The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-13
GRAND JURY
FOR YOUNG
MINERS CRY
Coal DiggGTS InGenSed BY
LaWIGSS Raids
CspseIaI to Ths DaIIy work.r,


HERRIN, ILL.,, Feb. PA
grand jury investigation of S.
Glenn Young and the Ku Klux
Klan" is the demand of the
miners here since Young has
been deposed and some sem
blance of civil liberty restored
with the reinstatement of Chief
Of Police Ford known to be
friendly to labor. A grand jury
may be convened.
The Klan booze raids under
the leadership of Young who adj
mits receiving $4,000 from the
Klan have been a thinly camou-
fiaged attack on the foreign
born miners of this vicinity. The
dethronement of Young and his
klansmen is the direct result of
, the miners threat to strike if the
terrorism of the khan was not stopped
by state authority. Most of the min
ers are hostile to the khan.
The militiamen from Carbonate
and the surrounding territory were
friendly to the khan and tolerated
its dictatorship. Before the arrival
of General Foreman from Chicago
the national guardsmsn, We're intol-
erably insolent to the miners.
s. Glenn Young, Khan Rnnpinted
aictatcr at Bloody Herriu, ~ IDS
/, missed from the prohibition enforce
men service in December, 1920, for
"acts unbecoming an officer" records
at prohibition headquarters in Wash
ington disclosed today.
Young was a prohibition agent
from January to December, 1920.
He was attached to the supervising
prohibition agents office for the CEN
trail department, including Wiscon-
sin, Illinois and Indiana.
Young, the records show, is a ma
tive Of North Carolina. Officials
here would not reveal what acts
caused Young's dismissal from serv-
ice. He never served in Washing
ton, but had headquarters in Chi
cago.
This Mussolini Abdicates.
Especial to The Daily Worker,
HERRIN, ILL.,, Feb. 12.-S. Glenn
Young abdicated from the dictator
ship Of Bloody Herrin" today and
civil authorities are again in power.
On Saturday, Young, gun-toting
Khan employee, declared himself ruler
Of Herrin, taking the place Of the
chief Of police.
Major-General Foreman, In a pub
lie proclamation, announced the civil
authorities of the county would be
allowed to continue but that the
troops would remain to assist them.
Danger Of further immediate out
breaks in the war between Ku Klux
Khan forces and anti-Klansmen
seemed averted.
Young left his barricaded and for
titled headquarters in the city hall,
where he has been chief Of police,
judge and jury, and returned to his
home in Marion, as General Fore
man today posted a proclamation
saying:
Hereafter, wearing or carrying Of
firearms or other weapons by any
but duly authorized officers of the
law is prohibited, and troops are
instructed to confiscate all firearms
and weapons so carried and to hold
the offenders for appropriate ac-
ton"
Threat Of a miners strike against
the Khan dictatorship is believed re-
sponsible for the speedy disarming
Of Young's forces.
Young Without Authority.
Without mentioning Glenn Young,
the order laid down the law against
the man who became dictator by
virtue Of the backing of several hun
dred armed deputies, Klansmen,
after arresting the sheriff, the mayor
Of Herrin, and most Of the sheriff's
deputies:
"Only such persons as arc legally
elected or appointed will be permit
ted to exercise the functions of dep
uty sheriff, police officer or other
peace officer, and all appointments
for special deputy sheriffs and spe-
cial police officers heretofore made
are hereby revoked ana annul,ed."
Adjutant General Carlos Black
told General Foreman he knew of
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