The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-10
TWO MORE MINES JOIN STRIKE t
WHEN NEARLY 1000 MORE QUIT
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Of the scabs as well as two mine
owners, superintendent and sew
eral foremen clear out of town.
Twenty-six children selling tickets
in the Brownsville section for a pic
mic were arrested in the Donora Steel
town by police who took their money
away and then sent them home.
Other steel towns are refusing per-
nits for relief collections, arresting
collectors.
COVERDALE, Pa, July s-The
Pittsburgh Terminal situation came
TO head here this morning Gully g.
when the first big gap was torn in
the scab agreebent between the COM
pany and the United Mine Workers
Of America The most extreme ter
ror of wholesale evictions, of attacks
on picket lines by all armed forces
of the operators from the state troop
ers down to constables, Of smuggling
and casing and arrests with farcical
trials before the company squire who
always gives jail cen$ences.
driven certain per centage Of the
Pittsburgh Terminal strikers back to
work Their conditions were even
worse than before the strike, for the
IS cents ton which the UNIV boast
ed that it had saved, although the
company demanded forty-two and
a half cent rate, turned out to be
actually AZ and half cents. The
company checked off two and half
cents for paying the UNIV check
weighman," and for UNIV dues, and
the miner got exactly the rate the
company proposed.
For several days it has been known
that a new strike, strike Of those
forced back by terror and the UNIV
agreement was going to take place.
This strike started on a large scale
this morning, when four hundred
men out of the 600 working at Pitts
burgh Terminal Mine No 8, Cover
dale, refused to go in. The couple of
hundred who did go in assured the
pickets that they went only to get
their tools out. All day they have
been trooping out in groops of a
dozen or so, and the mine bids fair
to be shut down during the day. In
any event, a heavy mass picket line
of the local strikers, both those who
cult today and those who never did
90 back under the UNIV slave con-
tract, will be reinforced by marching
pickets, from all the mines around,
and when this line appears tomor-
row morning, Coverdale mine will be
shut down for sure. Then the same
concentration will take place at the
other Pittsburgh Terminal Mines,
and the men working in them have
already pledged to walk out when
the march takes place.
The re-striking of the Pittsburgh
Terminal, after every possible trick
and act of violence by state and COM
pany and the public press has been
exercised to break the strike evactly
in these mines as a beginning TO
breaking it in the rest Of the field
will be of incalculable importance. 1t
must be remembered that this UNIV
contract involved the artificial revival
of the United Mine Workers OF
America by direct interposition OF
the governor of the state. Both the
UNIV. and Pinchot will suffer such
blow to their prestige by the re-
striking Of the mines that they will
not soon recover from it. Watch
the news from the Pittsburgh Ter
minal Mines.
The strike breaking forces know
very we'll that the fight in the Pitts
burgh Terminal is crucial. The CO.
verdsle pickets we're attacked by de-
puties, one man dragged from the
line and beaten up. five in all we're
arrested, including three women.
WAYNESBURC, Pa, July 9.--Af-
ter the deputies and state troopers