The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-28
MinelUorkers Chief Is
 Among Those Indicted
 On Conspiracy Charge
Names of 15O Operators. Miners and 9th CTS Charged With Law Vio- lation Are Announced, In- cluding John l.. Lewis and William Green
Ru A.,onlatsd Pros.


 Indianapolis. Ind, March 27.--
 The names of approximately 150
 coal operators and miners and oth-
 CTS connected with the conl indus
 try in Illinois, Indiann, Ohio and
 western Pennsylvania. indicted re-
 gently by special federal grand
 jury here for alleged violation of
 the Lever net and conspiracy sec
 tions of the federal criminal code,
 were made public here tonight by
 federal officials. The miners in-
 cIude International President John
 l.. Lewis, Secretary -Treasurer Will
 liam Green and Chief Statistician
 Percy Tetiow.
 The indictment contains IS counts, all of which charge conspiracy of some kind. One count sets out ten overt acts constituting violation of the fed- eral laws.
 The Illinois operators named in the indictment include:
 Rice Miller, c. M Moderwel, F. $. Peabody, J. F. Rutledge, E. c. Searles. Thomas T. Brewster, George B. Har- rington and John Connory, Walter $. Hogle The Illinois miners include Frank Harrington, Harry Fishwick, Charles Grace. Theodore Keller, H. A. Huskey, H. c. Perry and J. W. Spen- cer,
 Among the Ohio operators are: Mich ael Gallagher, W. H. Haskins, E. C.. Mauer. Joseph PursgIove, S. Ii. Rob bins, c. c. Weitzell A. A. Augustus, and George W. Jones.
 Ohio miners include George Cecil. William Roy G. R. Savage, John Sex ton William c. Thompson. Lee Hall, John Moore. Thomas Price and Will liam Robinette
 Western Pennsylvania operators in cluded in the list are James M Arin- strong, John A. Donaldson William Henderson and James G. Patterson,
 The Pennsylvania miners Include Thomas Hughes, Frank Leithold, Phil- lip Murray Robert Gibbons, John oLeary William Cavanaugh and John McWee. Valentine Martin, Maryland operator. Men indicted but who could not be identified as miners or operators fol- low:
 John Kelly. Robert j. Smith, Henry { Smith, George A. Anthony, Richard 1 Fitzgerald William J. Hamilton, J. K. | Beering, John A. Templeton, J. c. Muren William Epperson, Frank l Thorpe, F. V. Lincoln, w. A. Luce, James Pritchard, John M. Roam. John l Chesterfield, F. C. Honnold, T. M. I. Jenkins, Robert T McAHister, William lJ sneed Ben Williams Josephs T Horsley. P T. Fagin. Warren F. smith Robert Perry John Little. John Purcell 1 w. K. Kavapaugh, P. J. Wilson 1 Thomas Byers. Harry w. Little M. E Mogg, Edward Hackett. c. R. Whitsett lGeorge vandyke and Robert E. Lee | Among those not Identified as miners or operators are:
 rJonas Waffle, secretary of the coal trade bureau, of Terre Haute, Ind; R. l w. Coulter, representatives of the Na- tional Coal Association, Chicago. and w. K. Field. president of the Pittsburg Coal Company. Pittsburg. Pa. l 55 INDIANIANS 1 Fifty-five Indiana operators or miners were indicted Forty four of them already have been arrested and service of capiases others is ex- pected soon
 | The first four counts of the indict- ments, brought under the Lever act, charge general conspiracy "to limit the facilities for transporting, produc- ing. supplying. storing and dealing in a certain necessary, to-wlt: bituminous | coal = By regusing to mine, sell or delvere coal for storage purposes, by increasing and maintaining excessive Iprices Of coal, by calling and causing strikes among mine workers. and by closing down coal mines"
 Coupts five to nine of the indictment | contain similar charges, but are based , on the amendment to the Lever act passed October 22, 1919, and cover the 1 (Continued Page Tbree)