Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-06-18
COAL MEN COMPLAIN
I. THAT SENATOR
MARITIME IS
PREJUDICED
Yesterdays Clash in West vir-
ginia Investigation Results
in Elimination Of Jerseyman
as Questioner.
EXAMINATION BY MR..
KENYON OF IOWA


Try LEASED Wire % Evening aIcrn1G.
Charleston, W. Va. June fs.--The
nsnate committee Investigating the
West virginia coal strike. today rush.
ed along the examination OF Witnesses
ln order 90 hear as many. az puFslbIn
before leaving for Washinstou to-
night. The coal operators had on
hand a score or more of witnesses
whose testimony was brief.
The attitude OF senator Maritime or
New Jersey. VINO yesterday clashed
with Quinn Morton. one cl the opor-
ators on Paint creek ana the attorneys
for the operators. became matter
OF concern today The operators
lawyers declare that Senator MARITIME
has been unfair In his examination
Of witnesses and has been prejudiced
a. his. attitude toward the onafeiafs.
they said that when tho COMMITTEES
reaches Washington they win put into
the record evidence of oral and writ
ten statements by senator MARITIME TO
show that he has "preuldiced the
case" The other members OF the
committee will take up this question
among themselves ana viii probably
place Il before the fun senate commit
tee on education and labor.
a statement purporting TO coma
from senator MARITIME and reproduced
IN fac-simile of his handwriting by a
newspaper circulating throughout the
state. today aroused considerable dis
cusslon. The statement set forth
,hnt senator MARITIME 'woelld rather
sweep THE streets than earn nis money
aa the West Virginia coal operators
do"
Attorneys for the operators deelar-
ga that ihey would plece this klnte-
ment with others made by the eena-
tor la Che record.
Today senator MARITIME took little
part in the proceedings. Although
he sa, al the committee table through
out the hearings he asked no ques-
ti0ns. under an agreement reached
after Yesterdays outbreak, that sem
ator Kenyon was to take sole charge
Of the examination of witnesses.
John A. Greene. superintendent Of
the Mucklow mine OF the Paint Greek
Colliery company when the strike
broke out, was the firs, witness iie
said that guards were not placed on
Paint creek until the men at work
had been intcrfcrcd with by the sirik.
erg. When these guards arrived theS
were not armed but after iisty ol
seventy-fivc strikers carrying snns
had made a demonstration, he said
the guards were Increased and arm
ed. he declared that the candnt'
Of the guards was not the cause %
the various outbreaks Of violence.
walter Belk. who served On fnin
creek as a guard. ana who was for
time In charge of the guards. defend
Cd their conduct. he described IN
first hattie 81 Muoklow May 20, i3i :
when the town was attacked from th'
hills. The firing, he said, continued
Tor ahout half an hour and after
/ ceased he searched the hiiis an'
found PLACES carefully prepared 70
the shooting. He said men had cyl
IDENTITY been IN tkese places for hour
before they began firing
pelk described another battle in th
hills when the guards Killed one MN
er and wounded another he d"ni"
the story told 20 the committee p
Mrs. sevllla. that she had been bru
tally attacked by mine guqrds sen"
tor Kenyon examined him 90 lenst
as to the general plan 81 The BALDWIN
Feltz guard system and the genera
conduct OF guards IN the strike Hon'
Attorney Belcher caused stir
me committee room when he aake
Belk: Isn't IL true that fifteen Q
4 twenty armed men connected VIE
your agency have been in this roo'
throughout this investieationg'
81 couldn't say as 10 that" answer
ed Rclk.
'Dont you know that your ms
have been hired 20 shadow gentle
men connected with the investiE'
tlon2"
~ couldn't say as 10 that becAu'
J that Is not my hne Of work"
This procipitated an argument ~
tween counsel IN which Auorn'
knight denied vigorously thai dete'
tives had been hired By the operator
10 shadow mon connected with y
investigation.