Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1932 — Page 4

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POVERTY, ABUSE TURNED MINERS TO RADICALISM Three Babies Starved in Harlan County: Caskets Were Refused. This in the seventh snd last f * aerie* nn conditions In the f&rlan countv IKi.) mine strike rone where terror conditions have prevailed for months. It Is written by John Moutoox, a staff writer of the Knoxville (Tenn.) NewsSentinel, a Seripps-Howarrf* newspaper, barred from courtroom because of an editorial In his newspaper dealing with the verdict In a murder trial In the district. BY JOHN T. MOUTOOX, Times Staff Correspondent FRANKFORT, Ky„ Jifn. 12.—Viodencc and hunger in Harlan county coal fields offered fertile ground for apostles of radicalism, and representatives of the I. W. W., National Miners Union and International Labor Defense trooped in. They said to the jobless miners: “Join our organization and we will feed and clothe you and your families.’’ The miners joined. William Turnblazer, president of District 19, of the United Mine Workers of America, charges that the radicals were brought in by the coal operators, to break up the union and prejudice the people against the miners. Several of the witnesses before former Governor Flem Sampson’s investigating commission expressed the same opinion. Didn’t Catch ‘Red’ The commission asked Sheriff Blair about this. He was asked in particular about one Rice, National Miners’ Union Organizer. “He was an awful strong National Miners’ Union man,’’ said Sheriff Blair. “He was very active in distributing literature, especially at night time.” “Why wasn’t he indicted for syndicalism?” the commission asked. “We never did catch him with it,” the sheriff replied. At the same time, scores of miners, who had never before heard of the strange doctrines preached by these organizations, were taken out of their homes at night, abused, locked up under heavy bond, and finally released. Their only crime, testimony indicated, was possessing some of the pamphlets or copies of the Daily Worker, distributed by Rice. 1 Joined I. W. W. for Food The commission found that many of those who joined the I. W. W. or the National Miners renounced it. E. B. Childers, superintendent of the Black Mountain Mine, admitted the same thing when he told of taking back a miner who had joined the I. W. W. “He told me he joined the I. W. W. on the promise of the organizer, Ike Lane, that the organization would feed him and his family,” Childers said. “I think he joined them for that purpose solely.” The commission also learned that many of the miners who joined the United Mine Workers were riot only fired, but also blacklisted, and now find themselves unable to get jobs “in this section or even beyond.” Three Babies Starve "The mine operators will absolutely not tolerate them,” Judge Hays, commission member, told Circuit Judge D. C. Jones. “Can you tell me what has caused such conditions?” , “I don’t know, Judge Hays,” replied Jones. “I don’t have anything to do with the operation of the coal mines.” The commission’s report is filled with evidences of the stark poverty which drove the miners into the camps of the radicals on the promise of food for their families. S. S. Pope, farmer and property owner, told of three babies in one row of houses dying from starvation. “Do they get milk?” the commission asked Pope. “No. They live mostly on corn bread.” Then he added: “Those people whose babies died had nothing to bury them with. They asked the county to bury them and the county judge refused caskets.” “Why?” Buried in Boxes “He said there was an agreement not to bury any more paupers unless it was those in the poorhouse. The neighbors got some rough lumber and made some boxes and buried them. One was buried in the neighborhood cemetery, the other two in Tennessee." Pope told the commission that “no one who is a sympathizer with the union men is called to jury service,” and declared that “since April, every man who does not sympathize with the coal operators is called a ‘red.’ ” He owns fifteen homes at Catron’s Creek. Murder Case Near End I'll United Press MT. STERLING, Ky., Jan. 12. William Hightower, mine union leader accused of conspiracy to murder during a mine labor war, will know his fate within a few hours, for his case should go to the jury not later than Wednesday. Eighty witnesses have been examined by the state in more than two weeks of testimony designed to support the allegation that the Evarts <Ky.> mine union chief advocated violence to win a strike. A like number of witnesses have been presented by the defense in its effort to refute the state's accusations, which grew out of Harlan county coal field labor troubles. A few rebuttal,witnesses remained to be heard today before Judge Henry R. Prewitt —the jurist who expelled reporters of the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel from his court because of that paper's editorial attitude—begins his formal instructions to the jury.

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