The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
MINERS IN CENTRAL PENNA.
BACK UNITED FRONT PROGRAM

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. July 28.-"This
is the knid of leadership we want"
said one of the rs delegates from 40
mines, with 10000 men in them, as
he looked over the second Central
Pennsylvania District miners con-
ference, Sunday. eve want rough
looking miners, not the slick UNIV.
officials who come and stick their
chest out at U.s." said the speaker,
and his fellow delegatse cheered.
The conference met in a hall lib
orally decorated with posters: Min
ers, Organize and Fight against
Starvation" Join the National
Miners Union" Down with the
Bosses Tool, the UM.W.A.," s&o
Discrimination against Negroes and
Foreign Born Workers. Demon
strate Against War on August l."
A Ukrainian workers organization
meets in this hall; there were pic
lures of Taras Schevchenko, a revo-
lutionist of the middle of the last
century.
But the miners were there to dis
cuSS the starvation and misery of
America of today. The secretary of
the National Miners Union, Frank
Borich, made an opening address,
reminding them of the spreading
strike of the 10000 already out, of
the spirit of revolt against condi-
tons al lover the coal fields of the
government strike breaking; Sheriff
Cain and his threats against women
and children, the gunfire of the dep
utiesat Wildwood, the support of the
UNIV. by Governor Pinchot, and
the Hoover strike breaking confer
ence scheduled for the near future
at Washington. They voted to send
a delegation to go with the delega-
tons of other districts to that con-
ference, and tell Hoover and the OPP
orators that they can not trustify
the industry at the expense of the
workers in it, nor make the miners
recongnize the UNIV.
How will the minres of Central
Pennsylvania act" said Borich
will you continue to look on at the
strike just few miles away from
you, or will you join it? Why are
there no wage cuts just now in Cen
trail Pennsylvania? Because of the
strike in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio
and West Virginia. If that strike
should be lost, terror and wage cuts
will come Immediately to Central
Pennsylvania
Let's have women on the lines
right from the beginning" said Mary
Smith district secretary of the Wo-
mems Auxilliaries of the N.MU. "If
you delay to organize the women,
it grows harder to organize them. If
you don't organize them so they are
in the fight and understand what it
is all about, the boss will use them
against you"
This conference. representing "a
more mines than the first one held
a week ago, likewise endorsed the
Program of Unity and Action Of the
National conference held July 1915
in Pittsburgh, tt elected a scale
committee of II, which met imme-
diately after the conference was
over and drew up the following de-
mands for Central Pennsylvania:
Mchine coal-81 cents a ton; pick
coal, $1.01 per ton; day work inside,
Sc a day; outside, S. day; cutters
ID cents a yard, to be adjusted To-
cally for rock; payment for all dead
work t ODE based no day mems pay;
union checkweighmen at every mine;
enforcement Of the eight hour day;
recognition of the N.MU.; supplies
to be delivered at the face in ade-
quate quantity; safety measures; 5
cents extra per ton for pushing cars;
abolition of the dial scale and use
of Fairbanks beam scale.
1t will be seen that certain de-
mands not in the western Pennsyl-
vania scale are included, because Of