The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
Bosses Terror in Pennsylvania

workers to keep them from going into the hall
where the meeting was held. The police told
the workers that the speaker had the permit
to speak, but they had no permit to hear him.
The police were lead by Luksic, chief of police,
member of the Croatian Club, who uses his
membership there to spy on workers and have
the company fire those who express working
class ideas. This husky brute violently threw
63-year-old Pat Cush to the ground when he
spoke on August LIST demonstration and tried
to kick him down flight of steps.
In Glassport, the Burgess s(mayor) is
member of the A. F. of L. The election meet
ing at which Comrade Cush spoke was smashed
by the police who came to the hall in high
powered car containing sawed-off shot guns
and tear gas bombs. Comrade Cush was, held
in prison for over 20 hours on a suspicious
person charge and then finally released with
orders not to come back to town.
In McKeesport controlled by the steel trust,
Mayor Lysle has broken up all workers meet
ings and has forbidden hall owners to rent
their halls for Communist election meetings.
Lysle secures graft by forcing all halls to sell
booze and then threatens them with arrest if
they let working class meetings take place in
their halls. This is the same Mayor Lysle
who brought state police into McKeesport dur
ing the steel strike of 1919 and organized
break the strike.
For this service, strike breaker Lysle re-
ceives $4,000 from the U. S. Steel Corpora
ton, as well as shares of stock from other
+ firms in the city
In the borough of Arnold, an election meet
ing was broken up after the mayor had given
permit for this meeting. Arnold is town
whose chief industry consists of large, plant
of the u. S. Aluminium company owned by
Andrew Mellon Comrade Cush was again ar
rested by the chief of police who stated, "No
Communist meetings can be held in this town"
Comrade Cush was threatened with physical
violence by the head of the police committee
in the town.
After being held number of hours. Comrade
Cush was released. Following this the Burgess
informed our comrades he would give permit
for future meetings. When they came to get the
permit they we're told by the Burgess; Il have
changed my mind, because the business men
are against the Communists having meetings
here"
| In the entire Ohio River Valley within a radius
! of 80 miles of Wheeling, West Virginia, the COM
| bined police forces have organized new red
! scare which is inspired by the Fish Committee
! one of whose members is Congressman Bachman
| of Wheeling whose family owns the houses of
| prostitution in the city and are the leading boot
| leggerS IN The SeCIlOn Inc ponce conducted an
intense agitation in the press declaring that
they discovered letter obviously written. by
the police. threatening to blow up all bridges
over the Ohio River in Wheeling and surround
! ing towns.
This campaign follows notice by the sec
Rotary of state in West Virginia that the Com
munist Party will not be allowed on the ballot
This is not an accident. This takes place at the
same time that the state of Ohio also refuses
to place the Communist ticket on the ballot
The Communist Party issued leaflet in the
Wheeling section exposing this plot Of the COM
panies which is an attempt to prevent the work.
ers from organizing The eafIet declared that
the Party will organize the workers ito resist
the anti-labor activities Of the police who are
carrying through a campaign Of terror on in
structions from the coal and steel mill owners
and the police department will be held respon-
sible for whatever consequences might occur.
The action Of the police are especially brutal ir
those sections where unemployment has reached
high peak this is especially true in the Wheel
ing section, in Arnold, Glasicort Monessen ane
Negro section of Pittsburgh.
It is clear that in many sections the polio