The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09

arationS are being rushed to mobilize
for the state hunger march on Har-
risburg, the state capital. The
march starts from the Pittsburgh
region on April IS, and from Phila-
delphia on April II. 1t will be in
Harrisburgh on April 81.
In Brownsville 80 Negro and white
coal miners are sleeping in aban-
doned brick coke ovens. On Sunday,
at a mass meeting held by the Ma
tional Miners Union, one of these
unemployed workers, a Negro miner,
spoke for a militant struggle against
starvation.
1000 Apply; 4 Hired,
The Lily Mine has started up in
Brownsville. On the first day open,
1900 men came from towns miles
away to try for jobs. Only a few
were hired, The second day, 1000
men came, but only were hired.
In the excitement a man was
squeezed against wall by the crowd
and died shortly after. The Lily
Mine is working with only small
crew, loading sample coal.
In the Republic section, II mines
out of IA are shut down, and men
are getting one days work a week.
The companies give no relief what
ever and the county, through the
Red Cross, gives practically nothing
at all.
The National Miners Union has
sent organizers out into these and
other fields to mobilize the jobless
and part-time miners, all of whom
are starving, for the hunger march
on Harrisburgh. This march is being
led by the Trade Union Unity League
dncluding the National Miners
Union and Metal Workers Industrial
League) and its unemployed coun-
ellis.
Jobless Organize. a
Three local unions of the National
Miners Union at the P. g w. Mine
Duquesne Mine at Avella and All
Cedar Grove, have established
Workers Unemployment zIagurance
Committee to mobilize for the strug-
gle against starvation. The miners
here arc working one and two days
q week and hundreds are starving,
The Workers Unemployment Inslu-
ance Committee organized the min
ers into a Hunger March on Wash
ington, the county seat, last week,
There they demanded of the county
welfare department relief for them
selves and their families. The au-
thorities were compelled to cough up
IS each for the men there, and told
them that was all that would be
forthcoming.
Today at Granish Hall, Brown
town (Avella), there was a mass
meeting under the auspices of the
National Miners Union and the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Committee.
At Portage, Pa, last week in reply
to wage-cuts and lay-offs among the
miners here, an unemployed council
of 10 was formed, which will prepare
for the hunger marchers when they
arrive here, and in JohnstoWn, and
to join them in the march on to
Harrisburg.
The Pittsburgh Conference of
n,erlrsrcs rpoa,a 1otio,,c ta S,,>,,ort tho
hunger march is being held today
at the International Lyceum, 805
James ST., N, S., Pittsburgh.
NIAGARA FALLS, April 8.-pele-
gates of the Unemployed Council and
Of the Trade Union Unity League
appeared at the city hall Monday
with demands that 100000 be APP
prepriated TO feed the starving by
the city council through reduction
of official salaries, taking over the
money set aside for payment of in
teerst and principal on city loans,
taking over also money set aside for
the lrMuries Of the rich. such as art
galleries, etc, and by an income tax
on those getting 5000 year or
more.
The city council met them with a
declaration from George w, Knox,
corporation counsel. that all this was
illegal. In q capitalist city it is per-
tectly legal to starye thousands to
death. but 1t is illegal to touch a
penny of profits to save their lives!
"Sit Down."
The delegates, Otto Hall, organizer
of the Trade Union Unity League, a
Negro worker; Peter Stephens, Or
ganizer. and Martin Adams, secre-
tary. of the Niagara Falls Unem-
ployed Council. spoke and were re-
ceiyed with insults by Mayor Will
liam Laughlin and the council, otto
Hall was simply told to "sit down
you are not resident of the city"
Adams assailed the council for draw
ing big wages while workers FAM
lilies starve, and was told by the
mayor, II gave most of my salary
to help the likes of YOU"
"You never helped me any, Adj
ans reminded him.
The delegates we're ousted from,
the council, which has appropriated
only $4,000 for relief and has cut
the wages of those doing emergency
work.
When Hall and the others were