The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
BROOK COUNTY, W. VA, HUNGER
MARCH SMASHED BY TROOPERS
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tors, at which the decision was ar
rived at to aid the U. M. w. A. and
smash the N. M. U. at every oppor-
tunity, this permit was revoked,
without even the formality Of mott
flying the organizers of the march
The fact was merely announced
through the newspapers of Wheel
ing.
Sentiment in Wellsburg itself,
among the glass workers who form
the main industry in the town, was
very good. Workers sat around on
the sidewalks in large numbers, hop
ing for the marchers to break
through the police Gordon and come
on into town, and denouncing the
state police.
WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 23-1n-
formation of what really went on in
the closed meeting of the mayors and
operators here several days ago is
leaking out. This meeting announced
that it had decided to work for a
new competitive district" to include
parts of the three states, and on
limitation program to be admins
tered by heads of state universities,
etc. The National Miners Union at
the time declared this to be just an
other of the schemes, like those of
the conferences proposed by Hoover
and his secretaries, Doak and La
mont, to trustify the industry at the
expense of the miners, to start new
regime Of wage-cuts and starvation
with increased unemployment.
Now it seems that the conference
in Wheeling, attended by about so
mayors from the three states, Penn
sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia,
went much more explicitly into the
tactics Of trike-breaking than was
admitted by the published statements
it gave out.
The slogan of the conference was:
Drive every Red out of the Ohio
Valley"
The decisions, arrived at after
long discussion of the problem,
were:
1. To give all possible help to the
United Mine Workers of America
One Of the main speakers at the con-
ference was President Cirque of the
U. M. w. A. Sub-District 5.
2. To break up all meetings of the
National Miners Union, to arrest its
organizers on any pretext possible.
3. Under no circumstances to
permit any collection of relief by the
National Miners Union or the Penn
sylvania- Ohio-West Virginia Ken
lucky Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee in any of the towns whose
mayors were present or in any towns
whose mayors and city government
could be influenced by the action of
the conference.
Sheriff Duff Of Belmont County,
one of the bitterest foes of the strik-
ers and most active in smashing their
picket lines by a huge force Of special
deputies, could not be present at the
conference, but sent his assurance
that he would assist in every way the
attack on the N. M. U.
I. M. Scott, former president Of
the Wheeling Steel Corporation and
chairman of the Community Chest
campaign last year, was present. He
was one of the main organizers of
the meeting. In Wheeling Steel,
every man was forced to submit to
check-off Of days pay for the
bosses charity, and the Wheeling
Steel Corporation itself gave nothing.
STEUBENvILLE, Ohio, Aug. 23.-
Two thousand steel workers and
miners met in a Sacco- Vanzetti DEM
onstration here Saturday at pm.
Speakers were a Negro hod-carrier
and a rank and file miner, also Joe
BALLET of the Metal Workers Indus
trial League, and Joe Gaal of the
International Labor Defense.
Many applied to join the M. W.
I. l.. and the 1. l.. d. A wage-cut
of 10 per cent is being put over on
the steel workers here, and strike
sentiment is growing rapidly.
WASHINGTON, Pa, Aug. 23.--
Several hundred met here Saturday
in commemoration Of the murder of
Sacco and Vanzetti and heard Ray
Greene Of the International Labor
Defense; Ike Hawkins, district chair
man of the Pennsylvania Ohio-West
Virginia Kentucky Striking Miners
Relief, and the Negro worker, Crit
fifth, speak There was no inter-
ference by the police.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, August a.
A joint meeting of strike committees
Of the Hillman Coal Co. mines was
held here today( Aug. 23). The Hill
man Coal Co. mines are: Barking.