The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1932, Page 3

Page Three IMINERS-ACT TO SPREAD STRIKE THRU DATL WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1932 as 'TRY CRUSH KY. “Red Scare” Fails Ky. Miners Walk 15 Miles to / i < Smash Coal Co. _Tnjunction Split Mass Support PINEVILLE, Ky..,; Jan. 19.—Miners walk- ed from camps 15 miles away yesterday morn- ing for mass picketing at the Glendon Mines in Straight Creek to smash the| federal injunction obtained by| the Straight Creek Coal Co. by Leon K. Calvert, attorney for Henry ord in Kentucky. Granny Snow, 71-year-old miner's wife, named in this federal injunc- | tion, speaking at a Straight Creek | strike meeting urged the miners not to go back even if relief stops al- together. “The present sacrifice is | mecessary to win better conditions.” | said this old fighter. At the same} time she pointed out that the Work- ers International Relief, with its warehouse at 145 Pine St., Pineville, and through its national office at 16/ West 21st Street, New York, was/ gathering food from the workers all over the country. “More relief will soon be coming,” she said. “But we must go on with the strike regard- | less. We must pull all the men out. ‘We must extend the strike to every mine in Kentucky.” In an attempt to divide the unity of the Negro and white strikers, the operators are spreading the stupid lie that the National Miners’ Union called the strike so it could bring Negroes in to take the jobs of the strikers. The solidarity between the Negro and white strikers remains ex- cellent and is the reason this lie is being spread in an effort to divide ‘the fighting ranks. Local newspapers are trying to start a back to work movement by saying the miners at Brush Creek and Greasy Creek, where every mine is shut down solid are going back to work. Sentiment for the National Min- ers’ Union is 100 per cent among the miners, and no back-to-work movement {s discernible. Deputy Gun Thugs Cover Highways. An army of Harlan deputy gun thugs, paid by the coal operators, covered the state highways on Sun- day all the way from the town of Harlan to Pineville. They carried machine guns and did everything they could to prevent Bell County miners from attending Wallins Creek and Harlan County mass strike meetings. Every strike leader escaped the dragnet except Charlie Peters, chair- man of the Central Strike Relief Committee, who was arrested in the town of Harlan, charged with trying to “overthrow the state of Kentucky” because he was buying flour and beans for the starving Kentucky min- trying to crush the relief apparatus and to force the miners back to slavery in the mines, Peters had gone to Harlem to visit, his family and had $400 relief money on him, A warrant is out for Jim Garland, local strike leader. Thugs Help UMWA ‘Turnblazer, district organizer of the non-existent, United Mine Work~- ers of America, despite the fact that there is supposed to be a warrant out for him in connection with the Evarts battle, is getting the aid of the coal operators’ gun thugs in an effort to edge the UMWA in to break the strike, There is only one UMWA local in the entire field and that is not func- here is walking through Pineville with the “UMWA” written in big letters all over his overalls. The miners are bitter in remembrance of their experience with the sell-out of the UMWA. Must Have Relief. Miners who spoke at the strike mass meeting in Wallins Creek on Sunday described the starvation conditions in their camps. “No food, no money, no clothing, no recrea~ tion since the war,” was the unani- mous voice of the miners. Milk is used as a medicine for sick babies when it can be obtained. Day men on eight-hour shifts worked 12’ to 14 hours before the strike without getting anything for over- time. Bank Crash in Pineville. The Bell National Bank in Pine- ville closed its doors yesterday ruin- ing hundreds of small merchants. Successful mass strike meetings were held over a 60 mile area in the strike zone Sunday despite threats of deputies to smash all meetings. Meetings were held in Wallins Creek, Harlan County, Brush Creek, Knox County, Greasy Creek, Straight Creek and Middelsboro, Bell County, and in Pruden, Tennessee. Section strike conferences were held in Wallins Creek, Straight Creek and Pruden. Women and Youth Conferences. A women’s conference and a youth conference will be held here on Tuesday. ‘ The following telegram was sént from the Straight Creek mass meet- ing to Governor Laffoon of Ken- tucky: “We hole you responsible for the safety of Bill Duncan and Joe Weber, strike leaders, kidnapped by Sheriff Blair and his deputies near Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. “We demand the immediate ees- sation of the murderous attack by sheriffs and gunmen and demand the right of Negro and white min- ers to organize in the National Miners’ Union and to picket. " “We demand the immediate re- ers. The arrest. of Peters is in line with the policy of the operators in lease of Duncan, Weber and all others arrested for strike activity.” HEARING ON SCOTTSRORO APPEAL OPENS TO-MORROW (CONTINUED FROM SAGE ONE) two of his men.” One of these de- tectives was Jack Neil, chief of the red squad of Chattanooga, who menth ago arrested Jane Dillon, In- ternational Labor Defense secretary of the southern district, for “vag~- rancy” and held her incommunicado tor 2% hours. Together these four men looked up, “with great difficulty” three Negro workers living in the wretched, mud~- rutted, shanty-town Negro section of Chattanooga. They had a purpose in this. Try to Terrorize Dezense Witnesses. Months ago, soon after the Scotts- boro boys were convicted, Asbury Clay and his wife Savanah, and Tom Landers had told the parents of the Scottsboro youths that they knew something about the two white girls on that freight train. They volun- teered to make statements under oath about the girls, whose pictures in the newspapers they recognized. Voluntarily, with a dozen other people, they went to the office of George W. Chamlee, I. L. D. attor- ney for the boys, and swore that they had seen Ruby Bates and Vic- to; had heard them make lewd sp- proaches to Negro men on pay night mear the gate of the big foundry in What happened when the two white men, accompanied by two hulking detectives, tracked down these witnesses in their shanty it is hard to say. Certainly, were terrorized, and they were threatened. ey refused to sign anything Alabamans and their police i Bye cf Ey = Campbell could do was make a statement in which HE says bury Clay and his wife Sa- denied being certain about the says that Asbury Clay and said they did not know y were signing, but signed or other for 75 cents and HE says that Tom Landers didn’t know the girls either been in the penitentiary at he told Chamlee he rec- the girls soliciting the Negro stil Z z to Disbar Chamilee. Montgomery, Als., “leading citizens” said they would move to bar Chamlee from the Supreme Court Hearing. In Chattanooga, more ribery” charges were filed by Jack Neil. But But it remained for Stephen Roddy, attorney for the N. A. A. C. P., to attempt to strike the hardest blow. Roddy had been rejected by the boys and their parents because he be- trayed them by trying to make them plead guilty and letting them be rail- roaded, without objection of any sort, to a death chair sentence. The par- ents say he and the decrepit Milo Moddy, his partner, have tried to mulct them of money. Roddy has a record of drunkenness and alcoholic mental disorders in the city court, the county court, and the county in- sane asylum. It was this Roddy, self-announced “friend of the Negroes,” who filed charges of “unethical conduct” against Chamlee while the Chattan- ooga Bar Association in the hope of having him dropped from his profes- sion. The purpose of this act on the part of this “friend of the boys,” | tioning despite the fact that the | | UMWA organizer was not so muchc to strike down) Chamlees, as to strike, through Chamlee, at the defense of the young Negroes. If Chamlee, on the eve of the Supreme Court, could be stricken out, what chance would there be to send the boys to the chair! Roddy Parrots Lies of Walter White. At the same time, this N.A.AC.P. lawyer announced that he had with- drawn from the case. He did not say he had withdrawn because not 2 single boy or a single parent wanted him. What he said was that “the ease had been poisoned by those rot- ten reds.” He repeated word for word the ancient lie spread by Wal- ter White of the N.A.A.C.P, that the Scottaboro mothers who went north in behalf of their boy’s defense, were fake mothers. Even after the Chat- tanooga mothers signed sworn state- ments saying this was a lie, he con- tinued to repeat it. Boss and Tools in Savage Assault On Defense, Now, as if by signal, every agency and mouthpiece of the “big interests” began pounding with lie and slander against Chamlee and the LL.D, ‘The Legionnaires of the city called for strong arm clamp on “red” ac- tivities, ‘The red-squad detectives began trailing f. L. D. representatives and outside correspondents. “ Newspapers, which had been put~ ting on a show of impartiality by talking of ‘mob psychology’ at the of 9 Strike Leaders. Miners Refuse To Be| Hoodwinked | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE | but the coal operators would vote for | him. During the hearing fo the nine, | Judge Van Beber made a loud dem- agogic speceh in Answer to the de- fendant Vern Smith’s accusation that Van Beber is a coaloperator. The judge declared, “I am elected by the people. I never bought a vote in my life.” “Let me on the stand,” begged | | one of the other defendants, “Tul tell him he'll have to buy all he gets next time, he won't have any votes any other way.” Van Beber pleaded that his only | | little wagon mine.” He then admitted having been in recent years manager | | of 500 houses for the Loz Mountain | Coal Co. This company has Hignite | | and Edgewood mines in Stoney Fork Hollow, Mingo and Yellow Creek Mines at Davisburg. Quite a wagon mine! their hand by printing all the slan- ders on the front page. Proof that these charges were lies, if printed at all, was hidden away in corners on tthe inside. The Chattanooga News and the Times—the latter owned by the Ochs family of the New York ‘Times—vied with each other in be- laboring th Scottsboro defense—all the while maintaining they wanted “justice” for the boys. Alabama Police Suppress Evidence of Boy’s Innocence. Then came a new assault. A prizefighter named Danny Dundee was arrested ‘for fighting in Hunts- ville, Ala., home of the two prosti- tutes in the Scottsboro case. In his pocket was a letter written by Ruby Bates to her lover, asking him to come back to her and saying she had never been touched by any of the Negro boys. The letter corroborates the state- ment made again and again by the boys, that when Ruby was first taken from the train, she denied that the boys had molested her. ‘The Huntsville police raised a wild hullabaloo about this letter telling the truth of the Scottsboro case. They said Danny Dundee had been hired to get the girl drunk and make her sign it. They made her sign an- other statement saying the letter was not true, and she had signed it when she “was so drunk she didn’t know what she was doing.” This charge too was used by Roddy in filing his “unethical conduct” complaints with the bar association against the boys’ lawyer. He did not have courage to come out openly this time. It was announced that a lawyer in town, whose name was not revealed, had | moved to have Chamlee disbarred. Expose, Smash Attacks to Cripple Defense, One by one, by patient work, Chamlee and the .L.D. have exposed these plots to cripple the Scottsboro defense. Asbury Clay and his wife came to} see the lawyer and signed swoern| statements saying that they had seen | the girls in Negro brothels with Negro men and that they had never been paid to sign false statements by Chamlee. The Landers signed a sworn statement that he recognized the girls too and had never been in the penitentiary at all. George Proctor, a writer for the New Masses, made a sworn state~ ment that he had given the prize- fighter Danny Dundee railroad fare and expenses to get, information about the Bates girl. Dundee had said he knew her well, and even now in- sists that there was no drinking. The letter then is the truth and proves the boys are innocent! Demand is now being made by the I.L.D. that the Huntsville police submit it as evidence for the trials. Feeling against the Negro masses, however, has only become more in- tense among the “respectable white folks” here, as one by one their frame-ups and conspiracies were blown up. Try Frame Up Negro Elevator Operator. A young white girl stepped into an elevator in a building in the heart of town early last night. The Negro operator says the elevator accidently started down instead of up. Imme- diately the girl began to scream. The man tried to stop her. Terror-stricken —as Negroes in this city have been for months—he tied her mouth and ran. She does not charge that he at- tacked her, and she is in no way in- jured. Yet so bent are these “leading white folk” on “keeping the nigegr in his piace” that posses and mobs scoured the hills all through the night in search for this one poor hunted Negro elevator man. This morning he was caught. There is talk of lynching. The chief of police promises ‘quick act- ion,” He is saying, in other words, “Letus do it, folks. We will do it quickly and just as well. Then no- body can say ugly things about onr fair city of Chatanooga.” This correspondent answered three telephone conversations in which the good citizens of Chatanooga called up Chamlee to tell him that there was “another nigger rape case in town” and “let the old————come on out and try to defend this one too.” Only the most. serious, deteriained fighting on the part of Negro and connection with mines was “with a| | CALIFORNIA Los Angeles—Savoy Hall, 50th and Central Street, January 22; Spanish territory; Miller and Abromson Hall, Brooklyn Avenue, Boyle Heights, January 21. | San Diego—Women's Club, 949 9th Street, January 22 Pasadena—W. O. W. Hall, 31 N. Fair Oak Street, January 21 San Pedro and Long Beach will have # joint meeting at K. ©. Hall, 9th and Gaffey, San Pedro, January 21, Danbury—Workers Center, 8 Bank St., Danbury, Conn. Bridgeport—Rakoczi Hall, 624 Bostwick St., Bridgeport, Conn New Haven—Labor Lyceum, 36 Howe St., New Haven, Conn Waterbury—(Jan. 24) Garden Hall, 168 Fast Main &t., at 2 p. m. New Britain Hartford—Unity Hall, 64 Pratt St., Hartford, Conn. Springfield—Russian Hall, 675 Dwight St., Springfield, Mass Westerly—Finnish Hall, Chase Hill, R. I. Norwich, New London, Plainfleld—Place to be announced in a few days. DISTRICT 8 Chicago—Ashland Auditorium, 7:30 p. m.,’ speakers, Gebert, Wil- i liamson, Saladine. Springfield: Decatur, Peoria, Danville, Kewanee, Rock Island, Casey. Reckford—IOGT Hall, 8 p. m., speaker Fisher, Jan. 22nd. Roseland—Strumills Hall, 158 E. 107th St.; Morgan Park; Hege- wich; Pullman; South Chicago; Chicago Heights; Burnside— Ukrainian Hall, 1237 E. 98rd St.; Elmwood Park; Norwood Park; Collinsville; Madison—Bulgarian Hall, 130 Madison Ave., 8 p. m.; St. Louis—Peoples Finance Bldg., 11 N. Jefferson, speakers, New- hoff and Thomas; E. St. Louis; Granite City—Hungarian Hall; Belleville—Dietz Hall; Staunton; Benld—January 24th; Indian- apolis—Workers Center, 932% 8. Meridian St., speaker, J. Kling; Terre Haute—29 N. 4th St.; Anderson; Kokomo—Buckeye Palace; Clinton—-326 N. 8th St.; Blanford; Evansville; Bicknell; Bloom- ington; Princeton; Oakland City; Winslow. INDIANA Vincennes; Gary—Turner Hall, 14th and Wabash; Indiana Harbor —Transylvania Hall, Pennsylvania and Washington; Hammond; South Bend; West Terre Haute—5 Parks Ave; Hammond—Long’s Hall, 449 State Street. Lenin Memorial Meetings || | CONNECTICUT | Porichester—Finnish Workers Hall, 42 North Water St., ‘Hast | Portchester. Stamford—Workers Center, 49 Pac St., Stamford Norwalk—Workers Center, 41 Lexington Ave., South Norwalk KANSAS KENTUCKY Louisville. MARYLAND MASSACHUSETTS NEBRASKA Paul Cline, speaker. NEW JERSEY uary 22, 8 p. m. NEW YORK ‘Yonkers—Manhattan Hall, 65 OHIO PENNSYLVANIA Foster, speaker. WISCONSIN Pittsburgh—Workers Center, 309 East 7th St., January 21, 2 p. m. Baltimore—New Albert Auditorium, 1224 Pennsylvania Avenue, January 21, 8 p. m.; Washington, D. C.—Workers Center, Jan- uary 22, 8 p. m.; Cumberland—Odd Fellows Hall, 216 Virginia Avenue, January 23, 8 p. m. Chelsea,—Workers Center, 88 Hawthorn Street, January 24, 8 p. m. Omaha—Workers Center, 2023 Burt Street, January 21, 8 p. m., New Brunswick—The Workmen's Cirele Hall, 53 New Street, Jan- New York City—Bronx Coliseum, Bast 177th Street, Jan. 21, 8 p. m. New Rochelle—22 Church St., January 23, Ossining—20 Brookville Ave., January 23. Camp Nitgedaiget, Beacon, N. ¥.—January 23. Warren—Hippodrome Hall, High Street, January 21, 7:30 p. m. Youngstown—Ukrainian Hall, 525 West Rayen Ave., Jan. 21, 8 p.m, Philadelphia—Metropolitan Opera House, January 22. William Z. Milwaukee—Columbia Theatre, 11th and Walnut, January 21, 8 p. m., speakers, Newton and Gardos; 12th and Herrick Avenue, January 21, 8 p. m.; West Allis, Con- cord Auditorium, 1620 S. 81st St., January 21, 8 p. m; Cudahy, —Pulaski Hall, 338 Pulaski Ave., January 22, 7:30 p. m.; Kenosha —Workers, Center, 2715 60th St., January 21, 8 p m; North Milwaukee—Casino Hall, 5001 North 35th S8t., January 24, 2 p.m; Red Granite, Sheboygan, Belcit, Madison, Waukesha. Main St., January 22, 8 p. m Racine—l2th Streep Hall, White Guards Told to Prepare for Early Attack On Soviet Union (CONTINTED FROM PAGE ONE) League of Nations and the United States. Manchuria is being rapidly converted by the Japanese into a military base against the Soviet Union. The Japanese 2 few days ago turned down the offer of the Soviet Union for non-aggression pact be- tween the two powers. Rumania, Poland and other puppet states of French imperialism on the western frontier of the Soviet Union are op- posing similar offers of the Soviet Union for the signing of non-aggres- sion pacts. Urges Immediate Attack on Soviet Union. General Miller, head of the White Guard organiation in Paris, boasts that the Tsarists can mobilize a “pers fectly drilled and determined army of 100,000 men” to help the im- perialists in their attempt to over- throw the rule of the workers and peasants in the Soviet Union and to re-establish the Tsarist-capitalist robbery and oppression of the Rus- sian masses. He claims several hune dred thousand White Guards are ready in the Balkan States. He ad- mits that the imperialists have helped the White Guards to “keep their organization intact.” Urging the imperialists to proceed with their murderous intervention plans, this White Guard scoundrel gives them the following promise of support: “We are reacy. <he moment one single border-state of the Sov- jet Union declares war on Moscow, we will be there to a man.” ‘These White Guard enemies of the Soviet masses are supported by the French and other imperialists. In Paris alone they claim to have 50,000 Tsarist officers. They maintain a War College in Paris with “memory refreshment classes” for the Tsarist officers, and training classes for new recruits, consisting both of White Russians and other enemies of the Soviet Union. ‘They have, on their own admis- sions, # munition company, “with branch factories in Britain, France and Germany.” The French factory “has just received a permit from the French Ministry of War for the manufacture of a new type of shell of high fragmentation.” ‘The imperialists are furnishing funds: for all these war preparations of the White Guards against work- ers’ Russia, Two White Russian within the past few months—pre- cisely at the time the imperialists were maturing their plans for armed intervention against the vic- torious Five Year Plan, against so- cialist economy in the Soviet Union which has abolished unemployment and is constantly raising the stand- ard of living of the Soviet masses at the very time when millions of workers with their families in the capitalist countries are thrown on the streets to starve and are denied the most meager relief. French Train White Guards In Foreign Legion. ‘The French imperialists not only support the White Guard War Col- lege and munition factories, but have made a special arrangement with the Tsarists whereby “ex-Russian offi- cers may enlist for short terms in the French Foreign Legion. Sixty per cent of the officers in the French Foreign Legion are Russians, while the topographical staff of the Legion, one of the most important branches, is entirely White-Russian.” Manchurian Setrure 2 Preliminary Move. ‘The Japanese seizure of Manchuria and the growing attacks of the im- perialists and their Kuomintang lackeys against the Chinese masses and their Soviet Government and Chinese Red Army are preliminary moves in the plans for armed inter~ vention against the Soviet Union. The Chinese masses are putting up e heroic resistance against the at~ tempts of the imperialists’to split up China into colonies of the imperial- ists. The workers of the whole world must support the Chinese masses in thelr. fight against imperialism. Every victory of the Chinese masses and thelr Red Army weakens the grip of the imperialist starvation system which is clubbing down strik- ers in Kentucky, murdering Negro workers in Alabama and other states an dthrough wage-cuts and denial of relief sentencing the unemployed and employed workers to starvation. De- fend the Chinese Revolution! De~ fend the Soviet Union. Nanking Butchers Tremble Before Advance of Chinese Red Army. An American ship engaged in carrying munitions and supplies to the Nanking forces in the city of Hankow was shelled and captured by the Chinese Red Army, which ts closing in around the important in- dustrial city of Hankow. American Scottsboro trial, now openly showed } white workers can save these boys! banks have been opamed in Pazde (@unboats have been dispatched np STRIKE WITH INJUNCTION Tell Starved Miners to Pity’ Operators | | | | OM FAGE ONE) | & Starvation disease, ‘said Taub, ts different, than suffering the loss of a few dollars in several millions, but still keeping luxurious homes, cars, eating breakfast, lunch and dinner regularly, and living off the fat of the land while the miners starved.” The jndge ignored these facts, Attorney Taub was given an op~ portunity to address the court but he was not allowed to call witnessés. He was given until Frdiay noon to prepare affidavits, A dozen miners came up from Pineville to testify but were not al- lowed to do so. The defense proof that the only violence in Harlan and Bell counties was that on the part of the deputy gun thugs was received sceptically by the judge who pointed and juries in Sterling county” as evidence the miners were “unjusti- fied.” Taub outlined the reign of terror, the itimidation of witnesses in the Pineville court, the denial of the right to picket, and the violation of every constitutional right. He ex- posed Reed Patterson as the coal operators’ attorney who acter as Prosecutor and “friend of the court.” He said that the deputies in their taids on the headquarters of the Na~ tional Miners Union found no gus but oly such deadly weapos as a mimeograph, typewriter paper, ink, ete. Quoting the miners, Taub said: “We have come to the point where, if you are hungry you are callea a Red, and if you tell anyone about it, that is criminal syndicalism.” The judge said he would give his decision on January 26. the Yangtze River to attack the Chinese Red Army in the effort of the Wall Street imperialists to stem the victorious adyance of the Red Army. Frantic efforts are being made to stabilize the bankrupt Nanking gov- ernment. A Pieping dispatch to the New York Times admits that behind the frantic efforts to strengthen the Nanking government is the realiza- tion that the Communist. movement in China is growing stronger day by day, with the masses rallying to the revolutionary movement as the only way out of imperialist and landlord oppression. The dispatch states: “The urgent necessity for some solution of the present political and military stalemate is indicated by the rapidly growing power of the Communists in Central China, The Red propagandists are said to be inciting trouble and mutinies even among General Chiang’s forces im the vicinity of Kaifeng and along the Lunghai Railway.” The same dispetch indicates that when Chiang was forced out by the mass upsurge throughout China, he hot only looted the treasury but took | along all removable valuables. The} military airplanes of the Nanking government were all seized by Chiang. A squadron of these planes are now in Pleping to intimidate the workers of that city, in which martial lw has been declared following an anti- Japanese demonstration. Fierce fighting is taking place all over Manchuria between reinforced Japanese units and Red partisan forces. The partisan forces are especially active in the region west of the Liao River. A force of 1,500 last night attacked the Japanese garrison of Newchwang. The Japa~ nese claim they were driven off. Other partisan detachments at- tacked, Japanese forces north of Sin- lintun and Rahushan, All partisan fighters captured by the Japanese have been turned over to their Chi- hese puppet governments for execu- ton. | A Japanese vengeance expedition onthe border of Jehol Province is/ murdering workers and peasants wholesale in revenge for the defeats inflicted on Japanese forces in this | section during the past week or s0. | very shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions, Workers! Do the places where you spend your money advertise in the Worker? ASK THEM TO DO IT! SEND US THEIR NAMES! Daily, forker Baty OSA 50 E. 13th St., N. Y. Intern] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOE Al Work Dons Under Persone) Oare to the framed-up convictions bY¢Middlesboro, just across the ; What he called “fair courts, Judges | jine. | WHOLE SOUTHERN COAL FIELD | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | Pineville in front of the court house from certain death at the hands of | the gun thugs. | | Offer Reward for Borich | Dead or Alive Coming on the heels of this | latest outrage on the part of the | operator-controlled Kentucky | “law,” there is the well-authenti cated report that the Bell County | coal operators have offered 2 $1,000 | teward for the body of Frank | Borich, dead or alive. Evidence in | support of this report is the fact that a carload of Harlan gun thugs | is cruising through the streets of Knoxville. One of the thugs in the car has definitely been recog nized as the leader of the group or | Harlan deputies who threatened to | kill John Harvey and Frank Borich, | strike leaders, in Pineville on Jan. 3. Weber and Duncan, on their way |to Middiesboro, Kentucky, last day night, got off the bus near Cum- | berland Gap, Tennessee, to eat, hav- jing decided to walk to Cumberland jand from there to proceed ) | The restaurant owner recognized Weber, left the restaurant for a min- ute to call up the deputy shariff of Sus- Clairborne County, Tennessee. picioug of the restaurant ow! manner, Weber and Duncan decided | to leave, but were met at the door by the deputy sheriff with a drawn pistol in his hand. The deputy sheriff | told Weber and Duncan that they | today in protest against the kidnap- ping and beating of Weber and Dun- can. Mrs. Jim Grace, one of the speake was dragged from the plat- }form and put under arrest. The mass resentment of the miners forced the Bell County authorities to release her I men who rematned at work ir Harlan and Knox Counties have haa another fe cut from 40 cents to 32 cents ton and their rent has | been increased An investigation here shows that Sheriff John Henry Blair of Harlan County, the chief killer for the coal] operators, is a former strikebreaker for the famous Baldwin-Felts Detec- tive Agency in Harlan which has been employed repeatedly by the coal | operators to smash strikes. He stil) carries out this activity as Sheriff of Harlan County. Meetings will be held this week in all sections of the coal fields throughout the south in prepara- tion for the “Spread the Strike Conference to be held in Pineville, on January 24. The wide interest of the Knoxville Tennessee workers in the sirike of the Kentucky miners has resulted in the city of Knoxville granting the public hall for a mass meeting Friday night, at 7:3 p. m., in sup- port of the strike. A delegation of 25 miners went to rankfort, the capitol of Kentucky today, to see the Governor and pro- test against all the terror and to de- mand the release of all the arrested were being arrested for the “reward | strikers and their leaders. They will that was in it.” He then handcuffed |spread the appeal for a mass unem- them. The reference to the reward was apparently caused by the deputy’s mistaken belief than Duncan was roboration of the report of the re- ward for Borich. ‘The deputy sheriff then called up the Harlan County authorities and told them: “We have got your two men.” Weber and Duncan demanded extradition papers. The deputy | sheriff, stumped for a minute, de- cided to let them call up the Ten- nessee miners’ relief office. This ac- tion unquestionably saved their lives, for while Weber was at the tele- phone the shariff of Claborne County entered the restaurant and pulled Weber from the telephone. The dep- uty sheriff and the sheriff kept Weber and Duncan in the restau- rant for two hours until the Harlan gun thugs arrived. The thugs put Weber and Duncan in a car and drove them into Harlan, where they awakened 2 score of sultation. The thugs thereupon put Weber and Duncan in a car, drove them to a lonely spot in the road. The thugs got out, made six-foot clubs from thick branches, stripped Weber and Duncan to the waist and beat them into inse: iY. The last thing they remembered was being hit over the head with sand beg or 2 robber hose. As | dawn came an approaching auto- mobile picked them up and took them to Appalach’ Virginia, where Duncan has friends. They went te the home of these friends and they were nursed until yes- terday, when they left for Knoz- ville. | The Knoxville News-Sentinel car-} tied a@ special edition on the escape from death of Weber and Duncan | They carried photographs of Weber, showing black and blue welts two} feet long on his back. Assistant Attorney General Boyd, | sent by Governor Horton of Ten- | nessee to “investigate the kidnap- | ping,” is trying to whitewash the af- fair by saying that the Harlan au- thorities deny the kidnapping and the brutal beating. He questioned Weber as to whether he was a miner. Weber told him he mined coal for eight years, and, in fighting with the Kentucky miners, he was | fighting his own battle. “The ‘Tennessee officials are aiding the Kentucky gun thugs in trying to murder the strike lead- ems” Weber told Boyd, “Every- thing fs being done by the coal Kentucky state and county officials te break the strike. | Millions of ‘dollars are being squandered by the Horton admin- | istration in Tennessee while the | unemployed who demand unem- | Ployment insurance are starving.” | A mass demonstration was held in Or any $1.50 or $1.00 book put and Industry series, which selis 50 East 12th Street of DR. JOSEPERON Frank Borich, and is further cor- | thugs, all of whom then held a con-| 2 soft but heavy object, either = | | operators and the Tennessee and | | | | FREE PREMIUMS! Get Daily Worker Subs IN YOUR SHOP, IN YOUR FACTORY. IN YOUR MASS ORGANIZATION WITH ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION “Brusski” (The Soil Redeemed), WITH SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION “Red Villages,” which sells for 50 cents. Or any of the Labor which sells for 8 cents. Dailyqtorker {ployment demonstration on February |4 and resent the following demands | to the governor. | 1. Ten dollars a week for each striking, unemployed and blacklisted miner, and three dollars for each de- pendent, by government appropria- tion to be distributed by the nere telief committee. | 2. Unemployment insurance equal | to the wages, for ‘unemployed, black- listed and part-time workers. 3. Immediate release of all min- jers and strike leaders. 4. No evictions of the striking, | blacklisted and unemployed miners— government to pay the rent. 5. 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