The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1929, Page 1

DEFEND SOVIET UNION! PROTEST IMPERIALIST ATTACK ON HAITI! MASS MEETINGS Worker ew York, N. ¥. anderethe act of March 3, 1870. . METAL WORKERS OF CARTERET, PERTH AM- BOY AND VICINITY! ‘TURN TO PAGE 3! Entered matter at the FINAL CITY EDITION" Published daily except Sunday by Compan 26-28 Union Square. Vol. VL, No. 240 y Publishing New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mail $5.00 per year Outside New York. by mall $6.00 ver vear ity, N. ¥.GeD ar Crooked Grundy to Senate, Electric Chair--This Is ‘NEW Y ORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1929 GOES TO JURY; ‘AGCORS| CASE ‘Haiti Masses Stand Firm; Many Arrests NANKING CLAIMS’ GAIN AT CANTON | Gastonia Organizing Mill Totlers NEW MINES JOIN STRIKE “ALL OVER ILLINOIS: UMW Honest Worker Accorsi to _ ; Released Gastonia defendants Capitalist ‘Democracy’ \bers of the Young Communist | Joseph R. Grundy, Pennsylvania millionaire labor-exploiter and high-tariff lobbyist, who uses such bare-faced methods of cofruption that even the rottenest capitalist newspapers are afraid to endorse : him, has been appointed to the United States Senate. | He takes a seat that is vacant because William S. Vare, another | Pennsylvania millionaire labor-exploiter bought his way into the Sen- ate with such open corruption that the ruling class thought it would not be wise to seat him. Therefore, they will seat Grundy instead- Grundy who is just as crooked but who has not yet openly bought an | election, He only bought senators after they were in the Senate. This | is done to preserve the so-called “honor” of the Senate. + The appointment is made by Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania, | whose seat as governor of the state was bought and paid for by the | same millionaires who financed the other corruption—the big ring of | Pennsylvania manufacturers and bankers headed by the Mellon family. | The chief of all of this pyramid of corruption is Andrew W. Mellon, | secretary of the treasury of the United States, the right hand man of Hoover in the presidential cabinet. At just exactly the same time, the same Mellon clique of labor- exploiters, through the courts which they control, is making another “appointment”—also in the interest of the ruling capitalist class. | Ivania coal mine | ic chair. | They are “appointing” the courageous Penns worker, Salvatore Accorsi—to sit in the eleci The crook Grundy serves the capitalist class, helping to grind | more profits out of the working cla 0 it does no injury (to the | |Killing of Gunman} Downey Justified Says Attorney ‘Verdict Friday, No Identification Made of Accorsi PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec, 12—The | Accorsi case went to the jury today | Haitian and the jury is locked up for the night. A verdict is expected at 9:30 in the morning. Salvatori Accorsi, the miner defendans, whom the coal and steel government of Pennsyl- ja is trying to send to the ele e chair because they recognize |him as a class enemy, took the stand | of Stimson'’s war threat against the today in his own behalf. In a clear cut-frame up attempt, the state charges he was the man who shot a state policeman named Downey, while the troopers were League yesterday distributed leaf-/ | lets calling for support to the revo-| |lutionary Haitian workers and peas- ants at Norfolk. Sailors and marines aided in the distribution, especially asking for additional copies to hand out on the warships. | A xfajority of the sailors and marines read the leaflets denounc- | ing U. S. imperialist intervention in | Haiti with great interest and sym- |pathy. One marine who was in} | Nicaragua said he was opposed to | going to Haiti and would not shoot Kai Shek’s Costly ‘Silver Bullets’ Japan Jokes: at U.S. Tokio “Concerned” at Manchurian Status | BULLETIN. rebels. “We are selling) SHANGHAI, Dec. 12—Reports jourselves for twenty dollars aj i hi lacki | donth;? ‘declared: ariother, |. All af prom interior of China are) Tacking, one province, that of Kiangsi, hay- | | them reported that marines who 2 ing not been heard from since No- | were sent to Haiti disliked the job | | and regretted going. vember 30, with missionaries re-| Marine reinforcements are being |ported the principal city, Kanchow, !sent to China from here as a part/as being in the hands of “Reds,” | probably a part of the agrarian revolutionary movement that seething in all the countryside. Soviet Union and for duty in be- |half of Wall Street’s ambitions for | control of the Manchurian railroad. a ee PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. is SHANGHAT, Dee. 12.—If reports National Textile Workers’ Union U. S. Pays for Chiang’ | members preparing for the union’s | second national convention to be held in Paterson, N. J., on Decem- ber 21, it was stated at the national | office of the union today. | Clarence Miller, sentenced to 20 |years, is actively organizing young | workers in the textile industry, and the National Textile Youth Confer- gence, to be held in Paterson, during {the convention. He will speak in | Philadelphia, Saturday, Sunday and other districts. Harrison, Hendryx, Beal. Joseph Harrison, also sentenced to 20 years, is still in the South, where he is leading the Leaksville |strike. But he will mobilize the workers there for the convention. “Red” Hendryx, sentenced to | seven years, is again in the Char- lotte region, after a successful speaking tour through the northern cities, He is organizing for the urging them to send delegates to | | Monday, and will then proceed to) ‘Battle Looms at Auburn; Wasson, Pana, Coella, | Miners Walk Out; March on Harco, Valier Belleville, Staunton Regions Ready to Join; \Sheriff Drives Militants from Hall for UMWA BULLETIN. WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Dec. 12—Deputies tear gassed the picket line at Coella today. There is mass picketing at Wasson by men, women and children of the strikers’ families. Pana strikers held a | mass meeting and voted to march on mines at Bullpit and Nokomis. } Sheriff Dunbar of Christian County has warrants for 49 members of | the N. M. U., and has arrested three of them so far. The militia re mains in Taylorville, and detachments haye been sent to Pana and Nokomis. | * The Workers International Relief national office at 949 Broadway has received the following telegram from Henry Corbishley, secretary of the Illinois District of the National Miners Union: “We need funds at once to establish three relief stores in the strike area. We need money for medical attention. Women, children and men have been beat- en up by the sheriff's forces. Rush relief immediately and send a representative to the field.” * * ruling class) if he is a corruptionist. But the coal miner, Accorsi, showed himself loyal to his own class --the working class—in the struggle against the horrible conditions of oppression and unbearable exploitation in the conl mines owned by this same clique headed by the Mellon millionai Accorsi, honest.. coal miner, got in the way of the exploiters and interfered with profits. So the ruling class rewards Grundy and will murder Accorsi. smashing a Sacco-Vanzetti demon- \ stration of thousands of miners, and |their families, on August 22, 1927. | Accorsi was arrested a year and a jhalf after the meeting, and after he had worked for months around Cheswick, the scene of the meeting, juntil he had to move to Staten Is- i ay f a ate kee land, New York, to look for more This is American capitalist “democ! work This is typical capitalist government. P | Accorsi’s testimony was dramatic. The worknig class must answer. We must stir up all of our class |He defied the prosecutor to put to defend Accorsi! Accorsi must be saved, and not allowed to die a can he believed, which is doubtful| "0" and CS Ca when coming from Chiang Kai-| Fred Beal, sentenced to 20 years, shek’s Nanking “government” is on tour for the convention in sources, the Nanking forces defend-| New England, making the textile ing Canton have repulsed the at- centers of New Hampshire this tack of the militarist rebel forces of | (Continued on Page Three) Chang Fa-kwei, leader of the “Iron-| we sides.” It is said half of these were PRISON REVOLT | 12—With hundreds of heavily armed marines and gendarmes parading | Strategic points, and arrests being |made indiscriminately of suspected (Continued on Page Three) SMASH ATTACK WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec. 12.—Continual spreading ef the miners’ strike into the northern coal fields, into the extreme southern part of the state, into the historic Pana fields, with marching miners calling out mine after mine, was the main news at strike headquarters today. The United Mine Workers of America is organizing gangs of thugs for attack {on the strikers’ mass picket lines. The U.M.W.A. co-operates | fully with the sheriff's and business men’s “vigilante” groups. |The strike is led by the Na-¢ either captured or killed in the last | two days fighting. In the north,; jfighting is going on, indecisively, | | fifty miles north of Nanking. through the frame-up, and shouted: with their fellow workers and fight { UNION IN GAINS: bloody sacrifice like Sacco and Vanzetti! But we must do more than defend. We must build our revolutionary trade unions to fight the capi- | talist class and all of its flunkeys. We must organize the most loyal and courageous workers in every mine, mi!l and factory, into the revolutionary Party of our class—the Communist Party—which will lead our class through the whole bitter struggle to victory. Vietory for the workers can only mean the overthrow of capitalist rule and the whole-system-of exploitation—-and the establishment of the rule of the working class. rker who reads these lines should immediately give his ining the Communist Party. SUBWAY DIGGERS International Wireless News Communist Deputy Fined. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BRUSSELS, Dec. 12.—The Bel- gian parliamentary authorities have confiscated the salary of the Com- munist Deputy Jacquemotte, the ed- Negroes Join It; Meét Sunday to Push Fight The marked succe: of the subv construction workers’ fight against |itor of the “Drapeau Rouge” (the A. F. of L. officials who are openly |“‘Red Flag’). The fine is imposed allied with contractors and city gov-|on the excuse that the paper cha try was guilty of culpable negli-| gence in the death of a soldier re cently. Jacquemotte has no prop-| erty. ‘ged that the Belgian war minis-| ernment to tie the men to the job instead of fighting against wages will be expressed at a m meeting of the diggers at Stuyves- | ant Casino, 142 Second Ave., Sun-| day afternoon. The meeting is called by the Sub- way and Construction Workers’ In- Finnish Landowners Fight Reaction. (Wireless By Inprecorr) dustrial Union, a fighting organiza- HELSINGFORS, Dec. - seen oel bg (Continued on Page Two) Finnish Landworkers’ Union has | been expelled from the Land-| workers’ International (the section | in that industry of the reformist) “socialist” Amsterdam International of trade unions), because the Fin- nish Union insisted on maintaining | friendly relations with the Soviet Landworkers’ Union. This is the second ion which the reformists have oxtelled from the industrial secretariats. BELLAS HESS GYP WORKERS’ WAGES Organiz e, Exploited, Toilers Write ee @ | ‘Try Communists for Treason. (Wireless By Inprecorr) | hi | me, | cule: jam always glad to associate with |diers of peace.” -| need | gineering Ur al orkerf Correspondent) | VIENNA, Dec, 12,—Three editors In the November issue of the the Communist paper “Rote <sromammene ‘Bellas Hess Worker,” @ ieee paver Fahne,” have been tried for treason. inaued kee ans aha Shalt ue Two were sentenced to one and two tional, Bell es fiess Company, & Work’ |weeks in prison, respectively, the Go depicted pow, the work=rs : $t01 ihird to pay a fine of $20, being cheated out of their first day ‘ is or half day’s pay. | Unemployed Foree Demands. The bosses do this through a con-| (Wireless by Inprecorr; fusing system of paying off Friday| prryIn, Dec. 12.—Yesterday the on ORE CR IND ese with the week ending on Wednes- i 4 tp ; | unemployed demonstrated before the Bey ee ee ome orien’ town hall of Berlin to support. the whether on Wednesday, Wednesday demand of the Communist members attarnpod (as the tite carde a jof the City Council that the unem- being collected on Wednesday after- | Ploved be given assistance to meet noon) or Thursday morning, I dia | the winter, The capitalist and “so- be kibwiwhel tin week: begins cialist” members intended to vote until Tread the article on thie in “2W". the proposal, but the aren! the “Bellas Hess Worker.” ‘Ons the | Masses of unemployed in the street dit: day “of-emplo ney tie: ove: outside ca sed them to “change ieee ake Hoe coasted ay Sxpidin eo, minds” and the proposal was when the week begins—(or I should adopted. say are instructed not to explain), they hand over a temporary time card and tell us to punch it the next morning, and they are supposed to Okay it for the first day—but some- . how the cards are not being Okayed, and since we do not know exactly when the week begins, especially so when we are new, we never know whether we get full pay for the first week or not. | NOTICE TO ALL PARTY MEM- BERS IN DISTRICT 2. All members must receive di- rections from Section and Unit organizers on the demonstration which takes place Saturday at 1.15 p.m. at the Federal Build- ing, Park Row and Broadway. Every member of the Party is ; instructed to drop work if neces- The worker who wrote the article sary and participate in this in the “Bellas Hess Worker” relates demonstration. that he began working on Monday | Organization Department, and on the following Friday got) | District 2. ‘Continued on Page Two) ean is | witnesses. “You and the state police want to} get me! Kill me if you want to!” Accorsi testified that he was not at Cheswick August 22, but as many more have sazl, was fixing car at Russelton. He took a ride in his car with his family to Harwick about 2:30 and passed sev- eral state troopers. “If they wanted why did they not arrest me thén?” he said. When summing up his case the prosecutor made a vicious appeal for “Nordic superiority to the jury with reference to the in- ferior intelligence and inferior character of foreigners,” and their “irresponsibility.” The prosecutor ized the troopers, saying, “I them.” He appealed to the prop- prejudices of the middle-class jury, by repeated declarations that the “taxpayers have to foot the bill following riots and disorder.” He referred to Sacco and Vanzetti “murderers.” He described the murderous state police of Pennsyl-| vania who not long ago beat the miner Barkoski to death, and who showered bullets, clubs and tear g: into the Cheswick meeting, as “sol- The prosecutor evidently felt the | of whitewashing the badly marred reputation of Andy Mellon’s Cossacks. During Acco: testimony the fraudulent nature of the identifi- cation of him by the perjurer Cop- lan was illustrated. Accorsi showed how, after he was arrested at Staten Island, he was paraded alone before | box-like window in front of the warden’s office, in jail, and Coplan stood back of the window with a mask on and “identified” him. Today an obvious perjurer, J. C. Curry, foreman of the Byllesby En- and Management Co., testified against Accorsi. He said Accorsi worked under him until August 22, and had a mustache. Thi one of the marks of identi- fication on which the prosecution witnesses insist, and is flatly de- nied by a long list of defense wit- nesses, and by Accorsi himself. This Curry was a defense witness, had told many people the opposite | of his testimony on the stand today, and was expected to testify for Ac- corsi up until the time the prosecu- tor apparently “interviewed” him yesterday. * Trooper Wm. M. Brown, who tes- tified Wednesday in the Accorsi case, is one of the chief frame-up Brown testified at the coroner’s inquest a few days after the shooting of the vicious Downey that he did not know who killed his fellow gupman, method of capitalist courts and he (Continued on Page Three) ‘SHOE WORKERS PLAN BIG DRIVE “Organize the unorganized” is the aim of the drive planned by the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union of Greater New York and announced at a mobilization meeting called by the General Strike Committee at union headquarters last night. Giving. the main committee re- (Continued on Page Two) ~—ONHAIT USSR Mass Meets Mobilize Against Imperialism | Tonight in six great demonstra- tions the New York workers will protest against the butchery of thousands of workers in, Haiti, and. China and will denounce the Ameti- all its forces for war against the Soviet Union, Fatherland of the workers of the world. Meetings will be held at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th St.; Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. Speakers, H. Benjamin, Anna Daman, George Siskind, James Mo. Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. near 42nd St. Speakers, I. Amter, Max Bed- acht, Harriet Silverman, Joseph Boruchowitz, Alexander Trachten- |berg, T. H. Li, Sam Darcy. Rose \Gardens, 1347 Boston Rd., Bronx. Speakers, Bill Dunne, T. Y. Hu, Leon Plott, G. Green, H. Sazer. 318 Grand St. Brooklyn. Speak J. L, Engdahl, Rose Wortis, J, Will- iamson, Y. Y. Hsu. Hopkinson Man- sions, 428 Hopkinson Ave., Brook- |lyn. Speakers, M. J. Olgin, Otto Hall, T. P. Hu, Gertrude Welsh, Bo- hemian Hall, Second and Woolsey Aves., Astoria, L. I. Speakers, A. | Markoff, Richard Moore, Tong Ping. Tomorrow.afternoon at 1:15 New York workers are urged to gather at Park Row and Broadway in front lof the Federal Building to demon- strate against Wall Street’s oppres- sion, aided by the Washington Ex- jecutive council, of the colonial and on the Soviet Union. Dozens of organizations will par- | ticipate in these demonstrations, At |the Bryant Hall meeting, which |takes place at 6 o’clock instead of |8, as at other demonstrations, lead- ‘ing members of the Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union will speak also on the organization {movement among the dressmakers and the false strike of the I. L. G. can government, which is mobilizing | American workers and its attacks | | However, it appears that the other angle of attack, from the separately advancing Kwangsi mil- itarists (British-backed) clique on | the city from the west, has not been |so badly repulsed, the Kwangsites istill holding their ground, though/ \the “Ironsides” who came from the | | northwest are said to be retreating. | However, one never ean tell how fmuch truth and how much lies are lin Namking’s claims of “victories.” | At Nanking itself, the situation |is reported to have “eased” and that \Chiang Kai-shek is adopting meth- jods to “conciliate” rebellious forces jin the central Yangtze valley area. | This probably means that the Uni- |ted States, which is fighting with \its back to the wall for maintaining ja foothold of governmental rule in |China, has thrown more finances | (Continued on Page Two) | Be ee |Peeerenger Meets With Bosses in Plan to Fight Workers) Representatives of the Interna- |tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ | Union met with a bunch of garment bosses and Governor Roosevelt to- day in an effort to crush the grow ing militancy of the needle workers. | | Franklin Simon, president of the | \Garment Retailers of America, an- |nounced he will call the retailers |together in order to organize them ‘against competition and against |the workers. Benjamin Schlesinger, president lof the I. L, G. W. U., was present lat the collaboration meeting. He said that the I. L. G. W. U. was jcoming to the conclusion that they |would not strike against the manu- lfacturers but might strike against the retailers. The answer of the dressmakers |to Schlesinger’s and the bosses in jhis fake strike call is intensive mobilization for an immediate struggle under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. Shop strikes on a large scale to unionize the dress trade is the an- iW, Us. | Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. swer to Schlesinger’s collaboration with the bosses and the Tammany Hall politicians. “Just a God Damn Wop” Says Court Flunky | By SENDER GARLIN, PITTSBURGH, Pa.—A foreign- born worker, a coal miner, who but His memory a few years ago was a peasant lad | black velvet robes the poison of the has been refreshed in the usual! in Italy, is being hustled to his | bosses’ hate. death by the bosses of this state. In Allegheny county court has begun the present phase of the legal conspiracy to make 88-year-old Salvatore Accorsi tread the same fiery path as Nicola | Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. | Accorsi is being railroaded to his ‘death on the trumped-up charge that he shot John Downey, a state trooper. Downey was killed after nearly a hundred mounted police at- tacked a Sacco-Vanzetti meeting in Cheswick, Pa., Aug. 22, 1927, and in- jured a large number of workers. The defense will prove that Accorsi was eight miles from the scene at the time and was not even present at the meeting. North Carolina is soft, gracious criminal | in Accorst Case ,-—-where Southern judges and law- yers, hypocritical gentlemen with lflute-like voices, carry hidden in their |: “Step Lively.” Pittsburgh is brutal, ruthless. | Five hours to pick a jury weitech will sentence a worker to the electric chair, No golden sunlight streaming through wide windows; instead the sickly, yellow walls and the garish electric lights overhead. Dull-gray dust and grime of industrial Pitts- burgh, and across the court yard the iron bars of the Allegheny county jail. The court house takes its color and its tempo from the industrial jhells of the Pittsburgh region: > 1S CRUSHED But Prisoners’ Fight Against Repressive Laws Grows AUBURN, N. Y., Dec, Thousands of state troopers and armed guards crushed the valiant revolt of 1,700 goaded prisoners who ditions and refined torture. Eight were killed and one flunkey guard lost his life. The outbreak was the second in six months in Auburn. It again showed that the spirit of resistance of the prisoners against the inhu- man laws of the capitalist class, which are mainly directed against tortures, whose only rival is the in- quisition of Torquemada. That the outbreaks. in various prisons in the United States, of which the Auburn revolt was the fifth in one year, are due to the growing repressive laws of the cap- italist class, is admitted by even reactionary upholders of the present ystem. Dr. Hastings H. Hart, head of the Russell Saga Foundation, de- clared apropos the Auburn riot: “Another inducing cause has been the fact that hope for the prisoner has been very largely shut off. He is no longer able to earn one-third of his time off for good behavior. Then, too, the Parole Board is not so much inclined today to release prisoners on parole as they used to be.” Vile conditions in the 100 year- old Auburn den, and rotten food, were also admitted to be a contrib- uting cause by William Lewis But- cher, member of the New York State Crime Commission, which is responsible for the perpetuation of the indeterminate sentence and Baumes Laws. Butcher. said: “T have only the same reaction to this that I had when it hap- pened last Summer; that is, that society has got to provide proper sanitation, proper conditious and proper food.” The revolt in American peniten- tiaries is not ~estricted to Auburn. It is an outgrowth of the general crowding of the jails with broken- down workers, unemployed; and other victims of capitalist exploita- tion and oppression. On July 22, 1,800 prisoners in Clinton Prison at Dannemora, known as the “Siberia” of New York penal institutions, revolted and were crushed. An outbreak occurred av v0 eral Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., on August 1. Another revolt broke out in the Colorado State Prison at Canon City Col. This uprising of the mad- the spirit and daring of the revolt- ers against the torture of grafting politicians and vicious capitalist laws, With the growing repressive laws, the prison outbreaks will become more frequent and severe. Not only are the capitalists filling the pris-| ons with wrecks of their speed-up |Carnegie Steel, Westinghouse Elec- tric Jones-McLaughlin—grim, hard- boiled, full of hatred for the work- (Continued on Page ‘Three) factory system, but more efforts are being made daily to throw revolu- tionary fightefs into the dungeons of the master class, 12, —) | tional Miners Union. | Yesterday Wasson mine, in} | Saline County, in the southeastern | part of the state went on strike, and | strikers are maching in force to pull | out the men in Harco. Coello mine, Franklin County, in which is West Frankfort, the head- | quarters town of the Iitinois Dis-) trict of the N.M.U,, came on strike | through to a victory. At Buckner the miners came out on the second day of the strike. Yesterday Sheriff Pritchard led a gang of armed operators and U.'M. W. A. gunmen into the local meet- ing of the U. M. W. A. there, and | threw out all the strikers, leaving the old reactionary officials of the U. M. W. A. and a handful of their henchmen in the hall, were fighting against miserable con- | the working-class victims, cannot be | squelched by even the most severe | | yesterday after a successful march ¥ ao upon it of strikers from other mines.| Kentucky May Strike. ; |This demonstration was led by| _News that the U. M. W. A. miners George Voyzey, Illinois district pres-|0f Kentucky have voted overwhelm- ident of the National Miners Union. | ingly for strike was received here In retaliation, Voyzey was arrested | Yesterday. The National Miners’ \at the command of the coal oper-| Union is calling on all Kentucky ators, and is confined in the Buckner miners to hold mass meetings and jail. eae the report of the Kentucky ee |i * 4 \delegates to the Tri-District con- Strikers are now marching on} 7% ; Valier, also in Franklin County. | vention, held December 1, at Zeig- Fi jler, Ill. This is the convention, Panther Creek On Strike. |called by the National Miners’ |. Five hundred marching miners, us-| Union, which called the present |ing a caravan of 100 automobiles and} mine strike in Illinois; they called starting from the solidly struck Tay-|for.a state-wide general strike of lorville area southeast of Springfield, | all miners. to start December 9, and haye swept all Panther Creek sec-|to fight on to victory for the de- tion, including the Panther Creek|mands made on the operators by Coal Company’s mines at Auburn,|the second state convention of the out on strike. And the strikers are| National Miners’ Union, Illinois proceeding onward to ngfield, | district, held in Belleville, October dened prisoners broke all records in} where the Capitol mine is already striking, and the police are trying to| keep the mass picket line broken up. In Springfield, where the Fishwick | administration of the U.M.W.A., Il- |linois district is established in a} | palatial office building paid for by | miners’ money, a combined gang of | U.M.W.A. thugs, sheriff's deputies, | state motorcycle policemen, and plain | hired gunmen from the coal com- | panies are mobilizing this morning | | for an attack on the Auburn picket | lines, The motorcycle cops have | orders from the state governmen‘ {9/ | sweep the roads clear. The miners | are in no mood to submit quietly to | this assault upon them, or yield to} |the state and U.M.W.A. strike break- | jing attempt. | | Pana Miners’ Strike. | | The workers in the Penwell Coal Co. mine at Pana, where in 1898 a desperate battle was fought between armed strikers and scabs, accom- panied by gunmen, have followed | the militant traditions of their fath- | ers, and joined the National Miners’ | Union, fighting now for the right to have their own union and livable | conditions and wages, as the miners’ | fought here before, The mine went | Belleville, Staunton Voting. Reports received here from the Belleville and Staunton areas, north- west of here, are that the strike sentiment is very strong, and that several mines will probably go out jon strike tonight. ¥ Rumor Troops Withdrawn. All Christian county, where the 500 state militia are stationed, is still solidly on strike. The hatred of the class-conscious miners for those who have uttempted to over- awe them by sending in the militia and menacing them with machine guns, and bayonetted rifles, is so great that the state authorities have started a rumor they will recall the troops. They hope that the 1,000 U. M. W. A. rank and file miners who struck when the first soldier set his foot on mine property will then go back to work. The troops have not been withdrawn yet; the authorities are trying to feel out the disposition of miners to return to work first. The N. M. U. is con- fident that all these men will st®k on strike today, } 27. These demands are for the hour day and five-day week; $35 a week minimum wage; recogni- tioa of the National Miners’ Union; no nore check-off; abolition of the bu »-light and penalty system; equal y ‘ges for young miners; 15 minutes rest period during every hour of coal loading and cutting machines; one man gn each job; no discrimi- nation against Negro miners, Thompson Beaten Up. Eye witnesses state that when ‘reemafi Thompson, N. M. U, or- ganizer was placed under military arrest two days ago, at the direct orders of the superintendent of the Peabody mines in Kincaid, on which he was leading several hundred marching miners, he was beaten, and injured in the wrist. The sheriff with five militiamen in his car tried to head off the marching miners. They went on and the Kincaid mine | struck too. Aid Haiti Revolt, ANLC Urges in Call to Tonight’s Meets In spite of the lying reports in | the capitalist press which say that everything is quiet in Haiti, news ‘leaks through the rigid censorship | informing us to the contrary. In to- day’s “Times,” we learn that 15 Haitian workers wefe arrested for | violating the “curfew law,” a. law | compelling all Haitians to be off the ‘streets by nine o’clock in the eve- ning. This law does not apply to the imperialist lords of the island. The struggle against American imperialism conducted by the Amer- | ican Negro Labor Congress, is meet- | ing with great response from the | black and white American workers. |The white workers have gone on record in expressing their solidarity | with the revolutionary struggle of the Haitian workers. | Tonight's meeting promises to be one of the largest mass protest meetings ever held in Hartem.. * All workers and sympathizers | with the cause should make it their duty to be early to secure seats. © i This meeting will begin at 8 o'clock at St. York ota" ed ‘ W. 130th St., New York i