The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1927, Page 5

SHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1927 Page Five COMPANY HIRELING JAILS FIVE WORKERS BEATEN BY COAL POLICE One May Lose Eyesight; Taken to Hospital After | “Working Over’ by Company Thugs : By A. S. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 18.—Following the assault of the| Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company Coal and Iron police on four) striking miners of Castle Shannon No. 2, and a fifth youth, Sam-} uel Mullenowski, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters attack- | ed on property not in tpossession of the company, taken to the Coal | and Iron barracks and black-jacked, beaten up, kicked around the | face and body and viciously abused, as described in yesterday’s| DAILY WORKER, the victims, bruised and bleeding and suffer-| ing seriously from their injuries, were taken before Squire Ira H.} Edmondson, company hireling, and thence on to Pittsburgh. Here} four of them were jailed and held and refused bail without any | charges being preferred against them. The young carpenter, who | may lose his eyésight as a result of the attack, was so badly hurt | that he had to be removed to St. Joseph’s hospital, where three of | the Yellow Dogs, as the company gunmen are called ’round here, | mounted guard over him. sate Police and “Civil Rights” It is worth giving in detail the ac- count of what ensued, as told by Constable Siskind and corroborated by Squire George H. Beltzhoover of Castle Shannon Borough. It is a good lesson in just how much a miner’s civil rights are worth where the coal companies are in control. Squire Beltz- hoover, not being a company man, as the miners declare Edmonston to be, | strenuously objects to the action of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Com- pany in handing over his borough to the rule of imported thugs. This week he appealed to District Attorney Gardner of Allegheny County for protection for the citizens of the bor-! ough against the constant outrages fr the. C aS PS id went devekiintedby the’ Gokl Ana Iron.po- men from the County Jail, and wen 4 k to St. Joseph’s Hospital where the lice since the company brought them) itt man was confined as a prisoner| in when it opened up its mines on @/ with a Coal and Iron officer standing | scab basis. over him. They had three over him No Complaint. |before. We finally got him released} After the assault, then, ‘The Coal|into the care of his own physician. end Iron police took them,” (the four| “On Sunday afternoon we had the men) said the constable “to No. 1 Po-| five men examined by Dr. Scott, and lice Station in Pittsburgh.” They|some had internal injuries, and lodged no complaint against them,| one had a rib stove in. In the case of but simply asked the Police Depart-|the one confined to the hospital they ment of Pittsburgh to detain them.) are not sure if he will retain his | Iron police were asked to let the men | | (the prisoners) sign the bonds, so} they could be loosed on’ bail. They refused. (Question asked, could they legally refuse.) No, they took away these men’s constitutional rights.— It’s a wonderful damage suit they have got against the Company. “They were taken to Allegheny County Jail, in Pittsburgh, and con- fined on charges of disorderly con- | duct. That was in default of $200] bail apiece; but they were not allowed | to give bail. Police Stand Over Him. “About nine o’clock Sunday morn- ing we got Squire Edmondson to ac- cept $25 cash apiece and he gave us releases, and we released the four No charge was preferred against! sight. them; the Coal and Iron Police simply Men Appeal Case. said; “Keep these men for us.” “On Monday Squire Beltzhoover “The ‘Police Department locked! took the boys into District Attorney them up. At twenty minutes to ten Gardner to show the district attorney a bondsman and Squire Beltzhoover|the true physical condition of the and the constable appeared at No. 1) men.” Police Station. They had real estate| At this point our friend the Pitts- bonds to the amount of $1,000 apiece. | burgh minal squire comes into the | Altogether we had $5,000 worth of|case again. On Thursday evening last bonds to liberate these men, and we/the five men were given a hearing on had $400 in cash. ithe charge of disorderly conduct be- “The Pittsburgh police could not|fore Squire Edmondson, and—band- turn them loose because there was no|aged, bruised and limping as they bail on them—they simply detained, still were from the effects of the Coal| them. T€ was “detention. and “Iren ‘police attack—-were found No Warrants. gutlty, and fined $5.00 ‘apiece and| “We called up Squire Ira H. Ed-/costs. | mondson of Mount Lebanon (the| The ‘men have appealed the case, company man) to inquire whether any|and it will come up for hearing on / information had been made against| Wednesday, October 19th. these men or warrants issued. There | Hush Up Matter. were none by twenty to twelve. | Outrageous and sensational, too “At twenty to twelve the Coal and! (think of the headlines if it had been| Tron police preferred informations| five college boys instead of five young fined on charges of disorderly con-| union-workers who had been beaten duct. (They were absolutely sober| yp), as this case is, it is only thanks and men of good character.) The De-|to Squire Beltzhoover’s protest and tective Department of Pittsburgh appeal to the District Attorney that called up the Coal and Iron police|the case has reached the columns of | and said if there were no informa-|the local capitalist newspapers. A tions lodged against the men by 12\number of other instances of compa- o’clock they would turn them loose.|ny terror have occurred at Castle | Taken to Hospital. {Shannon No. 2 and the other Pitts- “At three minutes to 12 the Coal|burgh Terminal Coal Company mines) and Iron police came in with four | in the neighborhood since the lockout! commitments to the County Jail. In|began; but because these outrages | the case of one man commitment was|have been perpetrated by one of the} refused because he was too badly|most powerful coal companies, and hurt; he was taken to St. Joseph’s|the victims have been the locked out) Hospital. As soon as the Pittsburgh | miners and their families they do not} police turned those men over to thal sopear in the columns of the general | Coal and Iron police the Coal and pres: OF THE | RUSSIAN REVOLUTION SUB. CAMPAIGN of%t'— DAILY WORKER ww Le Cy \e a. Be (ht Bhd Ladi | of its Castle Shannon—Owned by Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY * Pioneer Meeting Today. A pioneer functionaries’ meeting will be held today, 3 p. m., at 108 East 14th St. Hereafter all news of pioneer af- fairs and meetings will be found in this column. Section 2 Meets Friday. The enlarged Executive Committee meeting of Section 2, called for 1: Friday hi been postponed to this Friday 0 p. m. sh All ‘mem- bers of the Section ecutive Com- mittee and sub-se must be present. ion organizers * o* in this mining town Pennsylvania Coal and Iron Police, hired by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., have been trying to enforce its open shop program and the injunction granted it by Judge Schoonover by a campaign of terrorism. Recently thirty of them got drunk and beat up striking miners—a few d before that they kidnapped five workers and kicked one man’s eyesight out—they have arrested girls and con- fined them in the company barracks. Yonkers Meeting Every Thursday. e Yonkers International Branch | ay, 8 p. m., at the |Labor Temple, 20 Warburton Ave. Members should bring dues books. Daily Worker Agents Meeting. A DAILY WORKER Agents’ con- ‘ ’ he " * BOT ne ees, prenc vi } he onig’ Belt, Auto Shop Play, Theo. Dreiser Leaves fre will be held tonight, 8 p.m. Is First of Its Kind! For Visit To U.S.S.R. 15th s:. “The Belt,” by Paul Sifton, a play (Continued from Paye One} Settle For Tickets. dealing with revolt in an automobile|ton Sine x enjoyed the gre All comrad ructed tu y in Detroit, will open tonight | popularity in the Soviet Union. tle for The DAILY WORKER-F New Playwrights’ Theatre, 40 “Tt quite understandable,”; HEIT Bazaar tickets at orce. Commerce St., Greenwich Village. This play, which will be reviewed tomorrow, is the first proletarian play kind to be produced in America. in the style of Meyerhold’s Theatre of Moscow, with much mass action on the stage, an actual scene of the men working at the moving belt in an auto plant, and with mus | Dreiser said: “How do you explain | popularity ther “Well, Upton Sinclair in his novels |] expresses the political and economic ideals of the Russian people. Of course, he sometim mars i book like ‘Oil’ by bringing i eous arguments.” LABOR AND FRATERNAL} ORGANIZATIONS | a Sinclair's Banquet For Olgin Friday. A banquet in honor o themes throughout. A labor audience Dreiser was i i ‘ eis as then aske he be-: will ts ace Frid of needle trades workers and staff|tieved it was possible for a book to! fuga yraee Friday workers from The FREIHEIT and|be a work of art and at the ges eels The DAILY WORKER attended a|time rae avi Hi ill be given by the Shop Chi special dress rehearsal Monday Tighe atte have a highly propagandist! men’s Council of the Furriers’ Union. ae “Certainly it is,” Dreiser replied. 2 iii Soccer League Shows “‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and ‘The Con. Garfield Labor Rally 'On U.S.S.R. at Garden Labor Leaders To Talk THOUSANDS OUT veto ON STRIKE. IN COLORADO COAL (Continued from s on July ious « ineludi Davis of Yale Ur Douglas of the Chi- m Fe > ‘ tego: Prof. Rh. G. Tuswall of Caan | DOL sbeeron. Of: Come k University; Prof, Alzada Constoe! ‘ r The ville AE eS pete pany That Killed Israels of Cc ert W. Dun Foreign In burn, superinte in Winetka, 1 Columbia Univ al Bu of Informatio Education. Mr. Hunt’s statement y that durin started s ordered town. ing ther movement ar visited Moscow, and other large Lewis Men trike is trade t Union, the st mall é Workers of gations locals of ment say: he first tir f pane America one of Inter- 3 a group ; z national P: “paper dis- rolling conven- many such a istrict officials, and will come out with the strikers Amer So The walk-out started last night in Costumes of All Lands|the Walsenburg to at [: L. D Ball Friday | 4%! and oth was strengthened by a great meeting at Lafayette, at which miners from the district voted to carry the The Inter bor Defense ball Boulder |fessions of St. August are cer- y : no, 107th | os ike in rages ss i Workers Can Create ltainly good literature and were im LO Be Held Thursday s aay ee a ee ee ee Sport Organizations | their time also mighty forces for en-| zi te al groups tive | on strike, in addition to the approxi- wee lightenment.” GARFIELD, N. J., Oct. 18. — The The mingling of national| ately four thousand. already wat Clubs affiliated with the Metro-| Art Prostituted In America. | United Labor tikeet campaign commit- 4 oie Blake of: eolok, ill @i¥e.| tna cmmapatien thadela Urpntlan of politan Soccer League are teaching| “Success has bought off at least 90 tee will hold a rally for their candi- | the ball an international spirit fs apes ticaike wee the New York labor movement that| per cent of the writers who ic dates Thursday evening at Belmont; Features of the ball will include 50 per hed ‘but etal eute workers can build their own sports|corcepts would otherwise have per-| Park. The local candidates and sev-/a buffet bar and a 10-piece jazz or- up to the $7.50 demanded or to grant 1 will ad- Hallicy, mayor, is organizations. mitted them to do fine work,” he ¢tal speakers from New ¥ Getting grounds on which to play| said. | dress the audience. Edward is a serious problem but one which) “There is hardly a paper in’. indep iy" candidate for new can be solved, although teams occa-|the United States,” Dreiser, himself, i? ™ CO nOER cormucaye; sionally have found it difficult to find|a former newspaperman, continued,| 2¢cording to United Labor ticket s fields for their games, according to| ‘which is not in one way or another Porters. the league exeeutive. Officers of the| bound by economic inte When Sted Mills are league say they aim to make soccer|I worked on .a paper in Pittsburgh i" his clection accessible to all workers clubs. hardly a word favorable to labdr was Bes Since the league season began| permitted to appear in that paper, or BLY THE DAILY WORKER nearly 30 scheduled games have been|in any other in the city, for that mat- AT THE NEWSSTANDS played in the “A” and “B” divisions.|ter. The labor editor told me per- A referee group also was recently |sonally of many things that hap- formed. pened that never got an inch of space Those desiring information should|in the paper, communicate with the Metropolitan; “As for myself, I was permitted to Workers Soccer.League, 1109 Frank-| write harmless things about the beau- lin Ave., Bronx, Lester Balog, secre-|ty of the city, its towering’ buildirigs, tary. | mills and factories.” Labor Must Fight For Own Interests, Asked if under these circumstances Y + BUTCHERS’ UNION Local 174, A. M,C. & B. W. of N. A. Office Headquarters: Labor Tem 43 EK. 84 St., Room and 3rd Bosses’ Union Dwindles; | \it was not vital that the workers’ Bosses’ Thugs Increase | movement build its own labor press, |Dreiser, his massive frame leaning }against. a wall lined with books, re- | plied artlessly,. “I don’t know about such things. But I will say that if a group doesn’t fight for the better- }ment of its own economic and social |interests, they’re damned fools.” AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Bakers’ Lee. No. 164 Meets 1st Saturday in the month at 3468 Third fyane Police are said to be investigating the recent attack by four unidentified gangsters on Peter Darck, secreta: of the Window Cleaners’ Protecti Union. More than 1,000 window cleaners are striking here for a living aree: 4% , | Dreiser has never been in Ru Harry Feinstein, business manager | of the Protective Union, charges the ne i i Mak jturn, he said. “Are you dead set Manhattan Window Cleaning Employ- lagainat it?” he.was.asked ers’ Association has hired an East|""«4 ian who invades a foreign the strkers and’ that the, imo who coum and then writes a book on i slugged Darck were members of this eases SURI aia ol cdl gi a gang. Feinstein said he had been told | “°° ai they received $65 each for the assault. Darck said only 53 attended the | Bronz, N. 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