The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-15
AIURDEROUS MINE SUPERINTE.s-
DENT ACCUSED I'm
THE HERRIN TROUBLE
(Bv The Federated. Pressl

f1eIlln, lIi.- otfange tales OF dou-
fble-crossing are told BY the wounded
mine strikebreakers in the hospital here
TO which they were taken after the
bloodshed Of June p.
A request by Adjutant General Car
los Black for a guarantee from the min
ers union that the wounded would not
be molested if they were transferred is
termed operators propaganda" by
the citizens here and emanates, they
claim. from false reports made by AT
torney Follett Bull, in charge Of an in
vestlgation for the Southern Illinois
Coal Co.
The hospital. unguarded, is in the
heart Of the city. After hours spent
with the survivors / am convinced that
Attorney Bulls alarm for their safety
is not shared by the victims, who say
they were betrayed into the trouble by
unscrupulous employment agencies at
the behest Of the coal company.
The first man seen was Ed Green.
who lives, according to his story. at
1880 ". Madison ST, Chicago, and de-
plores his present disgrace. He asserts
that John Tracy of the Steam Shovel
ers and Dredgemen's International I'M
ion. Chicago, sent him to what he thot
was union shovel job" He was met
at the train in the night by the mine
superintendent, Nc DowelI, now dead.
and taken to the mine. which he discov-
cred the next morning to be surrounded
by guards. He protested to the boss
and was told that he would be shot
if he ATTEMPTED to escape. Four other
members Of this union, sent to the mine
under similar conditions, were killed,
according to Green.
The next cot held Ed. Miller, a hand
some Swede, who told of lone period
OF idleness in Chicago and of being
hired by an employment agency on W.
Madison ST., Chicago. AS special in
I'ducement for this job the usual fee Of
one weeks pay and train fare was
waived in this instance and free ship
ment was offered to a track job on
a shovel in Illinois. " MilIer's BODY
holds two bullets and chances for his
recovery are slight.
In another room was Sam Holman,
shot thru the back. His story is re-
petition of Miller's, excepting that it
was another agency on W. Madison ST.
that betrayed and sent him to his doom.
No work for Is weeks and sick
daughter living with him at 707 N.
lClarke ST., caused him reluctantly to
leave her in the hands of the landIady
while he took the free shipment to the
shovel job.
The next room contained dying
lrishman with eight bullet holes in his
writing body. q didn't know" was
all he could gasp. Beside him. clasp
ling crucifix was his mother, little
white-haired woman, who had arrived
from Chicago. Old and bent. she pre-
sented tragic figure. softly whispering
between her prayers, My boy, my
boy!"
Apparently all the gunner had es-
capped or were killed, but their time
keeper, Allen Findley, shot thru the
thigh, was able to talk. With uncan-
ny frankness he said he was not gum
man. but their bookkeeper, and was
sent to the mine by the Edward ]. Har-
grave Secret Service, l45 N. Clarke
St, Chicago. Twenty-six guards had
been sent to protect machinery in case
of violence. In his opinion they were
employed by the coal company to re-
duce their insurance. The Chief in
charge, he said, was Morris Delaney,
who received $l4 per day and board.
Common "gunners" were paid S. per
day and were expected to work lit
tie when things were quiet
Findley reiterated to The Federated
Press his statement to the coroner that
he saw Supt. c. K. Mcdowell kill Geo.
Henderson, an unarmed union miner,
the afternoon before the trouble began.
The stories Of atrocities, circulated
in the metropolitan press, were branded
as lies by all the wounded men. The
consensus of opinion oamong the suf-
ferers was that the arch crime against
them was committed before they came
to the coal field, by scheming coal
company plotting with INSCRIPTIONS