Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-19 | Page 5 | Strike Action Probe Sought

STRIKE ACTION PROBE SOUGHT I Committee to Air Alleged Misuse Misuse Mis Mis- use of Authority by Carbon Officials Charges Charge of ot misuse of authority by Car Carbon n county oft officials on strikers held in jail at Helper and Price until mW their heir te release ca on habeas corp ings Monday will be aired before Governor Gov Goy Henry H. H Blood by a committee a-committee of Salt Lake residents who visited the southern Utah coal stride ar area Monday to inv investigate conditions No definite date has been set for forthe the hearing before the governor but members of the committee said they were determined that such a hearing would be held and that their charges would be laid before proper author ties tics for action Members of ot the committee said ald they objected particularly to the holdin holding in of strikers from time the time trie-time of ot their arrest on September September- 11 and 12 until their release Monday without charges being filed against them or being Informed in m. formed for tor what they were arrested The committee also objected objected- to to- the deputizing of ot several hundred Carbon county county- citizens during the strike lor enforcement of civilian law TheY said some somi nf ot the tha th W wr y 16 year old ai ild boys in in whom it was U un unwise wise to invest the authority of a deputy deputy dep dep- uty sheriff sherif The committee said it planned to investigate in in- investigate on what authority civilian martial law was wa declared Members Member of the committee said th the law should hav haven either elther been military or civil an annot not civilian martial Members of ot the committee also ob objected to to the searching of ot homes late at t night and arrest of many many I without warrants Members of the committee who J went t to o Price and H Helper Helper- are arc B. B H. H Rob Rob- Ro erL ens Mrs Belle Murray E. E King and land Alfred of the Civil Lib Lib- erti union 11 HC C. C Pope and Warwick C. C 2 Lamoreaux state legislators and Wilford O. O Woodruff of the League for Independent Political Action Rev Jacob ob Trapp of the Unitarian church hurch church who originally was wa a m main mem- m. m ber of the committee but was wu unable to o make the to be drop dropped torn from membership on the committee until he was wu ahl able able to to investigate the charges personally HELPER HELPERs Sept pt 19 More 19 More than members of f the National Miners' Miners union and sympathizers attended a amass mass meeting outside the Helper city limits Monday night after obtaining permission from froni Sheriff Sheri S. S M. M Bliss The meeting discussed means meanS of obtaining obtaining- the release zelease of Charles Charl Guynn and Charles Wetherbee National Na Na- ional union organizers from the Carben Carbon Car Car- bon ben county jail where they are held helden heldon heldon on en charges of criminal syndicalism as the the- result of the recent strike Members of the inv investigating com coin attended the meeting