The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-07
Pennsylvania Miners in Big DrivetO
Build the National Miners Union
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smuggled past the guards in the Vesta
mines. There is a picket line of so
before Rocks mine. In Masontown,
the Youth Section has organized a
sports club.-The board members
brought out mass of details which
the board itself sifted and used as a
basis for organizational action.
Hereafter the full board will meet
on the fourth Sunday of each month
and the executive of the board on
the first and third Saturdays of each
month.
Fight Jim Crowism
| Negro women members OF the
board where they are representatives
of Women's Auxiliaries, reported
that on going out to lunch they were
Jim .Crowed out of the American
Coffee House, 40 East Ohio St., the
District Board took up this problem.
A committee was elected to go at
once to the American Coffee House
and inform the manager that halt
a hundred or so of miners have been
eating in his place when they come
into meetings Seevral times a week,
but that if Negro workers were going
to be boycotted by the American
Coffee House these miners and other
workers would show him it was I'M
profitable. The best thing the man
ager could think of was to deny he
was the manager and try to blame
some one else. The committees
which interviewed him contained
the two Negro comrades whom he
had previously insulted.
WASHINGTON, Sept. g. The
great Washington county defense
conference called by the National
Miners Union and the international
Labor Defense with large relegatior
from all locals of the N. M. U. and
all other workers organizations, met
at 2 p. m. today in the Miners Hall
at Meadowlands. The conference
which planned demonstrations for
the release of the miners arrested
in the strike in this county, was
originally scheduled for Millers Hall
in Washington. However, pressure
on the hall owner caused him to &c
back on his bargain, and turn the
hall over to Judge Hughes of the
county court instead.
The jury came in Friday morning
with usual verdict of guilty-the only
verdict possible in this operators
court. apparently, during this session
of court. The conviction was against
Adam and Joseph Getto end Mike
Taras for' picketing at Ellsworth
mine.
Bail was fixed today on those con-
victed in the term Of court which
was formally closed yesterday, but
extended especially for the return OF
the Getto case verdict. Bail is as
follows: Stella Rasefsk $4,000; Anna
Rasefske $4,000; Julius Hollis $4,000;
Leo Thompson $4,000; Edgar Kwinn
$4,000; Louis Fazzio $4,000; Edgar
Jones $4,000; John Stark $4,000;
william Mcqueen $4,000; l.. Boich
$4,000: Skrupke $500; Harry Bos-
well $4,000; William S herwoo d
$4,000; Louis Parson $4,000; Sklarski
$4,000; Adam Getto $4,000; Joseph
Getto $500; Mike Tarris $4,000. This
is total of $4,000 bail on the con-
victions in Washington county so far.
One thing today's conference will do
is speed up the campaign to collect
bail.
This term Of court passed on to
the next term the following cases of
miners arrested for strike activities:
Case of Paul Bobish, Pete Lesko
and Joe Susac, charged with melting
to riot and rioting at Richeyville,
June 10.
Case of John Vargo, Nike Vargo.
Steve Vargo, Mike Stastistian and
Joseph Statstisian charged with
unlawful assembly, melting to riot,
riot and aggravated assault and bat
terry at Crescent mine, June 8. CThis
was the occasion when the scab shot
down IS year old Joseph Vargo. The
shooting was an unprovoked attempt
at murder, but the scab is free.)
Case CT Joseph Andrews, felonious
assault and pointing firearms and
assault at Philadelphia patch, Ca
nonsburg.
Anton zilich, william Diehl, Sam
Bette. Dominick Dellapina and John
White, assault and battery, at Bull
-er July g.
Silyio DiNno, Anton zilich, Will