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ii Defeat the Strike- Breaking Attempts e§  
it This Tool of the Operators!   i
ii The past ten days have seen two new develop- in-glove with those who have murdered Harry Simms,  
is ments 1n the attempts of the operators to break the who have beaten-up and half killed scores of our A gy?
ig strike. On the one hand the terror against the strikers comrades, who are now engaged in railroading our   i
55 has been greatly increased. Harry Simms has been strike leaders to long terms in prison. With this state- {1 E
it murdered. Almost all local strike leaders are either ment the UMWA stands exposed as the worst enemy   §
I} in jail or have warrants issued against them. All strik- of the strike, working side by side with the thugs, if i
if ers meetings —— even local meetings of the NMU — whose hands are red with the blood of our comrades,  
_   are barred in Bell and Harlan Counties. If the opera- to break the strike. Wi
It ‘tors’ plans go through, the strike is to be crushed by Let no striker, let no miner, forget this: The .-‘p I
i the most ruthless and brutal terror in the history of UMWA is openly an agent of the coal operators. The ,3  
E American Labor struggles. ‘ UMWA is lined up openly with our worst enemies.    
  THE UMWA — rw ¤¤= THE <>P¤RAr<>RS §Ei‘§n§{.iY[{¥.”§`a‘§§§ESE;l‘3§i.§i1p§i%’,~§§i§%ii‘i.“i“§°L.§?i; i a
g. At the same time the operators are now pre- Wien Oni deniende ieee ‘j
6 I I DAFIIIE to USA ITIIICII IIIQYE than b€f0I`€ IZIIEIE most Y6- Our demands can only be won if the strike break- M
L; liable strike break1ng mstrument — the corrupt and ing attempts ef the UMWA ei-e defeated, if the Seed), I
g discredited United Mine Workers of America. The herding UMWA is di-iven fyom fne eeei iieide_
  UMWA is coming into the Kentucky strike field, not _ _ _ l,’
  at the request of the miners, but at the orders of the Strlkeys and Mlncrs   at work; i'
,g coal operators. The operators have ordered this l—·
it "company union," which they own body and soul, _ _ g·’
ii into the strike area for one reason only — to smash Refuse to   the Scab Herd ,·
  the strike and send us back to the mines under worse     Officials to Speak at V
ii; conditions than ever before. _
_·§ _ Far from concealing this the UMWA leaders Mass Meetmgs! .  
  themselves openly admit that they are going into the _ , ,
  strike field at the request of the operators and at Demand   all aid gOll‘lg lIltO I
»'t; the request of the same "law" that has murdered . . . · I
  Harry Simms and is today engaged in beating, jailing, tI`l€ StI'Ik€ FIGICIS shall be ~DIStI°lb' _  
IE and shooting strikers and strike leaders. They state · Q I A _ Y
  - openly that their purpose is not to organize the miners utcd to Strikers and not to Scabsfee ; ‘   .
»¢ for struggle against starvation, but to smash our • It a SI
  fighting union the National Miners Union, and break Demand   RII Ald Shall be L_ `Q
  °“* Strike-   i distributed through your own Re- ` U  
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`= UMWA END°RSEE BY BLAIR AND BR°UGHT°N l1ef.Comm1ttees to make sure that » _; ·
A One of the chief scab-herders of the UMWA, _ _ , if
if James M. Shellhorse, in a statement to Knoxville It [5 used tg stfengthgn the Stflke ‘
fi newspapers last week declared: d N t W k It, I  
ii rsiaaria BIair`of Harlan caaaiy and shane an et 0 se eu · = i
_ Broughton of Bell County are both distinctly friend-
A   ly to the United Mine Workers of America. I carry Expqsc the   to Every    
·§, letters with me from both sheriifs and Mayor ° ° _ _ I F
=  . I Brooks of Pineville, gifving me absolute freedom lvgulsfr af     Ereasi i
' to carry on my work in these counties. I as one in 00 0 t E ga era ()f$_ `
ii member of the United Mine Workers of America g p
‘ i . approve of the attitude of the law enforcement DRIVE THE SCAB·HERDING UMWA OUT OF ;‘
x agencies of Bell and Harlan Counties in driving the THE COAL FIELDS! I ‘
i Red movement out of Kentucky." FORWARD WITH UNITED RANKS IN OUR ;
3 In the same statement Shellhorse does his bit STRIKE FOR 50c MACHINE COAI—· ARECHECPR  
Q ` to starve us back to work by urging that no one shall WEIGHMAN ON EVERY TIEl_El,LE· THE Egg; l' I
, give aid to the Workers International Relief, which TION OE OUR MINE COMM! EES, THE REL SE ii .
i is today supplying aid to the strikers. g'Ii`INA_I1-$1 €gRéI5EEFRISONER$l· AND AN END TO  
` UMWA BOASTS OF ITS STRIKE BREAKING SUPPORT AN,D BUILD THE FIGHTING UN,  
i In other words, the UMWA, through the mouth ION OF ALL MINE WORKERS—THE NATIONAL    
I of this rat, Shellhorse, boasts that it is working hand- MINERS UNION!   i
il _ CENTRAL STRIKE COMMITTEE · NATIONAL MINERS UNION "    
J KY.-TENN. MINERS STRIKE Box 73 - Pineville, Ky. KENTUCKY DISTRICT ia Y
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