The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-28


File Strike Committee, was arrested
yesterday at a section strike COM
mittee meeting here on a warrant
obtained by the United Mine Workers
officials and is held on $1,000 bonds
At the same melting William Nc
Queen, Negro miner of Hills Station,
member of the section strike COM
mittee and of the Central Rank and
File Strike Committee. was arrested.
Five detectives, three state police,
and an official of the United Mine
Workers came into the section strike
committee meeting, the UNIV stool
pigeon pointed out those he wanted
arrested. The other members of the
committee were questioned in an alb
usiye manner, but not then arrested.
Shortly afterward, however, five more
arrests we're made: Mike and jim
Turk of Strabane, Henry Stacey, Ne
gro miner of Cannonsburg; Edgar
Jones, of Houston, and Stella Rasef-
sky, aged 10, active in relief work, Of
Meadowland.
Bonds for all but Thompson are
set at $1,000 each. All are to come
up before Alderman j. F. Carmichael,
of Washington, today at which time
the charges will be announced.
The arrest is a desperate effort to
terrorize the striking miners of this
section back to work, and an attempt
of the UNIV officials to get revenge
against the miners who repulsed the
UNIV thugs and beat up their leader,
Pat Pagan, at the Canonsburg meet
ing, Sunday
CREMONA, KY, July 27.-Miners
here who have work, are working one
day a week. Triple men put in IL
or 10 hours a day and get pay for
10 hours. Track men put in IL or
IA hours and get pay for eight hours.
So do the motor men and others.
Leaders get 80 cents ton and no
pay for dead work Some places in
this field they pay 20 cents ton,
and here the most Of living hasn't
fallen much since the war. The
company has been allowing the min
ers, who can not possibly live on the
tonnage pay, 81 a day for food, but
now they have cut it to 81 week
per family. There are 40 Negro miners
and 300 white miners here.
Some one has been distributing The
Southern Worker to the houses at
night, and throufih this, the miners
first found out about the National
Miners Union. They are ready to
join it.
YATESBOROUGH, Pa. July Pr
Vincent Kemenoyich, secretary of the
Central Rank and File Strike Com
mittee, arriving here yesterday DULY
25) to speak at g. mass meeting OF
miners of M Mine, who are on
strike found that the sheriff Of Arm
strong County, with IL deputies and
three state troopers had been going
through the town all day, threatening
them and telling them that there
would be no meeting because Of an
injunction against assembling, con-
ferring, meeting, etc.
When Kemenovich came, however,
some $50 miners were there for the
meeting, and the sheriff, seeing their
determination, thought it better, aft
er a short argument, to permit the
meeting. He stayed however, and
once interrupted Kemenovich's speech
to tell him Don't attack the govern
ment"
Kemenovich answered that he was
not attacking all governments, but
the government which represented
the interests of the few aaginst the
interests of the many; that, in fact,
he stood for a government of the
workers and farmers. The sheriff
subsidized.
One state trooper told the speaker
the state police were in Yatesborough
"at the direct orders OF Governor
Pinchot to see that you don't do any
thing like what you did in Canons-
burg
The miners OF marlborough are
not led by the United Mine Workers,
as has been claimed. and are for
the program of the National Confer
ence held last week in Pittsburgh.
They will send their delegates to the
Central Pennsylvania district confer
ence Sunday in Johnstown, to take
part In formulating strike demands
for this district.
COLE, Pa, July 27.-The Bowers
vile Coal Co. here has charged rent
to q miner and his son, month after
month, until total of 500 has thus
been stolen from them, for company
house actually occupied by two other
families, both of which are also
charged rent. The company has an
unwritten rule that you have to pay
rent or you don't work. The mehe
fact that these two miners do not
live In the company house but out
side the company property, makes no
difference to the boss.
RMLTON, Pa, July 27.--Superirl-
tendent McClane of the Westmore-
land Coal Co. and his deputies go
from house to house here, starting
at 8 a. M, waking the miners up,