The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-19
TROOPS WON'T
STOP Us, SAYS
EAST OHIO MINER
Tells Daily Worker
That Relief Is
Urgent to Win

NEW YORk.-DeScrlplng Jne TOUT
months long struggle of the East Ohio
miners against series of wage cuts,
Thomas Coyne, one of four miners
that have arrived in New York to
arouse the workers for mass relief
support through the Workers Inter-
national Relief, told the Daily Work
er yesterday that the miners were de-
termined to win their strike.
ION April / we were given Is per
cent cut that brought down our wages
to Is cents ton which meant wage
cut of s1.S2 to $40 day of 8 and
8 hours. And when in the fields three
to five days week is considered good,
the miners were put on starvation
rations.'
According to Coyne it was the last
wage cut that forced the miners to
come out on strike to combat sure
starvation.
with the best of us making $50
| a month--and that's on the best
working time in the fields--and after
paying out for rent, supplies, dyna-
mite, carbide, hospital and other ex-
penses the company makes us pay
we hardly have dollar a day fol-
food and clothing. And when min
er's got wife and four or five chill
dren it means little food and littls
Of anything"
Terror Before Strike
Coyne told of the terror m the
fields prior to the strike, that mer
who complained of the bad conditions
were blacklisted and how daily the
bosses grew more and more arrogant
1.-THE United Mine Workers officials
made an agreement with the sheriff
not to have any mass picketing; only
three men fifty feet apart to consti-
tute picket line. Then the bosses
brought in company gunner, ane
Governor White sent in the soldier.
for company protection"
Hundreds of us have been arrested
and Jailed, the soldiers have attacked
on all picket lines, tear-gassing the
women and children"
But in the face of such terror by
the state and the companies for more
than four months the miners are still
holding fast and keeping scabs out
of the mine, Coyne said.
Try to Starve Miners Back
1.-THE bosses were counting or
starving us back after using terror
We had little to fall back on, nj
savings, no stores Of food. There:
been many families living on gras!
and roots for days at time. But il
was the children that were hardest
hit, having no good meals"
Coyne told how the United Mine
Workers officials refused to give re.
lief from their big treasures and ever
sabotages the miners efforts in col
lecting food.
1.-THE Workers International Relief
came in and started some kitchen:
where the children could get two
meals a day, and the miners anc
women a meal day. Then the WIZ
organized committees and got local.
to hold a conference to organize re.
lief and appeal to all workers outside
the fields" Coyne explained.
Martial Law Won't Stop Miners
"The miners took so much up tx
now that the martial law down II
Ohio won't stop them now. But they
need the support of all workers every
where. If we keep our kitchens run.
ming, we keep the children fed ane
that's what will keep us on the pick.
ct line. fighting the wage cut" Coyn,
appealed in his conclusion. He urged
that workers and organizations i'm.
mediately send in their contribution.
to the Workers International Relief
16 West 21st st., New York.