The daily worker., 1932-01-22

determination to continue the strike
and to win their demands.
Smoky joe Lawson, white strik-
ing miner from Array, Bell County,
said:
'Its been a goin' bad with me
here of late. 1 worked on Fri
day for the first time in two weeks.
The boss told me I could work Sat-
urday, and told my wife to send
me in a warm dinner since hadn't
but small bite to eat for quite a
spell. She went into the office to
get scrip and the bookkeeper said
she couldn't have non. She sends
my bucket into the mine with a
note in it saying she couldn't get
no scrip and for me to quit work
and come home.
my leg was cut off in the mines
during the speed-Up during the
war. / didn't get but half of my
compensation. And that a little
bit each month. Now 7 won't scab
and they say they won't never work
me no more since I've got but one
leg. What shall / do now without
leg and job? Fight! That's
what I'll do.
81 have two children. had
five. The eldest died of flux. Two
others died at their mothers breast
because she hadn't milk enough for
them; she was starved. I'm fightin'
till we win."
James Wallace, Negro miner and
his wife, Annie May, from -Four Mile,
Bell County, Kentucky, told of dis
elimination against the Negro miners
by the company officials and of the
determination of the men to smash
it.
Negro Discrimination.
Wallace summed up saying: Here's
a working man eating a little fat
back, corn bread an black coffee
without nothin' to sweeten it. Along
comes the boss and says, Say, I wish
I had your appetite Aid the work.
er says to him, You got all the mines,
the mills, the machines and money,
and now you want the only thing
I've got left, my appetite.
Arthur Campbell and Ruby Camp
bell, miner and wife from Array, told
about their four room shack and the
eleven who live in it. The rain pours
in and the wind blows through.
They walk a hundred yards to a
pump which freezes up every cold
spell. No movies, no radio, no enter
talnments, no social life. The chill
dren are without shoes. All are
ragged and hungry. But they're in
the union and determined to win!
Floyd, Woolum, Array, Bell County,
world war veteran who got no bonus,
told of the drab, dreary life in the
mining camps.
Edward Engle, also from Array,
made a stirring plea for strike relief.
AL were indignant over being
forced to give So out of their starva-
ton wages for doctor they didn't
want nor trust, Hes just a pill
carrier who don't know nothin'. I
sprained my knee-pushing car up
a steep grade. It swelled up and the
doctor said it was miners knee and
that I'd better look for another job
I was hurt so often" said
Wallace.
The miners will attend the United
Front Delegate Conference at the
Manhattan Lyceuln, 66 East 4th St,
II a. m. Sunday, Jan. "a, and the
New Jersey United Front Conference
at rs Springfield Ave, Newark, N. j.,
s p. m, January 90. These confer
ences must be attended by delegates
from all working class fraternal or
ganizations, musical, athletic and So
cial clubs, language orgs., trade
unions, both A. F. of L. and T.U. U.UL.,
to carry forward program Of relief
which will answer the plea of the
miners for Just a few crumbs of
bread, Just a handful of beans for
our hungry kiddies, and we'll fight
to the very last manl'
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