The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-26
Trapped by Machine
Gun Nest in Darkness
Resolutions Hold Meets Send Wire Protests to Gov Emerson
Organize Relief Fighting IS PC Pay Cut
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COULTERYILLE, I'LL, Aug 25.->s .
During the afternoon the number
of marchers here grew to over
1900. They held meeting TO re-
organize their forces and carry ON
the fight. Meanwhile airplanes
were sent to drop thousands of
handbiIls in Franklin county, say
ing: "WeIlave come to aid you put
an end to gunner rule and terror
ism which is used to force you to
work under wage scale you have
twice rejected. Down tools today"
At Peru in the northern field,
$500 pickets stopped the Marks
mine.
DUQOIN, Ill, Aug. 25.-The adj
vance attachments of $4,000 strik-
ing miners marching from all over
the state to picket the Franklin
county mines and call the men now
working there to join the strike
against the $11o wage cut, was de-
coyed into a machine gun nest last
night, shot up, over a hundred
wounded, six so badly they had to
be sent to the hospital and two so
seriously they could not be moved
today Nearly 200 cars were smashed
up or confiscated by Franklin coun-
ty deputies. All food and bedding was
seized by the deputies.
Rally In DuquOin
The miners are massed now in Du-
quoin, where the bulk of them spent
the night at the fair grounds last
night, and in Pinckneyville and
Coulterville.
They are recognizing their forc-..
es for a new march of the pickets.
They call for the support of the
working class of Illinois and of the
whole county back of their demand
that the armed forces of the OPP
orators and the state be with
drawn, the roads opened to traf-
fic, and that miners opposing star
walton and treachery of the United
Mine Workers officials have the
right to strike and to picket.
Women and Children Along
The march started two days ago
from the northern fields in the state,
north of Springfield. The first main
concentration yesterday was at Gil
lespie, 80 miles northwest of Frank
lin county. Yesterday forenoon 10000
miners, in nearly a thousand cars and
trucks taking with them women and
children, beds and food, started cut
as the advance guard.
Reach County Line.
They proceeded on to the Frank
lin county line. BY this time the
number of marchers in the first de-
tachment had increased to some
where between $1,000 and 10000.
When they reached the Little Mud
dy River, at the western border of
Franklin county, they found the way
barred by 300 gun thugs armed with
everything from machine guns down
and commanded by Sheriff Brown
ing Robinson.
Ambushed.
II was night The leaders of the
first detachment asked the way to
what was to be their last concentra-
ton point, Dowell. State police di-
rected them across the river, and be-
fore they knew it, the head of the
miles long procession was in Null
keytown, just inside of Franklin
county, and in an ambush of ma
chine guns with nearly a thousand
deputized business men and gunner
around it,
When the head of the cavalcade OF
miners was in the trap, machine guns
and shot guns and rifles poured shot
into it from the darkness on all sides,
and then deputies leaped forward,
windshieldS with their
clubs, battering men, women and
children over the head, and firing at
close range.
The totally unarmed miners snever
had chance. Only the darkness pre-
vented terrible slaughter. They re-
treated over the river, with all the
cars which were not totally wrecked
or seized by Sheriff Robinson's thugs.
Deputies deliberately cut out and
stopped all trucks with food and bed
ding.
What viii Franklin Miners Do?
Now, the marchers ask, will the
10000 miners of Franklin county
stand by while their brothers are
mercilessly machine-gunned when
they come with a call to strike
against starvation, will the miners Of
Franklin county continue to work
under the pistols and rifles Of depu-
ties, or will they join the fight TO
stop the S110 wage cutP
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR
Equal rights for the Negroes and