The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

1t is too early to tell the results, but
it is safe to predict them. Out Of
these mass meetings will emerge in
each case several demands on which
the miners inside and outside of the
various mines will unite for struggle.
Committees will be elected to go to
the company heads tomorrow, to lay
these demands before them. Tomor-
row will see great mass meetings
again to consider the answer Of the
companies and decide next steps.
In some cases the answers will be
accepted, and. the strikers will go
back to work, and also go back to the
task of building the National Miners
Union for a day coming soon when a
still greater struggle will be waged
for the district demands they fought
for this time for twelve weeks.
In other cases, the men now inside
the mine will swarm out and the
mine will shut down in strike great
ly strengthened for the new de-
mands. The quick decisions outlined
above are mostly in the smaller COM
panies. The miners in the great COM
panies will move little slower Joint
meetings of the local mine strike
committees for each company will
have to be held, and common action
for all the mines Of the same COM
pany formulated. One of these great
er companies, Pittsburgh Terminal,
will require that local strike commit
tees come from Ohio and West Vir-
GINA, where its owners, the Taplin
interests, have many mines. The
strike committees joint meeting for
the Terminal mines will not be held
until next Sunday, and meanwhile
the strike goes on, full force.
The situation in the Terminal
mines is interesting. There is Unit
ed Mine Workers of America contract
there. That makes 1t difficult to keep
the men from meeting, as a UMWA
local. Mutiny and revolt against the
official policies of the UNIV are so
common in these local meetings that
the most extraordinary measures are
taken by the companies and the UNI
WA district officials to keep the men
in control.
The UMWA local at Mine No at
Castle Shannon had been meeting in
a Catholic church. Under company
pressure, the priest forbade this. The
idea was to force them to meet on
company property, which they did.
The first meeting in the Patch was
attended Saturday night, by three
carloads Of Pinchots state troopers,
by the mine superintendent and most
of his bosses. A miner brought up
the main grievance there, the check
off from the mems wages to pay for
building bath house. The first man
to raise the point was yelled down by
the Pagan clique and the mine Off
Gals: You're out of order.' Where
upon the meeting was thrown into
confusion by most of the men rising
and yelling back: Were all out of
order, we ought to be striking"
The employers are wildly trying to
keep things down by having the state
police and deputies use more terror.
Today a truck load Of 10 men came
to Coverdale pittsburgh Terminal
Mine No. 81 from Bridgeville. They
were going to join the picket line.
They were met by carloads of troop
ers and deputies who arrested the
truck driver and the man who sat
on the seat with him, then took the
truck miles down the road one way,
der them slugged and Jailed, help
themselves literally. as Yates did, to
the meagre funds for "unemple1 ment