The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
DRESSER BRANDS
UNIV TREACHERY
Desounces Wildwood,
Arnold City Murders
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the miners have been receiving star
walton wages. Uniformly from each
person I interviewed I extracted a
corroberated story of pay that in
sures a living only little above the
starvation line and in some obviously
starvation wage. learned how
companies operate their company
stores, where they overcharge the
miners for what they must buy and
extract the pay from wages earned
and before the miner is paid"
Dresser failed to see any house in
the mining village in his investiga-
ton chat was not positively often
sive," 1.-THE houses were unbelieva-
bly, bad, colorless, unrepaired and
sometimes enclosed and forbidden to
strangers. The villages are slums."
1.-THE workers were SO poor they
were able to obtain decent clothing
and decent food or enjoy entertain
ment of any kind, not even so much
as a moving picture show. radio
or photograph"
National Miners Union Leading
Strike.
"The men were, discarded by the
U,M.W.A. and A. F. of L. until the
National Miners Union invaded the
field when the United Mine Workers
took a hand again in the interest
of the corporations"
The Daily Worker received the
following statement from Theodore
Dresser or the wildwood and Arnold
City murders:
1--WE find that the shooting at Ar
mold City, which resulted fatally for
Mike Pilipovich, grocer, was unpro-
voked and directly attributable to the
instigation of agents Of the Pitts
burgh Coal Co. interested in break
ing the miners strike. Concerning
the shooting at Wildwood, which
caused the death of Peter Zigaric,
miner, We note that Sheriff Robert
Cain of Allegheny County, basing
himself on reports of deputies, de-
MES absolutely the truth of a news
paper account by an eyewitness of
the shooting. We are inclined, on
the contrary, to give certain Gre
dence to this report, the only impair
tial one, SO far as we know, that has
yet been made. and we are unable
to understand why the only people
arrested in Connection with this af-
fair were miners, charged with riot
ing, The two shooting affrays, taken
together with other evidence submits
ted to us, lead us to the conclusion
that the use of unframed deputy
sheriffs to police mine strikes is
menace to the peace and safety of
the community.
1--WE find that the effort now be-
ing made in certain quarters to re-
habilitate the organization of the
United Mine Workers, which has
been thoroughly discredited in the
eyes of most of it's former adherents
in this section, has more justifica-
ton than would attend an attempt
to rehabilitate the former Kaiser
of Germany.
"We find that the relief accorded
to miners during the last year was
inadequate in many cases to pre-
vent conditions of semi-starvation,
and we are further informed that
even this inadequate relief was cut
off Immediately on the beginning
of the present strike. We brand this
action of the relief authorities as
a deliberate participation in strike
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tors.
1--WE find that illegal and indie
feasible actions too numerous to
mention have ben perpetrated against
the miners by the very authorities
of the law whose duty it supposedly
is to protect the personal rights of
those very miners against invasion by
interests. We find that the
legal defense available to these vic
tins of judicial and legal injustice is
inadequate, so that the whole situa-
ton constitutes challenge to and
an indictment of the legal profess
sion of this section of the country.
We find that the authorities charged
with maintaining law and order and
with administering the law have
been too solicitious of the sa-called |
"rights Of property and too little
concerned with the personal rights
of the miners. We condemn this
Anticipated system of Justice as a