The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

Dy SeVenty-HVe thousand PennSyLva
gaining powerful support from the
flaming steel strikes.
Dawn today saw the greatest and
most militant picket lines Of long
series of strikes since MIRA. Thirty
thousand miners and their wives
marched on Clarion alone, but were
DETECTED to mine picketing. Their
objective was to shut down Carnegie
Steel Corporation Plant. "Join the
strike; stick till Prick recognizes the
union" read the banners.
Determined to Win.
Many of the pickets, more de-
termined than ever to win, armed
themselves with iron bars, pick hand
les and other homemade weapons.
1t was grim fighting mass that
turned out before daybreak. They
swarmed over the soft coal fields in
Pennsylvania to set up in place of
official Roosevelt's approved slavecode
an agreement won by fighting ranks
of miners themselves.
Above all, they demand union rec
ignition SO that they may continue
to fight and win better conditions,
code or no code. Capitalist papers
here conservatively estimate over 100,-
900 coal miners and steel workers
now on strike. "We won't go back
to work until the union is recognized
everywhere" is the universal cry of
miners and steel workers. Other steel
towns are either already on strike
in common cause with coal miners,
or have taken definite action for
strike within the next few days.
Despite all efforts of operators,
government, U.M.W.A. officials, N.R.A.
and press agencies, to make it appear
that the strike is restricted to So
called captive mines and pits owned
by and working for large steel corpor-
ations, the strike itself is engulfing
the entire soft coal field of PennSyl-
vania for definite demands of min
ers, contrary to the terms of the coal
code.
Pinchot's Treachery.
Governor Pinchot is adopting this
strategy and calling on the miners
at Carnegie Steel mills at Clarion to
go back home. Working with Lewis
and Pinchot is Roy Hallas, President
of the Clarion Local of A. A. In an
appeal to Pinchot yesterday, Hallas
declared For Gods Sake, take action
quickly, if you want to prevent blood
she'd" He demands protection against
striking coal miners to prevent steel
workers from joining the strike.
AT Uniontown, the miners were
planning to march on Huge Donora
Plant, American Steel and Wire,
another U. S. Steel subsidiary, to en-
list steel workers. In Weirton, A. A.
officials are trying to rush men back
to work before the strike movement
in Clarion, Ambridge, Aliquippa and
other steel centers swells the ranks
with steel workers.
Nevertheless, Weirton Steel Com
pany workers, against the wishes of
A. A. takers, have strengthened their
strike ranks and conduct picketing
daily, building a union organization.
A. A. officials are pressing only for
union recognition, hoping to get the
men back to work, but the men are
sticking out for higher wages, union
recognition and not the type Of union
Tighe and other A. A. officials desire.
The very extension of the strike
on the day the code and wage
agreements become law, with their
specific declaration that strikes of
any kind in coal fields are Illegal,
shows that miners are fighting against
the substance Of the code on almost
every point. Miners are demanding
recognition Of U. M. w. A. without
its Lewises, with rank and file con-
troll. They demand the six hour day
and five dollar day.
Secret Maneuvers.
The strike breaking plans of the
U.M.W.A.officials were partly divulged
today in dispatch appearing in the
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, reading:
What mines are to be reopened first
was a closely guarded secret last
night, company and executive officials
of the U.M.WA. refusing to make
this known and indicating fear
that knowledge OF their plans might
enable outside agitators to concen-
trate their trouble, making forces at