Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-04-25
J. c. Mckinley Pulls The Strings,
Officers OF The Law Just Dance
And The Mine Workers Go To Jail

=, tho law of Marshall county are do
,no all in their power to crush the
,.rito Of the vletlmlzeo workers Of
.bo Mound Coal mine.
civteen men have been arrested
charged with assauIting James Nc
nonald and W. o. Conklin, two men
who reported by the company officials
90 being so eager to work at sarva-
tiou wages that they were only pre-
yenied by force.
following the issuance of the in
,uncton by Judge Nesbitt, which has
hoen previously treated in these
colnmns hired deputies sweoped
through Moundsville and wrenched
from their homes sixteen miners,
dragging them to court on the above
charge If all sixteen had been en-
gagged in assaulting Mcdonald and
conklin, either they are sixteen mis-
erably weak men. or the two alleged
assautees would be more badly bat
tered they give visable evidences OF.
The sixteen arrested are Frank
Odiuik, Frank Costello, Tony Winsk,
Nick Carson, Louis Bierec. Frank
Herman Frank Clemencic, Charles
sOba Charles Waltzkie. Andy Nor
wick Simon Patrie kand John Dluga-
Dolski. They were given a trial en-
masse by the willing Squire Riggs
and held to the grand jury in 5000
bond each. The first named four sue
ceeded in securing bailA The others
are penned up in the MouAdsville jail
awaiting the pleasure Of J. @ McKan-
LEY. - "'s-''.At $ =
To any who imagine that It Is be-
yond the truth to say that their in
generation depends upon the will OF
J. C. Mckinley, the story the miners
tell of one illustration is interesting.
They say that when one man, arrest
ed by deputy, promised to go back
to work, the mine superintendent told
deputy to release him, and that this
was done. This would indicate the
truth of the mems contention, that
the whole machinery Of the law, from
the bench down, is being brought into
play in the sole purpose of forcing
the poor coal miners to accept their
slavery
There are thirty men whom J. c.,
Mckinley seems to be after. They in
cude all the active spirits in the or
ganizaton of the men. With these
men out of the way, Mckinley doubt
less feels that he could easily crush
the others and continue his hellish
exploitation of humanity.
Shot at Men.
It is claimed that deputies even
shot at men whom they were trying
to arrest. Herman and Clemcic claim
that they were shot at by Deputy
Rice. 1t is claimed that one deputy
pointed revolved at Mrs. Joe Bierce
one Of the strikers. wife. Thirty de-
puties are at the mine guarding the
few strike breakers now in the pit,
drawn there from the other nnA-
union mines controlled by Mckinley.
laws where the law of God anu man
! is violated every day, and where the.
law of Mckinley is supreme.
The Trial.
The trial of the men occurred Tues
cay and Wednesday, partly. and was
held in the court house, Squire Riggs
sitting there as though he thought
himself real Judge. Everything
was the way Mckinley wanted It. In
The way Of decision, although some of
the men arrested did not even work
IN the mine. Attorneys J. B. Som
.mervihe and D. B.. Evans appeared
tof McAln ey and did the prosecuting,
While Attorney Martin Brown defend
60 them, The alleged assault is claim
ed for April 9, Immediately after the
strike. 1t was shown by the deefnse
mat Mine Foreman Seth Stephens
mad ran out and hit a, man with .
amp and witnesses swore to that,
out Squire Riggs did not hold him to
'ne grand jury. He held only the
workingmen.
viii Fight to End.
Inc men will fight to the end. It
may be possible that Mckinley. with
.ae help Of Judge. Nesbitt,s injunc;
uon' and the sherifr and squires Of
marshall county. may operate the
aine with "scab" labor. butzthe men
intend to fight the battle to 4: finish.
'aey intend to see If the higher courts
VIII sustain Squire Riggs and the ar
O'uary actions of the sheriM and de
.uues' and they intend to see II IN
functions such as Frank Nesbitt Is.
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