East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-30
All Males From Ia to SO Years
of Age Are Under Arms; Wo-
men and Children Flee.
GOVERNOR APPEALS TO
PRESIDENT FOR TROOPS
Miners Are Entrenched on One
Side Of Hill; Deputies and
State Police on Other Side.

CHARLESTON, w. Va. Aus. 3O.--.
| "a. P.)-Conditions in the Sharpies-
Blair sector. where all males from IL
to so years Of age are under arms. and
women and children are fleeing in
panic into Boone county are described
as compared with Belgium in the early
/ days Of the war, in report by A. G.
| Porter, united mine workers executive
board member to C. F. Kenney, the
| district president. a
Porter returned with Adjutant Gem
eral Charnock from an inspection trip.
Charnock reported to Governor Nor
gan that he ordered the armed bands
to disperse but they refused, Trains
have been Communicated and wires
cut by the armed men. The governor
asked Secretary Of War Weeks to send
troops. .eY3s.
Porter's report said the miners had
entrenched on one side OF the hill and
the county deputies and the state pos
lice on the other side. A clash would Z
draw $500 into battle.
Miners Move Into Logan County
MADISON, w. va. Aug. 30.-(U.
P)-county Prosecutor Muilens re-
ported to authorities that bands Of
miners We're moving at intervals into
Logan county. determined to carry out (,
their Threatened Invasion. The sitaa-
tion is regarded as most serious 4
with possible. federal Intervention dur-ss
ing the day. 1t is understood that the
federal authorities in Washington are
discussing Governor Morgan's appeal,
Nrs a
businessmen, left the district to go to
Washington to confer with Senator
Switzerland and Secretary Weeks ifs
an effort to speed federal Intervention. /
Lewis Asks for Conference
WASHINGTON. Aug. sO.-lU.. P0 I
John L. Lewis, president OF the
United Mine Workers of America, ask
ed for a conference of mine workers ;
and operators from the West Virginia
coal fields to make an effort to end
the trouble there. President Harding
refused. The president and the war
department are expected to take ac-
tion if the threatened hostilities in the
Industrial area are resumed. More
tion is the belief. Reports from the 'i
war torn area indicate that further
trouble is brewing. The struggling
miners are collecting under arms and
forces of citizens are assembling to
repel any invasion of the district
Senate Committee to Investigate
WASHINGTON. Aug. sou. P.)
The president it is understood I'M
formed John L. Lewis that the sug-
gested conference would duplicate the
special senate committees work. The
senate committee. expects to start
first hand Investigation of the Mingo
county industrial section conditions on
September 10. The president reach
cd this decision after conferences
with Secretary Weeks and Senator
Switzerland of the West Virginia dele
cation.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3O.---(U, P.)---
Secretary Weeks said decision on
Governor Morgan. of West Virginia.
request to send federal troops into
Mingo county will be reached this aft
ernoon. Weeks made this announce
ment following conference betwecn
President Harding, Weeks, General
! Bandholtz and General Harboard. act
ing chief of staff, From Mingo conn
| ty comes reports indicating additional
miner forces coming from Ohio and
Illinois TO join the invaders. Citizens,
many of whom are war veterans are
bent on giving the invaders a bloody
battle should they attempt 10 penetrate
I Mingo and Logan counties.
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