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Show I Militia Had the Point In This Argument j I i iiniiii ii, m. ffir nrr nan. l. ' ' ''''; -r ' " ' - - i L.w.., ,-tU - -7. '-. s ;V!V.. . ,' lb, J j' .. , i . , - x , " .W" " - "JT ' J s ' :..," '' N . . - ... c- - , , . i s .... '""j- .' v" 1 in Mian M il 1 m mm 11 r -mminmk"viammmmmmmmimmmiimmmmmmmm I PICKET MARCHES AWAY UNDER CUSTODY OF TWO KENTUCKY GUARDSMEN Unionist was arrested for trying to pats line in Harlan county Kentucky Coal Meets Resume Amid Tension WASHINGTON, May 1 (INS) Department of justice today entered Assistant Attorney General Briea McMahon to the Harlan coal field t determine If civil liberties guaranteed la federal law are being flouted. HARLAN, Ky, May 19 (AP) Optimistic federal and itate conciliators, today began conference seeking a settlement of differences dif-ferences between the Harlan County Coal Operators' association and United Mine Worker (CIO) in an atmosphere of tension following gunfire and dynamiting. Th association represents 42 mines and la th only large operating operat-ing group In th soft coal fields holding out against ths "union shop" eontract of th U M W. Late last night ths Lynch mines of the United Btates Coal and Coke company, subsidiary of United States Bteel corporation, became th first Harlan county operator to aign a union contract Thes mlnss are not member of th county association. as-sociation. CI sue Ie Out General Manager T. J. McParland of the coke corporation aaid the contract aigned lor two year did not contain th "union shop" clause. At Pittsburgh, whsrs ths first of tha contract war signed by th Pennsylvania subsidiary of U. 8. Stssl, P. T. (Pat) Fagan, district I U M W haad, said th "captive-mine "captive-mine agreement were being renewed re-newed on order from John L. Lewia, CIO chief, because they did not contain the penalty clause fining members for aa unauthrlxed strike. A "captive" mine I on that supplies sup-plies fuel exclusively to plant of th owner-manufacturer. t'nlt Is Largest Ths Lynch corporation operates the largest unit in tha county, employing em-ploying normally about 3000 men. They are to return to the pita by May 33. Arriving here with State Conciliator Con-ciliator Emmet t Durrett, after a conference in Frankfort with Governor Gov-ernor A B Chandler and Industrial Relatione Commissioner W. C Burrow. Bur-row. United Stales Labor Department Depart-ment Mediator John L. Connor told newamen: "Ws hav vry hop ef settling" the deadlock. Connor aaid he would try to arrange ar-range conference with operator and union group preliminary to posslbls joint conferences. Attorney General Murphy revealed re-vealed at Washington that four federal fed-eral bureau of Investigation men, two of whom represent the criminal division of the justice department's new civil liberties unit, ar in Harlan Har-lan and keeping the department Informed. In-formed. Murphy aaid It waa "quit liksly" th Harlan county civil liberties cases would be retried. After an eleven-week trial at London, Ky, last year of a number of mine operator!, op-erator!, coal corporations and former for-mer sheriff deputiss charged with violating an old atatute forbidding conspiracy to deprive a person of civil liberties, the jury deadlocked and a mistrial resultsd. Retrials Set Retrial of these cases, which havs remained on the federal court calendar, cal-endar, la est for Jun L After ths jury disagreement, most of ths operators op-erators in the Harlan field signed contracts with ths U M W, and labor la-bor troubles quieted. The first serious disturbances during ths present strife came yesterday yes-terday when Brigadier General El-lerbe El-lerbe Carter, commander of national guard, reported a group had fired from ambush on miners going to work and soldiers at Highsplint j No. I mine, 13 miles from Harlan, returned the fire. None was hurt A mins supsrlntsndent reported to the military that "snipers" in the mountains had attempted to pick off working men at the Har- I lan Central mine at Tot. Ha said none waa hit and the gunfire was not returned by the militiamen. Kentucky Utilities. Inc.. reported: the dynamiting of a power pole in the hill country around Benham on investigating why half th county waa without -electric power for 30 1 minute J |
