The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
Anthracite Union
Heads Use Miners
To Get NRA OK
Mslead Strike and Try to Keep Miners from
Fighting for Better Conditions

the streets OF Archibald and then
established their pickets at the
three approaches to the mines. At
$3.50 the state and town police 5ried
to smash the picket lines and i've
us from the streets, but the. -Juld
not break the miners lines. When
they broke our lines in one place
we formed them again in another
place. We kept the streets until
after 7 o'clock. This male the po-
lice furious. AT 1920, when the
pickets from Eynon section started
back 70 their homes, about 80 state
police thugs cowardly sneaked up
behind the miners and started to
club and beat them, and drove
them through the woods. One of
the state cossacks broke and tore
the flag the pickets were carrying.
The flag does not mean anything
to the police when the bosses prof
its are at stake.
In the afternoon Of the same day
after the pickets were placed at
tie approaches to picket the after
noon shift, Joe Dougher and AL.
Riondi, another mine leader, were
We king the street when four town
police, Chief Kelly and three pa
t1olmen, Siddons, Popparelli and
Stol ack, drove up alongside them
in a car, grabbed Dougher and
showed him into the car and dubbed
and beat him savagely, over the
back, in the ribs and in the stom-
ach; then threw him In jail and
had justice of the peace, P. J.
Cummings, come to the jail and
give him hearing. Dougher de-
manded the right to call his at
torney on the phone. This Chief
Kelly refused. Dougher then waived
hearing and was taken to the
state police barracks and the state
police tried to accuse him of hav-
ing something to do with dynamit-
ing of homes. This in spite of the
fact the Rank and File opposition
always carries on a campaign
against individual terror, because
we know from an organizational
point of view it would gain us
nothing but give the police the ex-
cuse they want to terrorize us
workers.
Dougher is now under 81 900 bail,
charged with melting to riot, dis
orderly conduct, resisting arrest
and disturbing the peace.
Cappelini Sells Out
Cappelini and Maloney a month
ago promised the miners of the
Penn Anthracite and the Hudson
Coal Co. they would call q gen.
eral strike, but they keep calling
it off from week to week until now
it may be too late as some of the
miners are going back to work dis
couraged. The task of the Rank and
File opposition now is to establish
an action committee in every town,
with committees in every local
union and with a delegaued top
apparatus for the county.
u Send committees from every
town and every local to Cappelini,
Maloney and Schuster to demand
they build mass picket line with
all the miners from all of the COL
lieries concentrating on one coll
liery until it is closed and then
moving to the next colliery, etc.
q To Immediately call general
strike of all companies.
81 To raise the demands, the col
liery rate sheet rates to be paid
for all mining, mechanical mining
the same as hand mining.
n Not over two cars per shift
per man.
81 Home town miners to get the
preference of jobs.
g. The opening Of all collieries
with a guarantee of 40 weeks
work per year by cutting down the
hours, with the same pay.