The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WURaxLR, CANONSBURG MINERS | TAKE OVER OLD UMW | HALL FOR THE NMU Hold Big Demonstration at Lincoln Hill Against UMW Fakers Miners Are Fighting Hard Against Starvation; Must Have More Relief to Win ign Dear Comrades: Started hitch hiking towar of Pittsburgh I ran into a new of expensive homes going up. Colonial, bungalows. fm Hollywood. Bosses’ Fine Homes. These are the new homes of the | steel mill owners, their flunkies and the business men of Pittsburgh. No/| depression for them. Wage cuts for | the workers is their secret of suc- | cess. | Workers’ Shacks. Canonsburg, 25 miles from Pitts- burg, in the heart of the mining district. Ugly black and gray com-| pany houses dot the hillside. No paint on them for years. No side- | walks, no pavements. Town popula- | tion, 5,000. ‘The U.M.W.A. came here in 1906. Now they have only 15 members left. | The National Miners’ Union has 1,100 members lined up. We have a soup kitchen set up. The remaining 400 miners would strike with the| N. M. U. if they could be assured of | some relief. Smash U.M.W.A. Since the strike started ‘late in May the miners have taken over the Values up to $50,000. Pittsburgh, Pa. | | d Canonsburg. In the suburbs residential district. Hundreds Latest styles—Dutch, English, Thought I was U.M.W.A. meeting place for the N. | M. U. The Lewis official, Fagan, is scared to come down here. | The miners held a big demon-| stration right outside of the town| and later marched in a body through | the town. It was a demonstration | against the fake leaders of the U.} The motor cops on duty begged the miners not to make so much | noise singing as they marched. The} Lincoln Hill miners from Washing- | ton (30 miles away) were repre- sented by three truckloads #€ miners, | their wives and children, After the} parade these miners held another | demonstration at Lincoln Hill. Rush Relief! ‘These miners are fighting hard against starvation. They must have more relief if the strike is to be won. | Many cf the strikers are living in| company houses and will soon be evicted. They must have tents and food. Rush relief now. —B. U. | DEMONSTRATE TODAY FOR RELEASE OF NINE SCOTTSBORO BOYS ONE (CONTINTER FROW PAG sands of organizations in the United States and throughout the world. aL qT i i In Santo Domingo, Dominican Re- public, white and Negro workers have joined in the demand for the Greetings to the Youth Convention ACONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) pass the membership of the Party” youth organization of struggle. Every class-conscious New York monstration that will open the convention this Friday night at the Cen- tral Opera House and make a really fighting demonstration of this “The future belongs to the youth: of the workingclass youth. With this in mind every worker must realize “We protest against the proposed electrocution of eight young Ne- grees at Scotisboro by United States imperialistic murderers and | regard this massacre as an in- stance of Yankee capitalistic op- | prcccion of Negroes of the United | Sintes. We protest this proposed | riass murder. We pledge oursetves | to combat race discrimination and | fight. for equal rights for Negroes. We demand punishment for the | tynchers.” i ‘The New York Times Havana cor- | for indictment on a charge of tman-?srand jury on charges of manslaugh-| days in succession, Pat Fagan, dis- | respondent, reporting the meeting, declares: “Indignation over the death sen- tences charactered the meeting, | bat no public demonstrations are | led the mass picket line in defiance | *S0lled= him as a “Red’, made h anticipated.” The action of the Tobacco Work- | ers Union follows on a call by the Cuban Communist Party to the workers of Cuba to protest and| demonstrate against the lyncn ver- dict. $12 FOR 6 DAYS \} HELP THE STRIKING MINERS WIN: by ing at Wildwoos agonizing pains One of the victims of the murderous onslaught deputy sheriffs against striking miners picket- d, Pa, June 22. He is suffering from a bullet in his side, Hold Myerscough, Strike Leader, ISTRIKE AGAINST. For Grand Jury; Nearly Murdered CARD SYSTEM IN PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 8. — The coroner's jury in the case of Peter Zigaric, the miner murdered when deputies defending a strike-breaking injunction shot up the Wildwood picket line on June 22, today held Tom Myerscough to the grand jury slaughter. Myerscough is section organizer in | the Allegheny section for the Central Renk and File Strike Committee and to Shoot Myerscough | | in the Back | | ter.” , } When -Myerscough was testifying today to the facts as outlined above, the ‘coroner and Averbach savagely im Deputy Sheriff Tried’: | Sheriff Cain and his ef deputy and a special rep- resentative of Governor Pinehot were present, oP eine je PITTSBURGH. Pa., July 8—Three | trict president of the United Mine Workers has announced through the | press, which gives him full publicity that he will speak in company with TEXTILE PLANT Textile Bosses Form Fake, Company Union By EDITH BERKMAN LAWRENCE, Mass., July 8.—Elec- tricians, machinists, plumbers, etc., the whole repair department of the Pacific Print Works is out on strike against the “Card System.” This is of the Butler Consolidated Coal Co.’s | Prove-thet’ he was really a miner, ) Phil Murray of the NMW interna-| one of the most important depart- injunction. orders to kill Myerscough, that it was only an accident that spared him. Now the coal operators using another branch of their apparatus, the courts, have reached out again to get Myerscough. For the sake of appearances the | sneered at his-lack of a permanent Allegheny valley organizing) repeat- ediy told him that he was a crim- inal for breaking the injunction, j ete. Both Myerscough and Bob Young. who testified with the bandage cov-| ers and organizers of the Central | ering a bullet wound still around his head, abiy defended the right of the | six professional jurors who sat half | Miners to organize, to strike and to) Union and the T. U. U. L, form of ° IN OHK) MINE | asleep during the taking of testi-| Picket in a fight against starvation | mony which should have hanged at | They defended the National Miners Wheeling Co. Miners, Urged to Join Strike | By A Miner STEUBENVILLE, Chio—I work in the Wheeling Steel Co. mine here. The mine is inside the steel mill Grounds, extending under armed guards. None can come in or out} without a pass. The other day, we Saw a notice on the board, as we were going in, “Beginning Mon, the mine will work 6 days a week.” Prior to this we were getting only 2-3 days a week. We soon found the reason— the Harmarville mine, from which the company gets its coal by barge down the river, is out on strike. So we go | on six days and the company hires more miners. Talk about starvation wages! My last check, covering 6 days ranging from 9 to 10% hours a day, was for $12.00 and some cents. We're work- ing 3 men to a room, and the room is cut 35 feet wide so we have to throw the coal 2-3 times to get it into the cars. the rate is 58 cents per | ton and the company uses one-ton cars, but we never get any more than 1300-1400 pounds on a car. The coal is low—only two feet and 10 inches. ‘We've never had any union down here. I wish some of the men from Hermarville, would make a trip down and talk to the men. | Expose the lie about the S viet Union—Spread Redacht’s pampc- let “Soviet ‘Forced Labor’ ”—06 pages, 10 cents. Write fer it to the Workers Library Publishers, P: 0. Box 148, Station D., New York City. and thus make the Y.C.L. a mass worker should attend the mass de- 1” said Karl Liebknecht in speaking Ye Com- u least half a dozen deputies have also held to the grand jury on charges of manslaughter, the Deputy Reel. inea | coroner arbitrarily stopped that line | if he wasn’t dead yet, he ought to be, | #fter the other. Seven or eight witnesses testified ug |S cwnere to take the Fuh "| Reel picked on a woman, resident, of Wildwood and mother of the keeper of the “Kusick store”, tried to ar- rest her for merely watching the picket line from her own property, chase her when she fled from him into the store, threw a tear gas bomb into the store, fired three shots at her, as she ran, fired the first shots into the crowd, after which the depu- ties lined alongside the crowd started shooting into the backs and sides of the pickets. Tries to Kill Myerscough. This Reel tried to make Myers- cough turn his back and he shot in the back, then when Tom refused, the deputy snapped hiv gun at him at point of blank range. While he was re-loading, Myerscough reached for a rock, and the next hasty shot went over Myerscough and dropped Bob Young, youth organizer for the Trade Union Unity League. In the confusion that followed with hundreds of shots being fired by the deputies, Myerscough carried Young into the store, from which they were later driven by the tear gas and ar- rested. Many witnesses testified that Reel | organization, its rank and file con- | trol, its militant tactics, until the of testimony. Corroborate Murder. Various newspaper reporters, home | tional office at Canonsburg. Each ‘Aboniitin’ evi@iis athe coroners | address, (while traveling all over the | day. Saturday, Sunday and Monday, | | court showed that the deputies had | | the miners and their families | swarmed around looking for Fagan, to give him a hot reception. Each | day Fagan stayed away. On Sunday, | @ crowd of 700 cheered striker lead- | Rank and File Strike Committee of | the National Miners Union, with one eye and a picket line on the place where Fagan had announced his meeting. Monday the Canonsburg paper an- nounced Mr. Fagan was sick. The miners of Meadow land decided that | and they made a casket for him, | draped it in white, crowned it with | ora and later with a pig's skull | (the miners call him “Piggy” Fa- ments in the mill and the workers jare paid much better than the rest |of the workers in the mill. The | “Card System” was to be introduced |last December, but the workers then organized against it by joining the | | National Textile Workers Union. The mill official were then afraid of 2 real strike and gqve up the scheme. As long as this most important department was organized under the National Textile Workers Union, the ‘mill officials did not come with any |new schemes. In fact the workers were able to stop one 10% lay off | They forced the | (efficiency men) out. They kept the |1% for overtime, while the rest of |the mills have taken away the extra | owners of Wildwood who had no part | gan) and carried it in solemn proces- | Pay for overtime during the last in the strike, and strikers corroborat- | sion to Canonsburg. There after a/ year. ed all the facts; showing that after Reel made his attack on the defense- | less woman, the pickets, assembling | at a point hundreds of feet away | rushed toward the scene of shooting, | were met by shots into their ranks from Reel’s gun, and a few seconds later were mowed down right and left by the fire from the guns of | deputies who had formed along the side of the road, flanking the crowd | of pickets. It was proved that the some distance away were riddled | with shots, endangering the lives of | children. Deputy Reel himself, a fat man | with a pig like face and bulging neck, took the stand and told a con- fused story of being fired on from the Cusick store. and of throwing |@ tear gas bomb into it because, | “some one pulled my hand and made | it slip.” Heel Lies. Reel in the face of all evidence to was in a kind of blood rage, that the contrary, denied that he fired he stormed around, coming beck to the Cusick store again and again, threatening that he woulti “have to kill every son-of-bitch here,” point- ing his gun at small children in the house and when the door was finelly locked against him, breaking his gun trying to smash it down. Wairness Pretense. Coroner McGregor made «a pre- tense of fairness during the investi- gation, clashing several times with Attorney Robert Averbach, who re- presented Sheriff Cain and acted as prosecuting attorney against the min- ers through the hearings. But when McGregor charged the jury he said: “We have here a case of riotous, il- legal mob, assembled in contempt of court. We have certain leaders of the mob whose intellect is disordered, addressing. inflamatory remarks’ to the lowest instincts of men suffering from privation. .It is your duty, if you find that the mob whose very any shots but into the air. A series of deputies followed him to the stand, all beginning their stories in the same stereotyped fashion; “As we rode up we were jeered” but showing considerable variation after- wards, They are all portly men, of the city gangster type. All but one insisted they shot only in the air. If it were not for the testimony of the miners and disinterested third parties, this inquest would have left it one of the mysteries sof the ages how Zigarec came to die, that day in Wildwood, and how 12 others were wounded. All but the deputies agreed the strikers were entirely unarmed. There was one exception among the deputies. admitted that he has been a gunmen for the coal operators for 114 years, stated boldly that he shot “right in- to the crowd”. This hardened killer knows his Pennsylvania. He knows that the courts will not convict you Deputy Braun, who, | big mass meeting, 3,000 marched be-| ‘The mill owners of Lawrence then | hind it in funeral procession, amidst | got on the job to smash the influ- | | the cheers of the population of Ca- | ence of the National Textile Workers | nonsburg, some of whom perhaps | thought Patty really was in the cof- | fin and were glad of it. | ee Ns Midnight Arrests. WAYNESBURG, Pa., July 8. Deputies raided the homes here of | strikers from the Hillman Coal Com- | of July 6, and jerked from their beds | and arrested 27, 4 women and a | young girl. The charge is not yet | to scare them away from the “Reds.” | known, nor the jail to which they were taken. The raid seems to have | been for the purpose of breaking | up & march planned on a nearby | mine at 10 a. m, today. | A picket line of 450 at Midland | mine found the twelve state troopers and many deputies had brought two police dogs. The dogs were hissed onto the picket line for the purpose | of frightening the women and chil- dren, Lazano Restaurant Rebs Workers of Pay _ New York. to inform you of the fact than in Lazanos Restaurant, No. 2 Broadway, workers are starved by the boss, and forced to work like hell. When pay day comes he retains the workers’ wages, and pays them @ percent; and up till now he owes money to most of the workers. Recently, a Negro boy had an ac- cident and brolee a piece of glass, wherein the boss disconunted $10.00 from his salary. There are about 30 people working in this place, only four ofthem are Spanish, but it seems as they were wilting to organize. pretense was in defiance of law, | for killing strikers. He was not even —F. Q. brought about the condition which | held to the grand jury. led to death of Zige wy aah oe a a ee es Defender on the thetr 2 for- by, seem, with aioe 6. tn: pod) ene Saat | Union, the leader of the 10,000 tex- | tile workers in the last Lawrence strike against the speed-up, After the Union organizers were ar- rested they got the City Marshall on the job to raid the Union Hall and | hang out a sign “The N.T.W.U. does | not meet here.” They started to in- shooting was so reckless that homes | pany’s Moffit mine, during the night | Vestigate and question the workers in the mills, etc. This all was done to terrorize the Lawrence workers, ‘The strike-breaking newspapers came out with daily stories about | how and where the Union organizers will be deported. Of course the mill officials got at once on the job and encouraged the workers of the Print organize a nice union. . tis & i g é al j 2 EF j 3 i gf i ee i ge i i iH R F os a8 i] & eg they were afraid to workers were united in the fig! Union—the N.T.W.U, The workers, now on a strike, ing this morning to the Union or- ganizer said: “We hope you know that we all realize what the N-T. W. U. has done for the Lawrence workers, but you see we don’t care to be called Red.” The workers of Lawrence will soon find out that this company union, the American Textile Union Inc. will (not lead the workers in struggle. For the only workers Union leading | workers in struggle against the new |schemes of the mill owners ts the National Textile Workers Union. Any worker that puts up a fight against i A | rian paper, etc. | BUILD THE DAILY WORKER CLUB! PLEDGE WEEKLY SUMS TO D. W:! REMEMBER D, W. AFFAIR JULY 15: Worker N. J Ame well as Hung we an as e following suggestions of workers were made uring dis- cussion: That Daily Worker Clubs be organized at picnies and at | open-air ings; that members of the Daily Worker Clubs should not only criticize the paper, but also develop the membership of the club by getting new members to join. Comrade Murphy sug- gested that comrades hand the paper around to fe workers and that workers should be urged to write about conditions In shops, mills and factories for the Daily. Members were also asked to £0 out and sell the Dally at factory gates, and, that to leave copies at home instead of handing them | around to unemployed workers, was the wrong attitude to take. Comrade German thought that young fellows out of work should sell the Daily Worker instead of workers’ clubs. Kovacs agreed esponsibility for this to the attention of in Perth Amboy. As a whole the n ligently sumed 5 the eting was intel- d enthusiast first comm was scheduled for M which plans were t nade for the next. Meetings In St. Louis and | Grand Ronde! A Daily Worker Club m also held in St. Louis, Mo. at the Labor Lyceum, with bers present. After V. Grinus was elected president with Peter Frank as secretary, it was voted that each member organize a club in his o mem= Most of those attending read other publica- tions of revolutionary press and study proletarian th + as well as distribute papers to dealing with vai Where are reports of meetings of other Daily Worker Clubs? Butte and Pueblo, what ix the membership of your clubs? California! W! the “Dally” we of article donated $30. Splendi An unempl Negro comrade (married woman) in Cincinnati, Ohio, sold 5 copies of the Daily the first day o7 copies ‘the next, then 7, 35, DANGEROUS DROP OVER JULY 4th WEEK-END; MORE ACTION NEEDED! Workers who do not want their names published hecause of pos- sible persecution should indicate this 4m sending in thelr contriba- | tions, Collectors should ask those who contribute whether they want their nathes printed. +, 6: & DANGER! For three days, Satur day, Sunday and Monday. only 8! This is the worst yet. We | must stop this downhill slide and et back. At this the $35,000 coal will never be r a by July 19, and where will the Daily be then? ... Every district, without exception did badly. Though District 2 (New York) again contributed most of the | And look | The best (Boston) 50. The others 6 (Cleveland (Detroit), send in a cent line The Fourth of July was a_ costly holid t | Worker; it did jus want it to do oney, this was or 21.03. You'll save to do a lot better than that workers of District 2, if you are to aR ae DISTRICT t | Coun. Passate, Mothers’ League, | | 5 ache 5.60 Roxbury, Mass. $5.00 Ber: = 3 Sag ay, Beate M. Broth, B’kly2 0.00 District 17.00 | Treriont Wkrs, sienna Uke, Whkre. Chil Cl, affair 10.00 Total $18.00 avewa Sehesl; ©. Kroopakr, DISTRICT 9 Milfora, Mass, 1650 | Brownsville 1,00 A, Rukkila, Eben discas Mo Ldiine, N.Y.C, 250 | Jet, Mich Total 352.50 | E. Rendlich 1.00 — Total $2. oy cheese eg Tota! 8221.08 DISTRICT 10 Ukr. Un. Toflers, | DISTRICT 3 Nesnany, N.Y.C. 3.00 | pnite. District 25.00 5.00 bas Sl ial J. Jeinick, Baltt- pal: = Mee etal ee ee = “DISTRICT 11 §Ponerko Bx. 1.00 Teta Ba5.25 Frederick, S.D. 5.35 Bde bttret) DISTRICT 4 a Org., Bayonne, Un. Ukr. Toller: Total $5.35 N i, 20 Urehenko, Cort- Hag ee Ey Local Komite Ukr. land, N.Y. 3.00 Col. by A. Hodoft, Un. Toilers, NYC 14.50 Janeau, Alaska: J. Busch, N.Y.C. 1.00 Total $5.00 GV. Kodziew |. Lippman, Newark 5! TESTentOTIs Ukr. Un. Wkrs. Org., Lkr. Un. Tollers, a Worker, W.v.c. ion | Ambridae: Fa. 1000) 2 peice D. Neir, Bx. 1.00 Total #10.00 1,” Dibott S. Smithzer, Bx. 50 DISTRICT 6 . Bumott Droudman, Bx, 25| wm. Biemler, P. Draho D. Rynn 25 “Sandusky, Ohio 2.00 &- Lepetich . L. Kata, Belmar, Nee, A. Bellead, A. Kabasoff S Fnewaiks G 100 pS Norwalk, Ohio Tosa a ote 3.00 DISTRICT 15 PT kacee 5 Springfield, Mass., s 7 Nucleus 4.25 Boro Pk. Wks. Cl. Hamiramek, Mich.< Working Women's Book Shop ye eseaaat Couneil, Stam- ¥. 6. b ford, Conn. 2.75 See. 1, Unit 12 a A. Navickas, Hart- i 4 ford, Conn. 05 | See. t: Unie 149 1.081 New Haven Me- 2 Spartacus Greek R.A.J.. Detroit cleus, No. 1 3.75 Syke. Cl jas A. Strachin, Detroit 1.00 Po See. 7, U 07 <r Total $13.80 See. 2 Uate D "35 Total $4.50 DISTRICT 17 Sec. 2, Unit F-1 4.77 DISTRICT 8 C.P. Brewn, Jaek- | Hungarian LL.D. 3.06 | D. Lazarenko, De- sonviile, Fin. 2.00 Samele catur, Hl. 1.00 Sec, 1, Unit 12 Chicago: Total 32.00 Ss. P. Trigubes 2 —e | 1.W.0. Shale 12 mirovich 25 Total, all dist. ® 350.68 | Unit 10, See. 15 af. Brouner (25 | Prev. received 30,501.75 | Um. 7 House Party ‘Waichnk ‘25 | See. 11, Women’s Korie 1.60 Total to date $30,852.43 CHARGE SEDITION AGAINST YOUTH, - COLO. CMTC CAMP DENVER, Colo—Mike Shantzick and Sol Greenberg, members of the Young Communist League here, were arrested and are charged with “anarchey and sedition” for distribu- ting leaflets to OCM.T.C. students at Fort Logan, Colo, on Tuesday, June 30. This is the first time these anti- labor laws have been invoked against the workers since the dsys of 1921 and indicates the ferocity with which the bosses are trying to crush work in the armed forces. District Attorney Josl E. Stone said that the following sentences in the leaflets the Young Communist! | League issued would be the basis | for state and governmental persecu- tion of the young workers. “Learn how to use a gun, but use | it against the bosses of this country | and not against the workers of an- | other land.” | Raid Y.C.L. Office | ‘The offices of the Young Com- | munist League at 1643 Lawrence St., | this city were raided last Thursday }in the boss government's drive against the revolutionary young | workers’ organization. Literature | was seized and is now being held for “evidence.” Indications are that the court will set exhoribtant bail for the young workers. | "The International Labor Defense is already taking steps to mobilize the workers here and throughout the state for 2 struggle to release the two young workers and to fight the vicious sedition laws that are being revived against the workers. scare the workers away from the Na- tional Textile Workers Union, but the workers must learn that any Un- ion that meets the approval of the | bosses is no good for the workers— | tt ts a Company Union, like the Am- erican Textile Union Inc. The only | workers Union which will fight for W.U. The office ts open every day ‘and evening. Non-Union members are welcome to the Union Mall. One way of defending the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,” the workers in Lawrence is the N.T. | Worker Severely Hurt in Varnish Blast | (By a Worker Correspondent) | HONDO, Cal.—A vat of boiling ver- nish exploded in the warehouse of |the Hughes Paint Company, 2563 E. ‘%th St., Los Angeles, June 26. H. E. Broigan, of 1014 Toledo St., was boil- ing the varnish when the explosion occurred, showering him with the Naqutd. He was sent to the hospital in a critical condition. Another vic- | tim of careless management in capi- talist industry. Full protection for | workers’ lives and limbs is provided Plan of the Soviet ee es