The daily worker., 1934-05-10

Mine Mill and Smelter Union have
already made an agreement with
the employers that they will not
conduct picketing The power lines
of the De BardeIeben Coal Com
pany were wrecked. The Southern
Railway trestle near coal valley was
also wrecked, as. was the trestle on
the Southern Railway, between
Oakman and Coal B Valley.
A reign Of terror against militant
workers and against the Communist
Party is being prepared in Birning-
ham. Six workers were arrested In
Birmingham and are being tried on
charges of "vagrancy," tomorrow in
Judge Abernathy's court. Those
charged with "vagrsncy" are Jean
Myers, Negro woman representing
the International Workers Order,
and five white workers, Blaine Owen,
Harold Ralston, Carl Wilson, R. S.
Harris, and Holland williams.
The charge against Jean Myers
is being pressed first because she
is Negro. The International La
Dor Defense, the Communist Party
and the Young Communist League
are providing legal defense and de-
veloping a mass protest against the
arrests.
Six hundred workers on relief Jobs
at Gadsden are being held under
guard. The Birmingham Post, trying
to develop -red scare" and fas-
cist terror against the Communists,
eports that Communists are
threatening violence there. Three
hundred Department of Public C
Works workers struck yesterday
and one hundred and ten struck in
Fairfield, the heart of the T. G. I,
territory.
The three Britling cafeterias, the
Butchers Hill A and P are on strike.
White students of Birmingham,
Southern and Howard College are
being recruited as scabs.
The Tennessee Coal and Iron Co
coal miners have offered their un-
conditional assistance to the ore
strikers.
The six arrested workers, after
asking for their constitutional rights,
we're told by Assistance Chief of
Police McDuff, SIT on your con-
stitutional rights Resolutions are
being introduced into all workers
organizations, including union and
strike meetings, denouncing the ar
rests as an attempt to terrorize the
workers out Of fighting for higher
wages and union recognition. The
resolutions demand the immediate
unconditional release of all six ar
rested workers, the right of free
speech and assembly without police
interference, the immediate removal
of McDuff for denial of constitu-
tional rights he is sworn to uphold
and demanding recognition of the
labor unions in all Alabama enter
prises.
The statement of the Communist
Party on the arrests, in leaflet
distributed today emphasizes that
the raids and arrests came as the
result of the fear Of the employers
of the growing strike movement o1
the workers, and because of the
splendid May Day demonstration
which took place in spite of the
greatest peace time mobilization oi
armed forces ever seen in Birming.
ham.
The Communist Party's statement
points out that the workers of Bir.
mingham cannot be stopped in tlleil
fight for better wages and conditions
by the terror launched against them
They do not have rabbits blood ir
their veins.
The city firemen of Birmingham
are demanding wage increases tx
$45 month. The coal miners have
found that the N R. A. raise" or
which they returned to work, ha.
become a pay cut, because the EN-.
ployers are now making enormous
allowances for washer losses.