The daily worker., 1931-07-01

organizers Htt few of the men to-
gether, gave them $40 each, and got
them to sign an agreement with the
company for 60 cents. They had been
getting 70 cents ton. The men are
getting wise TO the situation pretty
fast, and will be out on strike again
soon.
The U. NJ. w. campaign of attempt
ed bribery continues. u. M w. or
ganizers in many parts Of the field
go around with supply of whisky,
and try to get strike leaders in the
various localities to drink. They tell
the strikers: you go back to the old
union and back to work, and we'll
see that your children get a good
education. When that fails, they try
talking to the wives and children. The
U. M. w. officials are still handing
around IS and $40 bills along with in
vitations to "come and talk it over
with Pagan"
At the "P. g. W. mine of the Pitts
burgh Terminal Coal Co., here, (NIine
No. 81 the picket line has kept all
from the outside from getting in to
scab, but something over a hundred
living in the company houses, out
of the normal working force of $50,
went back to work several days ago,
under the combined pressure of dep
uty terror, eviction threats, and hun
ger, and the intrigues of the United
Mine Workers.
This morning a rebellion broke out
among these men. The company has
violated even its scab agreement with
the UNIV by kicking the check
weighman off the tipple. There is
an active dissention among the men
forced back to work over the refusal
of the UNIV. to allow Negro speak
ers. Furthermore, there is intense
disgust over the breaking of all pro-
misses to improve conditions in the
mine. There is the same old situa-
ton of no pay for dead work, of
dangerous conditions, of cheating on
weights and in company stores. They
will come out again.
A picnic in .BurgettStown Sunday,
with about 200 present and Johnstone
and ballet and local speakers, includ-
ing Negro speaker, pledged to come
on the "P. & W." picket line even if
they have to walk all the way. Strik-
ers are badly handicapped by abso-
iate lack of funds for gas and oil for
cars, even when they can borrow
them, and it is a six mile hike each
way to the picket line.
CANNONSBURG, Pa, June %. -
The company boss tried to come in
to a mass meeting of 800, many Of
them from the still innsbruck National
No. mine. The miners chased him
out with threats to beat him up If
he stayed.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 29.-Han-
ma Employment Agency, 443 Boule-
ward of The Allies, tried again this
morning to slip out eight scabs to
Harmerville this morning June 29)
At the time there were only two MEM
bers of the Unemployed Council
present, but they put up a militant
picket line, and pulled six of the men
out of the car, only two going on
with it. During the course of the
argument, a deputy jumped on the
step of the car, and welding 9. knife
cut Grudich Marko in the finger and
lip. The car had a Pennsylvania Ii
cense, No. 54o74, and is thought TO
belong to the mine company.
The same two pickets got two out
of a car of twelve being sent this
morning by Budd Davis, Second Ave.
and Grant St. to Coverdale to scah
in the Pittsburgh Terminal Mine No
8 there. Heavier picketing of these
agencies is being organized by the
councils.
BENTLEYVILLE, Pa, June %. -
Miners marching in from surrounding
territory to help picket the Bethle-
hem Steel Co. Ellsworth mine are
meeting armed force of the coal COM
panies. This morning three truck
loads of miners drove in from Char
leroi, and as soon as they got over
the borough line, the conipany's coal
and iron police came down on them
with tear gas and clubs The pickets
were rushed by the yellow dogs just
as they were getting out of the trucks
Many we're beaten up by deputies who
caught and dubbed them after the
gas scattered them. Half a dozen
we're arrested.
At the same time $50 marching
from Cokesburg Junction were met
at the borough line by coal and iron
police armed with all possible weap-
ons from machine guns to blackjacks
The pickets marched three times UP
to the borough line but could not get
across.
Two hundred men from Bentley
Vile, trying to reach the Ellsworth
picket line we're stopped just before
they reached the borough line, with
its menacing force of coal and iron
police. The marchers were stopped
by the Pinchot state cops, and a lieut.
enant of state police made them a
denapnpic sneech. saving I'VE cant