The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-19

SIIlkS area OOuays
Fifteen hundred to two thousand
miners will march on MiddIesboro,
Ky, today in demonstration against
the lies spread by the American
Legion against the N.M.U. and to
demand the release of the nine
strike leaders held In jail.
mass meetings are to be held In
wsllins Greek, Greasy Greek, Four
Mile, Brush Greek, Middlesboro and
Pruden, Tennessee.
Mass Evictions.
Thirty Wslljns Greek striking
miners were given eviction no$ces
and several have already been
evicted. From 80 to so deputies with
machine guns are present at every
eviction.
The Harlan miners report great
loyalty to the National Miners
Union. Many more would come it
relief activities were intensified. All
efforts are being made to bring out
q larger number Of Harlan County
miners. The miners say they will
come out despite the renewed wave
of terror led by the old experienced
killer, Sheriff Blair.
Strikers Ranks Solid.
The ranks OF the strikers remain
solid Only 81 miners are working
in all Knox County, and the major
ity OF them are boy strikebreakers
from IL to 10 years old.
The Pineville Sum-" owned and
edited by the coal operators paid
agent, Herndon Evans, carries lying
and vicious statements attackig the
Natioal Miners Union and Com
munism right next to an advertise
ment OF patent medicines which
guarantees to cure pellagra, star
walton disease, in its last stages.
Miners in the Ely Mines, Knox
County, have been violating the in
junction since last Monday.
Five tons of food arrives today
from the Cincinnati Workers Inter
national Relief. The activities of the
N. M. U. women's Auxiliaries is in
creasing. There are 125 women in
the WaIlins Greek Auxiliary.
No bond has yet been fixed for the
nine leaders in Jail, namely, vern
Smith, John Harvey, vincent Kane
novich, Clarina Michaelson, Julia
Parker, Dorothy Weber, Ann Bar
ton, Norma Martin and Margaret
Fontaine.
Arrest Charles W. Peters.
Charles W. Peters, in charge OF re-
lief in Pfheville and chairman of the
Central Relief Committee, was ar
rested yesterday in Wallins Greek
while getting delegations of miners
to go North to help raise relief.
Sheriff Blair of Harlan, lust be-
fore the arrest and at the time he
issued his murderous orders against
section strike meetings, declared. 'I
have no objection to the presence of
the United Mine Workers OF Amer
lea In Harlan County, as that or
ganiaztior is regularly affiliated with
the thoroughly recognized American
Federation of Labor" This coal op-
orators gun thug seys he favors the
A. F. OF L., but will kill the leaders
Of the N.M.U.
Mass Demonstration Tuesday.
On Tuesday afternoon delega-
ton Of miners will leave for Frank
fort, the capitol of Kentucky, to put
the demands Of the miners, employed
and unemployed, to Governor Laf-
foon, and to protest the kidnapping
Of Weber and Duncan and demand
the end OF the terror reign in the
coal fields as well as the release of
the arrested strike leaders.
Thirteen miners, their wives and
children are leaving today for New
York and Philadelphia to help COL
lect relief and to expose the terror
conditions in Kentucky, as well as
to get support for the growing
strike struggles.
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