The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-30
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CREE DISTRICT G
Two Companies, Quietly
obiIized, Reach Scene
Early This Morning


Early This Morning
CHARLESTON, June so.-(By
The Associated Press. 1.-TWO com
panies o. the National Guard were
sent into the Cabin Creek ana
Paint Creek districts today to break
up an expected march. against
mines on Cabin Creek which had
been Operating on an open shop
basis. The troops were mobtlized
and dispatched on order OF Gov
seTnors Morgan after he received re
ports that bodfes%of men were gath
sering#onSP Paint Creek and marching
toward Dry Branch, Cabin Creek.
Resid ents ofsDry Branch report
led that there had been no fighting
or 9th er d disorder but that yester-
day about seventy five men gath
gered on Paint Creek and started to
being known how many others
might have joined the marchers
3sssoIi&the way. Last night these men
sEereSreported to be on the property
ssofs the Dry Branch Coal Co., about
two miles from the mining camp,
and Lieut.. Mack B. Lilly of the
State Police with about fifty men,
including the State Police in that
section #und er his command and
number OF volunteers from the Dry
Branch camps went into the hills
.atosneett them. No firing or ether
Of fighting had been
heard from XII that direction this
morning Decision to dispatch the
sguar1smen was reached at con-
ference about midnight at Gov
8ernorE Morgan's office, at which
8Adjutant General ]. II. Charnock
and Col. Jackson Arnold, head OF
the State Police, We're present. The
governor and others participating
Fin TIL conference were unwilling
to say What transpired, or what oc.
seasioned calling the troops, except
For the statement that no actua!
outbreak; had occurred.
sS5S However, a midnight call for the
niembers of the two local com
spanies Of the guard was sent out,
and he M en- were routed from Their
beds and sfrom social affairs and
olsiilfzed at the National Guard
sIlaadquarters. One incident OF the
zeal. was appearance of two guards.
men in uniform at a dance at the
Sspnn TRY Club, where eight members
he guard We're summoned from
st the ess dance floor to JON the forces
tlle arnlory.
eoEnrs an 9, I5oth Infantry. with
va Fo oil Of three officers and fifty
nine men and Company d of the
saE1esregStn ent, a machine gun unit,
with Earou of three officers and
fty.1nen. the only National Guard
organizations at the capital, were
Bl1obllized in short order and set out
for the Cabin Creek District by
automobile about $3.50 a. m. They
sWeEeS1ed by Adjutant General Char
mock and were accompanied by
Colonel Arnold with thirteen mem
abers55of the State Police and ten
deputy sheriffs. About thirty auto
mo iles hastily gathered conveyed
Sthegparty, which was reported about
$50 clock toShave4 reached Ha1dley
abroad junction about twenty
five miles from here and further
east than Cabin Creek. There i
had started into the hills apnarent-
81 with the intention of coming IN
behind the marchers in The To',eh
country between Faint and CaDi;
8tc-eekss Dry Branch residents he
slieNe the march to have been d
&Tected against the mines OF the DIV
Branch Coal Co.. and those of the
Branch Mining Co. and tbs
gCoal Burg Co1liery Co. at Ronda
NEARBY, The Dry Branch Co. opor-
gates three mines at Dry BrarcN
SiS:hich have been conducted on open
shop basis since January I, and
nov employ about fifty men The
Wet Branch Mining Co has two
5nlinas at Dry Branch. and the Coal
ssburg Colliery Co., two mines at
Ron a. all Of which have been in
soperation as open shops.
bilization of the guardsnlen
here lh5eel,e and their departure was eff
$fected with minimum of excite
mentss 50 that few outside of the
relatives and friends of the men
SsWho had been called out knew of
stlle nights Developments. After
the confer ence with state officials
which esulted III the call for
troop Governor Morgan returned
stoshis 5one ard went to bed, with
cut g;vin S.any sta teneut as to his
els Ion to#ca,. ont the guard or
/ the Teposts from the trouble zone
which led TO that call.