The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

strikers ranks have been swelled to
close to 5000.
Jimmie Eagan, strike leader, presi-
dent of the sub district, Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
whom scabs attacked early this
morning precipitating the battle, told
his story to the Daily Worker:
Seven o'clock this morning, these
fellows who were going to bust the
line, modified across the street from
the plant I went across to speak
to them to stay out. They were yery
ugly, moving to gang me. They made
a rush for me. Picket line came run
ming up armed with clubs and sticks.
The leader of the scabs took punch
at me. At that time there were more
scabs than pickets, as they chose the
weak spot in the line. But the picket
line answered the attack and drove
into them.
"At the plant, deputy sheriffs were
standing with their rifles ready, hold
ing their fire, waiting to see the out
come of the melee. When they saw
the scabs driven back, they started
shooting first tear gas, then hot
lead"
Luke Starchenko, member of I'M
employed Council of McKees Rocks,
who was on the picket line, fell to
the sidewalk with du1n-dum bullet
in his side. When scabs ran back,
Alton Curry, one of their group, was
left on the ground with severe, pos
sibly head wounds. A son of one OF
the pickets was slightly wounded BY
gunfire. After fighting, picket lines
frightened up, refusing to leave the
mill gates even for moment to par
ticipate in a meeting.
Use Dunn Dunn Bullets
Sheriff Charles L. O'Loughlin,
Beaver County, admitted that bullets
fired-and the only ones came from
the mill guards-were dum-dum, hol-
lowed at one end, calculated to spread
and mangle the victim.
II don't know who fired shots" he
said. Don't put me on the spot be-
cause I'm looking for them"
Uuot4lJ illS Dllt cVboNhat
Barton, vice president of the CONF
pany, said: Protection Of our prop
erty is in the hands of deputy sher-
ifs Any shooting that was done, was
done by deputies"
John L. Mellon, Secretary of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, who visited Ambridge, inlme-
diately after the shooting with the
correspondent of the Daily Worker,
declared:
Barton Responsible
we charge Barton with respor-
sibility for this murderous assault.
Picketing was peaceful, and this at
tack was made deliberately to run in
scabs and keep strike from spreading
to other mills Men are fighting for
their jobs. Picketing will be increased
and more mills will be pulled out to
win demands"
There is every likelihood now that
the largest mill in Beaver Valley.
American Bidge Co, U. s. Steel sub
sidiary, will be pulled out on strike
within the next few days. Plans are
being worked out TO strike Jones and
Laughlin plant in Alequippa, which Is
q virtual feudal castle, surrounded by
moat and reached by only one mar
row bridge, now guarded at every
vantage point by machine gunners.
Five hundred members of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
in Carnegie Steel Corporation plant,
Duquesne, Pa, employing 5000 men,
voted to call strike by Monday. This
key plant, and together with Clarion
plant will lead to virtual shutdown
Of the enSire steel industry in Beaver
Valley.
Two thousand workers at the Alu-
minum Co. of America at New Ken-
sington, members of an A. F. of L.
Federal Union. are planning strike
against the Msllcn controlled corpor-
| alton.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct 4.--Min-
ers following the lead of Fayette
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