The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-15

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the state capitol
The statement says in part: I'VE
are miners wives from the Peabody
owned towns of Christian County We
have come to you to protest against
evictions at the hands of the Pea
body Coal Company and to petition
you to provide shelter for ourselves
and our children,
I'VE are being evicted from homes
we paid on and expected to own. After
years Of payments, people are put out
on the street. 1t makes no difference
to Peabody if women and children
are sick, out they go.
Our Children Cry for Home
Come to the coal towns and see
empty houses with boards nailed over
the windows and doors. Come and
see our furniture set out on the
streets. Come and see our children
crying for place to call home.
Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
of the tax payers money are squan-
dered on standing army in the coal
fields, You are aware, that the Pea
body Coal Company is a part Of the
corrupt insult interests, Yet when
Peabody asks faYors from the govern
ment, they are granted insult has
| fled the country and enjoys the lux
uries of life in a foreign land, We
are made homeless by his power and
we have to ask the state for shelter
viii we get it,
We Have Resisted Tyranny
THE Illinois legislature chose a
commission to investigate the trouble
in the coal fields Months ago. Moth
ing happened. You law makers are
well aware Of the causes Of this
trouble. You know why our men are
kept out Of these mines and strike
breakers imported from other states.
For fourteen months and more we
have resisted the tyranny of indus
trial overload and labor racketeer. We
will continue to resist it. Though we
are hungry for bread, we refuse the
bread Of slavery.
IF your wives and little ones we're
set out on the street in towns where
empty houses are boarded up, what
would you do? If your children were
crying for potatoes, what would you
do? Whatever we may be driven to
do, in our desperation, we will leave
it to the decent citizens of the state
to place the responsibility where it
rightly belongs. Would you stay out
doors if you saw an empty house?
Would you let your children go hun
cry if you saw food within your
reach? Have you nothing to offer us
but the sales tax that will rob the
poor?
10000 Miners Wives
"Ten thousand miners wives MEM
bers OF the Illinois Women's Auxiliary
OF the Progressive Miners of America,
marched to the State House on Jan
uary 26th to demand our rights as
citizens. From Governor Horner we
got an empty promise. From the leg
islature we got mock investigation.
Today we have $4,000 women within
our ranks. Today we, the evicted
women from Taylorville, Tovey and
Kincaid, are here to protest against
evictions. You have refused to grant
us our constitutional rights of free
speech and assemblage. You have
refused to feed us as human beings
should be fed. You refuse to keep
strike-breakers out of the state who
come to take our mems jobs in vio-
lation of state mining laws.
Today we petition you to send the
soldiers home, for they have homes
to go to, and give us their tents to
protect our children from the rain
and the hail and the scorching sum-
mer sun. Surely you will not refuse
this plea, you men who have food
and shelter and whose biggest COM
plant is about the oppressive heat in
the State House"