The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
PICKET LINES KEEP MINES FROM
OPENING; CONDEMN THE ACTION
or THE CIVIL LIBER TIES UNION


convicts working in the mines OF
Tennessee, and that these conditions
drive men to revolt, wherefore the
U. NJ. w. should be recognized by
the operators as their best means OF
crushing such revolt. This is the
U. M. w. policy from Alabama to the
Anthracite and all in between. i
is the A. F. L. policy in the textile
and garment districts and in every
other industry
But the basis of the leaflet is the
reprinting in full of the Pittsburgh
Press editorial of July Is, entitled
"a Common Enemy" the first two
paragraphs Of which read as follows
'"The National. Miners Union
has become a common enemy to
everyone-to coal operators, to the
United Mine Workers, to the gen.
eral public and even to the strikers
who have followed its misguided
leadership.
even the Civil Liberties Union,
traditional friend of oppressed
minorities and stout exponent of
free speech everywhere, has found
it necessary to rebuke this organ
ization for the disgraceful occur
renee at Canonsburg, when mem
bers of the N. NJ. U. broke up by
violence a United Mine Workers
meeting and provoked riot"
A common enemy" in the Goa
camps. of Pennsylvania means some
one to be gassed, dubbed, trampleC
on with horses and maybe shot b,
state troopers, also to be arrestet
and held under $4,000 bond ant
imprisoned.
A common enemy" in Kentuck,
means some one to be huntet
through the hills with machine gun
and shot to death on sight.
If the American Civil Libertie
Union knew this, they can be prout
of the deaths that result. If the
did not know this, they should stol
monkeying with serious matters, in
volving the lives Of hundreds of work
ers, until they get tn efirst element
of political education.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa, Aug. Tin
ternational Board Member Gaz3or
of the U. M. w. collected 500 from
the business men Of Kittanning, Pa
"for the Sycamore and Nu-Min
strikes" a few days ago while tn
United Mine Workers was still abb
to make a bluff that it was leadin
those strikes. The strikers never go
cent of this money. Gazzoni lef
the field with the enemy.
On April IS, the Shawmut Coal &C
cut the miners at Prandycamp fron
II cents a ton to SO cents. The Z
M. w. held a meeting June IS, AM
organized them, and also in thre
other mines. The Shawmut me-
struck, 200 of tenn, but the othe
\ three were not allowed to strike b
the U. M. W., which had an argu
nent there. Then the Shawnut mel
went back and the company fire,
the local union president. Now the
are out again; they struck Monda
and have sent word for the Nationa
Miners Union to come and leat
them this time.
The smen in the mines where tn
U. M. w. has a contract are ready Il
strike, too, for they are getting onl
1900 pounds of coal credited to then
on big, long cars.
SLOVAN, Pa, Aug. THE min
here tried to reopen recently and
picket line of about 800 kept |
closed. About 20 went in and tina
was all.
In immediate retaliation, the loca
constables and the state police an,
sheriff united in determined at
tempt to prevent picketing on tn
public highway entirely and to arbi
trarily close down the Pennsylvania
Ohio-West Virginia Kentucky Strik
ing Miners Relief kitchen.
The constable and police met tn
pickets and ordered them off TIN
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