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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
DISTRICT CANNOT
CHANGE DEMAND.
Miners Bolt from Inter.
national Body the Only
Alternative

Little Is expected to be work
ed out by the delgates at the
constitutional and scale convention
Of district II, which opens at
Charleston next Tuesday in re.
gard to the wage demands as laid
down by tie international CON
yention Of the United Mine Work.
ers' Of America. The impression
is general among those in touch
with the situation that this con-
yentlon can simply endorse what
the international convention has
done at its last session in Indian.
apolis. ANY other course would
mean an alienation with the inter-
national body and throw district
II on Its own resources, which Is
practically out Of the question.
At the meeting OF the district
board in Charleston yesterday, a
committee OF three was an,
pointed as a policy committee.
This policy committee will pres
ent to the convention next Tues.
day a duplication OF the demands
as made by the international con-
vention. In the course OF barter.
ing internationally some Of the
more radical phases Of the de-
mands could be dropped with the
miners, but as long as the district
lines UP with international organ
i3ation, 1t is obliged to submit its
proposition to the international
policy committee.
Some tradesmen have read be-
tween tho lines as to q certain
statement which President Lewis
Of tho United Mine Workers OF
America made recently. 1t In sub.
stance was that special attention
would be paid to the outlying
district which were not 100 per
cent union. This is the condition
in West Virginia and In fact
Northern West Virginia as we'll.
III is believed that this Is paving
the way for a contract in this
district if the operators are re-
ceptive to one. This might Gre
ate a condition in the Fairmont
field that while a general strike
was on in other fields there might
DO no stoppage OF work In this
field and the wages paid would be
governed by the scale finally set
In the central competitive fields
or state units II that should ever
result, This OF course would be
retroactive, the new scale Of
wages being dated back to April
/. 1t is generally known that
President Keeney will 80 the lin.
It to secure contract In North
ern West Virginia.
The convention Of district IT,
which will be officially called next
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock,
will be attended by $50 delegates
from Northern West Virginia. It
is not known whether President
Keeney will preside or whether he
will turn the gavel over to NJ. l..
Haptonstall, Charleston, the act
ing president OF tho district,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
HALF A Century
olkahoman Praises eIaek-Drausht,
Having Used It "can Safely
Say for SO Years"

Grandfield, Okla. - One OF the
best known farmers OF Tilman
County, Mr.. F. W. Tisdale, who
owns and manages a wagon yard
here, says:
a have used Thedford's Black
DraugLt = believe l can safely
say for fifty years.
II was born and reared In Texas
Freestone County. sixty four years
ago, ! have been married forty
four years. My father used Black
Draught before l was married, and
gave It to US
For forty-four years OF my mar
ried life. It has had place on our
medicine shelf and Is the only lax
alive or liver medicine, We use. We
use II for torpid liver. sour stom-
ach, headache, Indigestion (.
don't think we could get along with
out it, knowing what It has done
for US, and the money 1t has saved.
1t Is just as good and reliable today
as 1t was when we began its use,
Ny boys use It and they are salts
fled it's the best liver medicine
they have ever used"
Thedford's Black Draught Is
purely vegetable, not disagreeable
to take and acts in a prompt and
natural way.
So many thousands OF persons
have been benefited by the use oil
Thedford Black-Draught, you
should have no hesitancy in trying
this valuable old well established
remedy. for most liver and stom.
ach disorders. NC-139t
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
Oyercrowded Schools
selected ~: the Publicity Com.
mlttee Of the City MS.
sIonary Union.
Mhat &c overerowding N Some

What the overerowdlng In some
Of our mission schools means to
those who are refused admission
is shown in this story told by the
principal Of the high school in.
Han Mel, China:
"In spite Of the raise in tuition,
we have turned down over nifty
applicants. One OF these was the
son OF gun-boat official, a very
intelligent boy. The father came
bringing the son and asking US to
examine him. / told him that 1t
vas useless to do so, for even IL
he Should pass an excellent exam
ination We had no place to put
him. But said the official, 4
will rent a house in town and he
can live at home But, said /,
there is no desk All, said the
Official, 4 will buy a desk But
there Is no place to put IT even
II you did buy it, said the hard
hearted principal. well then.
said the father, Let him stand up
for a year. oh, we have all heard
so much about the goodness OF the
Christian church. now let some OF
that goodness shine forth so that
We can see 1t. Please take pity on.
my son and let him stay and learn.
Your school IS the only school I
know Of where / can leave my con
to be educated and never worry
about him. want him to grow up
to be a Christian But he was
the fifty-first we had turned away.
for lack of room this term"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
GARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our thanks
q the many friends OF Baxter and
Iairmont who helped US so will.
ingly during the sickness and
asath of our husband and father,
II II. DIETRICH, and also Nhe U.
W, and those who donated
tlIsir cars; as well as those who
sent the beautiful floral tribute.
MIA Minnie Dietrich and Family
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
Fears Competition of
Coal Mines in England

"The British operators can
actually mine coal and ship Il
across the seas and sell 1t in Amer
lea cheaper than we can mine It. /"
says j. NJ. Orr Of Clarksburg, vice
president of the Hudson Coal Co.
There Is no use Of US lodging that
issue. With the British operators
paying only 81 a day to the miners
and the New York Commercial
announced recently that the new
wage scale in North Wales was
eight shillings, five and one.half
renee a shift, OF So c day-we eau
look for more English COAL"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
no IA allRlEn SUNDAY

The funeral Of wilmina, 5.year.
old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alpha
Hall. whose death took place yes
terday morning at the family home
In Market street, Will take place
Sunday morning at II o'clock from
the First NJ, E. Church, services 10
be conducted by the Rev. G. G.
Lawson, pastor OF the church.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
RECEIVE WORD Of pEArs

message received here yester
da$ announced the death OF Mrs
Hannah McNally, mother Of Mrs
James Mccormick and Mrs. ]. L
Gettings, both of this city, which
occurred at her home at Salamanca
Y. yesterday morning. Mrs
Mccormick left Thursday for Salo
MANGA and Mr.. and Mrs. Gettlngs
and children and James Mccormick
and James McNally, the latter hay
Ing been visiting here, left yester
ivy for Salamanca to remain unit
after the funeral.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
Visits MANY MInes.

II the siimmerlof 1921 he worked
IN the coal mines and steel plants
IN devastated and occupied areas OF
northern France, the pittsburgh"
or Ruhr district OF Germany, and
visited some Of the deepest mines
i The world which he found in
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18
MAYOR LIVELY ILL

Mayor Charles Lively Of Mon
ongah is seriously i'll OF Influenza
nt' his residence there. Lively is
the new Monongah mayor, having
been installed in office early in
the present year.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-18

Baris VIII u mad IA afarfe 0roreI
eemsteFy ~ enter & Ford ppsi
hlael white Md red are the
eplors Of the dag now fowni6 ~ the
German navy and fnereha ant mar.
Inc, instead of black, red and
yellow, Is formerly. 6 \
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28
YOUR HOSPITALS NEED.

Knowing the daily, almost hour
ly demands that are being made up
on each one of US, not only in the
way of charity, but in the struggle to
make ends meet in our own actual
living expenses, it seems hardly
reasonable to ask more of our peo-
ple-and yet your Hospital is daily
and hourly meeting the demands
made upon it by the sick and suffer
ing people of our county out of an
income far below the cost of caring
for it's patients. Your Treasurer
hopes next week to publish the
annual statement of the Hospitals
finances, which will show you how
far the income fell short of meeting
its necessary expenses. In the mean
time, we want to remind each one OF
you, that your Hospital will have
Donation Day, on April 9th, and
every contribution, no matter how
large or how small, will be most
gratefully received. The following
is list of the articles that are need
ed most Sheets 72x90-in.; Pillow
slips 36x36-in. Towels, bath and
face; bed spreads, 72x90-in.; blank
cts, tray covers, table covers, can
ned fruit, apples, potatoes, and pro-
visions of all kinds.
1t would be very gratifying and
encouraging to the workers in your
hospital if every friend of the hospit-
al throughout the county would
bring some token of their interest on
that day.
Charles Town General Hospital
L. c. Briscoe, Treasurer.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28
WOODROW WILSON.


would love to inscribe
An immortal name
Far higher than
A Hall of Fame,
To span the heavens
From east to west
To encircle the earth
With the brightest and best;
His matchless name
Should never cease
For that wonderful vision
Universal Peace.
All loyal Americans
Should forever raise
Highest honor and praise
To Our World War President
Through out endless days.
Contributed by Lillian Wilson
Dinkle, March goth, 1922, Charles
Town, West Virginia
At the request of friend, Miss
Dinkle sent copy of the above
rhyme with another, to Ex-President
Woodrow Wilson and on Wednesday
last, received from his Secretary, the
following communication:
2340 s. Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. c.,
March 81, 1922.
Miss Lillian Wilson Dinkle Mr..
Wilson asks me to thank you for
your courtesy in sending him copies
OF your poems, and for the generous
references to him which thew con-
tain. He is sorry to learn of the
trouble to your eyes and hopes thew
will soon be better.
Yours very truly,
John Randolf Boiling,
Secretary.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28
THE GOOD CITIZENSHIP LEAGUE

The Good Citizenship League of
Charles Town and Ransom Will hold
their next meeting In the Court
House on Thursday evening, March
30th, at o'clock. Everybody well
come. All citizens who are interest
ed in better civic conditions are
eligible for membership, it cost
nothing to join, furthermore there
will be no dues.
Hon. w. w. Glass, Mayor of Win
chester, will address the meeting, and
he will be well worth hearing.
To the men and women OF Charles
Town and surrounding community:
If you want better civic conditions
and desire to see better morals In the
community, and love, honor and re-
spect womanhood, you will want to
join this Good Citizenship League.
The prevailing impression In the
minds Of many people seems TO be
that the Good Citizenship League is
an organization of Ministers and
lutely false. The League is not an
organization OF preachers and chris
tlans, but 1t is an organizations of
citizens, regardless OF Church attin-
alton or political opinion.
You need not be a Preacher or
Christian to JOIN this organization.
However, if you are citizen and be-
heve IN better CIVIC conditions you
are eligible and welcome.
The Good Citizenship League is an
organization looking toward a gen.
eral enforcement OF the laws of our
community in more effective man
ner, and tor improvement OF moral
conditions generally.
The duties OF the Good Citizenship
League shall be to assist the town
ana county officials to remedy the
many wrongs.
Ii you love your home, your fami-
ly, and want to see Charles Town the
best town in the country to live IN,
you will be present at our next meet
ing in the Court House next Thurs
DAY evening.
Good Citizenship League of
Charles Town and Ransom.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28

two occasions the federal troops
were on duty and the virtual civil
war between operators and the union
attracted nation wide attention.
Martial law is yet employed by the
state, in Mingo county, to maintain
order.
A protest meeting against alleged
conditions in the mine fields was
held in Charleston in August, 1921.
Mob psychology got into action.
A rumbling of war appeared in the
coal camps and early in August,
miners began to assemble at Mramet,
W. Va, within a short distance of
the state capital. Little secrecy was
attached to the mobilization and
arms and supplies were brought in
openly. Newspaper men visited the
camps as did the sheriff of. Kanawha
county.
Strangely enough the authorities
sat blinking in the summer sun as the
miners gathered. When 1000 to
5000 men had modified and were
well armed a mysterious leader ap-
peared, it was announced the army
was going to Logan to "get" Don
Chain, and one of the biggest indus
trial instructions of American his
tory was underway.
A march of several thousand
miners started. They were heavily
armed, well provisioned and equip
ped for actual warfare. President
Harding dispatched war depart
ment official to Charleston, the state
capital, and after a conference with
Frank Keeney, president of District
~, United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca, the latter headed off the army al
Madison, Boone county.
Keeney addressed the vanguard OF
the miners in a baseball park. The
miners agreed to disband and &c
home. Word was sent back to the
main body that Keeney had told
them to dispense.
A couple of days later the miners
heard that Captain ]. R. Brockus,
state constabulary, and a large
force, had made raid and disarmed
some miners at Sharpies, in the heart
of the trouble zone. The raid, how,
ever, the state said was in connec.
ton with moonshining and not the
industrial dispute.
! A hurried rehabilitation occur
red. The call to arms was general
over the coal fields of southern West
Virginia. The country side was
secured for recruits and within TWEEN
ty-four hours a formidable array es
timated at 5000 armed men wa:
marching against the Logan border.
| A week of bloodshed, of terror anc
actual warfare on the Boone-Logar
border followed.
Logan county modified its forces
and an S. o. S. call to southern West
Virginia brought thousand volun-
teers. High power rifles, machine
guns and light artillery was produced
from secret hiding places.
The defenders, in sanguinary en-
counters, repealed the invaders with
heavy losses.
As trucks rushed supplies and am
munition to the thirty mile front,
airplanes circled overhead, observing
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28

the movements of the miners army
and occasionally dropping bombs to
dispense them.
The miners attacked time after
time, only to be thrown back. The
bloodiest fighting occurred at Blair
Mountain and Sharples, where deter
mined attempts were made to break
through the Logan defenses.
The last day of the 'war" party
of New York newspapermen and
press association representatives
were permitted by the miners to pass
through their lines and enter the
Logan defenses. One woman was in
the party. A New York writer was
struck by a bullet. The Logan de-
tenders thought the newspaper peo-
pie were invaders and placed them
under arrest. Their identity, having
been established, they were permit
ted to leave Logan county.
Finally the federal government
stepped into the conflict The
United States regulars arrived early
in September-it was on a Saturday
afternoon. One detachment APP
preached the miners rear in Boone
county, being rushed to the front on
troop trains. The other force went
directly to Logan county and as
sumed control there.
Sunday morning, after airplanes
had dropped messages on the miners
that the federal troops were in con-
troll, the invaders hid their arms in
the mountains and left the front on
the same train which had brought the
soldiers up.
! The actual casualties will never be
known. Logan lost three or four
men. Many charges of conspiracy
to commit murder are based upon the
killing of Deputy Sheriff John Gore
at Blair Mountain The miners
probably lost between twenty and
fifty dead and large number
wounded.
Grand juries Immediately started a
probe of the march, The most i'm
portant investigation took place in
Logan county, where more than
1000 were indicted. Among them
are Frank Keeney and Fred Mooney.
officials of District II, United Mine
Workers; Frank v. Snyder, editor of
/ 'SoJ ISucIdblOnlSC, DuDllSn-
ed at Charleston, and William Biz
card, alleged field generalissimo of
the insurrection.
The trials of these cases will take
place in the historic Court House in
old Charles Town in which John
Brown and his band of insurrec-
1 tionists were tried in December.
1859 The John Brown trials took
place within the same walls, but the
building has seen many changes
since that time, and with recent I'M
provements, is one of the most COM
modious and up-to-date Court House
In West Virginia. The building was
considerably wrecked during the war
between the states, being used as a
Tort and fired on by the cannon of
General lmboden Of the Confederate
army upon the occasion of his CAP
ture of Charles Town from the
Union forces in the fall of 1850
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28
los DEFENDANTS FROM LOGAN
COUNTY TO APPEAR FOR TRIAL
HERE APRIL "a.

Preparations are we'll under way
for the trials of the felony cases
moved here from Logan and Kama
wha counties. There have been fiji
teen indictments certified to the
Clerk of the Jefferson Circuit Court
from Logan county, and these indict-
ments contain the names of four or
five hundred of those who took part
in the attempted armed invasion of
Logan County in August last. Of
this number the cases of 105 de-
PENDANTS are set for Monday, April
"a, next, in the jefferson Circuit
Court, and the witnesses summoned
in connection with them will prob
ably run into the hundreds.
The Attorneys for the State have
not intimated which cases will be
called up first, and probably will not
do so until the day set for the trials
to commence. 1t is not known
whether any of the defendants will
be tried jointly, or all separately.
The indictments are for treason,
murder, conspiracy, &C., and it is
expected that the trials of these
cases will be the greatest Industrial
criminal hearings in modern history.
Trouble, marked by sporadic out
bursts, has been brewing many years,
since the Logan coal district was
opened.
Not long after the Logan fields
were opened, the West Virginia coal
operators charge, the mine workers
made an arrangement with the
operators of the central competitive
field-Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and
western Pennsylvania-to organize
all unorganized portions of the little
mountain state mine districts. The
conspiracy was Matched, it was
charged, because union coal could
not compete in price with non-union
coal.
The Williamson or Tug River fields
and the Logan fields have withstood
the efforts of the union.
The first big outbreak was in 1912
when Mother" Jones and war swept
into the Cabin and Paint Greek dis
tricts of Kanawha county. Many
were killed on both sides and for
months the state national guard
patrolled the region.
Comparative quiet prevailed until
1919 when the national coal strike
occurred Logan county was pro-
ducing vast quantities of non-union
coal. The result was the organizing
of miners army of strikers from
the union fields of the state, with re-
Inducements from the north The
mob swept forward against Logan
county, but prompt intervention of
the authorities brought about its dis
abandonment.
On the heels of the coal strike the
union announced it would attempt
to organize the Williamson fields, on
the Norfolk & Western railroad The
operators made a determined stand.
A year of bllood-shed, property de-
struction and terror followed. On
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28
OH MY BACK!
The Expression of Many a Kidney
Sufferer in Charles Town.


Sufferer in Charles Town.
A stubborn backache is cause to
suspect kidney trouble. When the
kidneys are lnhamed and Swollen,
stooplng brings a sharp twinge in the
small of the back, that almost takes
the breath away. Doan's Kidney
Pills revive sluggish kidneys-re-
heve aching backs. Ask your
neighbor! Here's Charles Town
proof:
A. w. Grove, 410 w. Liberty St.,
says: Il have found Doan's Kid
ney Pills to be a good remedy COM
plant and l always recommend
them. My kidneys were in such a
weak and disordered condition,
could hardly bend over, when l got
ap in the morning. During the day
| had q steady dull arhe across my
kidneys. Often when / stopped, 1
had sharp catches in the small of my
back and my kidneys did not act
right. Doan's Kidney Pills were
recommended to me and got sup
ply at Brown and Hooff's Drug
Store. They just suited my trouble
and soon had me free from back
aches and regulated my kidneys"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Grove had. Foster-Milburn
Co, Mrs. Buffalo, N. Y.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28
CONTINUE RELIEF WORK.

The car of corn sent in in Decem-
Der was credited as $500, that and
other receipts show an aggregate of
$1,903.73 to our credit. In addition,
| have sent in $51.00 from here, and
$500 from Summit Point. The
two thousand dollar quota is there
fone practically assured.
But the need is greater even than
formerly. West Virginia has fallen
down on her share of the N. E. R.
fund, owing to disturbances in her
own borders, and it behooves US to
take up the burden dropped in the
mining Districts, and continue the
work. Even Berkeley county is far
behind, and other places have made
no progress at all. Yet no one who
reads of the political status in Syria
at this moment and of the repeated
and awful massacres going on there
can feel that Christian people ought
to shut up their hearts, and refuse to
aid as far as is humanity possible,
those other Christians whose offence
is after all, the offence of the Cross.
Mr.. Lewis Froeligh, Field Agent
from the N. E. headquarters in Phil
adelphia, using Charles Town as
center, is putting Berkeley, Morgan,
jefferson, Preston and other counties
on basis of systematic relief work.
Hundreds of children in the Near
East will be taken care of by the
school children in the U. S. at q very
small cost to each contributor.
While as Chairman, feel grateful
in the extreme for the kind coopera-
ton which has made Jefferson come
splendidly to the front, do hope
and pray that there may be con-
tinued effort, and that all the Coupon
Books placed in schools and Sunday
Schools may be filed. Each repre-
sents the life of child, that child
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28
THE RATS AROUND MY PLACE
WERE WISE" SAYS JOHN
TUTHILL.

Tried everything to kill them.
Mixed poison with meal, meat,
cheese, etc. Wouldn't touch it.
Tried Rat-Snap, inside 70 ten days
got rid of all rats" You don't
have TO mix Rat-Snap with food.
Saves fussing, bother. Break a cake
of Rat-Snap, lay it where rats
scamper. You will see no more.
Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $125. Sold
and guaranteed by Brown &
Hooff and Burns & Marshall.