The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31

Register along when VaCatfOning," this obliging
sheet advises all and sundry as to the truly
respectable company the A F. L, officials were
in:
aside from Easton and Norrington, those
in attendance were Earle j. Runner and Raw
ley w. HoIcombe, of the chamber of COM
merce; Prosecuting Attorney A. C. Schiller,
Chief of Police Fred H. Frazier, Sheriff Am
broze F. Habig, Captain J. r. Brockus, of the
state police Attorney Albert Laas, of the
Paisley coal interests, and George BlaCkfOrd,
of the Constance interests"
To make the utter treachery of these two A.
F. L officials still more apparent it is only
necessary to state that the strike called at the
Elm Grove mine of the Paisley interests by the
N. M U. endorsed by the small local union
of the u M, w. A. in the Triadelphia district
that all members of this U. M. w. a. local
strike with the members of the N. NJ. u;
but this does not prevent these two prize traitors
sitting in the same strikebreaking conference
with the attorney of the Paisley interests-after
he has just succeeded in getting one E. C. Cash,
Paisley mine guard dismissed on charges of
carrying concealed weapons after Cash. with
mine boss Pryor, shot four striking miners fir
ing without warning into meeting.
The F. L. Comes to the Rescue.
The mine strike is two months old Even the
capitalist press is forced to admit that it is
strike against starvation There has been q
strike of nine hundred cigar makers in Wheel
ing for months-a strike against a wage cut in
the Marsh stogie factory. The strikers were
expelled by their A. F. L. international union
because they refused to accept arbitration.
Wages have been cut i'll all the steel mills.
There is increasing mass unemployment in
Wheeling and throughout the Ohio Valley.
During the whole period of the sharpening
attacks on the workers. while the stogie max
ers strike is being broken, while miners and
their families were starving, Easton and Nor
rington have not peeped. Their first public
appearance in connection with the heroic
struggle of thousands of workers, struggle
marked by brutality and arrests without pre-
cedent in the Ohio Valley, is at strike
breaking conference of coal operators police
and .stool-pigeon lawyers of the operators.
Organizing For the Operators.
To complete the indictment of the A. F. L.
and u M " A. officials from the mouths of
their friends and colleagues it is fortunate that
we have in the form of testimony from one
Jack Colbertson, chief deputy Of Jefferson Coun-
ty, further evidence of the connection between
these labor traitors and the bosses. Holding
Paul Bohus, Joe Chandler, Son Johnson and
Stanley Mellon at the point Of a machine gun
among other useful statements which will be
made public at the proper time and place: "You
fellows amt got a chance. It's all fixed. Cirque
is being paid by the operators to make speeches
and get the men back to work. It's money that
counts and you fellows amt got money"
Albert Cirque is district president OF the
U. NJ. w. A.
What are the conditions of the miners that
these A. F. L. and U. M. w. A. officials, and
their capitalist colleagues, are trying to main
tain? The answer is given by the pay state
ment of Joe Smith, enc Of % Negroes brought
into Elm Grove since the strike. They worked
a month, were never let out Of the bull pen, but
finally ran the gauntlet of mine guards and
quit. They tod John Rollins, a Negro member
of the district rank and file strike committee,
that Smiths pay statement was typical 1t is:
For loading 126 tons of COAL .........S 425O
Checked Off-Bus fare .............. 800
Board ..........,............. 20S0
Company Store Bill ................ 1892
Balance due months work. ........ $3.50
Since strikebreakers usually get no worse, and
generally little better wages and working con-
ditions shan the strikers had, especially when
the strike remains strong it is not hard to see
from the above statement that the present
strike is actually against starvation. 1t is also
not hard to see that Easton, Norrington and
Cinque hewing closely to the line of President
Green of the A F. of L., Vice President Mat
thew Woll John L. Lewis, the Fish Commits
sion, the National Security League, the Amer
lean Legion, Hoover, Mellon, Lamont, Doak and
Company, are trying to save the miners from the
National Miners Union-and Communisnl-by
perpetuating the same starvation and slavery
which produced the present revolt.
Exposing the Traitors.
Picketing has not been stopped by the deci-
Sions of the Strikebreaking conference in Wheel
ing But the presence of local A. F. l.. Off
Gals and the sanction given it by U. M. w. A.
officials, who tomorrow, with the blessing Of
coal operator Constance and the protection of
the state police and special deputies, will try
to hold meeting at Warwood has given the
N. M. U. a splendid opportunity to make clear
the scab role of these traitors and broaden the
whole base Of the struggle in connection with
the fight against imperiaHst war and the anti
clear the connection of the miners strike with
mass unemployment and the bad conditions of
the workers in and around Wheeling.
Two Kinds of Cuts.
The facts set forth above will be published in
leaflet form and the Wheeling area covered
with them. mass march of miners is being
prepared which will go through every mining
camp from Moundsville and Elm Grove up from
Wheeling, to Golfers, just across the Pennsyl-
vania line.
Hunger and starvation do not produce the