The daily worker., 1931-07-01

y. M. W. A.
But Vesta S is struck tight.
A big local of the National Miners
Union has been organized in Mason
town, among the unemployed workers
of the Frick mines.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 30.-It is
now apparent that not even for strike
breaking purposes will the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co., keep the promises
made for it by the strike-b breaking
United Mine Workers. The UMWA
made its scab agreement to the ac-
compartment of loud shouts that the
normal scale" had been preserved.
An obliging, and equally strike break
ing capitalist press declared that
this meant As cents ton, what the
miners were getting from this com
pany before the strike, and against
which the strikers place a demand
for IS cents.
The demand of the Pittsburgh Ter
n1inal for a AZ and one-half cent rate
was the point on which the Pinchot-
Prsglove- Murray conference in
Harrisburg week before last pretend
ed to be deadlocked.
Those who went back to work un-
der the U. M. w. agreement were
assured by local U. M. W. officials
that the contract was for IS cents.
And the company officially credits
them with As cents a ton-butl-it it
checks off for payment of the United
Mine Workers check weighman the
sum Of two and a half cents a ton.
If he gets it (Which he certainly
does not) this checkweighman in
most Of the large mines is getting
wages of about a thousand dollars
every two weeks. There is a general
understanding in the community that
of this two and a half cents a ton,
the company gets one cent back, Fa-
gan, district president of the U. M.
W., gets one cent and the check
weighman gets half cent for read
ing the scales so that the company
will make more money than it ever
did before.
And even on this short weight, the
miners are actually getting forty-two
and half cents ton for coal, scab
coal. Which proves abundantly the
contention of the National Miners
Union at the time the Pinchot-Purs-
glove-Murray conference was broken
off, that the reason for breaking it
off was not the desire the U. M. w.
pretended to, of fighting the wage
cut. Pursglove, president of Pitts
burgh Terminal then demanded the
A and a half cent rate, and Murray,
Of the U. M w. declared that the
U. M W. would never accept it. The
National Miners Union declared that
neither the q. M. w. nor the COM
pany would stop negotiations for
strike-breaking agreement over two
and a half cents. and that this was
only bluff to try and raise the pres
tige of the U. M. w. and open the
way for an agreement later and
wage cut Everything has worked out
that way.
Meanwhile the Pittsburgh Terminal
workers, those who have yielded to
the U. M. W. swindle, find themselves
with two wage cuts instead of one
direct wage cut of two and half
cents a ton, and an indirect wage
cut at the scales on the tipple.
TARENTUM, Pa, June % 80
U. M. w. workers, strike breaking in
Creighton mine, where the Creighton
Fuel Co. made scab agreement with
Fagan even before the Pittsburgh
Terminal swindle, are high school
boys from Tarentum, New Kensing-
ton, and surrounding towns.
| RENTON, Pa, June 28-The super
intendent here takes squad of depu-
ties with him and visits every miner
individually. He tells them that I'M
less they go back to work. those for
eign-born will be deported and those
not subject to deportation will be ar
rested.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 29.--An-
other meeting was held yesterday at
Har1nerville, in which also a mobili-
zation took place for the hunger
march.
| At both these meetings, and many
others in steel towns not yet reported
on, the question Of relief for the
striking miners was brought up. Con-
tributions were made by the crowd,
and at Harmerville, the Women's
Auxiliary of the National Miners
Union is arranging dance for re-
lief on Saturday night.
At the Ambridge meeting the pic
mic funds were turned over to the
Daily Worker. and special collec-
ton was made for the striking min
ers' relief.
Harry Cannes, of the Daily Worker
staff spoke at Ambridge. Stool Pig
cons of the Jones and Laughlin steel
mills were present. One of them was
exposed publicly, and Immediately
skunk from the meeting.
RENTON, Pa, June 20. - Workers
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