The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-19
EIGHT YEARS OF SENATORIAL
 INVESTIGATION FAILS TO END
 WEST. VIRGINIA MINE TROUBLES
Committee Spent Almost Whole of Year 1913 in Probing
 War Between Union Men and Operators.

Washington, Sept. 1e-What is the matter with West Virginia?
 The question is one a special Senate Investigating committee is wrestling with. It hasn't found an answer to it yet
 Ever since trouble started in the Kanawha Valley coal fields as far back as the Spring of 1912-more than nine years ago-the question has kept bobbfng up with every fresh re- currence of violence and sudden death.
 A Senate committee spent a large part of 1913 conducting what was known as the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek Investigation A member of that committee was Senator William E. Kenyon, Republican, of Iowa, who is chairman of the present committee.
 In a report he made to the Senate in January, 1914, Kenyon pointed out that he had asked Bishop P. J. Dona-
 hue, a Catholic prelate familiar with
 the turbulence of the West Virginia
 mines and wooded hills. what was the 'fundam mental trouble"
 tfHe answered that the causes were deep rooted and very obscure to man unless he thinks, and thinks, and
 thinks. and traces the roots down into the primary causes" Kenyon stated. He quoted the Bishop as saying: '1 should say if I were asked to put it very briefly that it is human greed on both sides'
 In commenting at the time on the Bishops statement, Kenyon wrote: +'It is difficult to realize how there can be much human greed on the side of man who is supporting a family and working day by day in the mines | at ordinary living wages, but there is
 greed on the part of the owners of the property, and there always will be | such greed.''
 l More than seven years after Ken. | yon so quoted Bishop Donahue Sena. 1 tor Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas
 sat listening to testimony given re- | gently before the present Senate com | mittee at Washington.
 1 Has No Remedy to Offer. 1 '1 am inclined to think that there
 is ;- good deal of responsibility or
 both sides for the troubles they have i been having down there in West vir 1 ginia,' Cara .yay remarked.
 '1t appears to me that the fault lies with both sides," said Senator 1 Mcclellan, Democrat, of Tennessee. | Several Senators joined with Ken. yon in seeking to develop a solution of the situation which has kept the | West Virginia coal field in condi. ton of civil war for more than nine tervention of Federal armed troop:
 when the Governor of the State con.
 fessed the State government was help
 less.
 D. c. Kennedy, a hard-fsted Scotch American, formerly president of tn, West Virginia local of the United Min Workers and now secretary of tn Kanawha Coal Operators Associa { tion, was testifying.
 Kennedy did not explain how he ha ] switched from the miners organiza tion to company of operators, bu he showed his long familiarity wit the Paint Creek and Cabin Cree mines which had been the centre c another Senatorial investigation year s before.
 s And he had no remedy to offer fo } the killing and conflicts as preva1er S in 1913 as in 1921.
 eff the operators will not compl s men that belong to the unions and tt unions will not permit men to wor 5 Kenyon inolired of him ln @and uIiens ea S result the country's coal supply dirainished, where does the great thir q party, the public. come imp I That is up to them to solve" r, q sponded Kennedy.
 4 Kenyon bent forward as though n,