The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-05-08
MINING NOTES.

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City local of U. M. WIS, now is,
what has become of $1,000 that
is missing. Tres. Campbell is re-
ported as losing some leaves out
of his books, but says the leaves
were lost while he was absent.
Campbell reports having handled
$165, 900 for the Is months end
ing Dec. LIST. Since then five
months have passed and at the
same rate he should have receiv-
ed $50, 600 more, or a total of
1925, 900 in 10 months. For the
leading local of the district, with
its 200 members, to make fuss
over the loss of a paltry little
81, 200 is very mean. To abuse
a Treasurer as thrifty as Camp
bell, who has spent nearly a
quarter of one million dollars in
"organizing" Hopkins County
and has largely increased the
output of "scab" coal at the
same time, is concentrated spite.
Why don't the 200 members of
that local chip in So each and
pay up the loss?--and make up a
purse and buy another house and
lot for the Treasurer, that his
rent roll may be still better.
The sending of John Eggles,
colored, alias "Chicken," to the
penitentiary for life for being
one of the men who went from
the Madisonville camp and MUIR
dered Morton Bush, non union
miner at Providence, Nov. IL
last, will illustrate the brotherly
feeling the white u. M. WIS.,,
have for the colored members.
The officials of the order didn't
send their high priced attorneys
to defend Eggles. In fact they
tried to disown this colored man
who had carried U. M. W., guns
and, obedient to the orders of
his superiors, went forth to do
murder. This is in keeping with
the brotherhood in Union county
and other places, where colored
men are not allowed to work in
the mines. The best attorneys
were on hand at this same Dixon
court, to defend Wood and Bar
naby, who are also charged with
the murder of Morton Bush,
whose only crime was that he
preferred to work in a non-union
mine rather than starve in idle
ness at the command of the U.
M. W., officials. Eggles' pun
ishment was deserved. He is a
murderer, but he is not as guilty
as one of the men who sent him
forth to do this murder. Time
will tell if all the guilty will be
punished, but the coils of the law
are tightening and the men who
have defied the law and claimed
to be above all law-who have
asserted they could not be con-
victed of any crime, because
they would clear themselves by
perjury, may yet be punished.
At last tho National Board of
u. NJ. W., have discovered that
Hopkins county is an expensive
luxury. Salaries of Board men,
bers and organizers of district
No. % have been cut off or re-
duced and the poor, hungry
members who live in Hopkins,
Christian and Union counties are
told they must organize these
counties themselves, and that
quickly, or their supplies will be
cut off. And the orders are giY-
en- for home men to gather them
selves together, three in each
gang, one of whom is given au-
thority to stamp gu. M. W." on
every "scab" they can catch
alone, give him card and send
him off to foreign parts. The
authors of this brilliant scheme
tell the various gangs that by
three men jumping on one man,
they can swear themselves clear
of the United States court if they
are called before 1T. One of these
gangs, composed of four well
known U. M. M. WIS of Earling-
ton, called Henry Cooksey and
others out the other night, tell
ing them if anybody asked about
the interview to say, "We were
trading cows" 1t is somewhat
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