The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-07
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| 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 1 yet
 Ever since trouble started in the | Kanawha Valley coal fields as far l back as the spring of 1912-more than nine years ago-the question has kept bobbing up with every fresh recur. renee of violence and sudden death.
 A senate committee spcnt 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 COmmitter. 1 In a report he made to the senate 1 in January, 1914, Kenyon pointed cut | 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 ;h@ fundamental trouble"
 He answered that the causes were deep rooted and very obscure to a man unless he thinks. and thinks, and 1 thinks, and traces the roots down into the primary causes" Kenyon stated. | He quoted the bishop as saying: 'I 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:
 Tt 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 tke property, and there always will be such greed"
 More than seven years after Ken. yon so quoted Bishop Donahue ScAa. | tor Caraway. Democrat of Arkansas, | sat listening to testimony given re. gently before the present senate com mittee at Washington.
 HAD NO REMEDY TO OFFER
 "I am inclined to think that there Is a good deal of responsibility on both sides for the troubles they have been having down there in West Virginia" Caraway remarked. Ut appears to me that the fault 1 lies with both sides said Senator 1 McKellar, Democrat of Tennessee.
 Several senators joined with Ken yon in seeking to develop solution of the situation which has kept the West Virginia coal fields n a condi ton of civil war for more than nine years and necessitated lately the in tervention of federal armed troops when the governor of the state con fessed the state government was help 1 less.
 l ID. c. Kennedy. a hard-fisted Scotch American, formerly president of the l West Virginia local of the United Mine 1 Workers and now secretary of the Kanawha Coal Operators Associa- tion, was testifying
 Kennedy did not explain how F" had switched from the miners organiZa- tion to a company of operators, but he showed his long familiarity with tLe Paint creek and Cabin creek mines which had been the center of another senatorial investigation years before.
 And he had no remedy to offer fer the killing and conflicts as prevalent in 1913 as in 1921.
 If tho operators will not employ men that belong to the unions and the unions will not permit men to work who do not belong to the unions,' Kenyon inquired of him, and as result the country's coal supply is diminished, where does the great third party, the public. come in?'
 That is up to them to solve,' re- sponded Kennedy
 Kenyon bent forward as though not sure that he had heard the witness rightly.
 Tt is up to the public to solve?" | Kenyon asked
 Yes" Kennedy answered.
 And you have no solution to offer?" | Kenyon pursued
 'I do not think I have" Kennedy responded.
 But where does congress come in n, the great third nort,, to all tbesa