The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-08
new Squirt OF STRIKE ACTIVITY IN
MINES UNIV THOUGHT IT SOLD OUT
BRINGS AN OUTBURST OF SHOOTINGS
Key to Situation is Pittsburgh Terminal Coal
Co. Mines Where UMWA Is Carrying On
It's Hardest Scabbing Activity
PITTSBURGH. Pa,

PITTSBURGH, Pa July IA
sudden realization by the strike
breaking forces, operators and the
United Mine Workers of America
that the strike Is taking on new life,
that those forced by terror and the
UNIV. strike breaking agreement
into the Pittsburgh Terminal Mines
are coming out again, that new
mines are striking day by day par
ticularly in the Brownsville section
has resulted over the weekend in an
outbufst OF sf1ootings.
Today monday Deputy Sheriff
John Meadows shot Mike Topuisky,
a National Miners Union organizer
in the arm and again in the leg.
The deputy offers the ancient ex-
cuse that Topulsky was trying to
escape" after arrest. He does not
even make a pretense of excusing
the arrest, just one Of the many il
legal and strike-breaking jailings for
which deputies are notorious in this
strike.
Last night Constable Dan Douglas
with his son an assistant gunman
shot John Oliver a Negro through
the chest and in the side on the ex-
cuse that Oliver and other starving
workers we're trying to enter Pitts
burgh Coal Company store at Smith
ton.
AS Isaih Hawkins, Negro miner
and chairman Of the district relief
COMMITTEES was driving home from
picnic in an auto which carried
also a child, two women and three
other men, a group of deputies
standing near Vesta Coal Company's
mine No. S saw the auto passing on
the public highway and opened fire
on it. Just how many bullets ripped
past their heads, the miners could
not say, Most Of them were aimed
at Hawkins. One missed by a
hands breadth, and tore 9 hole
| three inches in circumference
through the side Of the car. When
miners notified the sheriff of Wash
ington county Of this attempt at cold
bIooded assassination of strike
leader. he promised casually to 'in-
vestigate."
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July T.
Strike activity in western Pennsyl-
varia the center OF the strike against
starvation by 10000 miners took on
new life during the last days Of last
week and today Monday. The
key to the situation is In the Pitts
burgh Terminal Coal Company
mines, where several hundred men
were driven back to work under q
United Mine Workers scab agree
ment which is enforced by terror,
direct violence against the picket
lines, and wholesale eviction threats.
There are many indications that
these men are thoroughly disguised
with the even worse conditions than
before, which they find in the mines.
The wages have been cut two and
half cents ton by the checkod,
the UNIV. checkweighman allows
worse stealing on the weights than
the company practised before there
was q checkweighman, and there are
new outrages every day. The latest
Is at Horning, where set Of fines
for dirt IN the coal has been estab-
Hshed by the company-with the APP
proval of the UNIV. officials For
the first ofIense in a month, the
miner is fined so cents. For the
next the fine is sl5o. For the third
they take So out of his pay
Today Monday strong picket
tine was thrown across the Pittsburgh
Terminal mine No. 3 at MoNenauer.