The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
By SENDER GARLIN.

THE iron gates of the Allegheny County
l. Workhouse at Blawnox, will soon close be-
hind three militant workers of Woodlawn, Pa.
Milan Resetar, Tom lima and Pete Muselin
were arrested on November IL, 1926, under the
infamous Flynn Sedition Law. All three have
been sentenced to serve five years at hard labor
and pay a fine of $500 each.
At Blawnox prison. thanks to the contract sys-
tenn, the exploitation of the three workers will
continue interrupted. The few cents a day
which they will learn" will, however, not be paid
them, for it will be applied to their fines.
Iegalizes Communist Party.
With the refusal of the U. S. Supreme Court
to consider the case, thus UNFOLDING their conVc-
ton by implication, membership in the Commu-
mist Party and advocacy of its program thus be-
comes a crime, punishable by long-term impri-
sonment. And when the drive to organize the
thousands of unorganized workers in the basic
(war) industries of this state begins to take on
living form, the sedtion act will begin to grind
out convictions wholesale.
Woodawn is % miles down the Ohio River
from Pittsburgh, and in this feudaI domain Of
the steel trust 10000 workers slave in the plants
of Jones & Laughlin, before the coke ovens and
in the other industries essential in the production
of STEEL
The Jones Laughlin Corporation, whose
workers the three Woodlawn defendants tried to
organize and for which crime they must serve
five years in prison. is the third largest steel
manufacturing company in the United States. 1t
has extensive coal and iron interests. One of
its subsidiaries is the Vesta Coal Company in
Washington. Pa, which hires 1000 coal miners;
it is viciousy open shop, and has built up an in
sidious spy system
| What in He'll Do You Want?
! Step down from the train in Woodlawn, and
hostile eyes begin to survey you: the staggering
| Pennsylvania cossacks. known officially as Coal
AMI Iron Police; private dicks of the Jones &
Mclaughlin Co., and stoolpigeons- at-large. Bring
with you brief case travelling bag or any other
article of a suspicious nature, and these brutal
depraved watch-dogs of the j. & L. will roughly
search you to ascertain whether or not you've
come to start trouble that is, organize the mill
slaves. :.
The three defendants: Milan Resetar is stee
worker who has also been butcher and truck
driver. lima is a steel worker. Muselin is
barber Both Resetar and lima have worked fol-
the J. & L., lima for more than II years. anC
all three have been for years in the fight to or
ganize the workers of that company, and al
three are Communists.
Resetar, tall, raw-boned vigorous, is SO year.
old. Arriving in the United States in 1907 from
Austria Hungary, he soon came to Pittsburgh
where some of his fellow-countrymen were work
ing in the steel mills.
His first job was as moder in foundry, ant
later, in 1921, he went to work for the j. e. L.
and after that in the Duquesne Steel Foundry a
ICorapolis, Pa. Deluded, like Muselin and millions
of other workers. by the propaganda of the i'm
Iperialist war-mongers, Resetar joined the Allie
forces, served at the front, and returned to tn
U. S. after the armistice, gassed and with
clearer and more bitter understanding of the rea
sons for the slaughter which took the lives o
100000 workers.
Returns victorious"
In 1922 he joined the Workers Party, and from
that time on has taken an active part in the lif