The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22
KENTUCKY
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lucky, Hazard, Virginia, Tennes-
see and Alabama fields. Carloads
of rank and file organizers are
leaving this week for every inn
portant field in the South while
arrangements have been made to
flood the fields with tens of
thousands of copies of the official
call for the conference issued by
the Central Rank and File Strike
Committee.
From Birmingham, where con-
ditions are even worse than IL
the Harlan field, comes the report
that organization is already under
way and that Alabama miners,
, both Negro and white, will be well
represented at the conference The
: Unemployed Councils are seeing
: to it that not one of their men,
: bers is sent up here as scab,
and the Communist Party down
3 there is breaking up attempts of
y the scab herders to ship out strike
e breakers to the Kentucky strike
g field and promise than when Ala
: bama miners come to Kentucky
D they will come as delegates to the
+ Spread the Strike Conference and
s not as scabs to break our strike. >
Il Prepare National Guard.
l. Announcement has been issued
l. that Governor Laffoon of Kentuc-
lie ky is sending special military OBJ
servers to Bell and Harlan coun-
Ii ties 20 "study the mine situation. y
lie This is preliminary to sending the
E. National Guard.
Section strike conferences anC
mass meetings are TO be held in
Wallins Creek, Greasy Creek
Four Mile, Brush Creek, Middles-
boro and Pruden, Tennessee.
N Mass EvictiOns.
~ Thirty Wallins Creek striking
miners were given eviction notices
~ and several have already beer
evicted. From 80 to go deputiei
with machine guns are present a
On every eviction.
IL The Harlan miners report grea
ne loyalty to the National Miner
Is Union, Many more would come i
an relief activities were intensified
ne ALI efforts are being made t
az bring out a large number of Har
re- Ian County miners. The miner
ne say they will come out despite tn
renewed wave of terror led by tn
ng old experienced killer, Sheriff
we Blair.
IS Strikers Ranks Solid.
Inc The ranks of the strikers RI
lea main solid. Only 81 miners al
working in all Knox County, an
'rt' the majority of them are be
I'VE strikebreakers from IL to ]
'ur years old.
The Pineville "Sun," owned an
ne edited by the coal operators pa
OF agent, Herndon Evans, carries |,
my ing and vicious statements attacl
req ing the National Miners UniI
!. and Communism right next to &
the advertisement of patent meC
MY cines which guarantees TO Gu
tne pellagra, a starvation disease,
teS' its last stages.
ltu- Miners in the Ely Mines, KIN,
the County, have been violating t
tne injunction since last Monday.
ing Five tons of food arrives tod
OF from the Cincinnati Workers
me ternatonal Relief. The activiti
can of the N. M. U. Women's Aux
the iaries is increasing. There are
ave women in the Wallins Greek Al
lteu ihary.
OF No bond has yet been fixed
the nine leaders in Jail, name
Vern Smith, John Harvey, "
cent Kamenovich, Clarina Micha
son, Julia Parker, Dorothy Web
Ann Barton, Norma Martin g
az a. Margaret Fontaine.
e.. Arrest Charles w. Peters
Charles w. Peters, in charge
. relief in Pineville and charm
have man of the Central Relief CO
nber hnittee, was arrested yesterday
and Wallins Creek while getting d.
cations of miners to go North
alton help raise relief
ma Sheriff Blair of Harlan, just
;ings fore the arrest and at the time
inter-. issued his murderous orders
, re- kainst section strike meetings,
n as clared: 81 have no objection to
Vol presence of the United N
4 be Workers of America in Han
CAM County, as that organizaticn
the regularly affiliated with the Il
Dughly recognized American
eration of Labor" This coal
ACT orators gun thug says he FAY
pom the A. F. of L., but viii kill
headers Of the N.M.U.