The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-22
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ARREST STRIKERS
Is Organizers Held for
SA1 900 Cash Bail
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Kinley, Northern West Virginia, and
100 miners at the Kenwood Mine, Led
by the rank and file district COM
nlittee of the National Miners Union.
At the same time yesterday and
today have been marked by rapid
increase in arrests and terrorist by
the armed forces placed at the dis
posal of the operators by the city,
county and state authorities.
The Wheeling Register says:
Scores of arrests were made yes
terday about the areas affected by
the strike. :" Reports to the dis
trict office of the National Miners
Union and the Rank and File Strike
Committee place the total number of
arrests at a miners and their wives.
In most instances no charges are
filed. The workers are simply ar
rested and thrown in jail at the plea
sure of the scores of special deputies.
The u. NJ. w. A. officials are
carrying on strike-breaking work I'M
der police protection. At the Pan
anna Mine yesterday, John Cirque,
district u. M. w. A. organizer, urged
the men to go back to work and told
them that they could not expect in
creases in wages at once, but condi-
tons would improve as the industry
regained It's feet"
Frank Sepich, local N. NJ. u. or
ganizer, was arrested yesterday while
speaking at the Elm Grove Mine. A
U. M w. A. organizer then spoke
under the protection of the sheriff's
forces.
Sheriff Yost of Jefferson County
has issued a blanket proclamation
which in effect declares Illegal all
strike or organization meetings of
miners and their families. The proc
lanation says, in part: "Acts of vio-
lence and intimidation are being in-
cited and encouraged in large part
by non-residents of Jefferson County,
opposed to the best interests and well
fare of the law abiding citizens
thereof"
Now, therefore, I, William J. Yost,
as sheriff of jefferson County, Ohio,
by the powers invested in me to pre-
serve peace. law and order through
out this county, hereby command in
the name of the state of Ohio all
persons unlawfully or riotously as
sembled to dispense and depart to
their several homes or lawful en-
ploynent."
The official Interpretation of this
czarist ukase is that all striking
miners and N, M u organizers are
at all times "unlawfully or riotously
assembled" and subject to gassing,
clubbing and arrest.
The pickets at the Glens Run
Mine were gassed and dubbed this
morning and one miner is in the
hospital Miners were dubbed at
the Blaine and three badly injured,
Peter Peris, organizer for the N,
M, u, arrested at Warwood Mon
day, is charged with melting to riot
and held for $4,000 bail.
Only one mine in the Fairpoint
section is working. 1t employs about
80 miners and they will strike to-
morrow morning.
Six mass meetings are being held
this afternoon and evening which
will be attended by more than $500
miners. their wives and children.
Preparations have begun for a
mass hunger march to st. Clairsville,
county seat of Belmont County, on
June %.
Fifteen thousand leaflets of the
District Rank and File Strike Com
mittee are being distributed today in
the three Ohio counties of Belmont,
Jefferson and Harrison and across
the Ohio River in West Virginia.