Show UNEMPLOYMENT T IN KENTUCKY MINES Desperate Situation Exists t- t I is as s Strikers Strikers' Walk Out t k Troops Troops' on Guard o- o T By BI FOSTER EATON HARLAN Ky May 13 UP The up-The The unemployment situation situ in Harlan Horlan county grew desperate today as M men continued to walk out leavIng the mines Idle or nearly so and national guardsmen patrolled the southeast southeast- southeastern ern em Kentucky coal fields on two fron fronts The The troops which previously had been concentrated on Evarts 1 hotbed of the violence which has I claimed five lives was divided and half of them sent to Cawood an another another an I other small amail mining town southeast of Harlan the county seat The militia also was as guarding another mine today bringing to three the total now under its supervision Another Indictment climaxed an an otherwise comparatively calm cairn day al at Evarts arts yesterday when a S1 mob olmen ol of men man attempted to stop a miner nuner and his truckload of furniture and n necessitated I d calling troops to establish order EXECUTIVES MEET Meanwhile Harlan county coal op operators operators operators op- op met in executive session to discuss the wholesale walkouts at near nearly aU all of ot the mines and to find means of or breaking the deadlock be between between between be- be tween mine owners and unemployed union men Colonel Daniel M. M Carrell in command command com corn mand inand of ot the troops here refused to give any reason for Cor ordering un un- mounted cavalrymen under command com corn mand of or Major B. B C. C Graham into I Cawood It als also appeared probable today that the major base of or operations operations opera opera- would be moved shortly from Evarts Evans to the county seat here Reports Report continued to pour in here which indicated that Colonel Carrell was anticipating trouble in the mines surrounding Cawood and ordered the troops there to avert any possible violence The new disorder in Evarts was caused when a large truckload of furnishings property of a coal miner seeking work at the Black Mountain Moun Moun- tam tain mine at Kenvir ea east t of Evarts rumbled down a a. street lined with scores s of unemployed union and nonunIon nonunion nonunion non non- union miners Several men leaped to the truck and forced It to the curb Mistaking the driver and owner for a strikebreaker strikebreaker strike strike- breaker they ordered him Wm to keep out o of the Black Mountain country TROOPERS ACCOMPANY ACCO TRUCK Military police immediately reported report report- ed the incident to Colonel Carrell who ordered the crowd dispersed He placed two troopers aboard the truck and sent it on to the mine He then Informed the miners that he would not tolerate persons on a public highway highway high high- va way being intimidated and said that as long as he was in command of the situation He ne would enforce Justice impartially John Marland general superintendent superintendent superintendent of the mine of or the King Harlan company made the first formal statement of any operator operator operator opera opera- tor during this period of or strife when he characterized developments at his mine as due solely to union agitation agitation agitation tion and not to any other cause not excepting unemployment Further reports of additional walkouts walk walk- outs came caine in toda today the largest oc occurring occurring occurring oc- oc at the tho Blue Diamond mine at Chevrolet where only four loaders re reported reported reported re- re ported for work out of a total of Troops were guarding the Black Mountain mine today making the third the military has taken over Troops reported that at this mine employment had been noticeably In Increased in- in cre creased ed since ince the mine guards were replaced Company officials however t they said were unable to obtain sufficient sufficient suf suf- suf- suf help to man the mines |