The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-12
HERRIN Under
MARTIAL LAW,
YOUNG is OUT
Troops and Khan Are PatTOIIIng
the Streets
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of a strike of several thousand
coal miners further compli-
Gated the situation today.
Members of the United Mine
Workers of America declared
they would not tolerate klans-
men in their ranks. Many Of
the miners are klansmen and
the bulk of the miners are said
to be ready to strike until the
klansmen are ousted.
Adjutant General Carlos
Black is determined there shall
be no repetition of the massa-
ere of June, 1922, when 25
union and non-union miners
were slain.
Herrin is under military law
which differs from martial law in that
the military is not in absolute con-
troll Of the town. Under military rule
the troops are technically subordinate
to the civil authorities.
Limited military rule was extended
to Marion and johnson City.
Three corapaIlleS, ytyy1lsr,T +oesiFas
cavalry, were quaf1ens1 in ~, sicin9,soi7
City. and four are held at Marion
where an armed guard was stationed
over the county Jail where Mayor A.
G. Anderson of Herrin, and IA
known anti-Klansmen are held on
charges of completely in the murder
Of Caesar eagle, Khan leader, Friday
night.
Sheriff George Galligan, who called
the troops here following the Staying
of eagle and the shooting Of Deputy
Sheriff John Layman, was held cap
tive in the city hall here by the fol-
lowers Of S. Glenn Young, dictator
Of Herrin. Galligan was arrested
for the murder. Young has taken
over the Office of chief of police here.
Military Opposes Young.
S. Gem Young, prohibition car
of Williamson County," and acting
chief of police of Herrin, today was
deposed by the military.
Major General Milton Foreman,
arriving here with 1000 state militia
men from Chicago, notified the for
mer prohibition agent he was ousted.
Two automatics strapped about his
waist and several hundred Ku Klux
Klansmen under his orders, S. Glenn
Young, dominated Herrin today.
Two Klansmen with machine guns
were stationed in front Of the city
hall, where Young established HIM
self after usurping the job of chief
of police.
Sheriff A Prisoner.
Sheriff George GalIigan, arrested
on Young's orders, was held a pris-
oner in the basement of the same
building. Young refused to turn him
over to the acting sheriff, Coroner
William McCown.
Young's Klansmen and tlv seven
companies of state troops CHARTERED
here are patrolling the city separate
| ly without recognizing each other.
Many miners were loafing about
the streets today. They were talk
mostly about Young. The troops
have been called out by violence six
times in the last fifty years, but only
once has there been Glenn Young.
Miners Are Idle.
! All Of the coal mines in Little
Egypt" reported "work today" but
many Of the miners didn't work.
They came to Herrin to see what was
doing
Adjutant General Carlos Black is
here, but no action TO establish COM
plete martial law has been taken.
General Milton Foreman, arriving
here this afternoon with the 132nd
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take charge OF all troops, and prob
ably will take positive action to quiet
the bitter hatred between drys and
wets.Klans and anti-Klans, that broke
out Friday night in half dozen gun
battles, the death Of Constable Gaze
sar eagle, Khan leader, and the criti-
cal wounding of Deputy Sheriff John
Layman, anti-Klan chief.
Brigadicr General Milton J. Fore
man arrived today with 1000 men Of
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