The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
1000 Armed Thugs
Kill 2 Steel PicketS
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miners and steel workers on the
picket line when they heard of the
Ambridge strike.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. ga
mass meeting Of 10000 striking
miners at Cheswick, Pa, in the AL
legheny Valley, called by Local l
of the United Mine Workers Union
today, decided unanimously to stay
outfor a full victory. Some vacillat-
ing local leaders as Murray Renton,
relative of Philip Murray, Inter
national President of the U. M.
w. of A., was given cold reception.
Sam Wiseman, delegated by the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, spoke at the meeting and was
received with tremendous response
when he called for solidarity of the
striking mining and steel workers,
and for unity in continuing the strike.
/ He urged the drafting Of better
agreement and the calling of con-
ference to settle a central strike lead
ership of the rank and file. This
was received with a tremendous ova-
ton He then told the miners that
the Steel and Metal Workers Union,
sister union Of the National Miners
Union, supports their struggle 100 per
cent and that their members are CIV
ing all their energy to win this strike.
At this point the chairman and
some of the local leaders shut the
microphone and tried to rush him
from the platform. The whole body
of miners shouted their demand that
Wiseman be allowed to continue, and
the chairman had to concede.
1t took some time to control the
rage of the miners when the chair
man limited that THE N. M. U.
helped to disrupt the 1927 strike"
The miners showered, This is lie"
The leaders then called on their
loyal forces to clear the front of the
platform of "disrupters," but no one
moved and the meeting continued
with much more militant speeches.
A check-up on reports printed that
few mines were opened, shows that
all capitalist press statements on
miners returning are lies out of the
whole cloth.
At the Coverdale Mine of the
Pittsburgh Terminal, when it was
rumored that Sc men were returning,
5000 pickets marched on the line, to
find it completely empty. The then
| proceeded to Clarion to help close
/ down the Carnegie Steel Corporation.
A huge picket line of miners near
Uniontown, Pa, after surveying the
field and finding the mines closed
marched on the Latrohe Steel Com
pany Plant and the Vanadium AL
Toys Steel Company and shut down
4 both 100 per cent, swelling the total
number of steel and coal workers
out to over 10000. The Latrobe Steel
Co. has 800 and the Vanadium AL
Toys, 500.
Miners are determined to close
down the key plant of the Carnegie
Steel Company at Clarion, with huge
picket lines convefging from every
point in the coal fields. Steel Unior
representatives are holding meet
ing here today.
Greensburg State Police clubbec
one woman on the picket line of three
thousand this morning and arrested
one man and two women. One soak
with drawn revolver who was tryins
to get into the mill was arrested, bu
Immediately released on request O
the management. State Police ran 81
professional scabs into the mill
Miners frcm all around today prom
ised to mobilize all their forces II
picket the Walworth Foundry Com
pany, where 1000 are on strike unde
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial JJniOn leadership