The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27

the spray guns used by Reese. His
mother, Mrs. Pete Trombini, also
blinded, CROPPED frantically on the
ground, trying to locate the boy, who
was writhing with pain. An 95-year
old mother Of a Mexican miner lay
moaning on the highway.
DR.. Cantrell, who treated the pick
cts, Immediately ordered six of them
to the hospital. Among these was
Ignacia Macias, 14-year old girl, who
was active in the school strike called
last week to demand the release of
the strike leaders arrested and held
by military court on vagrancy
charges. The doctor reports it is
as yet unknown whether or not per-
manent blindness will result to the
six.
Continue Attack
Militiamen here, contrary TO the
usual practice did not halt Reeses
car to request the military pass
needed to enter the camp. Reese
continued his attack unmolested by
the troopers present, and then pro-
ceeded to Gomerco under guidance
of an armed guard. Pickets were
held back by drawn bayonets. When
a committee approached Captain A.
Harrison to demand the immediate
arrest of Reese, he answered, ct
serves you all right" One of the
pickets showed the captain a partic-
ularly bad case. The captain re-
piled, that's not the militias bust
ness, that strikers business" He then
issued orders for the picket line TO
disperse. The pickets did not bulge.
They surged forward, closing in on
the captain, whose commands to dis
perse gradually became weaker and
weaker, until they ceased entirely.
The pickets remained on duty.
Thirty eviction cases (Which came
before the company-owned Justice of
the Peace today are being tried on
company grounds. The International
Labor Defense is leading the fight
against the evictions. 1t is admitted
by all that the campaign in defense
of the arrested strike leaders was
one of the decisive factors in their
unconditional release last Wednesday
morning.
Exiquo Navarro ("Little class
Struggle'O, Mexican strike leader of
the Dawn Patrol" made his way
this morning from his home on the
Gomerco Company property in an
attempt to evade military police, who
are dispensing the pickets in the
camps, to prevent them from join
ing the others. He was followed by
mounted military police again this
morning, who caught up with him,
and this time succeeded in throwing
him to the ground. The horses hoofs
badly injured his hand. The Dawn
PATROL is a group OF several hun
dred pickets in the camp who may
be seen early at dawn every day, try
ing to make their way to where the
picket line is formed. Each morning
they may be seen making their way
across the hills, and are dispersed,
only to succeed in getting around the
militia individually by running
through the hills, hiding, lodging
and taking paths unknown to the
troops. AS each new arrival Of the
dawn patrol succeeds in reaching
tne picket line, the pickets cheer
and sing.
For the first time in the history
OF Gallup, the miners listened at theii
meeting to representative of the
Communist Party. Bill Dietrich, rep
resentative of the Party in District
No. 10, and member of the A. F. OF
L., spoke to an enthralled audience.
promising the support of the Com
munist Party to their struggles. "Not
only does our Party support the fights
OF the NMU but they support the
struggles of the rank and file of the
United Mine Workers as WELL Diet
rich said. THE Communist Party
is the only Party that takes an I'M
qualified stand in defense of the
working class and its struggles"