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NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO AID STIYIKING MINERS FIGHTING STARVATION ’
19%* BROADWAY as NEW YOIY.I< *341 Y • TELEPHONE GRA/-IERCY 5-5l|·#+3
A , January, 1932
JOHN DOS PASSOS, I I »
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A I. Secretary _ _
T I Having just come back from a tr;p with
LEON KAHN’ the Dreiser Committee around Harlan County, Kentucky,
T T’°°s°"" an.d spoke-1 to the miners and seen how they live, I can
.I I In assure ynu that the name of this committee is no
* ‘_ ’ _‘ exaggeration,
J She wood Anderson .,
Rmwr%HM¤ Q She miners, their wives and children live
§”Pf bW”"“ in crursling snacks, many of them clapboard, through
A;;%gL;: whose cr cks our the lashing mountain winds, rain and
nwaom snow. "‘e'rz not afraid of the wind", said a mother of
pwneowem _ five, "it's the loose boards in the walls".
H. W. L. Dana , . ·.
R®~*W·W{¤ Z I A fe; crumbs of cornbread usually - a piece I
giT";Qf§;" of salt pork occasionaly -— a few pinto beans for the.
WQ&}m& more fo tunate —- 2his is their food. ”Last summer we
umsemw{_ ate_grass —~ this winter, I guess, we'll eat snow", said
aeweesun another mother. _ ,
Michael Gold ‘ I ‘
Wmm“G”P”'_ f Wages?' Aunt Molly Jackson, wife of a `
E;:;l;s;I?;;,::;ri$°n S`lY’@~j·Sh'?· UI’€€°$» KGHYUCKY miner, said, "Better Stapvg
smmyumu striking than starve working in the muck of a mine".
Gmwlhkwm If the men go en strike against these intolerable
HmMeM.hMn conditions, the sT;;ht local and Red Cross Relief being
C~§V#*=*w offered is entir Ly cut off and they are evicted from
$f;JfEEL their houses. Tice they face the entire armed force of
wnQmP.uw the law, which is ientucky, means vicious courts, jails,
Jm§eUqd - tear-;as—bombs, r;Ia I..* —— manned by thugs known to have
Rwm+Mm¤;w¢+ been "imported" es, cially for the miners.
Louis Lozowic
T€}TxE;QMD· Z Schools? Shoeless children are school-less
QQZMAOA children. Many lack even underwear. Thru the gray of
Ham, »g·¢O,,.,¤, 6.IlY H10?¤iI23 OH?   5*6 3 group of mourners behind a
ummnomm shack - a gash in the mountain-side, a little pine-
Hmkhww coffin lowered inio the earth, and the earth close
W”““P““l _ around the remains of a child that did not have a chance
Harry Alan Polemlcxn to livg.
John Cowper Pow,s _
Anna Rochester · A
upmnsmun Can you gire something to help bring food A
Emin???? I to the mouths of these freezing, starving children?
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Alfred Vl/egenl