The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1931, Page 5

Ez, vine business man- ; zs Daily Worker, now on lon-wide tour for the gave the ag thy ‘will be here on duly. 3, fee von ¥ ia WORKER, Nijy/ Yak, S. BATU 3 UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE 10 | SPREAD MINE STRIKE JULY 5 Miners in All Fields Join in the Fight A ocirat | Starvation. and Slavery ‘The following was adopted unan- imously at the meeting of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee, Sune 24, in Pittsburgh. Statement of the Central Rank and File Committee in regard to widening the support of the strike against starvation and the exten~ sion of the strike movement. — Forty thousand miners have an~ swered the call ef the Central Rank and File Sirike Committee of the National Miners Union to strike against, starvation and slave condi- tions in the mines. ‘The strike begun in the Avella sec- tion of Western Pennsylvania one} month ago has never stopped spread~ ing from the first day and is still spreading. Divectly involved in this | » teat struggle for the right to live, | organize and strike, are more than | 160,000 men, women and children of the eoal fields in Western and Cen- tyal. Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, ‘West Virginia and Illinois. There can be no doubt of the stern de- termination of the miners and their families to resist with all their force the starvation program of the coal operators and to fight for higher wages and better conditions. ‘The strike movement has taken on, # national character. There is great sympathy and support for the strik- tag miners among othet workers. Their tremendous strike movement needs now to be still more widely supported, more rapidly extended and more firmly united. The fight of these thousands ~of miners and their wives and children een be carried through to victory by the united front of all miners organ- and determination that is being shown every day in this struggle: ‘The Central Rank and File Strkie Committee proposes a joint meeting Tank and file miners delegations all other important coal fields held in Pittsburgh, July 15, to eut and adopt a program of and ee $ for the speeding up of outaide the strike area, of the scores of jailed and women, for the against the murderous terrorisin strikers, for the most effect= and extension of the i : i att officials have shown more clearly than ever to be strike-breaking 1 Serato and their M, W. A. work- the protection of machine fhands of coal and iron deputies, state cos- by. the capitalist signed scab agree- ort and break starvation and 5 E a : g z Tie af HE # a i ‘Western Pennsylvania and Camgllemy in Eastern fest’ Virginia, the coal op- eity and county govern- state governments—espe- Pinehot government—have reign of terror against the re me action for the fight against’ miners and their families. Picket lines have been ambushed by armed thugs and a score of miners have been killed and wounded—shot in cold blood for resisting a strike breaking injunction. A relief worker has been killed in the door of his} Home by hired murderers of the coal | operators protected by state police. | Hundreds of miners, their wives | and ehildren, have been gassed and clubbed. Hundreds have been club- bed and blackjacked. In Eastern Ohio twelve strikers and organizers are charged with criminal syndical- ism and held for a total of $41,000 cash or $108,000 property bail. ‘The UMWA officials not only have | made no protest against these out- “rages, but they justify and take part in them. Many of them are acting as special deputies. All this suppression and terrorism | is part of the program of Hoover, Senator James J. Davis, Lewis, Doak, secretary of Labor, Pinchot, the U. M. W. A, of the socialist party and the Muste followers like Howat and Keeney, for “curing the sick coal industry” at the expense of the min- | ers—a program of more wage cuts, | mere speed-up, more unemployment —more starvation for miners andj; their families. Against this starvation and slave | program, we propose to unite all the miners for militant rank and file organization and strike struggle, for the building of a powerful, industrial »|-anion in every field, for struggle for ‘the 6-hour day, unemployment in- surance, for a national collective agreement, and other basie demands of mine workers, The Central Rank and File Strike ‘Committee of the NMU, now leading the greatest struggle in the coal fields since 1927-28, invites all local unions of the UMWA and of the West Vir- ginia Mine Workers Union, all mili- tant groups within these organiza- tions, all mine committees, all local committeess, all committees and councils of unemployed miners—to elect and send delegates to the joint meeting of the Pennsylvania-Obio- West Virginia Central Rank and File Strike Committee, Pittsburgh, July 15. ‘We must unite all forces of the unemployed and employed miners, Negro and white miners, men, wom- en and children of the mine fields, for joint struggle against starvation and all enemies of the miners. We urge all miners not yet on strike to work out their local de- mands to elect their rank and file igh committees and join with the 160,000 men, women and children of the Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Panhandle section of West Virginia in the fight against starva- tion and slavery. Elect and send delegates to Pitts- burgh, July 15, (Signed) FRANK BORICH, See’y National Miners Union. VINCENT KEMENOVICH, Sec’'y Central Rank and File Strike Committee. Workers Calendar ‘he Unemployed Council of Gary 5 the Uneraployed Council of ond in a championship match annuel picnic of the Commu- ty on July 4 at 57th Ave, way, Gary. In addition 6 good apen vers, dancing, Eafreahments and mes. Every Nogre and ¥ ite, is urged te come, AdmHerion is only 10 cents. rE Gary, Hammond, Indiana ‘Whiting, Attention! of the Communist Party = hale on July 4 at the New EY em mS) Broadway, Gary, Pa "ueanap tion ae Pe of co e' ‘oe on! cents al Ay in advance at the Yor fiers Co-operative Rest rapa me roadway, Gary. Seattle an ogact one will be an- Pett fe ct ager of the ee will spe ke at a meetr sli Hall on Sunday. All workers are ces To so manager of By it eran at & wor = le July & pnd readers ee nee tt frien ot the PDally? $r9 Invite WASHINGTON ‘Tacoma zB. Fen. ker manager of the am will speak at the 918% Tacoma Ave. Ga sunday, July "at an avenin rage wed by ner and readers o! Dally Worker, av . FRNNEYLVANIA * Senool 3." ommite charge will wait for you. .. “| wood Drive, Paci had speakers, Physical Culture Restaurants _, P Loaltty Food at Low igs, ‘ie York New York ee _h tri DR. RASNICK ‘4 Nort North Bighiand. Avenge Protest Against Terror in Pa. and Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Minn—A mass protest demonstration against the shooting of oyer 25 miners in the Pennsylvania strike has been called here for Saturday at 7 p.m., at Ren- dell Park, under the joint auspices of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. Ten thousand leaflets will be distributed. Demonstrations on Saturday will also be held in St. Paul, Virginia, Duluth, Superior, Ironwood and Hancock. Chisholm Miners in An Unemployed Meet CHISHOLM, Minn.—Two hundred unemployed workers, most of them miners, gathered at the park here two weeks ago at a meeting called by the Unemployed Council of Chis- holm. They were especially inter- ested in the news of the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio miners’ strike, as it en- Courages the miners of the iran range to organize into the Natiomal Miners’ Union and fight against starvation. "held on Sunday, July 12, at Chatham Colony, Chatham, Ni Jy be eR nnn at 10 a.m. under auspices of Women’s ‘ouncil, No. 1. Autos will leave I. W, Center, 6 Belmont Ave. at 10 a. +m, Pare, 60 cents; for family of more than two ehildren, $1. Good program ‘and prominent speakers. Proceeds to campaign. * IOWA Sioux City A huge plenic will be held on July } Fourth at Gribbe's Park, Wlaborate program has been arranged. * * Cleveland Red election campaign and piente will take place July 4 at 11 a. m, at Minona Park, State Rd, and Ridge= Red Blection Campaign Rally and Pienie on Saturday, July 4, at 11 a.m, [at Minona Park, Btate ‘Road and Ridgewood Drive, Games, speakers, acing and refreshments, Directions: Teke Wert Sith st cae to and. af then ta inkey to end of line, way MIgsoURT Kansas Cit: A huge Party picnic, 4 aes by all GF tie eet witig organisations: in panene ity, 8 boing prepared for July 4th. it aes held at the Web Lemons Growee at aeih and Prospect, A big program is be- ing prepared, the agcary, of which 1 be a report by Dr, Burkheardt, who has just returned from the Sov- 300 Jobless Workers | of Bemidii, Minnesota Organized a Council | BEMIDJI, Minn.—On Wednesday, June 18, an unemployment mass meeting was held. in the Court House, with 300 workers packing the hall. An Unemployed Council was formed, with 35 members, Many Daily Workers and other literature was sold, The speakers were very enthusiastic. The speakers included Morris Karson, A new Communist Party unit was | also established in Bemidji as a re- | sult of this meeting. There are good | possibilities for establishing a local} of the United Farmers’ League if an | organizer can be sent in, as the | workers and farmers have pledged to support one, UMW TREACHERY [Desounces. ¥ Wildwood, Arnold City Murders (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the miners have been receiving star- vation wages. “Uniformly from each person I interviewed I extracted a corroborated stery of pay that in-/ sures a living only a little above the starvation line and in some obviously a starvation wage, I learned how companies operate their company stores, where they overcharge the miners for what they must buy and extract the pay from wages earned and before the miner is paid.” Dreiser failed to see any house in the mining village in his investiga- tion “that was not positively offen- sive.” “The houses were unbelieva- bly bad, colorless, unrepaired and sometimes enclosed and forbidden to strangers, The villages are slums.” “The workers were so poor they and decent food or enjoy entertain- ment of any kind, not even so much as a moving picture show, a radio or a phonograph.” National Miners’ Union Leading Strike. “The men were discarded by the U.M.W.A, and A. F. of L. until the National Miners’ Union invaded the field when the United Mine Workers of the corporations.” ae Lara The -Daily Worker received the following statement from Theodore Dreiser on the Wildwod and Arnold City murders: “We find that the shooting at Ar- nold City, which resulted fatally for Mike Pilipovich, grocer, was unpro- voked and directly attributable to the instigation of agents of the Pitts- burgh Coal Co. interested in break- ing the miners’ strike. Concerning the shooting at Wildwood, which caused the death of Peter Zigaric, miner, we note that Sheriff Robert Cain of Allegheny County, basing himself on reports of deputies, de- nies absolutely the truth of a news- Paper account by an eye-witness of the shooting. We are inclined, on the contrary, to give a certain cre- dence to this report, the only impar- tial one, so far as we know, that has yet been made, and we are unable to understand why the only people arrested in conection with this af- fair were miners, charged with riot- ing, The two shooting affrays, taken together with other evidence submit- ted to us, lead us to the conclusion that the uge of untrained deputy sheriffs to police mine strikes is a menace to the peace and safety of the community, “We find that the effort now be- ing made in certain quarters to re- habilitate the organization of the United Mine Workers, which has been thoroughly discredited in the eyes of most of its former adherents in this section, has more justifica~ tion than would attend an attempt to rehabilitate the former’ Kaiser of Germany. “We find that the relief accorded to miners during the last year was inadequate in many cases to pre- vent conditions of semi-starvation, and we are further informed that even this inadequate relief was cut off immediately on the beginning of the present strike, We brand this action of the relief authorities as @ deliberate participation in a strike situation on the side of the opera~ tors, “We find that illegal and inde- fensible actions too numerous to mention haye ben perpetrated against the miners by the very authorities of the law whose duty it supposedly is to protect the personal rights of those very miners against invasion by property interests, We find thatthe legal defense available to these vic- tims of judicial and legal injustice 1s inadequate, so that the whole situa- tion constitutes a challenge to and an indictment of the legal profes- sion of this section of the country. We find that the authorities charged with maintaining law and order and with administering the law have been too solicitious of the sa-called “rights of property” and too little concerned with the personal rights of the miners, We condemn this antiquated® system of ‘justice’ as a fraud and a delusion.” . Expose the le about the Scviet let Uni pion. The Kansas be! 4 Ae ttak immer months, with an pana Saeed . Ww in ‘okishoma ace ba Ld idden, Union—Spread Bedacht’s pampr.- Tet “Soviet ‘Forced Labor’”-~-96 Pages, 5 cents, Write for it to the Workers Library Publishers, P, Q. Box 148, Station D., New York City. » | shops. were able to obtain decent clothing | took @ hand again in the interest | 'Seeger Refrigerator’ Co. Pays Low Wages —Can't Support Self Even on Piece Work Can Make Only $2.38 for 914 Hour Day (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. PAUL, Minn—Through the read some letters from workers who write about the conditions in their} I am unemployed now and the reason is very plain. I worked at Seeger Refrigerator Co., St. Paul. The conditions are cents an hour. Then the following week they put you on piece work. My first day of piece work,I got $2.28 for 91-2 hours, and the sec- |ond day $2.39 for same hours, This is the most a man can make to sup- port a family of six, Then I have seen an official and complained about the rate, and he told me that “df I wasn’t satisfied I could get out, there are plenty of men looking for work.” There are also girls working in the plant who average about $1.50 a day, doing men’s work. The girls also work night shifts. It is interesting that the owner of the plant, Mr. Seeger, is put out by the local press as big benefactor of the city, serving on all kinds of city committees (where thera is a lot of graft). The unemployed workers of St, Paul are getting together and are going to fight these rotten cond!- tions, They meet in their hall at 303 Jackson St, third floor, every day. Enclosed I am sending my pilece- work slips. —V. T. ‘Scottsboro Boys Tortured By Jail Authorities (CONTINUED FROM PAGR ONED for Negro Rights to whom they have | entrusted the defense of their boys. | As a result of this savage torture of |the boys and the many acts of be- trayal by the N.A.A.C.P. leaders the parents are bitterly resentful against Walter White, Pickens and the others, Fight to Remoye Boys From Death Cell. In the meantime, the attorneys of the International Labor Defense are making every effort to force the re- moval of the boys from the death cells now that Judge Hawkins has denied the IL.D. motions for new trials for the boys and the I.L.D. has filed notice of appeal to the Supreme Court of Alabama. The Alabama law provides that only persons ac- tually awaiting electrocution should be kept in the death cell. The ILD. is demanding their removal on the grounds that the boys are now not awaiting electrocution but action by the Alabama Supreme Court. The rotten race prejudice behind the denial ef new trials to the boys is clearly exposed by the fact that a new trial was denied even for Eugene Williams, 13, and Oze Powell, 14, although their conviction was il- legal even under the boss laws of the state of Alabama, which pro- vides that boys of 14 and under should be first tried in the Juvenile Court, Preparing For Trial of Rey Wright The International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights has complete control of the defense. Their atorneys have already filed notice of appeal, and will file all necessary papers for the appeal within the next ninety days. These attorneys are also preparing for the trial of 14-year old Roy Wright, the only one of the nine boys who was sentenced to the electric ehair in the original “trial,” The reason for this was a disagreement on the jury, eleven holding for elec- trocution while one advocated life imprisonment for this child, The trial of Roy will take place within the next two months. Only by the workers intensifying their protest, and building a mass movement for the defense of these boys and by rushing funds for their defense to the International Labor Defense, 80 E. th St. New York, can these nine innocent working class boys be saved. Push the fight to save the boys. Build Block Com- mittees. Rush funds. One way of defending the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht. 5 cents per copy. ‘DREISER BRANDS er sare ct tine wort, paying’ ss | ers’ Unemployed Council of St. Paul, I} | got a copy of the Daily Worker. I Minnesota Workers: | Send Relief to the Striking Miners \Co- operatives Aid and Contribute Foor and | Cash Donations MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The Min- Relief Committee headquarters for District 9 announces that over | $200 in cash has been sent to Pitts- | | burgh for minefs’ relief, and that a/| |carload of food will be shipped from the Mesaba Range and the Duluth- | Superior Sections about June 30th, including butter, eggs, and other foodstuffs donated by poor farmers, cooperative stores, and workers’ or- | ganizations. A Miners’ Relief Conference was held in Duluth-Suptsior on Friday, June 19th, where $5 was collected | and sent in. A Relief Conference | will be held in Minneapolis on July Ist, Fish Lake, near Minneapolis, raised over $6 for the MRC. The Minne~ | sota-Wisconsin District of the Fin- nish Federation and the left wing cooperatives donated $50. The em-/| ployes of the Tyomies, Finnish Com- munist daily, gave a day's pay each, and collected over $139. Minneapolis | wired in $10 last week to Pittsburgh. 600 More Miners in West Virginia Join Strike, Mass Picketing (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) employing 600 and Hitchman mine in West Virginia, The date of the Bel- mont County hunger march has been changed to Monday, July 6, when the County Nommisstoners meet. March- some coming a distance of 20 miles, and will hold a meeting at St. Clairs- ville on this date at 9 a. m, eer er WHEELING, W. Va., Warrants have been issued for the rearrest of Whitney Nelson and the 14 others who had been released on bail two days ago at Steubenville. The charges are intimidation. Six new arrests were made at Piney Fork yesterday making a total of 22 strike leaders now jailed in Jefferson County. Fourteen are also held in St. Clairsville in Belmont County. Ten are charged with criminal syn- dicalism and the bail has been set at $3,000 and $5,000. The other four have not yet been charged but will no doubt also be charged with crim- inal syndicalism, Reveals Operators’ Plan ‘Those held under criminal syndi- ealist charges are: Tony Minerich, Frank Pasick, Harry Wald, Steve Rompa, Leo Thompson, Joe Carr, Ed. Reubeld, Steve Perlick, Joe Mach, Ed Bradley. Those not yet charged are Jim Novy, Tony Voler, Aleck Kovelek, Tony Montelone. In con- versation yesterday with Yetta Land, International Labor Defense at- torney, Waddell, Belmont Gounty prosecutor, exposed the whole plan of the coal operators, government and the UMWA to break the strike. He said: “We learned from the Kas- Say case and are preparing iron clad evidence which proves intimidation of peaceful miners by the accused. We intend to keep the mines open if we have to furnish a car and dep- uty for each miner working, We in- tend to get convictions against every ‘one of these cases, ” The Legion convention now in ses- sion at East Liverpool has as its prin- cipal order of business the breaking of the strike, ‘There were mass picket lines this morning at Fairyoint and Bellaire and Warwood sections and strike breakers were turned back. One hun- dred strikebreakers working at Som~ mers mine were all deputized, carry- ing guns, Paisley mine employing imported scabs was closed yesterday by a mine inspector after a number of serious accidents, fearing that a major disaster would precipitate the further spreading of strike. Food stations are now open at Fairpoint and Provident. The Na~ tional Miners Union took over the meeting called by the UMWA near Piney Fork last night. Youngstown FSU to Hold Picnic: Poyntz to Be Chief Speaker YOUNGSTOWN, O —The local group of Friends of the Soviet Union will hold a grand pienic and anti- imperialist war rally Sunday, July 5. The picnic will be held at Wick- life Picnic grounds, Merridien Road, one mile and half off Mahoning Avenue, end of the car line. One of the main features of this picnic will be an address by Juliet Stuart Poyntz just returned from the Soviet Union where she was vice chairman of the Women's Section of the Red International of Labor Unions, DETROIT WORKERS ATTENTION DAILY WORKER PICNIC SUNDAY, JUNE 28, AT PULASKI PARK GIVEN BY SECTION A, COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. Labor Sports Union will participate—Jewish Dram-Studio will present a Pantomime Buses leave Ferry Hall, 1343 Bast Ferry from 10 a. m. to 1 p, m. DIRECTIONS:—Vandyke to & Mile Road, turn left on 8 Mile Road, and go to Mound Road, go on Mound Road to end ADMISSION 25 CENTS A Finnish Workers Club picnic at | ers will come from three directions, | June 26.—} Metal Miners Hok d Section Conventions Mesaba Range Region TRONWOOD, Mich.—The District I soar of the National Miners’ Union tions of the union wree held on the Mesaba Iron Range, Mi ta, and the ccpper and iron ra Ha cock and Ironwood Upper Michigan. Much progress was 12 ions, ported since the recent District Co! vention of the union, The Pennsy vania-Ohio miners’ strike was gre enthusiastically by the miners. pledge to raise relief for the st The C; Ra | Negaunee Sections | to hold Section |N, M. U, this month Seottsboro Conf. | in St. Pant Spurs | Its Every Activity | (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. PAUL, Minn.—The Scottsboro Defense campaign has not. yet. come |to a real climax in this city where | we can say we carried on real pres- | sure to save these 9 youths from the | claws of our common enemy, the | capitalist class and its courts. May 28 we held a confer j was fairly well attended, and white workers; about nee which of Negro 40 a | seemed to have plenty of enthusiasm | to carry out real work.to save these | |9 militant young workers from | electric chair. other conference was held June 17th, where a larger Scottsboro Defense Committee was elected, pledged itself to carry out much more work than what was done so far. More street meetings and col- lections will be carried on, and it izations, and to call a conference | July Ist to rally the workers for a | final drive before the date of execu- | tion, We cannot afford to have the | boys away from our ranks the they did with Sacco and Vanzetti. “Daily” Picnic and Readers Meeting in the St. Paul Section Worker picnic will be held at Battle Creek by the St. Paul Section of the of whieh are going to the Daily, The Ironwood Ssectiozi* (Ironwood, + Mich.) is also arranging a Daily, Worker picnic on July 19. Daily Worker readers’ meetings were called in St. Paul, 303 Jackson, at 10 a.m. on Sunday, and in Minne- speak. A Daily Worker agents’ meeting of the Twin Cities will be held in Minneapolis on Sunday 8 p.m. Minneapolis, Minn, Unemployed Council Aids the Daily Fund) MINNEAPOLIS, _ Minn.—The Far North Unemployed Branch of this | city have contributed $3. for the Daily Worker, The money was affair. branch has been carrying on against evictions and starvation and to force the Daily Worker has been and still is one of the most péwerful weapons to rally the workers for striiggle. So, when the entertainment committee reported a net profit of about $6, it was unanimously decided to donate $3 for the Daily Worker. We would like to hear that other branches of the Unemployed Councils throughout the country are doing even better, giving us a Signer mark to Had, at. Detroit, Cleveland, Bastion BIG TWO DAY PICNIC by the Michigan District of the — Communist Party at the Workers Camp in Detroit It will be a continuous two-day revolutionary holiday. Labor chor- uses, prominent speakers, lectures, singers, and players will entertain you. Sport and games will be pro- vided by the Labor Sports Union. Swimming meets will be demonstrat- be Varies. all the time, A special attraction for these two days is offered by the camp,dor only $4, you can spend two days and two nights in the camp, and be provided good proletarian atmosphere. Comrades from Cleveland, Toledo, Pontiac and other neighboring cities are asked to come and participate in our great workers holiday. Admission ?5¢ Each Day. ’ The workers camp Is now open for fegistration..— Prices for children: $7.50 per wk,, and adults: $13.00, The camp is now open and provides all modern accommodations to the Workers—Workers! Support your own camp, Party on July 4, the entire proceeds | In the struggle that this | unwilling welfare officials to give im- | mediate relief to starving families, | Sat, Sun, July 4th and 5th) ed. A good dancing orchestra will | with good meals, fresh air, and a} | gates were present, and the delegates | the | A committee was elected and an-| which | was also decided to visit seme more | Negro churches and workers’ organ- | | capitalist class take the Scottsboro | bushed, way | |a ton’ for mining ‘coal, | demand $5.50 for a day's work, be- se Coal-Co: and the“U. M. w.| 2nd strengthen | thority when he gave the order|4. gangsters can defeat us, at | M (ERS 10 ANSWER SECOND MURDER BY PUSHING STRUM S} reports successful section conven) Strike Executive Committee Calls On Work to Answer Slaying of Strikers aa PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 24—) Showing that the coal bosses ing to murder in a desperate effort to break the ranks of the miners against starvation , the Central. Rank and Executive Committee, sued a statement calling for re- newed struggle to win the demands the s' s are now fighting for. Indicting the murderers of Mike Filipovich, a strike sympathizer at Pricedale, the statement declares ‘The brutal attack upon the picket line of the striking miners, their wives and children at Wildwood, yes- terdi julting in’ the murder of our comrade, Zigaree, the wounding | of at least 12 others and the arrest of 47. strik is followed today by the murder Pricedale of Mike Filipovich, a strike sympathizer, and the serious wounding of four strik- ers by deputies who apparently agreed at their meeting the day be- fore that they would shoot today. | These murders, woundings and ar-| rests are the answer of the govern- ment ,the coal operators and the U. M. W. A. to the strike of the miners against starvation. What are we striking for? These are our demands: 1, Machi coal . 55c ton 2. Pick coal . » Tie ton 3, Cutters .... 12¢ ton 4. Day men » $5.55 day 5. Helpers ., . $5.40 day 6. Narrow work yardage, 67 cents | per yard. Cutters, 15 cents per yard. 7. Payment for all dead work to be based on daymen’s rate of $5.55. 8. Outside skilled labor, $4.50. | 9. Outside unskilled labor, $4.00. | 10. Union ‘eheckweighmen at every mine. 11, Enforcement of 8-hour day. | 12. Recognition of National Min- | ers’ Union. (Demands for mechan- | jical and conveyor loaders being | formulated.) | We striking miners are being am-/| tear gassed, clubbed and| killed because we demand 55 cents | because we cause we refuse to allow the coal} operators to short-weight us, because | we refuse to*starve. In this strike | we are met by the armed forces of | the state, the local government, the | coal and iron police and bay gangster | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—A Daily | S‘tike-breaking U. M. W. The Injunetion. Judge Rowand’s injunction was an order to Sheriff Cain to~deputize | every gunman’ that the Butler Con- | could furnish; Judge Rowand’s | tajution was Sheriff Cain's au-| “ghoot to kill” The lie that the! apolis, 12444 8, Fourth-St., at -8p.m. | Sttikers shot at the deputies is self-| on Monday, where E, Levin, business | €Vident; all the casualties are among | Children, and we. will carry our manager of the Daily Worker, will| the strikers. The striking miners | will not be driven back to the mines by injunctions. The injunction will be broken. We charge Sheriff Cain and hoodlum deputies with murder. charge Judge Rowand who by his We his | officials, | to rob us, thinking we aré terrorized by the killing done by those—other — agents of the bosses, thedépiities. | workers of America, rushing like a "fe | feast. on dead bodies, announced that it had “concluded a tentative agrees ment with the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co.” On the very day that the 9 | murder took place at Pricedale, they= terms of this strike-breaking agree=) ment were announced: 45 cgnts @ ton and a chance every 90, days for the rate to be lowered. These boss agents; the’ U..M. W try to take. advantage of us me miners have been shot, the strike is very much alive. The Pittsburgh Terminud, strikers have pledged to meet-this-slaye con- tract of Fagan and Pursgloye. with mass picketing. They will Baye the support of every striker, and of every worker everywhere, just as the Wild- But though wood strikers will. af Miners: Let our answer to this new deadly attack be: Spread the strike to every mine in Western Pennsylvania, tie them up as tight as a drum, strengthen our committees, Organize bigger picket lines and with thezstr f inia and Ohio we will form West Vi | a solid block of ack es through which not one.ton of coal will be mined, Miners, mobilize 10,000 min- ers to come to Wildwood “6 pledge at the funeral of our murdered*Com- rade Zigarec that -we' wilk continue the fight against- the -injumiction, against starvation! mor The deliberate planned attack at Wildwood, the terror and*mgss ar- rests in Ohio have proven to every | miner that to win our strike against starvation, for food for our ehildren, for 55 cents a ton, for $% tar day work, that we have to depénd on our own strength supported by throughout the” cow: Our strike is the first “big i against the wage-cutting program of the boss class, who are ‘laying the base for a general wage--eut: We | are conducting a strike that will af- fect the standard of living “6f all workers; that is why we ate~So bit- terly and brutally attacket~ That is why the working. class must come | to our assistance. Our victory, and | we.will win, lays the basis fora sue- cessful struggle against ‘wage cuts, | speed-up, against starvation and un- | employment. Workers, we will, arganizé-~ “bigger mass picket lines: We wil our. _ strike: starvation, No injunction” will stop | picketing. No deputies or need your help. by Send us food. and. clothi strike to a victory. Organize protest memorial “@emon- strations for cur murdered gomrades. We demand ‘the immediate, arrest and conviction -of ‘Sheriffs¢ein and his deputized gunmen. ‘We demand: the immediate with- | injunction laid the basis for this at-!grawal of the ‘injunction? >=" | tack, with being responsible for this raised through a little neighborhood | | |murder, We charge Governor Pin- | chot with responsibility for these at-| tacks against the miners in the coal | fields by permitting the coal fields | to be overrun by deputized gunmen, | through his refusal to withdraw the | armed forces from the strike area. The atrocities at Wildwood and Pricedale aimed to drive the miners back to starvation will fail. On the contrary they will stiffen our strug- gle. When we miners demand bread and the government answer is bul- | lets, then we know that we must| organize more strongly. It now be- comes more elear to every miner and his family the strike-breaking role of Governor Pinchot who talks glibly about the right to picket while his henchmen issue injunctions and | shoot us down, at the same time) that he i» carrying on secret confer- ences with the coal operators and the U. M, W. A, to break our strike. We demend the withdrawar of all armed forces from the coat fields. We demand the right to’striRe, they right to free speech and assembly. We demand an open invéestigatio! to be held in Pittsburgh'of o1 starving conditions, so that the | workers of the country will uunder- | stand our desperate fight ragainst starvation. We demand that Governor Pinchot shall stop trying_to foree upon the miners the yoke of the coal oper= ators’ strike-breaking organizations the U. M, W. A. Central Rank and File Strike: : t Executive Committee, ie Vincent Kememovieh, -Sec'y. ’ Use your Red Shock Rroap every day un your job. . Thi next to you will si sa Worker. PHILADELPHIA! Auspices: World PROCEEDS GO FOR RELIEF AMKINO PRESENTS SOVIET FILM “CITIES AND YEARS” with Ivan Chuyeley,, Sophie Magarill, G. Michurin, David Gututaiag “AD KRost< richkin and the celebrated German Actor Bernhard Gost#ie = Added: Latest Russian News Reel and Other Short Subjects. SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 27 : FLEISHER AUDITORIUM, Broad and Pine Streets ee TWO PERFORMANCES: 7 and 9 P. M.—All Seats 50 Cents: a Don't Miss It ‘Tig thime: SENSATIO) oN Cinema League. OF THE STRIKING MINERS. WORKMEN’S SICK AND Reserves on December Death Benefit: $4,399,910.97 both classes; at the age of 44. CLASS B: 50 cents p Parents may insure ° Deat! Bogest according to a, Sick Benefit paid from t) $15, poe another forty weks. children $20 ti for another forty weeks. For further informatio: ail eM Secretary, or to the Finan TAS Nol 0 $200. @ first be of fillng the doctor's certificate, 9 F week, for the first forty weeks, Sick Renfits for women: $0 per week for the first forty weeks: $4.50, acd, DEATH BENEFIT. FUND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ~~ ORGANIZED 188{—INCORPORATED 1899 yng. Main Office: 714-716 Seneca Ave., Ridgewood Sta., Brooktyn, N. Y¥ Over 61,000 Members in 348 Branches 31, 1929: $3,158,239.43 — Benefits paid since its existence: Sic! Benefit: $10,776,019,01 Total: $15,176,529.98 Workers! Protect Your Families! ~ _ In Case of Sickness, Accident or Death! ~ Death Beneilt according to the age at the time of initiaation ln one oF CLASS A: 40 cents per month—Death Benefit $355 at the age of 16.to 6175 month—Death Benefit $550 to. $230, in sase of death up to the a Yor half of the amount