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Show MINER TELLS! OF ARMED MARCH All Those Who Lacked the Password Were to Be Killed, He Testifies. CHARLBSTOWN, W Vn . April 29. (By the Associated Press) Ed Reynolds and William Blizzard "went on" to Logan county with several hundred hun-dred men under their command after District President c Frank Keeney of the United Mine Workers had advised armed marchers, at Madison to rein re-in rn home as ordered by Brigadier General Bandhols, Reynolds testified today In Blizzard's trial on a treason 1 Reynolds, a union miner of Dana, said that at a meeting on the capital grounds at Charleston, President Keeney Kee-ney declared that he would keep sending send-ing men into Mingo county until the county Jails were too full to hold them , A miners' strike had been on In the Mingo region for almost two years. PASSWORD OR DEATH B Testifying about the march from ' Lens creek toward the non union Lo- can coal Melds, Reynold-- Bald he was n command of 300 men and that Bli. tard headed a similar body on the march to Racine in Boor..- county ' We were going to kill Don l.hafln and all i hat bunch and go on to Mingo," the I witness said !! explained that ci). i ' fin was the sheriff of Ixigan county and the 'bunch'" hifdept ties He told how the armed men "took" a railro.nl i train on which they rode to Sproul and of Kccney's address. Passing rapidly over the Incidents of the march until they had reached ! m the border of Logan couul. Reyn olds explained how the men marched "until we met our enemies " Anyone who could not give the pass-I pass-I word. ' I come creeping." was to be killed, Reynolds said. H Reynolds testified about a circular B received by the local union at Mam- B j moth B The circular, introduced as evidence B declared that "civil liberty and consti- B tutlonal rights arc fragments of pi history, sp far as West Virginia Is concerned." CALLS ON CITIZENS Governor Morgan of West Virginia spent many hour in court here Frl-j day. In his testimony concernlnc the martial law enforcement in MlngO county and the activities ot hi:, office j to disperse the march on Logan the' state executive told of recruitim; forces from all parts of the state to I defend Logan county and of several requests for federal aid which finally ! B ' resulted in the sending of United 1 , States troops and thr- cessation of fighting i Harold W Houston, leading defense ! counsel, read a series of resolutions j presented to Governor Morgan by a committee of miners. Those incorporated incorpo-rated a program for settling the coal j I strike in Mingo county and also askt I I the executive to call a special session ' of the legislature to correct the "so- called private guard or detective system.1 sys-tem.1 The petition declared "the mine guards and detectives have becomo ' bold, lawless and officious." |