The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
MINERS REJECT
ROOSEVELT,LEWIS
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attitude is that of the miners meet
/ ing at No. 8 of the Pittsburgh Ter
minal Coal Company at Coverdale,
where the meeting voted to stay on
strike at least one day after Fayette
County miners have settled their
strike
Even where there are maneuvers
of U. M. w. A. officials, a majority
vote to return to work is jockeyed
through a local union meeting, the
strike continues at the Ellsworth
Mine bethlehem Steel Company sub
4 sidiary). The miners presented de-
mands for elected acknowledgment
and recognition of the mine commit
tee, and stayed on strike. At prac-
tically every meeting at large mines
committees of fifteen and more are
/ detected to canvass Fayette County to
find out what is going on ard give
all possible assistance to the miners
there.
y At the same time committees
electea by Fayette County miners
are touring the coal fields of other
counties In this way the miners
have set up communication system
which practically makes them indie
pendent of the press, and able to
combat the rumors spread by stool
pigeons and the back-to-work propa-
ganda of the u M. w. A. officials,
the Pennsylvania state government
and the Roosevelt administration.
Jeer Roosevelt
The Pittsburgh papers, notorious
for their biased and lying actions in
all labor struggles in this domain
Of steel and coal, in this instance are
forced by the sheer impact of the
mass Challenge to the coal and steel
barons and the Roosevelt Recovery
Act to publish fairly accurate esti-
mate of the situation.
The Sun Telegraph" today, for
instance, headlines that Thousands
| Picket Beats in Coke Regions, Jeer-
ing Roosevelt Pact. Strike Here Ties
| Up Mines" In its lead the story
says Pittsburgh District coal min
crs today refused to abide by the
terms of President Roosevelts truce
I in the Pennsylvania mine strike.
Most of the mines in the area we're
closed despite the acceptance of the
peace terms" by officials of the
United Mine Workers of America.
:. Even at mines of the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Corporation, which
has been operating under union
agreement, the men did not show up
4 to work :"
Pagan said, There is a bad Red
influence circulating in the District"
The same paper says under
d Uniontown date line, Thousands OF
pickets defy the Roosevelt Mine Truce
pin the Connellsville Coke Region by
y Continuing the Strike in More Than
Fifty plants in the District. The
last active mine in Fayette closed
this morning. The Davidson mine
of the Purity -Connellsville Coal and
Coke Company suspended when the
pickets assembled there. Refusal of
the miners to return to work was
blamed by operators and close OBJ
servers on the controversy to Com
munistic agitation"
The National Miners Union,
through its rank and file commit
tees of strikers, has distributed
10000 leaflets which state: cover
10000 striking miners are being be-
trayed by Lewis, Pagan, Feeney and
company. President Roosevelt, who
was trusted by the miners, is lead
q ing the betrayal to an arbitration
card which will never decide in
IA favor of the miners"
RALLY ALL ON PICKET LINES
The leaflet states further, "The
strike is being called off in the
Presidents truce because it is so
strong that the operators would be
forced to grant all the demands of
the miners" The Ieaflet calls for
rallying women and unemployed on
the picket line. 1t calls for the
spreading of the strike to every
mine and for the sending of a mass
delegation elected by miners to
Washington for a hearing on the
Mining Code.
Duncan McCallum, Pinchot's pri-
vate secretary, has been working here
Il WIFI OOScpll WdSlllilSGOll, Special III
vestigator for the State Labor De-
partment. Both have been trying to
get the miners back to work Both
are blaming the National Miners
Union for the continuation of the
strike and are greatly worried by the
fact that miners meetings at which
they speak vote down their proposals,
as at the meeting of miners of Colo
NAL No. Mine of the Prick Company,
yesterday.
4 After addresses by these harbingers
of peace at the expense of the miners,
several thousand strikers picketed
the Colonial Mines this morning in
the face of National Guardsmen pa
trolling with fixed bayonets and ma
chine guns at strategic points.
There has never been in any period
of the many militant mass struggles
Of the miners in this country a finer
example of the splendid solidarity
and rank and file initiative than in
this struggle. The hunger and sla-
very program of the Roosevelt adj
ministration has struck snag in the
mine fields Of Western Pennsylvania.
That this is realized in Washington
is to be seen by the historical char