Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-19 | Page 1 | Miner Shot in March on State House

MINER SHOT IN MARCH ON STATE STATEHOUSE HOUSE Fatality Marks Marks Big i Union Demonstration ion in I Illinois v MILITIA TO MP MOBILIZE B I LIZ E Progressive Organization to Demand R Recognition cognition Br By United Unite Pren run I SPRINGFIELD Ill Oct 19 One 19 One man was shot to io death today as several several sev seve eral thousand progressive miners marched on the capItol in a demonstration demonstration demon demon- strati on designed to force torce settlement of ot the h controversy Melvin Staple was shot through the he heart rt as he walked YI with th a group of other progressives toward their headquarters head head- quarters Jesse Jess H Haine ln president of the Provisional United Miners of America local at Taylorville w was s sought for questioning Staple also was from Taylorville State military authorities acting on orders of Governor Henry Horner Homer prepared for immediate mobilization of troops as miners converged here ere CONFER WITH GOVERNOR Mi Military officers and state police chiefs met with the governor in a hasty conference to lay plans for or preventing preventing pre pre- venting a recurrence of disorders between between be be- tween the progressives and United Mine Workers of America The demonstration Claude Pearcy president of of the thc Progressive union said will call attention to federal inaction inaction in in- action in placing the coal code for Illinois Illinois' into effect The march he said is ls sp spontaneous All mines Inthe the st stated operated ted by progressive miners were ver closed today to to- day day Pearcy Pearcy said Th The Progressive e union claims a membership of f approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately tely Illinois is miners Announcement nt that miners V would j converce converce on the state capitol to demand federal action on the coal code and ana r recognition of their union nion on on equal looting footing with the U. U M. M W. W A. A was made last night by S. S L L. Jones executive board member of the Progressive Pro Pro- union in Be Belleville ATTENDED BY BY BLOODSHED Previous marches b by Progressive union members on min mines 3 which refused re- re re refused refused re- re fused to recognize their union have been attended by bloodshed and md vio yb- lence Sev Seventeen men and two wom women en have been shot to de death th and more than a hundred huldred wounded in th the recurrent recurrent recurrent re re- re- re current clashes The most recent outburst of violence violence vio via lence w was waA the si siege ge of a Franklin county mine operated by the Peabody Coal company the largest in Illinois employing United Mine workers Seventeen inen xen were wounded in inthis this clash two weeks ago Many women were expected am among mg the marchers marchers' today Under the mili militant tant hint leadership of Mrs Agnes Burns Bums wives and daughters of the Progressive miners have organized a Progressive Miners Miners' auxiliary 1