The Daily Worker

In an effort to break the strike the coal companies are evicting thousands of miners. Not even the usual legal rigamarol is followed as the coal companies own most of the houses the miners live in. The furniture is thrown on the road by the company gunmen. In some cases these gunmen have robbed the scanty clothes of the miners. To fight against evictions the miners need tents. Rush your contribution now to the Penn-Ohio Strike Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, N. Y.

Rally Miners for Big Mass Demonstrations On Aug. 1; Mass Picketing On Today

Sheriffs, State Troopers Continue Terror In Mine Fields. But Strikers Force Back Scabs; Rescue Fellow Strikers from State Cops

SLOVAN, Pa., July 18.—A youth meeting of 200 young miners and girls from miners' families was held here last night.

They went ahead and organized a youth section of the local of the National Miners Union, electing Zolinko, chairman, Pate financial secretary, and a girl for recording secretary.

The Youth promise to see that every one is out on the picket line here Monday morning.

CANONSBURG, Pa., July 19.

Harry L. Cook, burgess of Canonsburg (an office similar to mayor) was announced as chairman for the meeting the U. M. W. officials Fagan and Murray to be held here Sunday.

Cook has been active in strike-breaking before. About two weeks ago he had all the collectors for the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee rounded up, took their credentials away and gave them to the United Mine Workers.

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 19.--All preparations are made for the mass march of unemployed and striking miners of Jefferson County on Steubenville, Tuesday morning, July 21.

The hunger marchers will present demands to the county authorities for cash relief, for milk for babies and food for other children, for no evictions or shutting off of light or other services in homes of unemployed and strikers. They will demand the release of prisoners arrested for strike activities, and will demand the removal of the armed forces of the state and of the operators from the strike area.

A mass picket line at the Providence mine turned the scabs back while the Belmont county sheriff and his deputies were present. The sheriff was personally in charge of arrangements to see that the scabs got into the mine.

Vigorous picketing last night at the Warwood mine, near Wheeling, W. Va., drove the scabs out in spite of attacks by Wheeling police who used (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
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tear gas and menaced the strikers with drawn guns. The mass picket line was not demoralized by these tactics. Instead, the pickets were so infuriated that they charged on the police to rescue six who were arrested. The state police were called out, and the arrested miners taken to Ohio county jail. District Attorney A. C. Schiffler says he will charge them under the Redman Act ("Inciting to Riot"). Those arrested are: Vasos Orneros, John Pindobos, James Arthur (Negro miner), John Zone, George Courdozley and Stanley Barus.

A fight is on against evictions at the Warwood mine. When constables evicted one family at the point of a gun, the miners massed and forced a constable to carry the furniture back in the house himself.

The Warwood mine belongs to the Costanza Coal Co. The United Mine Workers at one time had some organization here, but now its broken ranks are joining the National Miners' Union.

Mass pickets at the Benwood mine turned the scabs back. One picket was arrested. A mass rally at Yorkville greeted Mrs. Patterson, mother of one of the nine Negro boys framed for the electric chair at Scottsboro, Ala.

A defense conference is being held today which will take up Scottsboro and the arrests of miners.

There are seven mass meetings Sunday in the Ohio-West Virginia district to hear reports of returned delegates to the United Front National Conference of Miners held in Pittsburgh July 15-16.

PITTSBURGH, July 19.-Greetings sent by wires to the national miners conference here by United Front Conferences on Anti-Imperialist War August First Demonstration held in Youngstown and other places while the miners were meeting, were not only cheered by the miners conference, but being made public thru the mine fields, are receiving to rally big mass demonstrations. The miners here see in the conditions won in the Soviet Union an example for miners everywhere, and realize why the injunctioneering and strike-breaking governments want war on the Soviet Union.

CREIGHTON, Pa., July 17. - Five state troopers and a whole crowd of deputies attacked the picket line of 200 here this morning (July 17) and simply drove 15 miners out of the line. One they blackjacked severely, with the casual explanation: "You never worked in this mine." Miners see a new Pinchot strike-breaking idea here, an attempt to permit picketing only to the actual strikers in any one mine.

WAYNESBURG, Pa., July 17.-All but four of the Moffat-Sterling strikers, of whom 57 were arrested in raids from house to house last week, have been released, with cases dismissed.

The four who are held charged with rioting, are Ed Cunningham, his brother John Cunningham, John German, and Joe Ronvich.

These are out on bail: $1,000 each for the first three and $300 for the last.

Ed Cunningham was the man who carried the flag at the head of the picket line. He was blackjacked when deputies and state police attacked the line to drive the women from it. Five stitches were taken in his head.

This attack was lead by Sheriff White of Greene county in person, and in person, he got a rock alongside his head which knocked him out of the fight. Two state troopers got knocked over also, though the picket line was finally smashed.

In revenge, state police and deputies tried to arrest the whole town a few days later, going from house to house at night and dragging miners and their families from bed.

These tactics have so far failed to dampen the spirit of the miners that a daily picket line of a minimum of 450 is maintained on the Hillman Coal Company's Walnut Hill mine near Moffit.

Lewis henchmen are trying to negotiate a fake agreement here.

CANONSBURG, Pa., July 17.

There is likely to be a head on collision between the striking miners of Canonsburg section and the gunmen and guards of Pat ("Piggy") Fagan and Phil Murray, here Sunday.

During the last two weeks, Fagan, president of District 5 of the United Mine Workers of America, has announced several meetings in Canonsburg, but in each case got cold feet and backed out. Now, it seems, with Murray, international vice-president of the U. M. W. to back him up, and undoubtedly with state troopers and gangsters in plenty, he will try again.

As it happens, the National Miners Union and the Central Rank and File Strike Committee have also called a central mass meeting for Canonsburg section, in Canonsburg, at noon, at the old baseball field near the Pennsylvania station. Speakers at the N. M. U. meeting will include Leo Thompson, Stella Rasofski, John Wills, and Frank Borich.

Fagan's meeting is at 2 p. m.

PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 17.-Five more of the Wildwood prisoners were released today on $1,000 bonds each, from Allegheny county jail, where they have been for 26 days. There is now only one man left in, and the authorities are hanging onto him through a faked charge that he is a "fugitive from justice". His name is Charles Demich.
Those out today are Joe Chuplis, Marco Kasunich, Dan Evanish, Philip Bionias, and Joe Bianco.

The released men reported to the National Miners Union office that they were kept on a severe monotonous discipline: up at 6:30, walk in the "range" (which is a block of cells housing from 11 to 20 men) until muddy coffee and three slices of bread are given them for breakfast; walk again until bad soup and three more slices of bread come for dinner; tramp the range again until three slices of bread and sometimes but not always, a little hamburger are given at night. Then they are locked, each man alone, in a tiny cell at 4:20. Twice a week they can send out for cigarettes, but nobody can bring them tobacco. They can buy at nearly double price the lying capitalist press, but working class papers are barred. The men had only fragmentary news of the great United Front National Conference, but were intensely interested.

"Even at that, it's better in jail than working for the coal company for nothing," they said.

MOLLENAUER, Pa., July 17.-Here is a sample of "justice" as it operates in a coal company squire's office. Mrs. Alex Gatalsky was summoned before Squire J. M. O'Rourke, charged with throwing stones at the automobile of two of Fagan's henchmen, the brothers John J. Dugan and James Dugan. The auto was stoned by miners' children on a day when Fagan had announced a meeting, but got cold feet and vanished with his squad of gunmen when he saw the hatred of the miners.

Now, James Dugan is a former U. M. W. checkweighman, with a soft county park job-in his spare time he peddles Faganism to the miners. John Dugan is a salesman of lottery tickets, mainly, but in his spare time he also sells Faganism. Squire O'Rourke is famous as a drunkard, and is a former clerk for the Pittsburgh Terminal, whose Mine No. 3 is at Mollenauer.

The Dugans and the squire held a long conference before the "trial". Previously the Dugans had told Mrs. Gatalsky's husband that he would join the U. M. W. and go scabbing, the case would be dropped.

During the course of the case, the squire showed the International Labor Defense Attorney a warrant already made out against Mrs. Gatalsky, charging her with rioting which he said he would have her arrested under if he ever heard of her being militantly active in the strike again.

But as for this case of throwing stones at the Dugan car-the squire thought, after listening to the vigorous defense of the National Miners Union and exposure of the U. M. W. by both lawyer and defendant, that he would need more time to decide.

BLAWNOX, Pa., July 17. - The Blawnox Steel Co. recently gave "yellow slips" to 42 workers, laying them off and telling them, "there's no more work for you." This lay-off followed the spreading through the plant of leaflets of the Metal Workers Industrial League, calling the workers to unite and struggle against the 12.5 per cent wage cut in some departments, and the proposed general 15 per cent cut. Organization into the League and building of grievance committees did not stop because of the lay-offs.

Then Raleigh, the vice president of the company, began to call workers at random into his office and threaten them about the leaflet. It happened that none of those so called were actually the ones who distributed it.

This not working, a further terroristic attempt was resorted to by the company.

Fifteen workers, again none of those involved in the organization attempt but just picked by the company at random, were notified they were to be evicted from company houses, which Blawnox Steel owns through its subsidiary, the "Hoboken Land Company". No reason was given for the evictions.

It is evident that all this is to cow the men and try to prevent any resistance to the 15 per cent cut when it is announced. Steel bosses are spending millions and making millions on war preparations, but give nothing for the unemployed.

The Metal Workers Industrial League, 611 Penn Ave., calls on steel workers to build relief committees for the striking miners. It calls on steel workers of Blawnox to line up with the rest of the working class on August 1 and demonstrate against the plans for imperialist war.

MANY TAG DAYS FOR MINERS AID

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 19.-

Mass tag days for miners' relief will be held in Philadelphia Saturday and Sunday, the 25th and 26th of July. A wide participation is expected, Michael Burd, local secretary of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee, reports.

Hundreds of collection boxes have been forwarded from the Pittsburgh headquarters.

A preparatory conference will be held Monday evening, July 20, at 929 Arch Street. All workers' organizations are asked to send delegates.

PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 19.-The first tents arrived here today and already there are hundreds of requests for them. Detroit sent three large tents, Philadelphia ten, and Akron one large tent.

According to reports received here, tag days will take place this weekend in Syracuse, N. Y., and Pittsburgh. Next weekend, tag days will be held in Cleveland, New York City and Philadelphia.