The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09
The Communicated Strike
Racket"

killing Of julius Baldwin by deputy sheriff
Fleener at the swimming pool, August, 1881, at
a w. Z R. kitchen and the dynamiting of another
kitchen, the arrest Of the field organizers of the
w. I. r, at Pineville January 4, all showed that
the coal operators aimed at the mass relief
support given the miners by the workers
throughout the country and organized by the
Workers International Relief.
journal WhitewasheS Terror
The Knoxville Journal then attempts COM
plete whitewaSh OF the coal operators and their
forces OF terror, by citing their Humanitarian
interest In the miners and their families and
cold-bloodedly lies in saying that the coal oper-
ators work their mines solely to furnish wages
for the miners. The journal further says that
the coal operators are taking care OF hungry
families, most brazen lie. The Red Cross, that
has aided the bosses in the strikebreaking work.
is also given a liberal whitewash The Journal
writes
'The coal operators, however, are on the
grounds, trying to solve the problems the de-
preston has brought them. They are advanc-
ing food to the unemployed, paying living
wages to miners who work three or four days
a week and contributing to charities now
feeding the strikers
This lie is thrown back in the faces Of the coal
operators anu LL6I T6GdlQ6TS Dy CQS IaCLS OF
the conditions and the struggles of the southern
miners. The brutality with which the coal
operators have forced starvation conditions, sick
ness and attendant niseries on the miners and
their families is only equalled by the murderous
terror instituted to force them from fighting
that starvation.
Red Cross Strikebreaking
The coal operators and their agents have never
advanced food except for strikebreaking work
that is to enforce further hunger. Eighty cents
to one dollar day is the Giving" wage the rich
coal barons, including the biggest capitalist COM
panies in the country, give the miners And
whatever little the bosses charity agencies do
give Is directly made to break struggle and rivet
tighter the yoke of hunger.
The statement that the coal operators char
tiles are feeding the strikers is blanket lie
on the contrary the most brutal terror is directed
against the feeding OF the miners engaged In
struggle or blacklisted. Thus the killing Of
Harry Sims, who was mobiliNng the miners to
establish the right to receive and distribute
relief organized by the W. I. R.. is the latest
instance in this murderous terror campaign.
The Red Cross and the Associated Charities in
the coal regions are frankly strikebreaking out
fits, Offered by agents Of the operators, as has
been shown time and again.
4ultnIlS 1IOIl HyPOCIlIlCdl hes 10 CIlreaUS OF
more terror against the miners, the journal
says:
Nov both counties QIarlan and Bell coun-
ties) have served notice on the world that they
are through with all Communists and Eastern
writer's Communist organizers driven out OF
there are now in Knoxville reaching across the
mountains to keep the trouble they created
alive as long as possible. Mr.. Alfred Wagon
knecht in charge Of the offices here, says that
he is feeding 5000 striking miners and their
families in Harlan and Bell counties. He sends
one truck over daily to carry supplies to the
$4,000 persons in these families"
Thus the Bell and Harlan counties coal oper-
ators tell the Knoxville bosses that they have