South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
1000 WORKERS
ARMY
TO AID STRIKE
Union Members Urge Over
land March to Aid Mine
Strike Battling Guards.
MINERS CAPTURE CHIEF
Workers Retaliate by Kidnsp.
ing Coal Field SuPerintend-
ent and Family.

HARRISBURG. I'll. Sept e.
| -Four thousand union men. gathered
here for a Labor day celebration. are
talking OF er1ulatlng rhe West vir-
! ginia miners and starting an over
| and march OF 40 miles &c AID The
strikers at the Rosiclaire nina The
strikers battled there today with
mine guards and were driven With
| their families 20 the hills
All wires leading 20 Rosiclair have
been cut and reports reaching here
are meager.
The striking miners have retail
ated by capturing J. c. Swanson.
mine superintendent. and his wife
and three children here. and are
holding tho prisoners back in the
hills, according 20 word received
here. The report was denied. how
ever, by ". G. Ferguson. euperin-
tendent OF the niue
Deputies Patrol Roads.
Following a der onstration by 100
coal miners here Saturday. which
was dispersed by Sherin Cox and
force OF deputies, all roads into
Elizabethtown and Rosiclair were
being guarded Monday TO prevent
the strikers and sympathlzers con
/ gregating.
Ferguson denied that the mine
guards had driven the strikers and
their families from the COMPANY
houses at Rosiclaire. The wife OF a
strike organizer, according to Fer
gusnO. visited the miners wives and
told them TO fee from the town be-
| cause IL was TO be burned 10 the
ground by the mine guards. When
| the exodus started, Ferguson claims.
the strike committee had photog-
| raphers ready and took flashlights
Of the refugees" for propaganda
purposes.
Sunday night autoists who at
/ tempted 70 drive 10 Rosiclalre from
/ this city were turned back by the
/ strikers and one was reported 10 be
/ badly beaten when he attempted 10
| ignore the order.
Many Clashes With Guards.
Elizabethtown and Rosiclaire are
located IN the extreme southeastern
| corner OF Illinois on the Ohio river.
The nearest railroad connection IS 40
! Rosiview. four miles west OF Rosi-
claire and about ten miles west or
! Eizabethtown.
Two hundred and fifteen employees
! OF the mine have been on strike since
| last November. and there have been
| frequent clashes between guards err
plOyed by the company and the
| strikers.
On August 25 four strikers and
/ four company detectives were shot
when the detectives entered a store
and attempted 20 disarm several
men. The fight started when a de-
/ tective shot Frank Turner when the
/ latter IS said 20 have attempted 20
/ draw a gun General shooting fol-
| lowed. John Morgan, former COM
| pany policeman, who was a specta-
| tor. was shot in the leg and through
1 the body. The detectives claim a
striker stationed outside the store
shot Morgan.
There has been some trouble AZ
/ other fuospar mines AZ Elizabeth
! town. near Rosiclair and the com
panies at both places recently IN
/ creased their guards. Thirteen de-
/ tectives are stationed IN each place.
in addition 20 the regular guard. 60
/ IS understood.
Fresh Outbreaks.
/ Fresh outbreaks IN Hardin county
| between striking fuorspar miners
and mine guards were reported on
\ Monday night, but IL was impossible
! 20 verify the stories over the Grip
pied telephone lines. Included in
1 the unconfrmed reports was one
/ that a battle had taken place near
! RosicIaire Monday noon. Othe" re-
/ ports denied serious trouble and said
all was quiet Monday night
! Labor day celebrations at Harris
! burg. EldOrad0. Marion. West Frank
/ fort. MurphysbOro. Benton and Du-
quoin drew large crowds. estimated
at 5000 az the first named place
/ and 5000 AZ Eldorado- Speakers
/ aroused their audiences by refer
ence 20 recent difficulties 40 Ros.-
+ claire and Elzabeth-own-
r. r. Randolph. Harrisburg hus.-
ness man. IS said 10 have been
stopped by miners Sunday near R0-
sicIaire and compelled 10 return %
I Harrisburg Ed Carbln, organizer
\ for the United Mine Workers. and
/ Albert Hardstay, Rosiclaire mer-
i chant. who has been handling pro-
1 visions for the United Mine Work
! ers Of America. are reported 20 have
4 been forced 20 leave the county.