The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-07
Striking Illinois Miners Fear
"Hired Assassins" They Say.
Union Leaders Declare They'll
Appeal to Governor.
500 MINERS BtYOUAGED
Armed Force Cuts Wires and
Stops All Travel.
Intervention in R0siclare Min
ing District Is Urged.

Springfield, ILL.,, Sept. 7.-Altho his
arrival had been expected all morn
ing, Ed Carbine labor organizer, had
not arrived at Governor Smalrs office
at noon today.
Carbine was expected to come to
Springfield with delegation asking
Governor Small for a military investi-
cation of conditions in the Ros.clare
district Frank Harrington, president
of the Illinois mine workers, called 1T
the governors office shortly before
noon today and was waiting to see
Governor Small.
He denied that his mission had any
thing to do with the Rosiclare situa-
ton and said his organization was not
interfering in the Hardin county trou-
bles.
Miners Are Bfvouaced.
Elizabethtown, ILL.,, Sept. Five
hundred armed miners are encamped
on the headwaters of Big creek of
Karber Ridge, twelve miles north of
here. according to word brought in
last midnight by a farmer boy.
All telephone wires leading north
thru the Ridge for considerable dis
| tdHCe were cut dIloI 3 o CLOCK laSI
night. Scouts after covering the roads
and hills for eight miles returned this
morning without finding any trace of
the strikers. A farmer, who, reached
Eliza bethtowT at the same time, re-
ported strikers in control of three
armed men on the road thru Furnace
Land" a wild 1000 acre forest six
miles north of here, where nearly 200
miners held up all passersby.
Get Rations in Force.
VigiIantes while discounting the
stories brought by the boy last night
stationed watchers on all hills north
of Eliza bethtown and Rosiclare. The
fNpner boy told Officials that the min
ers expected several hunderd rein
foEeements today and planned tc
fn1an nch on the F1uor Spar mine al
Rosiclare.
|. If the march is made county off
eials do not expect it before tomorrow
when they Believe the miners may at
tempt to come to Rosiclare in force te
draw the weekly rations which have
been issued there every Thursday By
the strike committee.
! Charge "Hired Assassins."
| West Frankfort, ILL.,, Sept. Gov
| ernor Len Small will be asked to send
state troons to Rosiclare to protect the
families OF striking miners agains
the intirRiGation of hired assassins,
according to union leaders here whC
have returned from that place
"A. situation rivalling the tensity OF
the West Virginia Industrial war ex-
lists, at RosiGlare, where 200 miners
have been on Strike for ten months
leaders declared today, with facts re-
garding the seriousness of thing.
being grossly ''nlinimized by min'
Operators"
Communication Cut.
Reports from Rosiclare that sey-
eral tents occupied by families OF
miners were burned late Tuesda,
could not be confirmed here. -Tele
phone communication between her,
and the seat of the trouble is prac
ticaily impossible. Reports that fou1
/ nonunion men and three strikers were
wounded in a battle also were uncon.
firmed.
A committee already has been ap
pointed by the Illinois Federation o.
Labor, 1t was declared. to call upoI
Governor Small and ask him to inter
lvene. When the committee will go t.
tSpringfield could not be learned.