The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-27
Police Shoot
Down Boy in
Coal Strike
Anthracite Pickering
Continues; Troopers
Launch Terror
Especial Wire to the Daily Worker

W1LAEo BARRIE, Pa, Jan. 70
Police of Wilkes Barre shot and IA
tally wounded Peter Dobrans1i. age
l6, on the picket line at the South
Wilkes Barre ColIiery early this NOR
ming. Six other pickets were arrested
and charged with rioting and viola
ton Of the court injunction against
picketing. As a result of the mass
picketing the tieup Of the Galleries
Of all Companies was more complete.
The picllets fought back against
the attack Of the police with rocks
and stones. The police claim the boy
was not shot by them, the usual abb
where such cold hlooded murder by
police takes place.
Driven From Street
Terror throughout the anthracite is
the method now being adopted in an
effort to break the strike of the 6ght-
ing miners and their wives in District
No. l. In the Mayfower and Stanton
section, the City Police and State
Troopers are driving the miners from
the streets.
1t is in this section that the South
wilkes Barre colliery is located and
where the pickets have shown the
greatest lnilitancy. The South Wilkes
Barre colliery IS oue of the key mines
Of the Glen Alden Coal Company
which has been particularly hard hit
in the strike.
Dinlmick. the General Manager,
admits that the strike has virtually
stopped production at all of their
collieries which employ more than
5000 men, and he whines that the
Coal Company has orders for 10000
tons per day and this might be lost
unless the miners return to work.
This is why they now use police
terror in a mad effort to drive the
miners back into the coIlieries at the
starvation wages they have been pay
ing to the miners.
PinchOt's Legions Beat-Up Miners
Mayor Honeywell of Plymouth in
answer to a protest by the Citizens
declared that he could do nothing to
stop the State Troopers and the
sheriff's forces from going into bust
ness places and driving workers who
had gone there to purchase food out
into the streets where they were
beaten up.
The miners of Exeter have pro-
tested to the Burgess against the use
of State Troopers in the Borough,
declaring that it is the coming Of the
State Troopers, that has caused all
the trouble. The Burgess Of Larks-
vile told the miners Of that borough
that the sheriff has taken all the
| power away from the borough off,
| Gals.
In Nanticoke where the Burgess
deputized some of the miners, Gov
error Pinchot's troopers have taken
over the situation, because the dep
utized miners protected the miners in
their right to strike.
United Front
The need for unity Of the miners
in both unions has been made an
issue in the Lance Colliery Of the
Glen Alden Coal Company. A
group has been organized to
fight for the grievances Of the miners,
this committee after meeting, de-
cided to send committees from the
U. A. M. p. to visit the U. M. W. OF
A. local unions and invite them to
Join in the struggle, on the basis OF
winning the demands Of the miners.
The rank and file miners Of the q.
M. w. of A. working in the Lance
Colliery at regular meeting elected
Committee, which agreed to call
holiday, which means to strike,
until all of the miners grievances had
been settled.
There was some hesitancy on the
part Of the rank and file of the U.
A. M. P and they proposed that the
question be taken up with Maloney,
this was agreed to and the Committee
from both unions are now in con-
sultation with Maloney on the cues
ton of basing the fight of the miners,
on the grievances Of the miners with
the right Of the miners to belong
to the union Of their own choosing.