The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
ky. STATE PROSECUTOR CALLS FOR
DEATH OF 81 IMPRISONED MINERS

give the miners new face or two,
and has promised in this mine not
to check off dues for the hated U.
M. w. A.
However, it has at the same time
announced a new series of fines for
dirty coal" A dollar will be charged
for the first car, then so cents for
the next, and if anybody really loads
dirty coal, the company will fire him.
The first dollar and 4 half is collected
whether there is any dirt in the coal
or not. One and one half dollar is
exactly the United Mine Workers
dues.
MOLLENHAUER, Pa, Aug. 16.-A
meeting Of the workers in this mine,
held as a United Mine Workers local
meeting OVERRIDE the Pagan hench-
men and served notice on the super
intendent that they would either get
pay for dead work and abolish dis
elimination in favor of the pets of
the bosses, or they would all be out
on the picket line. The meeting was
attended, as usual with U. M. w. A.
local meetings, by the mine super
intendent, the mine foremen and the
pit boss. The friends of the bosses
are working every day, and the ordin-
airy miners get two days work week
PITTSBURGH. Pa, Aug. 16 -
Tents and relief will pull out every
miner in Brook County, West Vir-
ginia," declared member of the
Ohio-Panhandle Rank and File Strike
Committee here Friday at the joint
meeting Of the strike committees of
Ohio-West Virginia and Western
Pennsylvania with the district boards
of the National Miners Union from
the same two districts. "Tents for IS
families and we strike Golfers No. 2
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from the Panhandle. eve have built
a bridge already between the men on
strike and the men forced back
through evictions and terror to the
mine. Just give us IS tents, and the
night truck rolls in with them, the
next morning you will see these
families on the picket line and more
besides! We're sticking! But we need
the men on strike inside. They will
come out for local demandS-if we
can give them at least some hope
hope of a place for their babies to
sleep when they are evicted!
I'VE can't win strike by talking!
We don't need meetings on policy!
We're way past that stage. We have
an understanding. But we can't
come to these men at work with
nothing but promises. We haven't the
tents themselves. Now is the time for
the workers of the rest of the coun-
try to show whether they are back
Of this fight of the miners, which has
jolted the whole wage cutting scheme
of the bosses everywhere. Our big
gest problem is going to be relief,
let's have some, and we will fight!"
well, we didn't have chance to
build our union before the strike
started, let's build it now" is the
opinion of men outside and inside of
the mines in East Ohio, stated an
other delegate. The delegates told of
conditions that assure a great strike
movement among those now at work
as soon as the proper organization
and the proper relief is in sight. At
McKinleyville the superintendent tells
them bluntly. when you pay your
back rent, you can have scrip for
the company store. Until then, eat
what you can get, but you won't get
1t from the company"
At Piney Fork they used to load
10 cars for 4; now they have to
load IL.
The Federal "conciliator," one of
Mr.. Doak's strike breakers, is hover
ing around Elm Grove and Wheeling,
having come in from Columbus,
Ohio, to see what he could do for the
coal companies. The Pennsylvania
Ohio-Wes Virginia Kentucky Strik-
ing Miners Relief Committee urges
workers everywhere to help buy tents
by sending all they can to Gil Penn
Ave, Pittsburgh, Room 205.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug 16 -
They hoist coal on the shaft for 35
cents per hundred Iagons at the
Allison Mine of the dirty Rainey Coal
Co., writes a man who signs himself
x-miner, merchant and huckster,"
to the National Miners Union. Alli-
son mine is near Brownsville, Pa.
"They come out to work at 3 O'Clock
and work until q. m. every working
day and then go home with 5 hours
pay; drivers go in at a. m. and
have to stay till and pulling loads
and they don't get no overtime. If
they kick, over the hill they go. They
only pay Is cents for timber and
nothing for slate" 1t is conditions
such as these that will unite the men
in the mines with the strikers, and
bring new strikes.
s 64-Year-Old Miner