Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1916 — JAIL FOR MINERS’ LEADERS [ARTICLE]

JAIL FOR MINERS’ LEADERS

Woman and Three Men Resentenced in West Virginia Case of 1912. Philippi, W. Va., Nov. 24. —Four organizers and district officials of the Workers of America were resentenced by Judge Dalton In the United States district court to serve six months in jail for violating an injunction granted at the time of the strike of coal miners at Colliers, W. Va., in 1912. The defendants had already served about three months In jail, pending an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, which in a recent decision upheld Judge Dayton. The defendants are Miss Fannie Selling, Frank Ledvinka, James Oates and H»ram Steva s