The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-13
RANK AND FILE DELEGATES
TOANSWER DOAK- UNIV SCAB
MEET BY BROAD STRIKE PLAN
so Mine Delegates to
Picket Ohio
Capitol

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July ~
The Ohio-West Virginia district rank
and file strike committee, has sent
a sharp telegram to the governor of
Ohio, protesting the riegn of murder
against the striking miners. The te-
legram recites the long series of
assaults and shootings, eliminating
in the shooting of five pickets at
Bradley last week.
The Ohio strikers are sending
delegation of so to Columbus to pro-
test to the state authorities against
this deliberate, muderous shooting
down of strikers at the order of the
coal companies. Delegations OF min
ers will picket the state capital and
the governors mansion.
The telegram sent TO Governor
White CT Ohi0, given out to It'd
press, is as follows:
Governor White,
Executive Mansion
On the morning Of July 8, deputs
sheriffs and mine guards at Bradley
fired without warning into q crowd OF
striking miners exercising their right
to picket, and wounded five. They
followed this ourage by arresting one
striker and one sympathizer who had
committed the crime OF allowing
striking miners to assemble on his
property.
The sheriff of Jefferson County and
his deputies deny the shooting and
the local press has suppressed the
facts. Previous to the shooting, nine
guards had beaten one striker almost
to death after kidnapping him. The
thugs especially at the Piney Fork
mines are daily invading homes of
miners and terrorizing them and
their families.
This is the third time we have
notified you of the organized atroci-
ties perpetrated in the strike area by
armed forces for which you are re-
sponsible. You have not seen fit to
respond. But yesterday according to
press reports of your speech to a
gathering of lumber dealers, you had
the effrontry to ignore the mass
starvation in the mine fields, and the
terrorism instituted by the armed for
ces of the coal operators and the
local government from the first day
of the strike against starvation con-
ditions, while at the same time as
cribing the trouble in the coal fields
to "insidious communistic influence"
That this kind of demagogy may
appeal to lumber dealers, but it serves
to convince miners that you and your
government are the agents of the
coal operators, and the apologists
for, and protectors of their brutoI
army of mercenaries.
We now inform you of the decision
of the elected rank and file strike
committee, to send a delegation Of
so miners and their wives and chill
dren to Columbus, to place before you
directly the conditions in the coal
fields; and to demand the removal
of armed forces, and the release and
dropping Of all charges against strik-
ers and organizers arrested for union
and strike activities, and the repeal
of the strike breaking Criminal Syn
dicalism law.
rthermore, the strike committee,
rms you of the decision to send
q delegation to Columbus, to picket
the state capitol and executive .nen-
sion, to bring to attention of the
rights In the coal fields to thousands
of workers and the existance of mass
whole state the denial of elementary
starvation enforced by armed thugs
paid from public funds.
For the District Rank and File
Committee,
Whitney Nelson, Chairman for dis
trict No 6. National Miners Union.
Robert selyert Secretary
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