Evening star., 1920-03-28
MINERS HEAD ONE
Of 125 INDICTED
FOR CONSPIRACY
Prominent Operators Are on
List Made Public by
Federal Officials.
Rv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March 81
The names of approximately 125 coal
operators and miners or others con-
nected with the coal Industry in the
states Of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
western Pennsylvania. indicted re-
Gently by 4 special federal grand jury
here for alleged violation of the Lever
act and conspiracy sections of the fed
eral criminal code, were made public
here tonight by federal ofiicials. The
miners include International President
John l. Lewis. Secretary-Treasurer
William Green and Chief Statistician
Percy Tetlow.
The operators named include Thomas
T. Brewster OF st. Louis. chairman Of
the operators scale committee; Phil
H. Pam OF Terre Haute. Ind, spokes-
man for the operators in conferences
in Washington just preceding the
strike OF miners last fall, and F. S.
Peabody of Chicago. one of the leaders
among the Illinois operators.
IS Counts In Indictment.
The indictment contains eighteen
counts. all of which charge conspiracy
Of some kind One count sets out ten
overt acts constituting violation Of
the federal laws.
The Illinois operators named in the
indictment include:, Rice Miller. c. NJ.
Moderwell. F. S. Peabody, ]. z. Rut-
ledge, E. c. Searles. Thomas T. Brew
ster, George B. Harrington. John Con-
nory. Theodore Keller. H. A. Huskey,
H. c. Perry. W. Spencer and Walter
s. Boyle. The Illinois miners include
Frank harrington. Harvey Fishwick
and Charles Grace.
Among the Ohio operators are.
Michael Gallagher. W. H. Haskins. E.
C. Mauer. Joseph Pursglove. s. H.
Robbins, A. A. Augustus, George w.
Jones, G. C. WeitzeIl, William ].
Hamilton. James Pritchard and John
NJ. Ream. Ohio miners include George
Cecil. William Roy. G. r. Savage, John
Sexton. William C. Thompson, Lee
Hall. John Moore, Thomas Price a q
William Robinette.
Western Pennsylvania operators in
cluded in the list are: James NJ. Arm.
! strong. John A. Donaldson, Villa m
Henderson and James G. Patterson
The Pennsylvania miners include
Thomas Hughes. Frank Leithold
Phillip Murray. Robert Gibbons, John
OLeary, William Cavanaugh and John
McWee.
| Among hand operators was Valen,
tino Martin. Among those not iden.
Z mi
Jonas Waffie, secretary of the Goa
trade bureau of Terre Haute, Ind: r
| W. Coulter, representatives of the Ma
tional Coal Association. Chicago, ant
w. X. Field. president of the Pitts.
burgh Coal Company. Pittsburgh, Pa
Those Not Classifed.
Men indicted, but who could not b,
Identified as miners or operators fol
low: John Kelly. Robert ]. Smith
Henry Smith. George A Anthony
Richard Fitzgerald. J. X. Beerine
John A. Templeton. J. c. Muren, viii
liam Epperson. Frank Thorpe. r. v
Lincoln. w. A. Luce. John Chesterfield
F. C. Honnold. T. NJ. Jenkins, Rober
T. MacAllister. William ]. Sneed. BE,
williams. Joseph T. Horsley, William
&c. Cavanaugh. p. T. Pagan. Ware,
F. Smith. Jack McQuade. Rober
Perry, John Little. John Purcell. p
]. Wilson, Thomas Byers. Harry w
Little, NJ. E. Mogg. Edward Hacket,
C. p. Whitsett. George A. yanDyke
Robert f. Lee.
Fifty-Ftve Indicted In Indiana.
F'ifty-fve Indiana miners o
operators were indicted. Forty-fo
of them already have been arreste,
and service Of capiases on others /
, expected soon.
The first four counts of the indict
ments, brought under the Lever ac,
charge general conspiracy to "Iimi
the facilities for transporting, pro
, Jucing, supplying. storing and deal
ing in a certain necessary, to wit
, Bituminous coal by refusin
, to mine. sell or deliver coal for stor
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