The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
SPEED PREPARATIONS or NATIONAL
MEET OF MINERS JULY 15tE,

! I'll lob ORtJH, Fd., July 81 uO
Central Rank and File Strike Com
mittee, leading body of the strike
against starvation Of over 10000
miners met yesterday in Pittsburgh
on sweltering day of record heat
but the torridity of the weather was
nothing compared with the blister
ing remarks directed towards the
latest strike breaking scheme of the
coal operators, announced today.
The state government, through
Governor Pinchot's conference be-
tween the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal
Co. and The United Mine Workers,
brought forth a strike breaking
agreement with two kinds Of wage
cut for that company.
Now the local press today reports
Hoover and Secretary Of Labor Doak
very sympathetic" to any proposal
for q national conference to "cure
the ills Of the coal industry and end
industrial strife" Doak, in fact, is
quoted as ready to call such a con-
ference at any time if only the oper-
ators request him to do So"
Senator Davis of Pennsylvania
makes an announcement today, also
which clarifies the situation still
more Doak states frankly that such
a national conference will "consol-
idate the weak companies into the
hands Of few string concerns" even
though this would be in violation Of
the present Sherman act.
Their scheme is the Pittsburgh
Terminal strike breaking agreement
on national scale, bringing in the
q. M w. to do the job that terror
can not do" said Frank Borieh in
a keynote speech before the Central
Rank and File Strike Committee.
''They plan to trustify the industry
more so even than the steel indus
try, they plan to make it a great
fascist concern, to drive hundreds of
thousands of miners out Of the field
altogether without any unemploy-
ment insurance, they plan to have a
great slave pen in which the miners
will live under constant terror, hav-
ing nothing to say about the scale
or conditions which will be still worse
than anything we have met so far,
and in which the miners will have
the pleasure of supporting UNIV.
officials in luxury through the check
off"
Speed Plans For National Meet
The strike committee session voted
| to speed the arrangements of the
National Conference of Miners it has
called to meet here July 1916, to
face this new menace and to rally
all support to the present strike, also
to broaden the demands making
basic such as the whole population
of coal miners see they must fight
for. Demands for the six hour day
and five day week, and for unem-
ployment insurance will be proposed
at the National Conference of the
miners, July IS and 16.
Crews of organizers are already in
the Kentucky, and anthracite fields,
and in other fields not yet affected
by this strike, rallying local organ
izations to send delegates to the July
is conference. A letter was read to
the strike committee from one such
organizer in Harlan, Kentucky which
told of the intense devotion of the
miners there to their strike, Of their
eager response to the call Of the Ma
tional Miners Union, containing a
request for more application blanks,
and describing the conditions under
which work has to be done: "One
man going along track drops a
leaflet, another picks it up, and
hands it to still a third You are
holding a meeting, with state militia
proving around the town. Suddenly
four shots ring out, followed by sill
ence. In few minutes a committee
goes out TO investigate, and the bus
mess goes on"
Bentlyville Convention
The Central Rank and File strike
Committee voted to send delegates to
the Bellevlle, Ill. sub-district con-
vention of the United Mine Workers.
A rebellion RACES in southern Illinois
against the UNIV. leadership, 1900
men are striking against starvation,
against the mass discharge of LOO
men in the Orient No. and Orient
No. mines of the Peabody Coal CO.
They are striking against the direct
orders Of the Walker district leader
ship Of the UNIV. that they should
return to work. These rank and file
Illinois miners will be urged to mass
all forces to the support Of the Orient
strikes, and to send a delegation to
the National Miners Conference, July
Is, in Pittsburgh
The strike committee session today
endorsed the women's conference to
be held here July 3 to build and
broaden the leadership of women's
auxiliaries, and to plan their
increased activity in the strike.
Stress Relief Activities
Another motion passed was to APP
point supervisor to check up on
relief activities and stimulate fur