The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
RAID HALL IN
NNEVILLE, KY
STRIKE AREA
.,,1y RELIEF FOR MINERS
vi mTTANT STRUGGLE ON
MISERY AND TERROR.

p1NEVILLE, KY, Jan. 4.-En-
..asd at the rapid spread of the
-. .st;ke Of the Kentucky and Ten
' ' miners against starvation,
" .svsral carloads of deputized coal
..mnanv gun thugs made a sur
mise raid on the headquarters of
r. National Miners Union at 10
o'clock this morning and arrested
everybody present.
Vern Smith, Daily Worker /
strike correspondent in the Ken
tncIv coal fields, was among those
ia1ed. Others arrested are John
Harvey, Vincent Kamenovich and
Clarina Nicholson of the N. M.
D. Dorothy Ross, international
Labor Defense representative;
Ann Barton, newspaper correspon-
dent; Norman Martins, and Mar
merite Fontaine, Workers Inter
national representative, and Julia
Parker, secretary. All are placed
under $4,000 bond.
County Judge George Van Beb-
sr and County Attorney Walter
Smith are charging those arrested
with criminal syndicalism. These
are the same county officials who
accused the Dresser investigation
committee of criminal syndicaL-
ism" because they exposed the
mass starvation and hunger of
the Kentucky miners. The GRIMM
al syndicalist law in Kentucky is
now being used in an attempt TO
break the strike. Criminal syndi-
clism carries a penalty up to rs
years.
When the striking miners in the
vicinity heard of this wholesale
arrest and attempt to cripple the
strike, 1900 Of them massed a.
round the court house at 1900 o.
clock demanding the immediate re-
lease of the arrested workers.
Expect 5000 at Court House.
A hearing has been set for one
o'clock tomorrow. The miners arr
raIlying all their forces in the wi
entity for a huge demonstration
against the coal operators an;
their gun thugs and to demand tn
immediate release of the Nationa
Miners Union leaders. Five thous
and miners are. expected to demon
Strate at the court house tomor
row.
Warrants are issued for 10
Weber and Frank Borich, leader
Of the National Miners Union.
Every workers organizatio
thruOut the country should immt
diately wire its protest again'
this savage raid on the Nation;
Miners Union in Kentucky and d.
nand the immediate release I
these workers. Wires of protei
should be sent to the Governor
kentucky, to the Sheriff of Be
County, Kentucky, 10 the Sheri
Of Harlan County, Kentucky;
w. A. Brock, Commonwealth a
tOmey, Harlan, KY. Mobilize b
hind the Kentucky miners al
their struggle against starvatit
and terrorism! Protest the ARE
Of their leaders! Smash the Ke
lucky terror! Back the miners
their strike!
Strike Growing!
The strike has been spreadil
rapidly. Over 10000 are now oil
and it is this fact that drove t
desperate coal operators to ord
1lelr deputy gun thugs to raid t
N. M. U. headquarters.
Details Of the mines out are I
available because the office is n,
n the hands of the gun thu
AVery' mine previously out is 81
Oh strike. In those mines wht
only part of the miners out,
strike now is 100 p. C. New min
are constantly coming out. I
Vicious raid will not stop
sflke. The response of the m
SS whose leaders had been jai
showed that the strike will C
nue and spread.
9 All relief funds are tied up
me Western Union office. Beca
VI the arrest of the Workers
Srnatlonal Relief representa-
ae Western Union office is
handing over the relief funds. I
Z SHOWS more than ever that m
i ulos should be rushed immedi;
II lOr strike relief to the Work
i %S.IematiOnal Relief, 16 w.
street, New YorL NJ " ~
Il i should be sent immedi,
d.. 70 the Workers Internati,
n p psneI warehouse las Pine ST.