Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-10-07
WEST VIRGINIA STRIKERS
DEaAN THEN BE GIVEN
FREE AND EQUAL RIGHTS
Rr ART SHIELDS

By ART SHIELDS
/ Federated Press Siaa Cores pondent
Williamson. Mngo County. v Va
We demand what the Constitution
gives us-froe and equal rights, said
George Echoies, an AGED Negro mem
I her II the Lick Greek tent colony, 10
/ senators kenyon and saersrsdge "
he Investigating Committee which ar
rived IN Williamson last week and pro
/ ceeded II once 10 tbs tent colony sew
araI niles cat OF town
What rightss" asked senator Ken
yon
Guns. said the old miner Guns.
T for only cur enemies are allowed 20
carry mem now. II We walk two and
- 4 : fist "a, I'D as asise as
-. saeep. Just like the slave masters
ii ha.s=e sEe Civu VET.
EeLafEs was vice president Of the
.luer 1hacker local Of the United
alae Workers He had worked in
I ne EmerTbacker mine in spite OF
MS coior more thsa seventy years, Till
/ Inc vas discharged for his union activ'
/ tiles a year ago lie also serves as
! Baptist preacher tor the zoo Negroes
n the colony. VIXEN the state police
are not on hand 10 prevent meetings,
which they declare are unlawful as
Isemhlages.
! The Old man showed tho senators
/ his tent that had been rlpp,a a. ~
the bayonetS OF the gunner IN one OF
their attacks on the tent colony
Another Negro miner named X. G..
Green greeted Senator Kenyon cheer.
| FafE hs4lA aN
old Kenyon that he l,ft hes Noinc5,
j., ten years ago,
Why don't you go back and leave
| this place where there Is SO much
ouble?s asked the senator.
We're no cutters, we corn hnsk'
ers, laughed Green in answer.
! Women told the SENATOR'S how the
lconstabulary had herded them on the
| aouatains an different raids, taking
a many as rortyseyen men away
nom them TO the Williamson jail on
ne such occasion.
Striking endorsement of the miners
! ssand Is contained N resolution
| lgom the Federated Crafts II Hunting
| ton. " Va. representing 800 work
les. most OF whom are railroad shop
men
We would have acted in like man
her under the circumstances says
the resolution.
! The Logan County Grand Jury has
done the expected thing by returning
| wholesale murder indictments against
miners from other counties, alleged
To have taken part in the mountain
battles of late August and early Sep
TENDER.
Three hundred and twentysiA men
are charged with firsts degree murder
as principals and accessories to the
killing of Deputy Sheriff John Gore,
August 20.
President Kenney and Secretary
| Mooney are included in the blanket
indictment in spite of the fact that it
was Kenney's influence that caused
tie men To give up their march at
Madison, August 26, and that the delay
caused by the temporary abandonment
OF the march saved the Logan forces
from a much worse punishment.
/ No indictments were returned
against Captain Bubanks and several
hundred other state troopers and dep
uties who took part in the August q
raid on Sharples, when two miners
were murdered. This was the out.
rage which caused the dispersed
marchers to about face and rush into
, action in the mountains
The Logan County grand jury also
brought 200 indictments on charges
of aiding instruction or carrying pts
tolls.
The miners representatives have
ventured no opinion as 10 whether
their men would answer the indict
ments or not. Members of the rank
and file. however. say that they
would have no expectation of a square
deal in the Logan county court. where
John Chafin. the brother of the no
torious Don. is prosecuting attorney
and where they believe that they
would face a hand picked jury.