The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-24
MARCHERS WILL
Be ERELEASEDON
BAIL, SAYS AMOS
Ninety-One Striking Miners
Will Have Opportunity
to Gain Freedom

Ninety-one striking miners a
rested here yesterday, afternoon os
county officials on charges OF Tres
passing on coal company propertS
and intimidating workmen at tns
Hughes mine of the Robinson Coat
Co. will be released on oondS ,ol
$500 and $1,000. according TO Fro7
ecutins Attorney Frank Amos
Eighteen Of the Miners, aSesed
to have been connected with the
recent attack on the HunsakeT
nine will be held for 81, 500 bond,
while the others will be released
ON $500 bond it was stated.
Rather than being disheartened
at their plight. the miners had Il
CAV time at the county Jail last
night. Laughter and song was
heard until a late hour, when the
men went to sleep, two in small
bunk. They were up at an early
hour this morning, eager for their
breakfast and wondering what
new development the day would
bring.
Ask About Bonds
One or two foreigners put IN
their appearances at the prosecut"
ing attorneys office this morning,
inquiring about rhe' amount OF
bond necessary to get their fellow
countrynen out of Jail. Ihere
seems some basbfulness among the
miners as to who shall be the first
to come out of Jail This is no..
caused by any love for the county
Jail. in. the opinion of OFFICIALS
arrants for other miners con-
nected WITH the march on: the
Hughes mine have not yet been IS
sued. a ccnFd ing toast teInen ent-sth5s'
morning by Justice OF the
Peace T.. P. Blocher. The county
officers are understood to have the
names of many Of the men, how
ever
With the exception of little
excitement at Downs, near Man
nington where a large group OF
men marched on the Salt Lick
mine of the Dodge-Thorn-S -Shinn
Coal Co, all was quiet throughout
the county Officials stated that
reports from Monongalia and Har-
rison counties indicated that there
would be no trouble in those dis
tricts today.
At the Salt Lick mine, the strik-
ers marched to the mine and stop
ped outside at about 6 o'clock. Mine
officials sent call to the county
officers Immediately. Before the
sheriff and his men had an op-
portunity to answer the call, how
ever, a second telephone message
came to the effect that the miners
were dispensing.
Mine officials stated that the
same group of men marched on the
Salt Lick mine yesterday and held
a conference with non union work
men employed at the mine. The
non union men refuse to quit work
however and the narcher marched
away. No motive has been as
signed to the early morning call
today.
Break at Hughes Mine
The break in the. Hughes mine
! situation came at about 4 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. Sheriff J. D.
Charlton and his men had ordered
the 200 or more marchers off the
property of the Robinson Coal Co.,
| at 2:3O and the men were sitting
and standing in the roadway, wait
! ing for the non-union miners to
come out of the mine.
At O'Clock two large trucks
with light loads entered the m ne
! property. Presently one of them
| drove out, empty. The miners al
| lowed it to pass, unquest1oned.
Shortly before 4 O'Clock, the other
truck, loaded with the non-unlon
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