The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
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The Southern miners are deter
mined to build a strong union that
will wipe out starvation conditions
and make a flux plague, such as they
are suffering now, impossible to raw
age the coal fields. And, to support
them in this intense struggle, the
Pennsylvania Ohio Virginia
Kentucky Striking Miners Relief
Committee calls upon workers every
where to send every penny they can
to buy food to rush into these camps,
to Room 2o5, GIL Penn Ave, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, August IT,
Saturday mornings picket line at
Notwithstanding was attacked I'M
successfully by four state police. The
outrageous resistance Of the picket
captain brought an attempt to bully
the pickets off the public highway
to dramatic end.
While the pickets were marching
down the road, one Of the squad of
state troopers called the picket cap
tain to come over and "Iet me tell
you something" The picket answer
ed that he was busy picketing and
didn't have time for conversation.
The cop then grabbed the picket by
the arm and the picket grabbed the
cop by the neck and threw him into
the ditch. The cop came swarnling
up and struck three times with his
club, the club being caught each time
and held by the picket-between his
arm and his body. Both the cop and
the picket we're graphing with each
other.
The cop looked around for the other
troopers to open fire, but these were
overawed by the fact that every man
in the picket line had picked up
big rock. So stalemate resulted.
Finally the cop said, LET me go"
and the picket responded, 'You let
me CO." Both finally let loose, and
the pickets proceeded about their
duty, with the state troopers follow
ing along and watching.
The picket captain reports he felt
armor under the uniform of the Pin
chot man.
COVERDALE, Pa, August H.
Seventeen state troopers guarded the
last meeting of the United Mine
Workers local in Pittsburgh Coal
Company's Mine No. here. They
met on company property, with the
company officials present. When
two miners appeared with a griev-
ance against the company, the Pagan
man who. is placed in the local to run
things, yelled, "Get out, you Reds!"
The miners present, conscripted into
the UNIV through the wage-cutting
agreement the Fagan-Lewis clique
made with the Terminal Comyanw,
raised row. So the UMWA local
president approached the two men
and promised to get the grievance
redressed next day.
Thirty-five men, whole section
in the mine, walked out Friday and
Joined the strike because lumber for
limbering their working places was
delivered Just inside the entrance to
the mine, and they were Instructed
to drag 1t from there all the way to
their working places. When they took
up this grievance with the boss, he
threatened to discharge their spokes-
man, whereupon all struck. The
spokesman had been paid s1.9o for
four days work with a sledge.
A group Of the Coverdale miners
arranged secret meeting and sent
for National Miners Union repre-
sentative to come and confer with
them. They put the question frankly
to the NMU organizer: what shall
we do? The UMWA will do nothing
for us. Conditions are steadily get
ting worse. What is the attitude of
the NMU to the men who went back
to work in the mine?"
These men we're elated over the
new policy of the NMU when it was
explained to them, and pledged to
rush organization work inside the
mne.
AvELLA, Pa, Aug. 16.-The "P g.
w" mine of the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Co. here is feeling the resent
ment of the miners against having
dues checked off their pay slips for
the United Mine Workers District 5
officials. The men know that they
get no benefit from these dues, that
the U. M. w. A. is merely part of the
bosses machinery to keep them in
slavery, and that the money is split
between Pat Pagan and the coal
company.
The company is trying maneuver.
1t has switched the superintendent
around, between P 81 w and other
Pittsburgh Terminal mines, so as to