The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1931, Page 6

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ee ee - Daily, Worker’ Fo sitar Aactons aly MEME SE 00? ata 1 cmon eee Central Porty US.A of Manhattan and Bronz. New York Ctiy one vear. $8: siz AU frymiet J Published by the Comprodaily at 30 Sast 18th Street, New Address and mail Worker, 50 East 13t TRIKE AGAINST STARVATION: HELP WIN, SEND RELIEF! WHY 35,000 MINERS ARE STRIKING APR16 10 30 4981) ,.0.4 | MAY 19 1934 rn, 1963 _ CARNEGIE COAL CORPORATION CEDAR GROVE MINE Sour fe Cut By May Yds. Enby* cavenunas ee ee PARIS IME, ike Ruzmen hey ee Sundry___-_@__7}__ 1 = = =Mly seven cents === == ___poLLars eat a FUL AcCOUNT AB PE NT HEREON To Srithine i fon FAVROHL SuRbOSEa ONEA Ren | 2 al Reveal CARNEGIE COAL CORPORATION " Explosives, ! * Lamps—Sundry, I i 50 to *“AaD. 50. PEOPLES NATIONA Sf aS BT gales Total Deductions. 5 L BALANCE Showing Leo Thompson addressing s eeting attended ir by over 2,000 at Lafferty, Ohio, before march fo St. Clairsville jail started. June 11, 1931 io After 2 weeks’ toil, this miner received 7 cents in wages. Strike pickets at the Lafferty mine, near St. Clairsville calling on their fellow workers to join the strike. The strikers went from mine to mine where they met enthu: > response, a total of ove® 35,000 joining the ranks of the strikers under the leadership of the Nat Miners’ Union, striking against starvation. The strike is still spreading despite the vicious terror of the bosses, backed by Governor Pinchot, and the scabbing U. M. W. A. — . Showing Lee Thompson in hi St. Okeke s v ite County “fail cell after being are rested at protest Showing Tony Leone, a sympathizer collapsing under effects of fear gas-and blaeck-facks' tn Olio, June 11, 1931. demonstration om June 14, 1931, Chief strike-bredker, Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, shaking hands with one of his lackeys. Pinchot tried to fool the miners about the right to picket at the very moment one o! Fi issued a sweeping injunction against the miners in « 1 not's strike breaking activities easier, Cross section of the hunger march of 15,000 miners “ and their families n Washington, Pa. Wednesday. The marchers de- manded, among other things, re- def from the vounty 0 vern- ment. Stella Baubles, a strikers’ daugh- ter, unconscious and overcome by gas. June lith, 1931. St. Clairs- ville, Ohio, BOS A view of a barrage of tear gas shot at picket lines in aie ts the Ohio mines. These war tactics of the mine bosses, their gunmen and state police are not stopping the spread of the mine strikr 4a West _ Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, ¢ William Z, Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, with which the National Miners’ Union is affiliated, talking to striking , miners at an outdoor mass meeting near Clairsville, Ohio. He is urging the miners to.spread the strike and to beware of the strike-breaking | activity of the United Mine Workers of America. oF Forced out of the miserable company shacks of the coal barons, unemployed miners near Pittsburgh have been driven to the extent of seeking shelter in hovels made of boxes. Adding to this misery, police burned up the “homes,” seen above, so that the jobless miners’ holes would not hurt the site of the bosses living nearby, “ ¢

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