The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

On the very day or the murder at
Wildwood, the United Mine workers
Of America, rushing like jaekal to
feast on dead bodies, announced that
it had Concluded a tentatip9 agree
ment with the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Co." On the very day that the
murder took place at Pricedale. the
terms of this breaking agree
ment were announced: IS cents a
ton and chance every 90. days for
the rate to be lowered. \
These boss agents, the u M. w
officials, try to take. advantage of Us
to rob us, thinking We are terrorized
by the killing done by those other
agents of the bosses, the deputies.
But though some miners have been
shot, the strike is very much alive.
The Pittsburgh Terminal strikers
have pledged to meet this slave con-
tract of Pagan and Pursgleye with
mass picketing. They viii have the
support of every striker, and of every
worker everywhere, just as the Wild
wood strikers will.
Miners: Let our answer to this
new deadly attack be: Spread the
strike to every mine In Western
Pennsylvania, tie them up as tight
as a drum, strengthen our strike
committees, Organize bigger rnass
picket lines and with the-strikers of
West Virginia and Ohio we will form
a solid block of struck mines through
which not one ton of coal will be
mined. Miners, mobilize 10000 min
ers to come to Wildwood to pledge
at the funeral of our rnurdered1Com-
rade zigarec that we will continue
the fight against the injunction,
against starvationl toozs
The deliberate planned attack at
Wildwood, the terror and mass ar
rests in Ohio have proven to every
miner that to win our strike against
starvation, for food for our children,
for SIS cents a ton, for $3.50 for day
work, that we have to depend on
our own strength supported by the
workers throughout the country.
Our strike is the first big strike
against the wage-cutting program of
the boss class, who are laying the
base for a general wage eat: We
are conducting a strike that win af-
feet the standard of living OF ali
workers; that is why we are SO Bit
terly and brutalIy attacked That
is why the working class must come
to our assistance. Our victory, and
we will win, lays the basis for a sue
eessful struggle against wage cuts,
| speed-up, against starvation and I'M
employment.
Workers, we will organize bigger
mass picket lines. We win broaden
and strengthen our strike against
starvation. No injunction will stop
picketing, No deputies or Y. M. w.
A, gangsters can defeat us, but we
need your help.
Send us food and clothing for our
children, and we will carry our
strike to a victory. ...
Organize protest memorial demon
strations for cur murdered comrades.
We demand the immediate, arrest
and conviction of Sheriff Cain and
his deputized gunnlen,
We demand the Immediate with
drawal of the injunction: 'sw
We demand the Withdrawn of all
armed forces from the coal fields
We demand the right to STRIKE, thee
right to free speech and assembly.
We demand an open Investigation
to be held in Pittsburgh of ourA
starving conditions, so that the
workers of the country will under
stand our desperate fight against
starvation.
We demand that Governor Pinchot
shall stop trying to force upon the
miners the yoke of the coal oper-
ators' stnke-breaking organization.
the U. M. W. A. f.g
Central Rank and File Strike
Executive Committee,
Vincent Kememovieh, .See'y.