The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10
Murder Was Planned.

KINCAID, Ill, Jan, 9.-The MUIR
der of Mrs. Albino Cumeralato, 48,
active member of the Women's
Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners
of America, and the shooting of mine
pickets, was carefully planned by the
Lewis-Peabody gun thugs, an inves-
tigation in the vicinity of the shoot
ing easily proved.
On Tuesday night, at $50. the
Scab miners, who are also deputized
gun thugs, came marching from the
Peabody mine towards the picket
line. The thugs usually leave the
mine at 5 o'clock. However, on this
day the extra thirty minutes was
spent in organizing themselves into
military formation.
They marched eight abreast and
formed about twenty lines. They
were armed and each of the gun
thugs wore a white arm band When
they came near the picket line their
leader shouted: You dirty hunkies
better scram-we1l count four" and
then started shooting.
Thugs Had Shippers.
While the boss press continually
speaks about shipping on the part of
the Progressive Miners, the truth of
the matter is, that the gun thugs
wore the white arm bands to keep
their own snipers from shooting the
thugs. The snipers probably were
told: Don't aim at those who wear
white arm bands"
The home of Mrs Cumeralato is
located directly across the road from
the thugs and on the side where the
union pickets were. At $50 Mrs.
Cumeralato came to the door to call
her husband, Albino, into the house.
To do this she only partly opened
the door. Her husband Immediately
went into the house and saw his wife
walk across the room and fall over
dead. These facts were given to the
Daily Worker representative by the
husband of the dead woman. An in
vestigation on the porch showed that
about ten other bullets had struck
the house.
While the boss press and the "Illi-
nois Miner" organ of the United
Mine Workers, rave about the homes
of the scabs being bombed, the home
OF Joe Cofso, a. leading member of
the Progressive Union, was bombed
and completely wrecked. First, some
bombs were set off at 2;30, and then
the Lewis-Peabody thugs came back
at 4:30 and finished the bombing.
Directly across the street from the
home of Joe Corso is a gasoline sta
ton owned by Fred Bassano, also a
member of the Progressive Miners.
This place was also wrecked by
bomb. Most of the other houses in
the vicinity we're raked by machine
gun fire.
On the morning of the shooting, at
about 4;30, some deputies of Sheriff
Weinecke, democrat, and bitter foe
of the Union miners, carrying two
foot cables and riot guns, tried to
chase the miners off the picket line,
but were themselves chased away by
the miners and city police, friendly
to the Progressives. These facts
prove that the sheriff and other
thugs we're especially vicious on this
day and that the thugs were organ
lied into military formation for the
purpose of actually shooting the
striking miners.
Two Scabs Shot.
The following morning two scab
miners were shot on their way to
work. The sheriff rounded up all
the miners in the vicinity of the
shooting and made it his business to
especially arrest the italian miners
who have proved such good fighters.
Mass protests from all over the
country should be sent to the gov
ernor and to the sheriff of Christian
County, demanding that arrested
miners be released and that the gun
thugs be Immediately disarmed.
KINCAID, ILL.,, Jan. 9-Fifteen
hundred striking miners and their
wives turned out for the funeral of
Mrs. Albino Cumeralta. There were
determined looks on the faces of the
miners and their families as the body
of their slain comrade was carried
out of the house.
Scores of state patrolmen, as well
as National Guardsmen, who re-
Gently killed Andy Gonis, miner,
were on hand, while two army
planes circled overhead,
Buried Next to Gonis
The fighting miners marched from
Kinkaid to Taylorville and buried
Mrs. Cumerlato next to the grave
Of Andy Gonis. The grave is also
near that of George FRANKLIN Rtl-