The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-11
Hunt Miners Like
Animals in Hills,
As RA "Mediates"
Officials Make No Pay
Demand to Draw
All in Strike
BY DAN SINGER

erica, are preparing to sell out the
strike OF the Anthracite miners OF
District ! by sending the miners
the Labor Board NRA that the min
.ers will be given a fair hearing.
Maloney says nothing about the
demands of the miners for the coll
.,liery sheet rates, or consideration
work. Maloney knows that John l..
Lewis Is one of the members Of
the Labor Board, and that by turn
ing the miners to the board he at
the same time turns them over to
the U. M. w. of A. from whom the
miners have split.
Maloney and Cappellini are deal
ing with Monsigneur Curran and the
Editor OF the Times Leader, who
together with Comerford of the
Local MIRA are leaving nothing I'M
done to drive the miners back to
work, Maloney threatened to send
organizers into the lower Anthracite
to call the miners of District and
8 out on a sympathetic strike. This
of course is only bluff to hurry up
the machinery in Washington so that
the sellout of the miners will not
be delayed.
From the start of the strike these
betrayers have used every method
to weaken the strike, by refusing to
call a general strike of the miners
when the General Grievance Com
nittee voted more than three weeks
before the strike call was issued
for a General Strike
Block Mass Picketing
Maloney had called a strike of the
Penn Galleries over the discharge
of Is miners The strike was effec-
tive. The miners were going on the
picket lines In masses. Maloney and
Cappellini then made an agreement
with the Sheriff to allow only thirty
picket at each colliery. The result
was that the miners found there
were more state troopers than there
were pickets, and that the thirty
,pickets were beaten up, and terror
lied, and when they tried to organize
mass picketing again in order to stop
the collieries The rank and file lead
ers were arrested and kept in Jail.
Joe Dougher, who was active in
organizing the mass picket lines was
beaten up and thrown into jail, the
miners returning to work Maloney
then, in order to bolster up his
waning power, called the Glenn AL
rnlI;oy-ac f,-iir
again the rank and file miners de-
manded that a general strike of the
miners was necessary if the miners
were going to win their demands.
A special Convention of the miners
was then called TO stop the
miners from calling a general strike,
Maloney stating that if the govern
ment would intervene, the call
for the general strike would not take
place.
Monsigner Curran was called in
TO try and pacify the miners. But the
patience OF the miners had been
worn out. On the second day of the
convention the miners voted unani-
Ynously for general strike of District
/ in Luzerne County.
Raise No Demands
The strike was carried through
and practically all of the collieries
are out. In Lackawanna County the
strike was not so effective because
OF the betrayal of the Penn strike
by Maloney and Cappellini and be-
cause Cappellini and Maloney had
nothing to offer to the miners except
recognition of their union. They
failed to raise the demands of the
miners, many OF whom are still in
the U. M. w. Of A. and who, while
recognizing that the officials of the
U. M. w. Of A. are bunch of takers,
know that Maloney and Cappellini
are no better than Boylan and Lewis,
and that recognition of the new
union without other demands would
only mean that they would stop pay
ing dues to one bunch Of takers and
pay 1t to another.
The Rank and File Commute Of
Action Issued a leaflet calling upon
the miners OF both unions to strike
for the demands OF the miners, leav-
ing the question Of union recogni-
taon to be linked UP with the de-
gnands Of the miners, to force the
oosl operators to pay the colliery
rate sheet rates. The Ieanet warns
the miners that any officials who
support the MIRA are fighting with
lthe coal operators to force the miners
10 accept compulsory arbitration, and
That to accept the MIRA meant the
driving of the miners back to work
with empty promises. 1t calls upon
the miners never to give UP the right
to strike.
Hunt Miners in Halls
The strike at the Buttonwood Col
lieries n Thursday took on the form
of war, with hundreds Of state roop-
ers and deputy sheriffs driving the
miners into the hills, brutally beating
up any miner that they could reach
The miners were hunted in the hills
Ike wild beasts. and wherever they
were caught. were brutally beaten.
but there Is no protest raised by
Ma1oney and Cappellini or Mon
gisner Curran against the terror by
! the state troopers. They were too
busy selling the miners out.
The Rank and File Committee of
Action calls upon the miners to FIGHT
against this betrayal. by organizing
n1sss picket lines, to organize for a
demonstration before the sheriff's
office, and the office Of Mayor Love-
land. to send protests to Governor
Pinchot, to ORGANIZE Strike Commit
tees ut each Of the collieries. to take
control Of the strike: that the miners