The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
Arrest 30 Children In
Effort to Stop
Collections
Steal Relief Boxes
Pittsburgh Work ers
Ready to Give

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-PoHce herr
today terrorized and disrupted the
Childrens Tag Day for Miners Re-
lief. Thirty children we're arrested,
taken to jail, threatened and in
suited and scores had their creden-
tials taken away from them and torn
up. Pittsburgh workers showed great
willingness to help the strikers with
relief with big baskets of food brought
in by children.
The cops stole the collection boxes
from these children and pocketed the
money which was to go to feed the
starving miners and their families.
More than a hundred Of the chil-
drel regathered their forces at tbs
entrance of the building in which the
Relief Committee is located, and
broke through the police line which
had been established there TO pre-
vent the children from moving.
One seven-year-old youngster, his
frail body not quite hidden by his
tattered overalls, answered a cops
question as to whom the money was
being collected for by Immediately
saying, the working-cla
Norma Martin, local Workers In
ternational Relief secretary, was ar
rested by two policemen as she joined
group of children coming out Of
the building. AS Martin tried to free
herself from the tight grip of the
policemen, they twisted her arms
until they subdued her. She was
then taken to Jail Frank Segar,
Freiheit correspondent, who went to
Martins aid was also arrested and
charged with disorderly conduct.
Stations all over Pittsburgh had
been set up early in the morning, and
from these children we're sent out
with the collection boxes Miners
children from points fifty miles dis
tant began to arrive at in the
trucks. AS the children rode through
the streets they sang one revolution
airy song after the other-all of them
learned since the beginning Of the
strike
As a result of the disruption Of
the Tag Day by the police, very little
was collected for the thousands of
heroic miners who are fighting
against starvation The miners need
for food is desperate. Help them in
their fight. Rush food and funds to
the Pennsylvania Ohio West Vir-
ginia Kentucky Striking Miners Re-
lief Committee. Room $50, 799 Broad
way, New York.
Norma Martin, local head OF the
Workers International Relief and
Frank Sedar appeared in court Sun
day morning charged with disorderly
conduct. The police said Martin had
used absusive language when ar
rested, too bad to repeat in court.
Martin demanded to know what it
was and the police replied she had
said his belly was filled up and
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children.
After Martins release, she re-
counted how the children crowding
around her when she was arrested,
told the cop they we're hungry and
you eat plenty, and we are going
to collect" Martin said that the
need for relief and support of the
miners struggle is terrific and she
is looking forward to the WIR Ma
tional relief conference to be. held
August 1890 in Pittsburgh. to inten-
sify the relief collection and firmly
entrench a permanent relief or
ganization
Three other workers, including
Percy Brown, Negro miner from Co.
verdale, we're arrested today after
being arrested yesterday as suspicious
persons because they partook in the
tag day