The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
MINERS TO ANSWER SECOND
MURDER BY PUSHING STRUGGLE
Strike Executive Committee Calls On Workers
to Answer Staying of Strikers

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June "a
Showing that the coal bosses are
resorting to murder in a desperate
effort to break the ranks of the
striking miners against starvation
conditions, the Central Rank and
File Strike Executive Committee,
issued a statement calling for re-
newed struggle to win the demands
the strikers are now fighting for
Indicting the murderers of Mike
Filipovich a strike sympathizer at
Pricedale, the statement declares:
The brutal attack upon the picket
line of the striking miners, their
wives and children at Wildwood, yes
terday, resulting in the murder of
our comrade, zigarec, the wounding
of at least u others and the arrest
of At strikers, is followed today by
the murder at Prieedale of Mike
Filipovich, a strike synlpathizer, and
the serious woundilg Of four strik-
ers by deputies who apparently
agreed at their meeting the day be-
fore that they would shoot today.
These murders, woundings and ar
rests are the answer of the govern
ment the coal operators and the
U. NJ. w A. to the strike Of the
70
What are we striking forP These
are our demands:
/. Machine coal .......55c ton
2. Pick coal .........,.. Tic ton
3, Cutters .............. 12c ton
4. Day men .......... $3.50 day
5. Helpers .,.......... $40 day
6. Narrow work yardage, 81 cents
per yard. Cutters, IS cents per yard.
7. Payment for all dead work to
be based on daymen's rate of $5.55.
8. Outside skilled labor, $3.50.
9. Outside unskilled labor, $500.
10. Union acknowledgment at every
mine,
II. Enforcement of S-hour day.
Il. Recognition of National Min
ers' Union. Demands for mechan-
ical and conveyor leaders being
formulated
We striking miners are being am
pushed. tear gassed, dubbed and
killed because we demand SIS cents
a ton for mining coal, because we
demand $3.50 for days work, be-
cause We refuse to allow the coal
operators to short weight us, because
we refuse to- starve. In this strike
we are met by the armed forces of
the state, the local government, the
coal and iron police and the gangster
strike breaking U. M. w. A.
The Injunction.
Judge Rowand's injunction was
an order to Sheriff Cain to deputize
every gunmans' that the Butler Con-
soldated Coal Co. and the u. M. w.
A. could furnish; Judge Rowand's
injunction was Sheriff Gains au-
thority when he gave the order
"Ghoot to kill" The lie that the
strikers shot at the deputies is self
evident; all the casualties are among
the strikers. The striking miners
will not be driven back to the mines
by injunctions. The Injunction will
be broken.
We charge Sheriff Cain and his
hoodlum deputies with murder. We
charge Judge Rowand who by his
Injunction laid the basis for this at
tack, with being responsible for this
murder, We charge Governor Pin
chot with responsibility for these at
tacks against the miners in the coal
fields by permitting the coal fields
to be overrun by deputized gunner,
through his refusal to withdraw the
armed forces from the strike area.
The atrocities at Wildwood and
Pricedale aimed to drive the miners
back to starvation will fail. On the
contrary they will stiffen our strug-
gle. When we miners demand bread
and the government answer is bull
lets, then we know that we must
organize more strongly. 1t now be-
comes more clear to every miner
and his family the strike breaking
role of Governor Pinohot who talks
glibly about the right to picket while
his henohmen issue injunetions and
shoot us down, at the same time
that he il carrying on secret confer
ences with the coal operators and
the u. M. w. A. to break our strike.