Ax STATEMENT OP THE KENTUCKY TENNESSEE .STRIKING UINERS RELIEF
y *` THREAT OP EVICTICN AIT INTEREEHENCE WITH ITS T£E·DAY.
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~ Q `IE. KENTUCKY TENNESSEE MINERS RELIEF CAMPAIGN EEADQUARTEHS Amr
" Y THBEATENED WITH EVICTION BY ORDER OP SQUIRE JOEL L. MYNnii
° K SINCE WORKERS CE XNCXVILLE HAVE RALLIED TO ITS SUPPORT.
Cn Saturday, Feb. oth Deputy R.T. Mynatt appeared atlthg
""m“&”““S "f TG “‘éti“§rkyiTi“€€S“i S%°f§t‘§l?gSHti;i§; titties-
. ·°r -- o·m 5O - »arce S ree , » a n i ·;
ghgpgtggniiation to appear before Squire John L. Nynatt on
. Feb. léth on the charge of n illegally occupying the above- G.
mentioned premises. The Deputy refused ¤g>leave a copy of this
summons and also refused to explain what wgg_¤eant by Ama"
"illegally occupying"the above-mentioned premises. The ufiy-;11A
explanation received thus far is that appearing in the xnrkJii.e
News Sentinel which quotes an interview with Hr. T. nl no each;
manager of the Bellas Hess, tho is also in charge of one build-
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" The rooms were rented under the impressi;n it was a relief
`orsanization. It vas not until later that I l€&T¥€GFoH&t Lied
were Communists whose object was to stir up troubie.·
The Kentucky Tennessee Sgriking Miners Relief CampaignL_A
declares; .r‘imhty attempt to ‘top our relief activities QESJCG
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ground that we sie a Communist ~Ti?%iZfEl~§2 i? ,;Q:R§h©d — _.
very same attack which Sheiiif Blair oi harlan Chun] -aon now _ A
asainst the miners of Harlan and Bell Counties because they vent on
strike aeainst starvation wapes.This threat to close down our office _
comes simultaneously with the efforts of the Knoxvillenpolice1to`stop
our tag day on Saturday by molestin; everyone of the no strike1s_Tq¤
that came into Knoxville fron Harlan and {ell Counties to raise r§no—
to help build barracks for the hundreds oi strikers ana their famil-
ies that have been thrown out of their shocks into the bare hills
as a result of an eviction order hranted by Judge Cochrane.
We are holding the police and the Safety Department Eirector
  I‘€2SpOnSible for spoiling the iitag 41;;; whigh the Strikgrg ggngqtad upggg
1: so much,by forcibly detainins many of the strikers in Police Head-
quarters and cross-examining them.
Mr. Scandlyn‘s cooperation ·..· ‘ith the police and his particip-
ation in the cross-examination · and veiled threats issued to the
stgikers while they were detained in the City Hall, further proves the
United Front of the employers, police and Anerican Federation of ,
Labor against the strikers. ·
We consider the eviction notice part of the campaign of
Knoxville employers, the police and the American Federation of Labor
to drive us out of town because the workers of Knoxville have best; to
rally to the support of the Kentucky miners and to orzanime thensolves
right in Knoxville for a fieht against wage cuts and for UNEIILCTIEIT
INSURANCE. We shall put up a most vigorous stnnagle against bein?
evicted or run out of Knoxville, not only in . court but by organize
ing a mass protest movement on the part of the workers of Knoxville
to stop the eviction. ,“_‘ p Q; ;
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‘ Sec. Ky. Tenn. Strikinh Niners Rel?
Cehpaign of the W.I.R» Z