committee will
continue to function efficiently as to
now for the whole period of this
struggle. Give all the members of the
committee and all who have helped to
contribute to the large amounts you
have RENTED, our heartfelt thanks.
The miners will fight on, to win
the strike, to save their union, to or
ganize the unorganized miners, for
naturalization of the mines, for a
labor party and against the open
shop, against all injunctions, against
company unions, against the yellow
dog contracts-and in this fight your
relief plays a most important part.
Fraternally,
,SrI