The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1931, Page 3

District 2 Daily Worker Picine Sun. Aug, 16th at Pleasant Bay Park! Great Time Promised! Tickets 5th Floor Daily Office $2,500 Needed To Reacch $40,000 Goal in Drive! Meeting of Perth Amboy Readers Club Saturday August 8th! The tables below show #\ jurned in by districts as of Al §, This doea not include mis neous contributions. This abdut $2,500 necessary to carry the drive over the $40,000 mark defi- nitely set by the Daily Worker to end the campaign. During the paat week only $761.02 was received from oll districts with practically nothing from Districts 10, 11, 16, 17 and 19. District 1, Boston, lacke $1.68 to attain 100 per cent of ig quote, of $1,000. Only $4.75 received from Di trict 3 since last Wednesday. Ph: delphia now stands at 66 oy ice with $883.52 left to he Districts 4 and 5 gain fittie (Bier the week. Both the: districts re- quire about $400 to tain 100 per cent quotas. District leveland is short §134.04 towards its quota of $2,350; Chicago has arrived at 91 per cent; District 15 at if e cent; De- troit has attained only Hold Affairs to Complete Quotes Every District must fulfill ites quo- ta! The Daily Worker is not yet out of danger! the enormous responsi- bilities of the coal strike, Scottsbore case, Paterson textile and Rhode Is- land silk strikes, etc, is an added burden on the finances of the Daily Worker, The additional $5,000 are needed to carry us over August and be init September. This amount could easily raised if Districts, Sect! Ui and fraternal organi only hold affairs P! the benefit of the Daily! During the holidays of August there should be an open air affair at least once a week in every section of the country. Expenses can be kept low ifthe affair is properly man- is aged; advertising prepare — simple light refreshments; rest take care of not mucbs ‘ainments let the The biggest event of the New York season is not many days off. On August 16th the annual District 2 Daily Worker Picnic for the benefit of the Daily will take place at Pleasant Bay Park, Westc! N. ¥., not far from the city. A re able program is planned for the oc- casion swith John Reed Club artists performing with crayon all day, as well as memb: of the Daily Work- er staff. The R. Chorus will sing revolutionary songs and the Work- ers’ Laboratory Theatre wil] present several plays, UNUSUAL FIELD EVENTS. All workers who it to enter red by the Labor Sports Unton should imme- dintely get in touch with the of- fice of the L.8.U., Room 300, 3 W. 16th St, No entries will be consid- August 12. in your ffiltation ermitted competé for only three field ‘an@ three ‘novelty races. Id events will include high broad jump, shot put, jave- lim throw, discus throw; the novel- ty races will include the potato » @hicken hop, three legged ¢, wheelbarrow race, obstacle raee. a silver cup will be awarded hest scorer. Silk banners be presented to the most will successful sections and mass or- ganizations in the Finance Drive. Prominent speakers will make ad- dyesses. A dance orchestra will Play all through the day. Comrades! Plenty of food and re- freshments will be on hand to tickle your palate! The Hungarians are reparing goulash extraordinary! Armenians have promised plenty of “shoshlick”’. Everyone is invited! Tickets are 35 cents! Come and bring your friends and fellow workers! August 16 is the day! Cirenlation Figures Include Spectal rderst Tables show 4 gain of 2,679 tn cir- culation for the week, notwithstand- ing several large decreases on ac- count of temporary August 1 Inter- national Red Day orders being taken off. Special orders not yet deducted of 3,225 from New York City; 470 from Astoria, L. I.; 353 from New- ark} 168 from Yonkers, etc. make up the gain of 4,122 credited ‘to Dis- triet 3. Most of this will be taken off next week. District 2 shows in- crease of 839 on strength of tempo- rary order of 546 from Philadelphia, 167 from Baltimore; 8% from Miners- ville, 217 from Luzerne, Trenton and Baltimore each cut 60. District 4 Buffalo is represented with 597 which also includes special orders from Buffalo, Schenectady, Niagara Falls and Lebanon, District 7 is shown with loss of 1616; included in this is a gain of 100 from Detroit and loss of 1,550 temporary August 1 edition orders. District 9 Minn. shows loss of 709 also on account of deduction of tem- porary orders plus increase of 50 from St. Paul. Seattle is credited with decrease of 800 which includes temporary orders and a gain of 40 from Tacoma. Daily Worker Club Meeting. ‘The second meeting of the Newark Daily Worker Readers Club will be held at 5 Belmont St. Saturday eve- Bing August 8 A splendid program eing arranged and all workers are invited to attend. A report of the first meeting will be read and suggestions invited as to how best to develop club activity. The report will also include a resume of Work- ers’ Correspondence Group activity also Subscription Drive Committee “Come prepared to have an time! s 4 z a - ij bie eee oR ce E eet eid aan pee Hi i & as Hp BREE é< 1. Boston 998.37 10.20 98 604 426 965 1022 1411 389 3.N. 3, 21,541.52 38288 21S 1929 BABS 1335 12044 10157 14270 4122 % Phils. 1,616.48 4.75 68 1031 2025 1037 3358 3556 4395 830 4. Buttale 621.05 24.35 62 184 669 185 1265 S53 1450 507 5. Pitts, 619.21 25.20 62 348 9076 355 9011 2424 9366 —5S 6 Cleveland 2,115.96 217 9S 810 213 SiS 215s 2933 2065 43 7 Detrolt «3,242.53 «120.35 6S OAL 87D BAS 2146 4710 3004—1616 3 Chicage 3,787.58 28,00 91 1883 6645 1396 6588 8027 7964 —6% 9 Mnpla, 562.65 3660 af SOL 1426 S02 716 1927 1218 —709 LOKansCty 177.50 25 285 «6S «636T «(BTR OHS «1140187 AL Agric. - 19.10 19 4 @3 40 2 103 102 18 Seattle 40215 48.05 49 274 1554 «277 «—-751«1828 1025 —800 iB Callt 1,140.78 se 693 2002 707 1990 2785 2706 —79 15. Conn, 787.82 1 210 4209 212 475 39 687 48 16 Bouth 34.00 a 4 TA 45TH 1119 V1 Birming. 8.31 377 «BRAT «= SR OBS 440-286 — 154 18 Butte .. 106,00 40072 8 4 «87 43 127 130 3 1 Denver 183.95, 6. 129 326 183 343 455 476 21 Unors. 108 231 111 139 340 250 —00 937,620.94 761,02 108 S828 41548 8929 44137 50387 53066 2679 STRIKERS REFUSE WAGE CUT COMPROMISE OF ROYAL MILL Solidarity Meet for General Fabrics Strikers Attended by 600 Workers PAWTUCKET, R. I., Aug. ug. 5.—The strikers of the Royal Mill decided to reject the offer of Joe Ott, owner, comprimising on a % of @ cent re- turn on the proposed 1 cent wage- cut for the box loom weavers, This cut would have meant a loss of $5 to $6 in the weekly wages of the workers, ‘The strike is still effective. The box loom weavers (the most impor- tant department in the mill) are still standing solidly together with groups ofsplain loom weavers and workers from other departments. The shutdown in the box loom weavers department directly affects the warpers, winders, twisters and box loom fixers. The box loom weavers demanded the return of the entire wage-cut. The plain loom weavers demanded a 10 per cent increase. These, to- at this stage of the struggle. ‘The last statement of Joe Ott that jhe “is not yet ready to meet the ‘strike committee” indicates that’ he may move for a settlement of the strike soon. Meanwhile the Royal strikers are mobilizing all the work- ers here to participate in the send- of a mass strikers’ delegation on Friday, Aug. 7, to Governor Case to demand that the rights of the strik- g ognized and that all funds now be- ing used for strikebreaking activities shall be turned over for strike and striker, the workers in the Chelsea Silk Mill, employing 150 workers, set up a joint committee representing the day and night shifts of the mill and demanded a 10-cent raise per 100,000 picks on Georgette work and 15 cents per 100,000 picks on flat in touch with this siti the workers received their raise. eget CENTRAL FALLS, R. I, Aug. 5.— Desp&e the police ban over 600 work- ers from a number of mills gathered in a solidarity meeting for the Gen- eral Fabrics strikers last night. This meeting followed on the heels of the successful picketing of the struck mill on Monday morning. ‘The re- ports in the local capitalist press that the picket line was broken up was inaccurate. The cops. arrived picketing had been com- line was moving away tion, is that last night was first Fi I B86 gicdtle 3S workers, not to be outwitted, immediately secured another lot from @ mill worker named Joseph Ackavy organizers, about 500 workers and 100 workers’ children paraded from the Hunt Ave. lot to Ackavy's lot. The newsaper in Providence re- ports this phase as follows: “The police commission chairman was heard to say: ‘You're the only man in Central Falls who is allowing this,’ and ‘You don’t want to get your taxes raised, do you?’” Later Police Commissioner Mackenzie made the following public statement on his lying threats: “Now, I tried to talk Indignant white and Negro workers of Chicago gathered at scene of police massacre of workers in which three Negro workers were murdered and scores of white and Negro workers wounded. Several groups of white and Negro workers fraternizing are to be seen in the crowd. Mass indignation against the police terror has swept all working class districts of Chicago. Chicago dicks and police thugs at scene of workers. The bodies of the three working class vic! yard where the police murderers are standing. Dicks ground are carrying riot guns in Chicago workers. Police tims are in unsuccessful effort to 6,000 Negro and White Workers In Second Huge Protest at Massacre (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) both white and Negro leaders of the Party will speak. These meetings will unite the white and Negro work- ers in struggle against unemployment, evictions, wage cuts, discrimination against Negro workers, against the police terror and for full uncondi- tional equal rights of the Negro masses. Fifty thousand leaflets were dis- tributed throughout the city today by the Communist Party. Leaflets are also being issued by the Internation- al Labor Defense, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Unemployed Councils calling upon the white workers to defend the Ne- gro masses against the brutal police attacks and the mob terror which the bosses are inciting. i ‘The mass movement among the Ne- gro and white workers has assumed such tremendous proportions that the police do not dare to make fur- ther attacks on the meetings of the workers. In spite of the threat to prevent all meetings in Washington Park, yesterday’s huge demonstra- tion was held without interference. Before this tremendous mass move- ment, the city authorities have been forced to order a stop to evictions of. unemployed workers “for the present.” Numerous emergency conferences have been held in City Hall in @ futile attempt to break the move- ment. Evgry effort is being made by the bosses to utilize especially the Negro reformist traitors, De Priest and others, for this purpose. In spite of this attempt at betrayal, the Ne- gro masses are solidly behind the Party in its militant fight against eviction, for unemployment relief and for full Negro rights. Organizational steps are being taken to consolidate the movement thru the building of Unemployed Councils, block committees, groups of the ILD, the LSNR and the Party. ‘Twenty-one Negro and white work- ers arrested Monday are held on charges of inciting to riot and con- tempt of court in resisting the court .| order of eviction against unemployed workers. The coroner’s inquest start~ ed this morning. On the rumor that eT MERESPOT SS a ROR Es staal? eeeoseiny to the fellow (1. e., Ackavy, the lot owner) the same as I did to that man on Central Ave. and Elm St. I tried to scare him in @ way, but we have nothing to do with taxes. But when his tax bill comes in Sat- urday, he might think we had. You know all the bills are being raised. ‘The only thing we're trying to do is keep these fellows quiet. They're preaching sedition.” James J. Doyle, a member of the Board of Tax As- sessors, scored the policy of the po- lice in threatening taxpayers. The meeting was very enthusiastic, cheering the speakers and booing the police the inquest would be held yesterday, over three hundred workers packed the hall where the inquest was to take place, while more than 1,000 stood outside. The International Labor Defense has engaged 5 attorneys to defend the arrested workers and is gathering material against the police murder- ers. Definite arrangements have been made with the families of two of the murdered workers, Gray and O’Neil for a mass funeral under the auspices of the. Communist Party. Gray was a member of the Party, while O’Neil was active in the Un- employed Council. The third mur- dered .worker has not as yet been identified. Neither has it been pos- sible to establish the exact number of wounded workers as many were taken away by white and colored workers in the neighborhood. All meetings are going through with great success. The campaign to rally the white and Negra workers in joint defense is proceeding with great en- ergy. The headquarters of all the class struggle organizations are open and functioning as usual in spite of police threats against the colored and white leaders in these organizations. A delegation of representatives from working class organizations are open and functioning as usual in spite of police threats against the colored and white leaders in these organiza~ tions. A delegation of representatives from working class organizations, with several prominent sympathizers, is appearing today at City Hall to protest the massacre of Negro work~- ers and present the demands of the working class. In an attempt to crush the resist- ance of the workers and justify the police massacre, Police Commissioner Alcock has issued a statement threat- ening arrest to every white and Ne- gro Communist leader in the city if further distri and as anl ar m as if further disturbances occur. This is a deliberate retreat from the first threat of immediate arrest of all mil- itant leaders. This retreat has been forced on the police by the splendid militant attitude and working class unity of Negro and white workers. Dangerous to Neglect Pains in Bladder ad Kidneys tednigh ne gue baer tie ney weakness. Docto! and advise action to to pevant pale For Awibenee: re rats aa the remed: ry Sate neers nea ia Midy a | COPS TRY BREAK [SIOUX CITY WORKERS UP YCL MEETING! RALLY AGAINST BOSS Police Fear. To Jail| Two Youth Speakers | First Anti-War Demon BOSTON, Mass., Aug: Repeerrs| | the role of the police. The cops were | afraid to make an arrest and slunk of the Boston police to break up an| ped by the workers who had gathered to hear speakers of the YCL. The/| Socialist Party was holding a meeting | across the street from the Y.CL | | meeting, but the police did not in- | terfere with them. However, when they saw the enthusiastic crowd around the YCL truck covered with militant slogans demanding the re- lease of the nine Scottsboro boys, that all war funds be turned over to the unemployed, ete., they immedi- ately began insisting on a permit. ‘When our speaker stated that he had a right to speak, the cops pulled him down from the truck but that was as far as they got. The angry workers demanded that he be allowed to continue and another speaker immediately began to expose | away. The meeting continued with much enthusiasm, swelled by the workers who came over from the S.P, meeting. This meeting was part of| ° | one of the first real youth rallies held in Boston HEROIC FIGHTERS ON MINE FRONT MUST HAVE RELIEF TO CARRY ON STRUGGLE {CUNTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) through one of the most ‘Gesperate battles of American labor history. Send your contribution to the Penn- sylvania-Ohio-West Virginia-Ken- tucky Striking Miners’ Relief Com- mittee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., Room 205, It is difficult to describe the atmos- phere of war time, the tenseness, which prevails over the steep, green hills of Harlan County. Everyone knows of the bloody struggle when miners shot it out with the gunmen attacking them at Evarts some time ago. Then there was the period of martial law, and then the attempt of the company gunmen, deputized professional killers, to terrorize the community after the soldiers had given up the job. These gunmen were licked. Their morale was shot to pieces in innumerable little con- flicts, and they permitted ~a big miners’ picnic t obe held a week ago. Things looked bright for the dis- trict conference of the union. Hun- dreds of delegates were elected from all the mines. But a force of about 70 thugs, or- ganized, with their own commonder, came in just after the picnic was held. After the conference Sunday your correspondent sat with three of the strikers’ hunted leaders in the bushes on a hillside and watched this “foreign” army going from its concentration point back to its head- quarters in Harlan. First was a scout car, with men armed with ma- chine guns in it. There were ten cars with the armored and heavily armed gangsters in them. The last of this ten carries two airplane ma- chine guns, Lewis guns, so arranged on the rumble seat that they can sweep fore and aft and along both sides. Last came a rear-guard car, also with machine guns. This gang travels like that usually. It is ac- companied by local deputies as guides. The gangsters have boasted, and everybody in Harlan County knows of the contract the gangsters have made with the coal operators: so much a day for ordinary terror, raiding of whole communities, search- ing of houses and destruction of all the miners’ guns and ammunition; dynamiting of houses and dynamit- ing of strikers’ automobiles. But there was a special bonus if they could prevent the meeting of the conference, Well, they have. lost that bonus. There is a bonus of $2,000 hung up if they can kill Dan Brooks, most prominent of the strike leaders, within ten days. There is a similar amount for the death of Grace, another leader. So far they have not been able to collect these bonuses, either. But it is not because they have not made efforts. Three times within the last week they have had the central strike committee surrounded, and each time by better knowledge of the country, and by such clever strate- gems as men think of in the shadow of death; the members of the com- mittee have escaped. Brooks and most of the local leaders are in hid- ing most or all of the time. Many times they have nearly been cap- tured, There is no doubt that most of them would be summarily shot on capture, An example of the temper of these gunmen can be seen from one inci- dent. A stool pigeon tipped off the proposed meeting place of the strike committee. The committee did not meet there, but the gunmen came shooting in, tearing through the door and smashing the whole interior of the building, in their eagerness and rage. Saturday night and Sunday the imported and local gunmen joined forces, divided into groups of eight or ten with two cars per group, and patrolled all the roads leading to Wallins Creek. They stopped every- body, delegate or not, even the ice- man, searched them, confiscated all arms, and drove most of them back the way they were coming. When the conference actually met with about 40 delegates who had slipped through the enemies’ lines, a hurry up call seems to have been sent out, and the gunmen’s cars speeded to some concentration point to attack the conference. The attack never ac- tually came, the gangsters seem to have waited too long for their stool pigeons at the conference to tell of the appearance of some of the most wanted leaders. They were perticu~ larly anxious, apparently, for Brooks, Grace, or Frank Borich, secretary of the National Miners Union. They had heard Borich was to address the conference, and had an accurate de- seription and pictures of him. The conference was attended by about 300 men, women and children from the neighkorhood, miners’ families, who were seated separately from the delegates in the gymnasium of the Wallins: Creek school, in which the delegates occupied the central floor and the visitors the side seats. Arrangements were made for di- viding the local unions of the N.M.U, in Harlan county into groups which can meet - when meetings of whole local are impossible because of terror, for the continued organiza- tion of. relief and defense, for the demonstrations on the day of the trial of the Evarts bunch of 32, charged with murder because of the Black Mountain battle. The demands worked out by the scale committee were read to the conference amidst prolonged ap- Plause. Those demands are popular. They represent the grievances of the whole community of miners, They indicate the economic background which causes the guerrilla warfare that rages day after day in Harlan county, To avoid giving in to these demands, the coal operators have loosed the terror. The demands are for: Eight-hour day; outside day work $4.50; all other work not classified here to be decided by conference. Time and a half for all overtime; equal turn; no checkoff; all brush- ing pajd for at rate of $5.55 per day; union check weighman elected by miners; all day work inside $5.55; all machine mined goal 6¢ ton over 42 inches; all under 42 inches 2c addi- tional added per inch per ton. Ma- chine runners and helpers 12c per ton over 42 inches; under 42 inches 15c per ton; pick mined coal 75c per ton; machine work 75c yard on work under 18 feet; solid work $1.50 yard on work under 18 feet. Unemploy- ment insurance, weekly pay days, We demand the abolition of the two car system on one track in rooms and entries, or in any place where it is necessary to buck the coal. Where coal must be turned the miner be paid the tonnage rate for each time the coal is turned. That every coal company in the state of Kentucky come under the compensation law. We demand the right to select our own doctor and contract for his services. The rent in all company towns be no higher than $1 per room; that coal be fur- nished free to all employees; a maxi- mum charge of $1 for electric lights; that man trips be run for the ac- commodation of the miners morning and night; that the bath house state law be complied with; all materials, tools, supplies, etc., to be delivered at the working place; that the prac- tice of pushing cars by the miners be abolished. To avoid granting these demands, and in the hope of smashing the or- ganization by a grand slaughter of its leaders, the operators planned a massacre on the road to the Wallins Creek conference. There is a bridge over the creek which must be passed by practically all the delegates, A miner scouting through the woods the day before the conference stum~- bled on two machine gun emplace- ments built of rock, with breast works of rock in niches of the rock wall on both sides, One of the em- Placements was camouflaged with a burlap screen. Both were hidden from the road and from all around |smells worse than anything? the | Oners, has been released from. San | WAR AND STARVATION sieaiion In Sioux City. Brings New Workers to Movement ; | August First Youth rally were stop- | Unemployed Council SIOUX CITY, Iowa.—We “Join the Party of Your Class, The « Communist Party.” And there was no Wall Street flag to mar it. Workers Militant, | The demonstration was very mil- itant with plenty of singing and slo- gan shouting. The leaders shouted slogans and the rest of the marchers houted fitting answers, such as — “Matthew Woll, traitor!” “Will we fight for Morgan? Never!” “What | Ham Fish!” We had both @ Young Communist League and Party speaker speak to us before the march and 2 Pioneer and Party speaker talk to us after the march. A heavy rain forced us to take our meeting to the Workers’ | Hall. Much literature was sold and 12 new members were taken into the Unemployed Council, which we are trying to build up for the desperate struggles we are facing next winter. | The speakers told the workers of | the great danger of war on account of |the crisis and of the tense situation that exists in Germany where the vietory of the workers is merely the (By a Worker Correspondent) SPARROWS POINT, Md.—In one of the steel mills here the catchers were changed 6 times in one shift. Figure out how much these workers made—only a few cents. Production | goes on just the same, with the steel bosses making all kinds of big prof- its at the expense of the workers. All for Profits. Many of the workers working like this cannot figure their pay out. The result is that many do not get paid for their tonnage. We work like ma- chines and if one worker falls over exhausted from the heat and speed- up, and another one is right there to take his place. Keep the mill go- (By a Worker Correspondent) SACRAMENTO, Cal—Frank.,Spec- tor, one of the Imperial Valley, Pris- Quentin July 14th and at once set forth to address mass meetings in campaign conducted by the I. L. D, to repeal the Criminal Syndicalist Law and for the release of the seven remaining Imperial Valley Prisoners. Spector has already spoken to big crowds in Los Angeles, who gathered at a banquet and at a mass meet- ing to’ greet the class fighters in the person of Spector. He is now touring the northern portion of California. On July 28th he addressed about 175 workers in Stockton. Next day he addressed over 400 workers in Sacramento's Flaza Park—within the shadow of onstration ever held in this town last Saturday. | courageous of the workers came out and marched with Red banners flying and a large banner with the inscription on it, the entire state in behalf of the) Organizing for Big Struggles Ahead (By a Worker Correspondent) held the first anti-war dem- The most ‘matter of a short while. ‘They also exposed the London-Paris Confer- ences, the role of the fake socialists, McDonald, Bruening and Co. The plot of the French general staff fer intervention against the Soviet Union was exposed before the workers. The workers pledged to fight for the work- ingclass in the next war. Must Organise and Fight. It should be clear to all workers that we are going inte the worst winter experienced by the American workers. Starvation has already hit Sioux City. We must begin really to organize here to fight against hun- ger. We call all workers in Sioux City to come to the workers’ head- quarters at 508 5th St. We hold Un- employed Council meetings every Monday night at 8 p.m. It is not enough to come only when you want groceries from Lebick or when you are threatenéd with eviction. Come into the Council and be an active member and help carry out the pres- sing work to save ourselves from starvation this winter. Must Work Like Machines At Sparrows Point Steel Plant ing is the order, but there is no con- sideration given whether the workers get enough wages to live on. The bosses don’t care about that; all they are interested in is to keep the mill going to pile up the profits. In the Soviet Union the workers own and control the industries. Hot mill workers work only 6 hours & day and on extremely unhealthy jobs they work only four hours. Every worker gets full wages when sick and a one month ‘vatalion each year Wa pay. We workers in “prosperous” Amer- ica, could have the same conditions in the steel mills if we got together and organized. Workers Greet Frank Spector in Big Meets the states’ capital The workers re- sponded eagerly to the messege that Spector delivered to them. They passed resolutions demanding the re- lease of the seven Imperial Valley Prisoners, Mooney and Billings and for general amnesty for all class war prisoners. In the Stockton meeting were pres- ent a number of the river-boatmer of whom 50 had struck last Mon#ay against a cut in pay. Led by the M. W. 1. U. they forced the bosées to withdraw the cut, but a few hours after the walkout. Spector spoke Aug. Ist at the Sen Francisco Anti-War Demonstration, also in Oakland Aug. 4th and in San Francisco Aug. 5th. He will shortly begin a nation-wide tour under the arrangement of the International Labor Defense. by ‘trees, and both commanded the bridge, so that a cross fire could be concentrated on the bridge. The scheme did not work, There were thirty miners waiting above the em- placements |to seo that it failed Some stool pigeon evidently tipped off the gunmen that their stunt was discovered, and the road patrol was substituted for the massacre. So far most of the gunmen’s schemes for actually wiping out the leadership of the strike have failed. Most of the deaths have been on the side of the gunmen. There were two fights at Verda, Harlan county, the night before the conference. Un- known persons, who were not cap- tured, defeated a company gunman who had a long record of murders to his credit in previous escapades. Some say he had killed six men, some say seven. He was wearing armor which covered his whole body, but he got 4 charge of buckshot in the face. Another gunman without armor started his last battle in a restaurant, and could not digest the buckshot he took into his stomach. ‘These little struggles are so com- mon in Harlan county that Ken- tucky and Tennessee papers give the demise of these two killers only a few lines} of space. It just isn’t news. The wearing of armor by the company thugs, is, so far as known, something rather new in the way of such warfare. The armor is very heavy, is made of steel plates over breast and back, of steel mesh or scales on other parts, has universal joints to allow freedom of movement, and covers the whole body from the neck to the higs. It ts usually worn under a cost. It is supposed to stop @ rifle bullet. Te Harlan miners have one of these coats of mail which @ gunman used to wear. They are a Uttle vague as to why the fellow turned it over to the miners, but they say he will not need it any more, A picture will be made of it soon, for the press, The company thugs are equipped with army rifles and with the latest model Savage rifle. They also carry revolvers or automatic pistols, bombs, and bring with them in their cars all ught they can handle. Their tactica when raiding mining towns (en 4l- most nightly occurrence) is to set up on the hills heavy machine guns commanding the whole town, so that if a fight starts they can simply wipe it out men, women and chil- dren. [Then they charge into the town with their rifles and light ma- chine guns, and search house after house. They smash all weapons found in the houses, look for litera- ture (Monday all the application blanks and union cards sent down Sunday for the growing N.M.U. weré. found and siezed) and in somte cases, \f they think the miners’ car will be used in the strike, they blow it up with dynamite. On one occasion they blew up thé miner’s house also. The miners are determined that this looting and raiding must stop. They are not nearly as well armed as the thugs, but they know the country and they have courage. They are holding their own. ‘They are car- rying on their organization, those who have returned to work did so under duress, and will revolt. The hunted leaders hide in the hills, and keep in touch by couriers as best they can. New leadership is be- ing developed. The strike will through Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. The women are being or- ganized into the Women’s Auxiliary of the National Miners Union by an organizer from the National Office of the N.M.U., whom the Harlan miners have taken to their hearts. They hide her in te hills, pass her along from family to femily, and in a semi-secret way she is doing the work. The Harlan miners give an ex ample in courage and determination to the working class of the world. There are two things the working class of the world can do fer the Harlan miners.| They can give food, clothing and money. Remember these people’s babies are dying of a Starvation disease at the rate of two a day now, and the rate will jump soon to five, ten or a dozen a day if they don't get food. The working class can rally to the defense of those slated for the electric chair after the trial in Harlan county the machine guns both heavy and court house. Do this for them, and they will do their share.