The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-10

Moflt night before last, dragging
them from their beds in the dark
and sending them to jail at Waynes-
burg, another raid was staged with
40 state troopers taking part, and
apparently all the deputies in
Greene county. Strikers who had
been picketing the Hillman Coal Co.
mine and were known to be plan
ming to march on other mines were
sezde in house to house search.
1t is not known at present how many
were taken. but reports speak of the
whole town being under arrest. 1t
is known that some 81 we're loaded
into vans and taken off to the
Waynesburg Jail.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July s.-The
bail set for Thomas Myerscough,
already out on $4,000 bail because
he led the picketing at wildwood on
June % when zigaric was killed and
twelve other pickets wounded have
been set at $4,000 additional on the
coroner's court recommendation that
he be held to the grand jury for in
dictment for manslaughter.
Myerscough may be arrested at
any time.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 9.-The
Central Rank and File Strike Com
mittee in full meeting today. ap-
plauded the announcement Of two
more mines on strike and made plans
to intensity the struggle in the Pitts
burgh Terminal Mines.
1t applauded likewise the state
ment of the Relief Director, Alfred
Wagenknecht, that the relief cam
paign was better systematized now,
and that the local and sectional re-
lief apparatus was working better,
1t agreed emphatically with the
declaration TO Frank Borich, ma
tional secretary of the National
Miners Union, that Governor Pin
chot's statement urging the Red
Cross to give food to the starving
children in the coal fields was sim
liar tactic to that Of Pinchot when
earlier in the strike he stated that
there must be no evictions and that
mass picketing should be permitted.
Pinchot poses as liberal, but lets
the state troopers and sheriffs smash
picket lines and evict the striking
miners. Similarly he sees the mass
pressure Of the hunger marches in
Washington and Allegheny coun-
ties, and knows that other are to
come, and desires to make liberal
gesture, passing the buck to the Red
Cross, instead of moving for an ap-
preparation by the state to give food
to hungry children. The Red Cross
has already announced that it will
give 10 food.
A high point in the sessions of the
Central Rank and File Strike Com
mittee was the appearance of the
fast of the released Wildwood pris-
oners, out on bail. Their spokesman
declared, while all stood on the plat
form, that they did not go to Jail for
fun, but in the fight for bread and
butter TO themselves and their fam
lilies, and for the same reason we're
willing to go again.
The strike committee endorsed
the decisions and executive and dis
trict secretary elected by the con-
vention of women's auxiliaries held
here July g.
William w. Weinstone, appearing
as the representative of the Commu-
mist Party, addressed the Central
Rank and File Strike Committee,
bringing greetings from the Party,
and pointing out that the Commu-
mist Party is the Party of the work
ers, fighting all their battles, aiming
to unite the workers in the present |
fight against the bosses drive to re-
duce the workers to starvation. The
Communist representative stated:
THE Communist Party unites all
workers to overthrow the system of |
There Is . new rising wave OF |