The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-19
800 Meet Despite Terror; Spread Strike;
Rally for Miles for Mass Picketing
,uonriAurn raoa FACE ONE,

,LoA'rIAUED EHGM FACE 0NEB
as TO select delegates to the Spread
the Strike" Conference scheduled for
January "a.
No trace of Joe Weber and Bill
Duncan has been found. 1t Is feared
that they were fouIly murdered at
the hands of the Kentucky coal op-
orators. Both the strike leaders were
arrested on a bus in Tennessee, 20
miles from the Kentucky border on a
warrant issued in Kentucky. They
have OF been heard from since Fri
day night when they we're led hand
cuffed presumably to the Harlan
County Jail. Telephone calls to jailS
in three Kentucky counties and to
in noncommittal answers from the
Tennessee authorities have resulted
Jail officials.
Searching parties are being
formed to scour the hills for trace
Of these two strike leaders.
Despite Sheriff Blairs declarations
that mo National Miners Union
strike meetings would be held Sun
day, meetings we're held in Wallins
Greek with 500 attending. The mass
meeting had been called by the Sec
tiol1 Strike Committee. Two hundred
thugs with several machine guns ar
rived on the scene. Previously Sheriff
Henry Blair had warned the miners
to leave their women and children
home, if they tried to hold meeting
as he would shoot them down '1ike
an invading army" The theatre own
er owner who had rented his place
for the meeting backed down at the
last minute. A warehouse was used
for meeting place.
Meetings to spread the strike, TO
form greater picket lines, and to
elect delegates to the Spread the
Strike" conference, were also held
In Straight Greek, Greasy Greek,
Morgan Hollow and other places.
A recent Strike Bulletin Of the
Central Strike Committee, issued in
Pineville, states regarding the
Spread the Strike conference:
With the January "a Spread
the Strike Conference less than
two weeks away, preparations are
in fv'i swing TO bring mass dele
tor. from the Western Kentucky,
Hazard, Virginia, Tennessee and
Ala,ama fields. Carioads OF rank
and file organizers are leayig this
week for every important field In
the South while arrangements have
beer raAde to flood the fields with
tens Of thousands OF copies of the
official call for the conference Is
sued by the Central Rank ard File
Strike Committee.
Iron, Birmingham, where COR
ditsons are sven worse than IN the
Haylan field, comes the report thst
cryanixntion b already under way
And that Alabama miners, both
Negro and white, will be wen rep
resented at the conference. The
Unemployed Councils are seeing TO
u that not one Of their members Is
sent mp here a. a scab, and the
Communist Party down there Is
breakig up attempts Of the scab
hcrders TO ship out strike break
crs to the Kentucky strike field and
promise that when Alabama miners
come to Kentucky they will come
A. delegates to the Spread the
Strike Conference and not as scabs
to break our strike
Prepare National Guard.
Announcement. has. been. issued.
that Governor Laffoon of Kentucky
is sending special military observers
to Bell and Harlan Counties to
study the mine situation" This is
preliminary to sending the National
Guard.
Mobihse for Mass Picketing
Mobilization is taking place today
for mass picketing tomorrow at
straight Creek Mines to smash the
fc@~,al injunction Issued against %
lcsG3-s.
rs from miles around will
cci4.s to Straight Creek to picket.
Mass meetings and section strike con-
fcs~ssSus a~o k>~A..~ t,~AS m ~~ a. .