The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-06-17
Mine Owners DiscIaim Response
biIity for Reign Of Terror
Declare They Were Fore
ed to Employ Guards
ORGANIZERS SEEK TO
HOLD MEN AT WORK
Head Of Detectives Agency Was
the Principal Witness Monday
Testimony Of Miners
COntradicted
Telegram by United Press.

Telegram by United Press.
Charleston, June l7.-Positiye and
complete denial that the operators
were responsible for the reign Of ter
ror in the Paint Creek district was
made today by many witnesses in be-
bali Of the owners Of the rich coal
fields, ss''tying before the senate
strike N. vating committee.
They insisted that the guards were
nor brought into the district until
thousands of dollars worth Of property
was destroyed and non.unionists were
beaten The stories Of the witnesses
were categorical denials OF those re-
lated BY the miners
Sixteen OF the best union organizers
in the nelghborhood are endeayoring
TO hold the union men at work until
the investigation is completed.
The testimony presented to the SEN
ate committee Monday was largely
routine and cumulative Thomas l..
Feitz. vice president OF the Baldwin
Feltz detective agency. which supplied
the mine guards for the Paint and
Cabin creeks operators during the
strike was the principal witness
Mr Feltz told the committee that
when the trouble on Paint and Cabin
creeks was at It's height his concern
had about one hundred and ten armed
men ON Cabin creek and about thirty
five men On Paint creek. He also said
that his company had from six to ten
men working ii the strike district as
secret service operatives.
"Did your men make list Of those
men who were organizers for the Unit.
I'd Mine Workers and those men who
we're active in the union for the use
Of the operators?s asked Seymour
siedman. attorney FOR the miners
The witness said such a list had
been complied
One Of the objects of your organi-
zalion. asked Nf stedman, "when Il
is employed. Is to prevent the organl.
zatiou Of branches Of the United Mine
Workersg
.Yes. that is one Of the objects" said
Feliz
Mr. feltz denied enphatically that
any Of his men operated in the strike
district after Coy. Glasscock declared
martial law. He also denied that any
Baldwin-Feltz men we're on the armor
ed train which fired OH the strikers
camp at Holly Grove in February
Senator Kenyon aseertained from
Mr.. Feltz that men were employed "tc
join the unions to find out what was
going on IN order to carry out The
purposes or preventing union organi
zation.
Senator MARITIME was intedested II
the character Of men employed b,
Feltz as guards in the local fields anC
questioned him closely as to the in
struotions issued to men who wer'
hired as guards. After a lengthy OK
animation as 70 the qualification
which the agency demanded when mel
applied for places Senator MARITIME de
manded when it was question O
whether a man possessed physica
courage or moral courage, which wa
did you decidess
Feltz was not quite sure and tn
senator asked rather emphatically;
when a man came to you for
place and it was a question as I
whether he could shoot well or pra
we'll. which did you choose
With a smile, the chief Of th
guards answered.
'Weii,I think I'd shoos we'll would /
the qualifications needed in a contr
versy such as there was in the creeks
Feltz declared his agency never ow
ed machine gun, but his men {
Cabin creek had used machine gun
owned BY The company. The guar'
operated one during the strike,
said, in the first battle at Macklow
Under examination by Senator Ma
tine, Feltz said he had endeavored