The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-22
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and the starving miners will be car
ried on In the city of Pittsburgh by
the Unemployed Council and the N
M. U. Not only will miners and steel
workers from Allegheny County be
present but large numbers of miners
and steel workers will come In for
that purpose from Westmoreland
Fayette and Washington counties.
The demands of the hunger mar
cheers will include:
/. Immediate appropriation of
money enough to pay $40 week and
SIS additional for each dependent.
to all striking miners and unem-
ployed miners, steel workers and
other unemployed workers.
2 Protest against the. brutalities
of Pinchot's state police and the AL
legheny county deputies. who have
shot down peaceful pickets in the Al
legheny Valley and elsewhere.
3. Demand for the abolition OF
the injunction which has been is
sued to the Butler Consolidated Coal
Company by Judge Rowland against
peaceful picketing.
4. Immediate cessation of all
evictions of striking workers.
5. No shutting of of gas or light
Of the unemployed workers or strik-
ers.
Resolutions will also be presented
demanding the state government i'm
l11ediately pass a social insurance
bill
Frank Borich, chairman of the
combined delegations elected at mass
meetings OF strikers at all Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Company mines and
the delegation elected to go with
them to Harrisburgh from the Cen
trail Rank and File Strike Commit
tee of the National Miners Union
issued a statement today in the
name of the delegations. 1t is as
follows:
THE absolute rejection by the
Pittsburgh Terminal strikers, and by
all the rest of the $1,000 miners now
on strike, or the scheme of the gov
ernor and the operators to break our
strike through scab agreement with
the United Mine Workers of America
has caused a certain delay in that
plan.
Our delegation found when il
reached Harrisburgh that Pinchot
Pursglove and Murray had hidden
their supposedly public conference
from the representatives of the stri-
kers themselves. The hour of meet
ing was changed and the place Of
meeting concealed
Most significant of all, the u
M. W., Pinchot and the operators did
not dare, in the face of the mass OPP
position and reputation of the U
M. w. by the strikers. to make the
scab agreement at this time.
These takers now see that their
attempt just now to break our strike
against starvation by an agreement
first in the Pittsburgh Terminal
mines would be smashed by over
whelnaing mass picketing,
I'VE know that this strike breaking
plan is only postponed. 1t will be
tried again soon by state or federal
'rnediators," which will attempt to
use either the UNIV, or some fake
independent union or company I'M
ion, or all together. Meanwhile. we
see in the form in which the break
ing up of the Pinchot-Pursglove-
Murray conference is announced, an
attempt to bolster up the damaged
reputation of the U. M. w. by repre-
senting IL as holding out for a wage
raise. The righteousness of this at
tempt can be seen by the U. M, w.
fake settlement under the direct
sponsoring of the president OF the
Ben Franklin mine at Penna to
form local of the U. M, W., which
John Cinque, sub-district president
of the U. M. w. openly pledges not
to ask for higher wages. And there
are other such settlements and at
tempts of the U. M. w. TO make no.
scale or low-scale agreements.
mo miner will swallow the story
that the Pinchot conference broke up
over a question of wages
I'VE will meet the proposal of the
Pittsburgh Terminal to, operate open