The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-22
OHIO, ". VIRGINIA STRIKE SPREADS,
HUNGER MARCH ON ALLEGHENY CO.

shop with the same mass picketing
with which we would have met an
attempt to operate under a scab
agreement with the U. M. W"
These demands were presented to
Pinchot by the delegation in the
name of all striking miners of wes-
tern Pennsylvania.
l. Open hearing in Pittsburgh on
the Pennsylvania mine situation to
give the striking and unemployed
miners an opportunity to expose the
existing mass starvation.
2. Removal of all armed forces,
including state police, coal and iron
police, deputy sheriffs from the strike
area.
3. Immediate release of all pri-
soners arrested in connection with
the strike and unemployment dem
onstrations.
4. Establishment of state unen-
ployment insurance and immediate
relief to all unemployed workers and
striking miners.
5, No restrictions In any COM
munity on relief collections for the
striking miners,
6, Abolition Of injunctions against
the striking miners.
T. Establishment of full right to
speak, to assemble, to picket, and to
demonstrate, and annulment of sher-
IFS proclomations of Washington
and other counties denying the
workers these rights.
8, Abolition of terror against for
elgn born workers, right to fully par
ticipate in strike activities and re-
pudiation and rejection of Sheriff
Gains proposal for the wholesale de-
portation of foreign-born workers.
9, Abolition of persecution against
Negroes and women in the strike
area.
10. Abolition of evictions-t h e
state to pay the rent for all evicted
workers.
II. Adoption and enforcement of
adequate legislation to protect the
miners from the devastating effects
of the unhealthy and unsafe condi-
tons in the mines.
II. Abolition of forcible dealing
with company stores-the company
to pay the miners in cash.
49, Abolition of company control
of the company towns and the open
ing of these towns to the right of
free speech and assemblage to the
workers.
Ia. Cessation of efforts by Gov
ernor Pinchot and local authorities
and strike-breaking organizations to
use the state power of the National
Miners Union, back under the yoke
of the operator controlled United
Mine Workers Of America.
is. General conference of the coal
operators and the Central Rank and
File Strike Committee, National
Miners Union, on the basis of the de-
nlands submitted to the coal oper-
ators by our committee.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 21.-One
Of the leaders of the hunger march
on Washington which was held June
is, went back to Diamond Mine near
California, run by small independ-
ent concern, and working 1870 men.
He organized strike and they all
came out, June 10. Then he led the
men in their pit clothes down to
join the eVsta Coal Company Mine
Number picket line
At Vesta Number 4, also at Cali
fornia, June 18,a striker was ares
ted for merely talking with some
one inside through a crack in the
eight foot high board fence which
this company built around its prop
erty Monday. He is charged with
being an organizer of the National
Miners Union.
PITTSBURGH. Pa, June 21.--The
fight against importation of men for
strike breaking purposes is speeding
up. This morning tJune 19) the
Council of the Unemployed organ
ICED picketing of two agencies both
at Grant and Second Street, Pitts
burgh They are Cowaddo Bros,
supplying scabs to Kinloch mine, and
Budd-Davis.. supplying for Slovan
Mine and West Virginia.
Unemployed workers from Cleve-
land are trooping up to the National