Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-16
MINERS DECLARE
RENEWAL Of STRIKE

lCOnttnued fr0m FlfBt PAHesD
The committee urged that the num-
! Der of witnesses to held down to the
lowest possible figure, but the attor-
neys of the operators insisted that
their case called for a great mass Of
testimony. Only Senators Swanson,
MARITIME and Kenyon were on hand
to begin today's hearing, Senators
Borah and Shields having returned
to Washington last week.
The sensational statements OF Lee
Calvin, ex-mine guard. relating to the
shooting up of the strikers camp at
Holly Grove have crystallized much
Of the ill-feeling, and even among the
attorneys before the COMMITTEES an
occasional word of bitterness shows
the undercurrent OF resentment.
Mine workers Head In Court.
The presence in Charleston Of John
p. White. president Of the United
Mine Workers OF America, today rer
suited In several conferences among
union officials. He was In Charles
ton principally to make an appear
ance and give bail in the criminal
cases brought against the mine Of
hcials In the federal courts for con-
spiracy under the Sherman law.
Before the case for the opera tors
was commenced the attorneys for the
miners were permitted to call a num-
Der Of witnesses.
w. II. Adkins said he saw a group
OF guards climb the hill above Holly
Grove the morning of February 8, and
a few minutes later, he said, shots
were hred from the hill into the
miners tents In Holly Grove. Under
cross-examination Adkins admitted
he was given gun by j. H.. Pike the
night Of February 8. and was later
arrested by the militia with the gun
in his possession.
Zed d. Zeller, who was In Holly
Grove when the shooting began, re-
peated the story of the clash. and
GUNNER Bisse, another Holly Grove
miner, described the attack on the
town from the armored train.
Housed Miners, Is Jailed.
A. H. Honaker. a merchant at Holly
Grove, said he was arrested by fifteen
mine guards and taken from his house
He had allowed miners TO erect tents
on his property, he said. after they
had been elected from the company I
houses Guards, he declared, had
dumped the furniture of forty or nifty
miners on his land, and he had al.
lowed them to remain.
Elizabeth Fish, a pretty olive.
skinned mountain girl, said she and
May Claypool In company with an
other girl, were met by nine min,
guards. who ordered them to wad,
the creek, enforcing the order b,
their guns. Ons of the girls tried tt
remove her shoes and stockings be-
fore entering the water, which at tina
point was waist deep.
She got one shoe off," said tn,
girl" when the guards told her sh,
was too darn slow and drove he
into the water"
Several miners told of their expo
riences with mine guards. Much Gu
mulative testimony as to conditions
in the field before and during tn,
strike was presented by several min
ers. C. l.. Workman, a stable boss
said that the guard system wa
mainly responsible for the trouble
IF you'll take the guards out o
there" he said. the men and TIN
operators would be able to get to
gether."
Mr.. Workman said the guards wer,
still ct work at Cabin Greek.
G. r, shaw, of Petersburg, said h
was taken into the coal fields aurinl
the strike with his wife and children