The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-15


lown in the arrest of Harvey
n strike organizer. When
friends offered to put up
the $4,000 bail set for the
release of Collette, the
court refused to accept it.
Friends then asked: Sup
pose we bring $l0,000.0O2"
The prosecutor relied: "No matter
how much you bring we are going
to keep him."
Two hundred and fifty strikers
lpicketed Kettle Island this morn
ing and pulled out ten more men.
Twenty armed deputies pierced the
picket line and escorted so strike
breakers into the mine.
A. j. Patrick is in jail here The
Victor Mining Co. swore out a
: warrant for his arrest to be held
5 on peace bond. He was arrested
: Friday but no hearing was held
< and no amount of bond stated.
e The strike executive committee
S met Friday and planned nine sec
e ton strike conferences for Satur-
day and Sunday on over 20 miles
Y lof strike front to consolidate the
: strike of the Kentucky Tennessee
5 miners and to elect section strike
o committee and form departments.
: Marches are planned to Kettle
= Island, Bell County and Pruden,
IS Tenn, sections. Six mobilization
Il mass meetings where held today.
|. In AN attempt to prevent a de-
mOnstratiOn, the county Off
cials held a surprise arraign-
ment of the arrested ten secret
> ly on Friday. Mobilization is
now ION for a huge demOnstra-
ton at Pineville Tuesday when
the trial is SET
~ At the Balkin mine of the
is Southern Mining Co., 800 men
~ walked out Friday, closing the
v mine 100 per cent. Mass picket
ne ing is Strengthening the strike
is thruout the field.
u The terror is increasing. The
at American Legion is distributing
Oy leaflets against the NMU Strike
leadership.
d. The Spread the Strike" Confer
lct ence has been postponed to Janu
ILL., airy "a. Delegates from the pres
us emit strike zone and from Tennes
u see, Alabama and the West Viz
OF GINA fields are being elected.
The arrested comrades sent spir
IL tied, fighting greetings to tn
to Central Strike Committee calm,
ow for mass picketing to spread tn
! strike and called for militant de
IL monstrations to answer the preva
ny lent terrorism.
I'VE
vi Pineville, Ky-"Mr. J. M. Mill
. / er, you are hereby notified to Civ
The up possession of the house an
place which you now live in, on 0
ear before January 9Th, 1882 and nc
ep- to tear down or take away an
of part of the house or fence which
ex- the property of the Long Ridg
Coal Company. This is authori1
ed by the Long Ridge, John Owen
Supt."
The operators answer to tn
strike of the miners has begun
Creech, who looks like benevC
4 lent old Kentucky colonel he
III. handed a man and woman wit
eight children, an eviction motto
LIST, He threatens to evict every ma
who strikes. Kettle Island, E
be comb, Liberty-all over the fiel
can the operators have answered wit
lick a vicious weapon-evicting of Il
Tor. miners from the only homes the
AN. have known - using the force
xer, the law to run them off of Il
$50. camp, because the miner has da
Me- ed to say he would starve no lonl
Ass er. At Elcomb eight families ha'
iris received three-day notices.
Ohm The other day in a pouring "a
BOD. family of seven was evicte
SON This added cruelty was to say
the miners "the operator is boss
and he'll tell you what to do. And
old tells you you can't join the N
for tional Miners Union"
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