The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-03
COAL BOSSES CHIP IN TO BIG
FUND ITO FIGHT REDS IN FIELD
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the township will make some ar
rangement for you"
The demands will probably be
backed up by march Of parents
and children from Cross Greek and
Studa to the meeting of the school
board, which takes place Saturday
at p. m. in the basement of Avella
Bank.
Conditions in the schools are very
bad. The rooms are so oyercrowded
that two grades meet in one room,
and in some places the children of
lower grades are skipped clear over
one grade to higher one, simply
because there is more space in the
room Of the higher grade.
Communist Campaign Rally.
AVELLA, Pa, Sept. 2.-The Com
munist Party is holding big cam
paign rally here on Sunday, Sept.
6, at $50 pm. at the Carnival
grounds, and has onother mass cam
paign rally at Burgettstown at 5
pm. the same day. These meetings
were placed late in the evening, so
that miners could attend the mass
conference Of the International La
Dor Defense and the National Min
ers' Union in Washington, Pa, at 2
pm. Sunday.
Miners who never before voted
anything but the capitalist party
ticket are aroused by the open strike
breaking Of the whole state appara-
tus. Many Of them voted for Pin
chot for governor, because they were
fooled by his liberal denagogy. But
the hard clubs of the state troopers
and the savage jail sentences rain
ing down on the arrested pickets
have convinced them that this is a
capitalists state, and that they
should go along with a workers party
in this election. They are very ready
to hear the Communist explanation
Of things and the Communist meet
irgs are well attended. The vigorous
support Of the miners strike by the
Daily Worker and other Communist
papers, thousands OF copies of which
were circulated daily through the
mine strike area, has given these
miners an insight into the program
Of Communism which they never
had before. Prejudices carefully fos-
tered for years by the coal operators
and the United Mine Workers of
America are being melted away in
the heat of the class struggle.
Local 100 Of the National Miners
! Union at Ayella has passed the fol-
lowing resolution, which is signed by
all Of the members of the strike COM
mittee: ,
1.-THE Strike Committee Of Avella,
Pa, Local 100 Of the N. M. o., goes
on record to denounce the lies of the
Socialist party which states that ii
is furnishing the striking miners
with adequate relief. We see this as
maneuver to fool us into voting
for the Socialist party at this time
"The Socialist party came to the
National Miners Union relief COM
missary exactly three times in the
past three months. They furnished
us with rs loaves Of bread, one suit
Of clothing, IA pounds Of coffee, II
cans Of milk, one sack of potatoes,
one box of macaroni and a bag of
beans. This stuff would have been
enough to feed only two families
during this period Of time when hun
dreds we're on strike. On each article
given us they pinned a label stating
it came from the Socialist party.
"We realize that this food is given
to us, not for relief, because we
would long ago have starved to death
on such rations, but as a gesture be-
fore elections to persuade us to vote
for the Socialist candidates for office
in our county, and to win us away
from our real leader, the Communist
Party Of the U.SA."