The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
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Tear gas and menaced the strikers
with drawn guns. The mass picket
line was not demoraHzed by these
tactics. Instead, the pickets we're SO
Infatuated that they charged on the
police TO rescue six who were ar
rested. The state police were called
out, and the arrested miners taken
to Ohio county Jail District Attor-
ney A. G. Schiller says he will
charge them under the Redman Act
("Inciting to Riot'), Those arrebed
are: Vases Orneros, John Pindobos.
James Arthur Negro miner, John
Zone, George Courdozley and Stan
ley Barus.
A fight is on against evictions at
the Warwood mine. When constables
eyicted one family at the point of
a gun, the miners massed and forced
q constable to carry the furniture
back in the house himself.
The Warwood mine belongs to the
Costanza Coal Co. The United Mine
Workers at one time had some Or
ganization here, but now its broken
ranks are joining the National Min
ers' Union.
Mass pickets at the Benwood mine
turned the scabs back. One picket
was arrested. A mass rally at York
vile greeted Mrs. Patterson, mother
of one Of the nine Negro boys framed
for the electric chair at Scottsboro,
Ala.
A defense conference is being held
today which will take up Scottsboro
and the arrests of miners.
There are seven mass meetings
Sunday in the Ohio-West Virginia
district to hear reports of returned
delegates to the United Front Ma
tional Conference of Miners held in
Pittsburgh July 1916.
PITTSBURGH, July 19.-Greetings
sent by wires to the national miners
conference here by United Front
Conferences on Anti-Imperialist War
August First Demonstration held in
Youngstown and other places while
the miners were meeting, were not
only cheered by the miners con-
ference, but being made public thru
the mine fields, are receiving to rally
big mass demonstrations The min
ers here see in the conditions won in
the Soviet Union an example for
miners everywhere, and realize why
the injunctioneering and strike
breaking governments want war on
the Soviet Union.
CREIGHTON, Pa, July II. - Five
state troopers and a whole crowd of
deputies attacked the picket line of
200 here this morning Gully I'D and
simply drove Is miners out of the
line. One they blackjacked severely,
with the casual explanation: "You
never worked in this mine" Miners
see new Pinchot strike breaking idea
here, an attempt to permit picketing
only to the actual strikers in any one
mine.
WAYNESBURG Pa, July 17.-All
but four of the Notwithstanding strik-
ers, of whom 81 were arrested in raids
from house to house last week, have
been released, with cases dismissed.
The four who are held charged with
rioting, are Ed Cunningham, his
brother John Cunningham, John
German, and Joe Ronvich. These
are out on bail: $1,000 each for the
first three and $500 for the last.
Ed Cunningham was the man who
carried the flag at the head of the
picket line. He was blackjacked when
deputies and state police attacked
the line to drive the women from it.
Five stitches were taken in his head.
This attack was lead by Sheriff
White of Greene county in person,
and in person, he got a rock along
side his head which knocked him out
of the fight. Two state troopers got
knocked over also, though the picket
line was finally smashed.
In revenge, state police and depu-
ties tried to arrest the whole town
a few days later, going from house
to house at night and dragging min
ers and their families from bed.
These tactics have so far failed to
dampen the spirit of the miners that
a daily picket line of minimum of
$50 is maintained on the Hillman
Coal Company's Walnut Hill mine
near Motif.
Lewis henchmen are trying to nego-
tiate a fake agreement here.
CANONSBURG, Pa, July II. -
There is likely to be head on COL
ision between the striking miners
OF Canonsburg section and the gun
men and guards of Pat CPiggy'O
Pagan and Phil Murray, here Sunday.
During the last two weeks, Pagan
president of District of the United
Mine Workers of America, has an
nounced several meetings in Canons-
burg, but in each case got cold feet
and backed out. Now, it seems, with
Murray. international president
OF the U. M. w. to back him up, and
undoubtedly with state troopers and
gangsters in plenty, he will try again