Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-05-14 | Page 9 | Patrol Strike Area in kentucky

AROS PATROl STRIKE AREA ARE 4 IN KENTUCKY al aI I Miners Issue Ultimatum m Demanding That Relief t t Be Provided I I By FOSTER EATON HARLAN K Ky May H 14 UP UP UP-Na Na onil n guardsmen patrolled tt the u Kentucky coal cool field om m their new base here today af after 1 ultimatum from red ed union miners that If It they did it soon roon get set help they were going f help hep them l cs Governor Flem FIem D D D. Sampson w of breaking faith falth with Uth the Employed miners and Colonel Intel aniel M. M L Carrell In command of the fi troops sent here t. t to quell rs such uch as have taken five lives u charged with siding with the theine theme ine me owners In a statement Issued r William M. M Hightower cr president the E arts Evarts arts local Joeal of the United Mine of America In behalf of ot the men SACKS TO WALL Our backs are to the wall Viano he heIAr The co governor vernor Is against L t. The money power Is n against use use use us e have hn got sot to live c Somebody will ill ive rc to help us or we vc will help our- our and we wc mean Just that After Attu Iii Hightowers Hightower's scathing state state- ent of living conditions here Colo Cob Si l 1 Carrel Carrell announced the tho transfer lets his base of ot operations from Evans arts seat s at of nearly all aU the trouble trouble trouble-to to toe e county scat here Harlan Is the stern em apex of a n triangle formed Evans arts and Cawood where 15 X ops ps S have c been established In an- an pf f further trouble Although saying the situation resins rc re I sins fairly quiet Colonel Carrell numerous additional re- re ests had been received for national I to replace armed guards the mines I Several miners were cre reported to toe tove ve e returned to work today with withe e replacement of mine guards by pops x ps ops HIghtower Insisted hower how- how er that none of these was a n union in an liER INER ARRESTED I disorder of minor Importance irked the tension of of or yesterday ien O. O M M. Hicks s a a. union miner ig LK accused of ot threatening the life Ufe I Dep 1 Deputy w w. B. B McGlamery who acted td him Jilin from rom the mine th tine the Harlan HarJan Fox company for aled aled al- al ed red agitating Hicks was arrest arrested d. d Hightower in his statement deed de- de Ltd ired ed that we vc are arc not going to ind md Idly by and let Jet our families irve ne He said the miners did not mt to take an nn attitude of force but at they have ha been driven to it by bye e Impossible conditions Imposed on IOn our men In this tight fight Ight The ITie first sign of or trouble he said mid I no rno with the I appearance of the allow dog doC contract early this year rider oder which men sign away all of lr rights and privileges A miner lucky to get 25 tons a week under sent nt conditions which at 42 cents on will net him 10 1092 92 for a six-day six ek k Theres There's no need to go Into detail company deductions for churches tools hospitals mining supplies it Lt t coal insurance ck ck to show any f fair fair- lr- lr tided man that that amount of ney loey Js is s not a n. living wage ARGES LISTED Hightower charged that tha t the men re ire forced to work with poor air In Int t mines with lack Jack of state mine Action NUon compulsory trading at B N company commissaries or discharge and an unwillingness of the men to work under armed guards Theres no difference between working under the guns of troopers and working under the theor guns of or thugs mine guards he said cr's Hightowers charges against the governor referred t. t to an agreement he le said was reached by representatives tives of or the chief executive and of ot the he union at Louisville a week ago He declared the governor has lias violated violated vio- vio his promises in every cry respect He asserted the national guardsmen guardsmen guardsmen guards guards- men have sided with the operators since their arrival here and that destitute des des- men had hod received no aid from the Red Cross I