The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

constable tried to make some arrests.
He seized one woman and put her
in the car, and the crowd collected
around and the got away Then q
fierce attack, clubbing and charging
with horses into the crowd, was
launched by the police, who now
amounted to 16 state troopers, Of
whom six we're mounted. The picket
line was broken up and three were
Observation-Disclosures Vysocki, Mrs
Petra Walivick and George Pas
nickoS.
But an even more serious attack
on the miners, striking against star
walton, came a little later. During
the attack on the picket line con-
siderable number of the pickets
were driven by the police into the
relief kitchen, erected near the
highway, but on property leased by
the Relief Committee.
The sheriff came into this kitchen
and ordered it to be closed by noon,
or he would have it padlocked!
The international Labor Defense
Immediately sent representative to
Slovan to put up fight against this
deliberate attempt to starve the
miners of the Lancloth Mine back to
slavery.
NEW KENSINGfON, Pa, Aug. Z.
Barking Mine of the Hillman Coal
and Coke Co. tried to reopen this
morning. 1t has been closed down
by the strike and the superintendent
has been making fancy promises to
the men that If they would come
back wages would be higher, more
of the coal tey mine will actually be
weighed, conditions better, etc. 1t
was supposed to reopen Monday,
but failed. 1t tried this morning,
with a flock Of state police present.
One of the promises of the super
was that no deputies would be hired.
But, without telling the men what
he was going to do, he substituted
state cossacks. Very few went into
the mine, which had a good picket
line.
The National Miners Union has re-
peatedly requested that Governor
Pinchot, withdraw the armed forces
Of the state from the strike area,
where they are engaged in terroriz-
ing and beating, casing, riding down
and arresting miners and members
of miners families.
Now governor Pinchot is reported
in the newspapers as threatening in
a speech to the Pennsylvania Natl
onal Guard modified at Mt. Gretna
to send the militia also into the mine
strike area, and in the course Of his
speech he goes out OF the way to
make the propaganda statement-a
! false staemnet-- that the "'trouble"
in Pennsylvania, that is, the strike,
is due to "agitators from other states. "
All the trouble in Pennsylvania is due
to the attacks by the armed forces
Of the state on miners striking
against starvation. We protest most
emphatically against the plan of the
operators man, Pinchot, to increase
these armed forces by adding to them
| the state militia.
The Pennsylvania Ohio-West Vir-
ginia- Kentucky Striking Miners Re-
lief Committee recently telegraphed
governor Pincht a request for the
tents of the National Guard, to house
eyicted miners families. Governor
Pinchot answered with a telegram to
the Relief Committee, dated July 7,
and statinb:
Il am doing my best and hope to
prvent starvation among the striking
miners and especially among the chill
dren and only wish 1 had the power
absolutely to forbid evictions. I'm
fortunately do not"
Governor Pinchot said not one
word in his telegram about the re-
quest of the Relief Committee for the
tents Of the National Guard, but now
he proposes to send the National
Guard itself, to dragon the strikers,
instead of sending their tents to save
the lives Of hungry, evicted women
and babies.
The state treasury department re-
ported August 3, 1881, that it has a
surplus of $50, 636, 426. which is more
than a million dollars in excess of the
surplus six months ago, and more
than 100000 in excess Of the
balance a year ago. While this enor-
nous treasure piles up at Harrisburg,