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Show STRIKE OF MBS I BECOB SERIOUS I Entire Strength of West Vir-ginia Vir-ginia State Militia on Duty at Cabin Creek. By International News Service. j CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept. S.-iThe West Virginia coal miners' strike around Moundsvlllc assumed serious proportions today when Governor Glasscock ordered eight additional companies of state mill-tla mill-tla into the trouble center on Cabin creek. This brings the entire strength of the state troops, twenty-one com panics, into action in the governor's ef-fort ef-fort to bring order out of chaos, W. T. Tucker, a Baldwin mine guard, with a reputation as a bad man. who was arrested charged with Impersonating a deputy sheriff and carrying a revolver without a' license, was sentenced to ono year in the penitentiary by court-martial at Moundsville. The governor confirmed the sentence and Tucker is now on his way to the penitentiary. Forty-one of the Baldwin guards, friends of Tucker, havo armed themselves and camped just outside the territory imdcr martial law, where they arc sullenly awaiting develop-ments. develop-ments. These mon have oncu been dls-armed dls-armed by the militia. Thirty prisoners are In the guardhouse awaiting court-martial, the miners on the north side of the Kanawha river aro considering a general strike in protest against tho governor's declaration of mar-tial mar-tial law and 2000 miners are assembled here tonight at the meeting addressed by Mother Jones, tho SO-ycar-old stormy petrel of tho coal fields. For the first time in a decade the Cabin Creek mlntng district Is free from the organlza-tion organlza-tion known a3 the West Virginia coal no-lice no-lice of the Baldwin-Feltz detective agency, commonly known as "the Bald -wins. Nominally the purpose of the policing company Is to supply patrolmen to rail-roads rail-roads and mining companies. Ostensibly It provides men to patrol the coal fields to prevent destruction of property fiom strikes or riot, but the minors say these special police are there to prevent organ-Ization organ-Ization of labor associations, to beat tip and harass union organisers and to tn-tlmldate tn-tlmldate thosi- who seek to join such unions. Numborliiss assaults nnd cvcnBH murders are changed to tho Baldwins, but they have always escaped conviction IO'HHh plca3 of self-di:fense. Now they hayeBBV been run out, though the whole strength of the state mllltla was required to a ("- compllsh the task, and the miners of thoHBH Cabin Creek district will probably peti-HBB tion the governor to keep the Baldwins out of that section permanently. BV |