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Show ' MINE OVIIERS' GftOMLDS, ACCEPTS PACT Troops Continue Guard on Dissenting Pits in ; Harlan Area WASHINGTON. May 16 UPt President Roosevelt said today be would not intervene in the row S over the use of troops in Kentucky Ken-tucky coal fields. HARLAN, Ky., May 16 (AP) --The Big Sandy-Elkhorn Coal a Operators' association capitulated capitu-lated to the United Mine Workers Work-ers today by signing a union shop contract, but national guard protection in the southern part of the state was extended to Bell county. The Big Sandy contract was Signed with United Mine Workers' representatives shortly after noon at Ashland and reduced the Ken- t tucky fields dissenting to the "bloody Harlan" and Hazard groups. The operators along the West Virginia Vir-ginia border employ approximately 12.000 miners and produce around 10,000,000. ton si sf coal asa ally. Governor' A. B. "Chandler at Frankfort revealed today that some militiamen are stationed in a corner cor-ner of Bell county, but are a part of. th unit on duty In Harlan I county. Governor Chandler said the order A for troope to go to Harlan, where operators refused to sign a "union shop" agreement with the United Mine Workers, provided for guardsmen guards-men "to preserve law and order in Harlan county and Its environs." Chandler said the mine of J. C. Stras, president of th Kentucky Cardinal Coal corporation, is "on the Bell-Harlan county line" and that a detachment of troops was on guard there. "Sheriff Martin Green ef BeU I bounty telephoned me about it this morning," Chandler said. "I explained ex-plained the situation to him and he promised to ' cooperate with the troops." Several hundred miners and their e wives, who gathered early in the morning at Brookside, protested to Captain D. E. Perkins of Harlan. In charge of the Brooksids national guard detachment, over the placing of a machine gun on a hillside . sweeping th town. The union men ' claimed the gun was on property belonging to a miner. Th officer conferred with his staff and then placed the gun in another spot. William Turnblazer, president of th Harlan U. M. W. district, ordered or-dered the crowd to disperse immediately imme-diately and most of them left George S. Ward, secretary of the Harlan County County Coal Operators' Op-erators' association, said reports he had been able to gather showed approximately ap-proximately 3000 men at work. A national guard officer waa relieved re-lieved of his command today for failure to "show the proper aggressiveness" aggres-siveness" as 13 additional mines, 1 in all, opened in the disturbed Har- lan soft coal field today under the protective gun of state troops. Brigadier General Ellerbe Carter, In announcing the officer's removal, re-moval, refused to giv his name, but said he had been sent home a and his machine gun troop, on duty (Coathiuea on Past Four) (Colli a Two I I Rifles Keep Off Unionists ossonisvoivja A i 'W v 01 m WST "V ' 1',,oasns i ' ' ! :- J ' f ;" ?t -.-a ' : ,r ' L ' I. - h v GUARDSMEN WERE PICKETS HERE Ai Soldier Enforced Peace Order at Harlan Mine Mine Owner Group Yields, Approves Union Contract Chandler (the governor) la doing with those troops in Ksntucky. "If this madman In Kentucky doesn't restrain his lust for vengeance, ven-geance, then I think there should be some authority in thia country that will restrain him." (Continued Press Pes One) yesterday at the Tots trouble gone, I broken up and distributed among other units. Car Attacked It was at Toll that C V. Ben-' Ben-' nett, general manager of tha Har-' Har-' laa Central Coal company, reported ' aa automobile filled with miners re-' re-' turning from work was attacked ' by pickets and stones hurled ' through the windshield, but none waa hurt Several unite of troops were rushed te the spot and spent tha night. Three Decline The three Kentucky district operators oper-ators declined to join IS other eoft coal districts In approving new contracts con-tracts at the New York conference Saturday. Colonel Roy W. Ess ley ef the guardsmen here reported troops had been asked by 11 Harlan mines additional to tha six ha aaid operated oper-ated under guard yesterday, when 203 more soldiers were ordered Into thla county by Governor A. B. Chan-, dler te aid tha SAT already on patrol duty. Brigadier General Carter, commanding com-manding tha militiamen, aaid Turn-, b laser and George Hitler, secretary of tha Harlan U. M. W. district, had promised they would "endeavor" "en-deavor" to maintain peaceful picketing, pick-eting, i Carter aaid ha bad not rescinded his order which Titler called "an outrage and in plain violation of national law" against mesa picketing. picket-ing. 17. S. Probe Wanted Meanwhile, a federal Investigation of the Kentucky mobilisation was suggested by John L. Lewis, chief of the Congress of Industrial Organisations Or-ganisations and tha U. M. W, la a speech last night at Philadelphia. Reiterating that "guna and troops will not mine coal," Lewis told the national convention of tha United Textile Workers (CIO): "I believe there la an obligation oa the part ef the federal government govern-ment to ascertain what Happy |