Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-10
MINE UNION CHIEFS
CALLED TO FARLEY
AS STRIKERS PARADE

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lead in an effort to ascertain what
coaold be done to better economic con-
ditions.
Strikers Here to Protest
The disturbed conditions in the BIZ
luminous coal industry in four States
was brought to the attention of the
Federal Government and more graph
icaly to the attention of the White
Sentatives of the National Miners
Union, left wing organization OPP
posed to the conference.
During the parley with the Commerce
and Labor Secretaries, line of miners
and their families, who came here yes
terday in trucks from the mines. pa
raded in front of the White House
gates on Pennsylvania avenue, only to
have their banners and placards seized
By the District police Thu miners
were not molested and no attempts were
made to arrest their leaders They
were cautioned to keep moving and
not to make disturbance.
Charges Strike Breaking.
1t became known that the operators
and the two cabinet officers had failed
TO agree on a general coal conference
OF all elements of the industry when
Secretary Lamont announced later that
little could be accomplished" at this
time
When the parley had concluded, the
leader of the picketing forces OF miners,
Frank Borich, secretary of the union
went into the White House executive
offices and presented to Theodore JOS
lin. one of the Presidents secretaries.
formal protest against the conference
between the two cabinet officers and
the mining operators.
He handed Mr.. Joslin A petition
which said the union wished to protest
against this conference as a conspiracy
of the Hoover Mellon government. the
operators and the United Mine Work
ers of America to break the present
strike of miners in PENNSYLVANIA. West
Virginia, Kentucky and Illinois" Mr.
Joslin told the miners leader that the
petition would be given to President
Hoover.
After receiving this assurance, Borich
returned to the street. reported on the
White House visit and the parade
moved ahead
Earlier in the day the delegation of
the National Miners Union had been
expected at the Commerce Department,
where the conference of operators was
in progress, but they failed to appear
Additional police guards were thrown
about the White House grounds in an
ticipation OF disturbance that failed
to materialize. A crowd Of spectators
gathered on the Avenue as the picket
ing of the White House was in progress
After their banners had been confiscated
by police, the line moved slowly back
and forth along the block. Some stood
in small groups about the corners, but
there were no scenes of disorder.
Although the operators who attended
the conference declined to discuss the
proceedings. Secretary Lamont, in a
formal statement, said many CT the
operators held the view that little could
be accomplished of advantage to the
public. the industry or the workers en-
gagged in it by the summoning of a ma
tional coal conference at this time"
Say Starvation Looms.
He added. however, that mo final
decisions were arrived at in regard TO
this matter"
The object of the gathering was to
elicit free and frank interchange of
opinion and data" he said, and the
bearing of freight rates on coal mar
keting, the variance between scales of
wages current in various parts of the
country. unemployment and other con-
ditions were discussed.
In the miners petition to the Presi-
dent reference was made to the acute
condition of distress existing among the
workers themselves and their families.
This condition, the petition stated, APP
proximates starvation.
Last night the miners assembled
quietly at a hall on the 1900 block of
o street They we're joined by other
groups. end after an hours meeting
climbed into their trucks and started
for home.