The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
WIR DELEGATES
SEE NEED FOR
MINERS RELIEF

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ganiZation of the w. 1. r. branches
and collections of relief to the sec
tons and towns. 1t was specially
pointed out that relief collection has
so far been too much confined to the
large cities to the neglect of the
smaller industrial towns, where
masses of workers are sympathetic to
the strike and ready to support 1t.
Sept rs is the big date in the Solid
arity Week campaign, though the
date may be advanced or delayed in
certain districts for special reasons.
The entire conference has demon
strated to the w. I. r. delegates
from outside the strike area the ter
rifle starvation, the masses Of hun
cry children, the shoeless miners
marching with bleeding feet on the
picket lines, the slow, never ceasing
hunger that afflicts man and woman
and child.
The delegates from outside Of the
strike area have been convinced by
the direct contact with the miners
that this strike against hunger is
not ended, that 1t is going forward
under new forms, that it will mobi-
lie thousands and thousands for
struggle in the near future and that
the question of food and funds to
buy food is the most important
thing in the world for the w. I. r.
and the miners.
A great campaign is just now
under way, it has been outlined at
this conference. The delegates will
go home to carry out the organiza-
tional side of it, but the relief itself
must come largely from the masses
Of workers. Every worker has his
duty to these heroic miners who have
struck the first blow to stop the
bosses program of wage cuts and
misery. Every worker should send
his donation-money, food, clothing,
tents, or shoes, to the nearest w. I,
R. branch, or to the Pennsylvania
Ohio-West Virginia Striking Miners
Relief Committee CIV. I. R) at GIL
Penn Ave, Room 205, Pittsburgh. Pa.
RALPHTON, Pa, Aug. 80. - A
committee from the Women's Aux
iliaries of the N. M. U. went to the
Catholic priest here and demanded
the hall which he controls, for a
miners meeting The priest refused
on the ground that the coal COM
pany supplies him with free light
and fuel. The women told him that
unless they got the hail. it would be
useless for the priest to come around
for the regular tax Of 81 month per
family which the church levies on its
members. The priest is writing to
his bishop for permission to grant
use of the hall.
WASHINGTON, Pa, Aug. 3o.-The
case of Charles Krumbull who was
on trial here Saturday before the
same Judge Cummins who so COM
pletely took the part Of the prosecu-
ton in the Canonsburg case, has
gone to the jury. 1t is probable that
the jury has already rendered a
sealed verdict, and that 1t will be
announced Monday.
The case of Krumbull and Vukos
arose out of the picketing at the Of.
g. W." mine of the Pittsburgh Ter
minal Coal Co. at Avella, early in
the strike. Krumbull and Vukos
were attacked by a scab named Mike
Rocki, armed with a pick, and the
scab's son, armed with a powder
box" "a box to carry dynamite IND.
They defeated the two scabs, and
had them on the run, when rail-
road detective came into the fight,
and arrested Krumbull. Vukos was
never arrested; the police were not
able to find him.
At the trial Friday, Krumbull was
able to get into the record that there
was a strike on at the mine, which
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea was trying to break with a wage
cutting contract. Kruunbull declared
In court that the National Miners
Union was the only miners union
which actually fought for the I'M
provennent Of the conditions and
wages. He exposed the wage cuts
and mass starvation inflicted on the
miners by the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Co. with the assistance Of the
U. M. w. A.
The witnesses against Krumbull
were the two scabs, who represented
Krumbull and vukos as the attackers.
and the r. r. dick, and woman,
the wife Of professional scab. This
woman in all probability never saw
the fight or Krumbull, but she swore
she was standing on her porch, and
heard Krumbull whisper to Vukos,
Lets get the two scabs!" Cross
examination brought out the fact
that she heard this whisper at
a distance of 200 feet. The detective
admits he did not see the start OF
the fight. The jury was selected
under the same circumstances az the
Thompson case jury.