The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-11
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tut JIle QeleIlS6 OF JDe nIulQreQS |
of jailed workers, Negro and white
to force their release, to save them
from the gallows and the electric !
chair, this district convention of the
NMU calls upon all workers to
strengthen their organizations. to
join and actively support the Inter
national Labor Defense and all its
campaigns. We call upon all local
unions of the NAIU upon all rank and
file members of the UNIWA, to be-
gin at once throughout the coal in
dustry a militant mass campaign for
the defense and release of our 40
Kentucky brothers.
1--WE call for the most rapid mobili-
cation of the forces of the miners to
save the lives Of our heroic Ken
lucky brothers. We pledge to them,
on trial for their lives in the South
seat of the most vicious section of
American capitalism, to the farm
workers Of Alabama, to the Negro
boys in Scottsboro, that we will leave
nothing undone to release them and
restore them to the fighting ranks
of the working class.
1--WE pledge our full support to the
lid. This district convention au-
thorizes the incoming executive COM
mittee to wire the militant protest of
this convention to the governors of
Kentucky and Alabama and to con-
vey to our Kentucky and Alabama
brothers the assurance Of our utmost
support directly and through the lid.
Smash the murder drive of the
Kentucky coal barons and the Ala
bama bosses against our fighting
conrades!"
The convention also read and
adopted for sending kilograms of pro-
test against the murder Of mem-
ployed workers in Chicago. These
kilograms are to the governor Of Il
linois and the mayor of Chicago. A
telegram pledging support was sent
to the Unemployed Council of Chi
cago.
HARLAN, Kentucky, August 10
1.-THE comrades understand the work
goes on no matter who is arrested
or what happens" said one organ
izer of the National Miners Union
here, reporting to the National office
of the union. The local unions and
women's auMliaries met and func-
toned this week, in spite of the ter
ror which is still at a high point
Two more miners have been arrest
ed, and are held on $4,000 bail each.
The army of thugs is still coursing
around the. country, hunting for and
destroying everything in the miners
houses which they might use in self
defense if the coal operators decide
to have some more of them assassin
ated. Even twenty and thirty-year-
old barrel shotguns are seized and
smashed-without any pretense that
this destruction of property is legal
The executive of the central strike
committee in Kentucky has met since
the district conference and divided
Harlan County into six sub-sections
and has placed an organizer ano
committee in charge of each. The
executive has perfected plans 10 send
organizers into sections outside OF
Harlan County, and into Tennessee
Virginia and Maryland. The gen.
eral strike committee and its eXecu-
tive committee continue regular
meetings, in spite of the terror
Groups are being organized rapidly
among men still at work in the mines
A group of miners at Middlesbort
has been under the influence OF the
uMWA. District President Turn
blazer has been telling them terrible
stories against the National Miners
Union. They have been on STRIKE
for some time. Last week they hat
a. meeting with Turnblazer, who fall
ed to give them any relief, through
thew are starving. He did not ever
give them a cup of coffee, and thei
5 left the meeting and went to a goo'
} hotel and gorged himself on an ex
, nensive dinner. They began to SCI
! through the UMWA, and decided U
send a committee to Walllns CreeE
: where there is a Pennsylvania ONO
West Virginia Kentucky Relief Com
) mittee kitchen and where they woui'
l talk with members of the NMu' "A
a result Of this visit, the comnlltVe
asked for a speaker of the NMu U
S be sent to address them
: Additional applications to join IN
1 union pour. in every day, most Q
. them written on blank note paper
1 as the supply of application caro-
has again run out. z
: WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Angus
q lo-The United Mine Workers ha
posted notices at Orient No. an
No. Q mines here of the ePabod
Coal Co., where 1900 men are striE
ing against starvation. The notice
!. read:
"All who wish to retain their mem
o berslaip in the UNdWA must go bac
to work"
The following reply to the Unite
IL Mine Workers, the operators and tn
g government on the question of GOV
u eminent control of the coal mine
! was adopted by the Western Penn