CHARLOTTE
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TODAY
SUNDAY
EDITION
AND EVENING CHRONICLE
"GREATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER"
CHARLOTTE, N. C, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1921.
THE CHARLOTTE3 NEWS f Consolidated
THE EVENING CHRONICLE I.May 8,
NEWS
TERMINATION OF
IE
IS
XTttE STRIKE
NOW CERTAIN
Employes of Norcott and
Brown Mills Will Go to
Work Tuesday.
SO VOTED SATURDAY.
Mill Owners Display Disin
terested Attitude as to
Decision.
All cotton mill workers in Char
lotte, Concord and Kannapolis will
return to their jobs Tuesday morn
ing, thereby bringing to a termina
tion the strike which has been in
progress for three months and
which, at one time, involved 8,000
people. Meeting in, their mill com
munities Saturday night, the work
ers voted to go back to work, accept
ing the terms as previously laid
down by mill owners. Tuesday was
selected as the date for returning
to work because Monday is Labor
Day.
L. M. Earnhardt and F. J. Sloop,
leaders of- the strikers in Concord, an
nounced last night that they would not
press their previous demands for re
employment by the Brown and Nor
cott mills. These two men had been
operatives in these mills, of the John
ston chain, prior to the strike. Be
cause of their activity as-union leaders,
officials of these plants refused to re
employ them when workers voted, to
go back last Tuesday. The other opera
tives of the two mills held out in sup
port of their leaders and the strike
of employes of these plants has con
tinued. Earnhardt and Sloop went to
-Norcott and Brown mill officials last
night and asked if they would be al
lowed to return to work. When inform
ed that they would not. both said they
would not press their case further, pre
ferring not to stand in the way of a set
tlement of the difficulty.
Announcement of the termination
of the strike in Charlotte, Concord
and Kannapolis came from mill
owners and union leaders at Con
cord late last night. Mill officials
here denied any knowledge of the
reMilt of employes' meetings and
local textile union men could not
be communicated with.
Employes of the Narcott and Brown
mills, the center of the recent disturb
aiic-.s m Concord, will return to work
I uesday morning. acfiordiff-t.-nfr
illation regarded as reliable received by
The Charlotte News at 11:30 o'clock
last night over long-distance telephone.
It was understood that operatives in
these two mills of the Johnston chain
voted Saturday night to go hack to
their .vbs Tuesday morning, accepting
the terms as laid down by the mill
management last week. The Norcott
mill has been running with a limited
froce iring the past week.- The Brov.iv
mill -s, been closed. The use of a
full complement of workers in these
two mills wil end the strike entirely
in so far as the Johnston chain of
seven mills is concerned.
Information was not available last
night as. to what if any action opera
tives 'm other cott'on mills here and in
Concord had taken with reference to
terminating the strike. Opinion of per
sons familiar with latest developments
was that all would vote to return to
work, however, and it is generally be
lieved that Tuesday or Wednesday will
witness the final termination of the
three months' struggle and that all the
mills will be running with a full force.
A disinterested attitude was display
ed by a number of cotton mill officials
who were communicated with by The
News last night. Officials of mills which
have been running with a limited force
said They were not interested in the vote
of operatives because they had as many
workers as they desired at the present
Tim", market conditions not necessi
tating a full force.
OPERATIVES HELD MEETINGS
Reports from cotton mill and textile
union circles last night was that opera
tives were meeting to consider whether
they would return to their jobs, uncon
ritionally accepting the terms as pre
viously specified by mill owners, or to
ontinue on strike. That they will not
' -ntinue the strike' is regarded as cer
tain. Interest is centered now only in
i ri m i t- news as to their decision.
It was understood that the local mill
( -huts will report back to a committee
of strikers' representatives to meet in
Chfirlotte Monday. Announcement as to
'he dt-fision of the workers may be ex
lifted by union officials following this
gathering, it was reported. Another re
port was to the effect that the workers
would make no announcement, quietly
notifying their employers that they wish
to return to work and reporting at the
mills as soon as the places are open.
The strike is ended, though. Union
officials Saturday virtually admitted
this fart and nnlv the next .two or
three days will be required to get all
the, operatives back on their jobs. De-
snito Pitirpsswl satisfaction Of some
(Continued on l'age Thirteen.)
HARDING AND DAWES
TO DISCUSS BUDGET
Washington, Sept. 3. President Har
ding and Director of the Budget Dawes
will devote much of their week-end on
the Mavflower to an expression of the
departmental estimates for the next fis-
enl year. A small party of guests
iicenrnnanipd thp President and Mrs.
Harding on the trip, which started to
flight.
Throughout the trip down the Poto
mac River and the Bay, the President
will keep in touch with the AVeSt Vir
ginia situation by wireless.
The party will return Tuesday morn
i ri''
a raflin. mesaae-o from the Mayflower
trmiv. ctiii fVio little vessel was off
Upper Cedar Point and that good weath
r prevailed.
.f;KBiRiEXT IS REACHED.
Mexico City, Sept. 3. The presidents
of American oil companies having large
interests in Mexico reached an agree
ment with the Mexican government
n.tion and other ques
tions in dispute. The negotiations
bad been in progress all week.
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London, Sept. 3. Sr v e
verses in Morocco are ing
King Alfonso's throne, g to
a dispatch to The Sunda.v press
from a correspondent on the iranco
Spanish frontier. A wave of rev
olutionary feeling is reported to be
sweeping Spain.
News of the grave domestic sit
uation, which has been intensified
by the revelation that the Spanish
forces in Morocco have lost 18,000
men, are leaking out of Spain de
spite the rigid censorship.
The cemsorship lias been unable
to hide the fact that the Spanish
army in Morocco is in serious pred
icament. The Spanish forces con
centrated at Melilla are being vio
lently attacked and fighting is re
ported in progress on the outskirts
of the city. If Melilla falls, the
new Spanish cabinet may fall and
the throne will then face even a more
serious menace than that which con
fronts it at present.
Republican opposition in Spain to
the Moroccan war has been intensi
fied by the serious Spanish losses.
Already there have been out
breaks of political rioting in some
parts of Spain. Railway lines were
attacked and torn up at Bilboa.
The Spanish public is apparently
losing faith in Premier Maura anil
War Minister Lacierva. Anti-dynastic
speeches are being made by
Socialists and Communists almost
within the shadow of the King's
palace at Madrid. Mutinies are be
coming niore and more common at
the embarkation points where the
troops leave for Morocco.
INDUSTRY SHOWS
QUICKENED STEP
Slow But Steady Recovery
of Nation s Business Gen
erally Forecast.
By HARDEN COLFAX
Staff Correspondent of The News,
Copyright, 1921, by Aews l'ublishiug Co.
"Washington, Sept. 3 The year swings
into Labor Day with American in
dustry at last in quickened step. Un
employment is definitely on the wane.
Secretary Davis' estimated army of
more than 5,000,000 idle has shrunk
since the fiures were announced. Credit
is easier than it has been at any time
since t-he peak of high prices. The
c4st of living has tumbled far. The rail
roads are making money and mills and
factories are gradually coming back to
something resembling normal working
conditions.
Definitely, the writer believes, the
worst of the industrial crisis is behind
?"Measured by the impassionate fig
ures of workers employed, a nation
wide survey of industry as of Septem
ber 1 shows it. In the Middle-west,
especially,- and in Chicago, the figures
re heatening. The great iron and
steel centers show revival; coaU metal
mining, lumber and agriculture are look
ing up. Manufacturing, last to receive
the impetus of revival, is beginning
slowly to show a healthier tone.
INCREASED PAYROLLS
Industries employing about a million
and half workers show an increase of
more than twenty thousand in their
payolls over the number employed a
month ago. This number is largely in
the Middle-west. In the Eastern cities
generally, there was no further increase
in unemployment and a measurable ad
dition to the army of workers is ex
pected this month. It begins to look
a if the hope of business that fall
would see a revival is a hope coming
true, although the upward swing will
be gradual and not spectacular. Slowly
and healthily business is getting better.
Some time within the next few days
the Government will announce the re
sult of its survey of unemployment con
ditions as of August 31. That ..survey,
taken monthly since January, has been
a succession of thirty-day reverses for
the working man and industry gener
ally. It cover 1,428 concerns engaged in'
14 maior industries; is made at the
same plants each month and therefore
affords an accurate view of a cross
section of American business.
Since January the decrease in em-
(Continued on Page Sixteen.)
ONE IS KILLED AND
MANY ARE INJURED
Binghamton, N. Y., Sept. 3. One
passenger, John Eldridge, was killed
and a score of others were injured,
many of them believed to be seriously
hurt, when the second section of tra;n
Xo. 3, on the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad, jumped tiv?
track at Appalachian, 14 miles west tf
this city, this afternoon.
The train is known as the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western "flyer."
Five cars left the track and rolled
down a steep embankment. They turn
ed completely over once and then
landed right side up.
The shock was terrific to the passen
gers, they bMng. tossed about in let
rolling cars, nearly all of them receiv
ing scratches and bruises while others
suffered severely from more harmful in
juries. BRITISH CABINET IS
CONSIDERING REPLY
ondon( Sept. 3. The British cabinet
tonight was considering the reply of
Eamonn De Valera to the latest Bri
tish note. Lloyd-George ,ln Scotland
on his vacation, sent down to Downing
tjtr-t ronies of the communication and
the other members of the government
discussed it in private-
On Wednesday next, the Cabinet will
meet with the Premier at Inverness,
cjpntinnd. Thev will make the long
in,,mav mther than have Lloyd-George
who is badly in need of a rest, come to
t r.n The presence of their sov
oroit-n Kine George, in Scotland that
o,, rin flin relieve the Cabinet mm
isters of any embarrassment they might
feel at making such an unusuai
ronnrted that Robert Barton
Trish M. P. who carried the reply
tv, Dail Eireann to Lloyd-George
rold remain in Scotland and await
the Cabinet's decision and reply.
rrv, tYt of De Valera's letter, which
was said to be shorter than his others
nA r. i1 for another conference,
was to be given out for publication at S
'o'clock tomorrow night.
BUild Ml ILL
CR
Y IS FORWARD
Federation of Labor Presi
dent Sends Labor Day
Greetings to Unions.
NEED CO-OPERATION.
Reactionary Forces Among
Employers Are Slowly Be
ing Brought Around.
Washington. Sept. 3. The battle cry
of labor is "forward" in these times
when the "loyalty and solidarity of all
our people is passing through the test
of fire," Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, de
clared toinight in a Labor Day mes
sage addressed to "the wage earners
of America."
'The reactionary forces among em
ployers are slow to turn their minds to
constructive effort," Gompers declared,
but "we will not be driven back."
Gompers' message follows:
"To the wage earners of America:
"Greetings:
"We meet to observe this Labor Day
at a time when the citizenship, the un
derstanding, the loyalty and the solidar
ity of all our people is passing through
the test of fire.
' "We meet at a time when the great
need is to stand together.
"We are confronted by unemploy
ment. Nearly six millions of our peo
ple have no work.
"The reactionary forces among em
ployers are slow to turn their minds to
constructive effort.
IN JUNCTION IS ARI SE
"They are slow to learn that the in
junction, as abused in industrial dis
putes, is an unlawful, unfair, ineffec
tive, tyrannical weapon.
"They are slow to learn that the so
called individual contract as a measure
of industrial disfranchisement is a
badge of enslavement which American
workers will not accept.
"They are slow to learn that the de
struction of our -movement is impossi
ble, either through the infamous mis
named open shop campaign or by any
other device.
'But though they are slow to learn,
they do.
"Every advance of labor marks an
advance in the education of employers.
"The con structive ability of our move
ment is called upon to the utmost" to
bring the full flood of life back to our
industries under conditions of freedom,
with the DemocrajUc ideal dominating
everywhere.
"We will not be driven back. We
will go forward. The light that has
come into the life and work ofour peo
ple can never be shut away from them.
There must be more, and more, and
more more for every coming tomor
row. TIMES SEVERELY TRYING
"The times of today are severely try
ing. Thev are not of our making, but
thev are for our redemption.
"We must organize for our task. The
unorganized are helpless. They can
helo neither themselves nor their fel
Tows. Their strength, their skill, their
inspiration, are lost until they orga
nize.
"Our first great task is io organize-
to bring together the unorganized, to
unite and federate the organized, to
bring together in strength of united
thought and action all of our people ev
erywhere. "Man today wins no victories alone
he overcomes no injustice by himself,
he contributes nothing to the tide of
progress, fcr democracy, for freedom,
for a better life for all, is the battle of
all. It must be fought by all and all
must be urited.
"Organize for the five-million mark
organize for justice, for freedom, .for
the great struggle to right wrongs, for
the triumph of service over tyranny
and greed.
"Take the message of organization
everywhere. Unite in the service of
humanity, for the good of our people
and the greater glory of our country.
Organize for the five-million mark
On this Labor Day begin the forward
march.
AWARD KENILWORTH
COMPANY DAMAGES
Asheville, Sept. 3. The Kenilworth
Development Company has been award
ed $125,000 by the Government for
physical and martial idamages to Kenil
worth Hotel, which has been operated
as an army hospital and later by the
Public Health Service since January
19, 1918.
We like little children 'cause they
fear out after they eit what they want.
Joe Kite's uncle wuz hanged years ago
fer what would have been one o' th
most puzzlin' an successful murders
vpr committed in til State li n
wrap up a scythe in
hadn tried
newspaper
GO
URGES
FEDERAL F
ORCE
TROL
TAKING CON
IN WEST VIR
Miners from the Kentucky
Side Now: Are Gathering
on States' Border.
AVIATORS ARE KILLED
Newspaper Correspondents,
Seeking "Local Color,"
Slightly Wounded.
Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 3-
-Four
havii
army aviators are reported to
been burned to death when an armv
airplane crshed near Poe, in Nicho'.ia
county, tonight. Three other planer
are known to have crashed without
loss of life. Two fell at Beckley and
one at Seebert.
Major Thompson, commanding tho
air forces, was without information on
the reported deaths. He said aviators,
who were flying with the plane thn
fell, saw it descend in flames.
SEVERAL HUNDRED GATHERED.
Williamson, W. Va., Sept. 3. The
c'ourt here tonight took on the ap
pearance of a military headquarters as
citizen volunteers gathered in response
to the hasty summons of Sheriff A. C.
Pinson for additional help to repel the
invasion of Mingo county by several
hundred armed miners, who are pour
ing into this county from Kentucky.
The situation tonight was growing
more serious. Three Mingo county of
ficials have been wounded in the battle
at Merrimac, five miles from here.
which started early Saturday foreno jn
and has been continuing since then.
Riflemen in the Kentucky hills have
been pouring a deadly fire into Mer-
imac most of the day.
Pike county, Kentucky, authorities.
according to reports reaching here, are
closing in on the rear of the miners'
army and have fought two engage
ments, according to the reports.
Positions east and west of tha
ridge on which the miners are now
strung out are being held by several
hundred Mingo county officials who
are co-operating . with the Kentucky
deputies and an encircling movement
s in progress.
Kentucky authorities informed Sher
iff Pinson that there' were between 500
and 600 miners in the attacking partv.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Vinson s defend
ers are being recruited" hourly and re
inforcements being sent to Merrima;.
FEDERAL TROOPS KilPfiRTF.D
TO BE IN COMT$3C.ffNTR0Lk
ehwrlOTtqnWpTlraT
troops were reported to be m complete
control in the West Virginia mine war
zone tonight. '
The civil strife that has hatbea
Mingo county in blood for a week was
believed ended by the intervention cf
Uncle Sam. Quiet was reported to
night from several sectors and it wis
believed the miners. generally were lay
ing aside their arms.
Miners leaving the war zone will be
allowed to proceed to their homes, it
was believed. This was indicated late
today when 400 miners, who surreo
dered to soldiers at Madison and
Sharpies, were given their freedom af
ter they had turned over their . fire
arms.
MINERS SURROUNDED.
The force of miners still in the field
was practically surrounded by troops.
Iroops pushed across Boone countv
had taken up a position behind the
miners. Troops going out from Lo
gan were on the other side of the
mountain, in front of the miners.
Among the forces that arrived at
Logan tonight for possible service was
a detachment from the Chemical War
fare Section at Edgewood, N. ' J., ar
senal. They were equipped with bombs
and hand - grenades containing tear
as. Officers said there was very little
possibility of these being used.
CORRESPONDENT HAS
BEEN SHOT AT TWICE
By HAROLD D. JACOBS.
United Press Staff Correspondent.
Huntington, W. Va., Sept. 3. I have
been a part of West Virginia's civil war
I have been shot at by both sides
once at point blank range, and have
been a prisoner.
The experience of a little group of
newspaper correspondents and their
guides in Beech Top Mountain, in whicl
there were five more or less casualties.
probably gives a better insight to the
general public on conditions in this
region than any other occurrence since
the miners started to march into Logan
county. The story can only be told
by using the pronoun rather freely.
I am writing this' from- Huntington
for two reasons: Bectuse I was order
d out of the town of Logan by the
state constabulary and because it would
have been necessary to come here any
way to escape the censorship imposed
in that place by the same agency.
I have traveled the length and
breadth of the battle zone, both with
miners and Federal troops. I have never
received greater courtesy than in their
hands. This is the tale, of four reporters
experience with the state constabulary
and mine guards, deputies, who are bat
tling with the miners along the Boone
Logan line.
WOMAN IX PARTY
Miss Mildred Morris, of the Interna
tional News Service; Boydon Sparks of
The New York Tribune; Donald Craig
of The New York Herald, and the writer
left St. Albans late yesterday with th
first Federal troop train into the Coal
River valley and, after spending the
night in Madison, arrived in Sharpies
today.
The others wished to duplicate my
experience in 'listening" to a battle
close to the miners' firing line. I went
with them. We hired a young elec
trician named Nicholas Ball to flivver
us up Beech Creek valley toward the
battle front. We drove possibly two
miles into the hills, then abandoned the
car and proceeded on foot. We hiked
about an equal distance up the narrow
tortuous ravine before we heard the
fir in sr.
We afterward learned it was on Blair
(Continued on Pare Sixteen.)
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
Washington, Sept. 3. President Hard
iner todav announced the recess ap-
:i pointment of John W. H. Crim, of New
jersey, as iusoioiant smviuj
GNIA
Efforts To Unionize Mingo
Fields Cause Dire Troubles
Two West Virginia Editors Explain Causes Leading Up
to Declaration of Martial Law; Each Side is Guilty;
Operators Own 'Government' Unions Rebel Against.
Although their ramifications are complex, and the question of right or
wrong may never be satisfactorily settled, the underlying causes of the "insur
rection" in the Southwestern coal counties of West Virginia are simple enough.
The mine owners of certain counties determined to maintain the principle
of the "open shop" and to repel any effort made to organize their present day
workers. -
Miners from the adjoining counties, where the workers are thoroughly
organized, determined to organize the Mingo district.
The mine owners in the past have
detectives, as guards for the mines and frankly to drive out any union organ
izer who might attempt to cross the dead line.
Union miners, unable to cope with
some time ago to march in armed force
not to enter.
Out of this simple set of circumstances, dire troubles have grown. Death
has stalked the winding, crooked roads of the wild West Virginia hills. Union
men have been shot down in the restricted district. Mine detectives and deputy
sheriffs have been shot to death from
by arrrd groups.
Charges and counter-charges have
as well as union miners have demanded
be taken out of the state. A law against the employment of private guards
as officers was passed at the last session
say it has been complied with. The miners say all the county officials in the
affected districts are under the thumb of the mine owners and "do their will.
The miners claim many grievances
that, when they went on strike some time ago, they were evicted from their
homes and compelled to live in tents during a cold winter.
Outrages nd reprisals have followed
venge has its part in the march of
upon some of the gunmen and particularly upon bherm uon Chahn, called by
them "a college bred gunman," elected to office by the mine owners.
Tn the following dispatches irom
insight into the difficulties is given, and
in need of clarification.
Underlying
Causes
Union
Failures of
Bv WALTER ELY CLARK.
KilHrir Charleston Mail, Rep.
Copyright, 1021, by Sewn Publishing Co.
Charleston, W. Va-, Sept. 3.
Insurrectionary war has gripped
the Southwestern coal counties. It
has been difficult from the first to
see anv solution but force. This
has not for some rune been a
"labor trouble." It has been re
hellion against the government.
The underlying cause of the insur
rection is the non-success oi euoiL
to unionize the coal miners of Logan
and Mingo counties. When the efforts
of the United Mine Workers' organ
izers were resisted by tne operaiois,
the trouble began. At hrst mucn -vio
lent language was used on Dom biuea.
Later the controversy tooK tne ioim
of physical violence. Union pickets
sought to intimidate the miners. Op
orators retaliated by forcibly attempt
ing J.-run the, organizers out of the
camps. Agents oi tne -anion tnu men
sympathizers began to destroy prop
erty, and the owners retaliated with
force.
Tn the Mingo field, unionization was
partially accomplished. The two sides
to the controversy differ in their
statements as to just what pei-centage
of the whole number of workers joined
the union, but those who did join were
HismisspdV from the service ox me
coal comiTanies. Matters then went
from bad to worse, until military, law
n 1-.,- 4Vn 1o ct
woe rmr in n r re iiv liic c-ur v.
May. In spite of all, the Mingo ana
Logan mine owners claim they are
working up to the limit oi tneir
orders for coal. Miners m union
fields, like those of Kanawha, Boone
and Raleigh counties, are receiving
wages ot irom u cems yci uv
n I rf 4-.-, wov VlMlf
imward undpr contract between tne
operators and the United Mine Work
prR of America. Owing to the business
dpnression and comparatively inactivity
in manufacturing tnrougnoui uie
countrv, the coal business has been
bad this year. Yet all the principal
rviinnc in thp union districts, as well
: in Uoeran and Mingo, have been
working on at least part time ana
orvma nf them on full time. 11 IS
not true that the present marcn oi
rmed miners is an incident ot unem
ployment. Hundreds, if not tnousanas,
of miners are participating in the in
surrection who left jobs on which tney
were employed at full time or such
time as returned them wages of forty
dollars per week up-
LAWS LIGHTLY FELT.
Throughout the coal districts, gen
erally speaking, the restraints of law
are not very strongly felt. In many
settlements, the whole population is
either engaged. in the mining industry
or is directly dependent on it. - In
many places, the sheriffs and deputy
sheriffs are sympathetic with the
miners' union and hostile to non-unionism.
In Mingo county, during the
efforts to unionice, it was found that
even where. peace officers were faithful
in the discharge of their duties, juries
could not be obtained who would be
faithful to their oath. It is not diffi
cult to see, under such conditions, how
a little lawlessness may grow to large
proportions until a condition is reach
ed in which the whole force of the
government is challenged.
A great majority of the miners from
non-union fields, who started on any
armed march across the state toward
Logan and Mingo ten days ago, were
employed at the time. A short time
before several hundred of them had
visited Charleston in a body, demand
ing of the Governor that the state
constabulary forces be withdrawn from
Mingo county and martial law lifted.
He refused. Preparations for mobiliz
ing the miners were begun soon after.
What the armed insurrectionists
are fighting for is best judged by
what they say. The marchers say
that they are going into Mingo
county for the purpose of ridding
the country of Baldwin Felts detec
tives or private mine guards, whom
they denounce as thugs; and of de
feating the purposes of martial law
in that county.
Insurrection feeds on itself.
Officers of the United States Army,
sent here for an investigation be
fore deciding upon a course of
action, found the insurrectionists
beyond all reason. The movement
grew under their very eyes. Mob
hysteria reigned.
NARROWLY AVERT EXPLOSION.
Havana, Sept. 3. The explosion of
the American Tanker, Lake Elmsdale,
with 16,000 gallons of gasoline aboard,
was narrowly averted when harbor po
lice discovered that the entire vessel,
aft, had been saturated with coal oil.
Two firemen, an American and a Brit
isher, are under arrest today.
employed "gunmen," or Baldwin-Felts
the mine guards Individually, determined
into the counties they had been warned
ambush or captured and held prisoner
flown thick and fast. Many non-union,
that the "gunmen" of the mine owners
of the legislation. The mine owners
against the mine owners. They say
thicK upon each other s heels. Re
the miners who would vent their wrath
two able west lrginia editors, a clear
admittedly the Mingo situation is one
Mine Operators of
County in Control
By II. C. OGDEN.
Editor Wheeling Intelligencer, Rep.
Copyright, 1921, by Kews Publishing Co.
Wheeling, W. Va., Sept. 3. The pres
ent disturbance in certain mining coun
ties of West Virginia is a phase of a
contest that has been going on for a
number of years for the purpose, on the
part of the United Mine Workers, of
organizing the miners in Logan, Mingo
and McDowell counties, and on the part
of the mine operators of resisting such
organization.
The situation is made acute by the
fact that the miners in Yayette and
Kanawha counties arfe organized, and
these miners resent bitterly the meth
ods that have been used to prevent
unionization of the miners in the ad
joining counties.
Roth sides havl been high
handed; both have been lawless and
both have committed the gravest
crimes from arson to murder. The
mine operators in McDowell, Mingo
. and Logan counties control the
politics of those counties, elect the
; county officers and name the judges
and sheriffs. They have fortified
themselves further by the employ
ment of a large number of armed
guards who have, in many cases,
been made deputy sheriffs, and they
have used these guards indiscrim
inately. Union organizers going into
these counties have been assaulted
and union miners have been killed.
Peaceful citizens, mistaken for un
ion organizers, have been many
times brutally beaten and run out of
these counties.
Union miners claim that non-union
conditions are maintained by a reign of
terror and, on the other hand, the oper
ators claim that their men would work
peaceably and quietly if not interfered
with bv the outside interests. The con
troversy has gone.. into the politics of
the state. A candidate suported by the
mine workers, came within a few votes
of securing the Republican nomination
for Governor last year. The situation
has been further complicated by the
failure of the legislature and Governor
to carrv out pledges to abolish the pri
vate man-guard system maintained by
the coal operatorsThe Republican state
platform contained a distinct pledge to
that effect and Gov. Morgan sat in the
convention at which the platform was
adopted. At the last session of the leg
islature. a bill forbidding the employ
ment of privately paid guards as law
officers, designrxl to wipe out the odiour.
private mine guard , organizations, was
introduced in the state senate ana re
ported favorably, but, through powerfu;
influences, with which Gov. Morgan was
closely associated, Avas re-committed and
died in committee. The murder or feia
Hatfield and Ed Chambers, prisoners
at the very door of the McDowell county
courthouse bv men who wore the naag
ps of denutv sherifls. further embitter
ed the union miners. They petitioned
Clov. Morcran to call an extra session
of the legislature to enact legislation
against the mine guards. Gov. Morgan
refused, and thereupon the present ciem
onstration followed. Gov. Morgan has
undoubtedly, lost the confidence of the
union miners generally. Unfortunately
his eamnaisrn for the Governorship wa
lareelv suDorted and financed by rich
coal companies. It is very plain that
the mine guard system, as operated in
those coal counties, should he aoonsnea
and that the laws made by the people
should be enforced by agents chosen oy
the people, and not mercenary hirelings
It is nronahie tnat, u cwmm
situation, maintained by the coal com
nani-xj throueh their control or punn
officers, was ended, the coal mines would
be unionized, though this wouia not nec
essarily follow.
hotelTatThdrenite
WILL BE IMPROVED
Statesville. Sept. 3. The directors ct
the Davis White Sulphur Springs Hi
tel Company met at the hotel at Hid
denite Thursday night and voted to
sell $15,000 worth of 7 per cent prefer
red stock in the company, the money
to be used to improve the hotel and
grounds. It is the plan to put in
private baths all over the hotel, build
a concrete swimming pool, and in
manv ways beautify and. improve the
building and grounds. The season this
year under the management of J. J.
and W. R, Rogers, experienced hotel
ists, has been very successful iid
plans for continued growth are being
made.
North and South Carolina: Generally
fair and continued warm Sunday and
Monday
RUSSIAN ISERY
IS UNSPEAKABLE
MILLIONS SUFFER
Hunger of the Sort That;
Makes Beasts of Men is
Seen Everywhere.
"
FLEE DREAD FAMINE,'
Death Stares irom Thous
T. . ,1 I I n I I . I ,T ,
anus Ul AAUllUVV AJ ;
Death by Degrees.
By ANNA LOUSE STRONG.
Special CorrestM!iident of The Inter
national News Service.
Copyright, 1921, by The Interna
tional News Service.
Moscow, Sept. 3. I have just
completed the most horrible jour
ney of my life; horrible not be
cause of the hardships, privations,
difficulties of travel, but because
of the unspeakable misery I found
in that vast area traversed in my
54-hours' voyage from Warsaw to
this capital. For that area swarms
with millions of men, women and
children refugees, driven from
their homes upon a wild, though
aimless flight by the dread of the
famine and plague now ravaging
Russia.
Death stared at me out of a thou
sand hollow eyes death by degreesj
Hunger of the sort that turns humani,
into beasts, makes them snatch witl;1
woinsn greea at pieces or tree-rind oi
a couple ot dnedup berries: disease
that devours the body almost befort;
one's very eyes; despair that make:;1
mothers with puny banes hanging limpi
ly in their arms, throw themselves
upon railroad tracks and beg the trait
crew to go on and thus make an en3
to their misery these things I hay
seen, not at isolated spots, but alt
along that barren desert thick witlf
living corpses. 1
With that misery land behind mel
as I saw the turrets of ancient Mosco
looming, grim and grey, in the dis
tance, I wondered what I should fin
here, in' the heart of the bleedm
Muscovite giant that was but yestei
day the world s granary.
SACRIFICE AND DEVOTION.
I found this capital a place oj
sacrifice and devotion, of feverish, uri
tiring labor. Here,- too, is misery o
unfathomable depth; here, too, are hun
dreds of thousands upon whom th
forerunners of death have
ive set thi';
nf thousrOdj
lildren . wl?vL
ghastly mark; hundreds
of men, women and ch
only a miracle can save. But wit'1
the last remnants of their swiftljf1
fading vital force, they devote then?
selves vith almost fanatical fervor t
the titanic undertaking of relief. Then
is not one among them that feels bu'
that there are millions worse off; out irf
the sun-scorched steppes of Samarj
40,000,000 are slowly dying; probablj
one-tenth doomed to sure death. T
those it is that these pitiable sufferer
in Moscow are devoting their thought
and labors.
Over it all hovers a spirit that wii
live in the annals of mankind aa
phenomenon of human fellow-feelinj
Underneath, latent but now and the
forced to the fore by the spectre c
despair, runs a sub-current of mingle
rage and defiant tenacity. OccasiorJ
ally, it vents itself in surprisingly mil
languufe. Thus, a gaunt, fiery-eyej
official, a man high in the councils cj
the Soviets who, like the very highey
of them, labors unceasingly from daw:
to dusk and through half the nighv
helping in the relief work, said: j
'Tou are- sickened by the sight Nc;
this distress, and you wonder hoS!
Russia, our great Russia, could com.;
to this pass. I will tell you how. Ther:
is but one answer, and it is as positive
and irrefutable as life or death.
WORLD BLOCKADE BLAMED.
"The answer is: 'The world's bloci'
ii
ade, which enters its fourth year.'" ,!
But ;t is only occasionally that sucj
expressions are heard.
Moscow, its rulers and its populatiorl
has no time to discuss causes and req
sons. Everybody thinks only of saV
ing what is to be saved, and all-peij
vding is the determination to demon
strate to the world, now that the floo!
gates of tha world's supplies are a!
last opening though, alas, too late t(
save all that Russia can "help herself j
only if she gets the needed supplies. I
As I write this, the first doctors arjj'
returning from the Kazan and Slnj
birsk districts. They bring word q
what they have seen there, and thei)
talcs show that the suffering in th;
actual famine areas except that th
black ally of, strvation, the pest, ha
not yet laid its hands upon the majoi.
ity of the refugees.
The doctors brought with them spec;;
mens of ground bark, black, crusty Cii.
bread, and splintery ground roots whicr'
make up the "meat" for the sufferer
causing dysentery and other disease -j
Thousands upon thousands have betj
existing on this diet for two months!
They brought Avith them, too, a spe'
men of the fatty mountain clay, in on'
district the sole sustenance for tw
hundred thousand 'persons. :,
The unfortunates who eat this "n?
tuie food" know the terrific sufferin.
it causes. It poisons the intestines b
a slow, gradual process, causing grij.
ing pains and terrible headache whilj
the stomach swells steadily. Thei
know it, and yet they eat it again anl
again, for it is all there IS to eat. !
In other districts thousands havj
swollen to weird proportions, due t!
drinking too much water to satisfj
their cravings.
Food and clothing also are urgent!
needed everywhere in Russia. Th
American .relief workers have come i;
the nick of time. .;
The authorities reported today tha
there are now three epidemics raging
cholera, typhoid and dysentery. v
Between January and August
there were 112, 5S2 cases of cholera, j
KING CONSTANTINE
SUFFERS RELAPSI
Athens, Sept. 3. King Constantino -who
was stricken with illness while vij; ;
ting the Greek front in Anatolia, ha;
suffered a relapse, said a dispatch fror, i
Smyrna today. i '
The Greeks have penetrated Philuk ;
30 miles from Angora, former Turkish i
Nationalist capital, i
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