The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-11
% ORDERED
ARRESTED AS
MINE Rioters
State Takes Hand on Dana
Mob; Worker Owners
Upheld.
FELONY CHARGED TO 2
Spokesman for Victims in
Hiding: Union Aids
investigators.

hiIlQdFliS LOT IDIIN N-itG dlieGe0
members OF the mob which assaulted
the miners operating the worker
owned Bono Coal Company mine
near Dana have been sworn out and
arrests are being made. George w.
Hufsmith deputy attorney general,
assigned TO investigate the riot of
june g. announced upon his return
tn the StatehOuse today.
Two OF the warrants charge Neal
Beam and Thomas Sharp with
felonies and the others are misde-
neanor charges. All of the group
are said 10 be Vermilion county
Miners, identified by the mine war
victims. whom they are said TO have
badly beaten because Of objection
to the plan of non-union operation
which prevails at the mine.
They were ordered rounded up
and prosecuted by Governor Harry
q Leslie, VINO called Sheriff Harry
Newiand and Prosecutor Homer D.
Ingram into his office to hear the
mobbed miners complaints. The
Governor declared then that "Shere
shall be no mob rule in Indiana
Forced From Mine
Hmsnlith End Merle Wall, deputy
attorney general, we're assigned 10
assist the local authorities in the
roundup. The cases will be tried
IN Vermillion circuit court during
the fall term. Hufsmith said.
Beam and Sharp are alleged to
have stood at the mine shaft when
the miners emerged, after tine fan
had been shut off and armed and
masked, turned the emerging miners
over to the mob. The others charged
we're alleged mob members.
James Ewing, spokesman for the
group which complained TO Leslie,
asking protection, is missing from
his home at Dana, Hufsmith reports
He said that Mrs. Ewing is tin1id
about telling OF his whereabouts for
fear of his life.
He is vice president of the Bono
mine and a miner with years of
service III the Dana fields He, as
well as other worker-owners of the
mine, formerly we're union miners.
Clinton Favors Mob
Oficials of the United Mine
Workers told the Governor that the
union never approved any violence
and would cooperate in seeing JUS
tice done.
The Worker-oWned mine Is oper
ated on a $3.50 daily wage scale,
while the union scale is $50 If
profitable and paid for. the miners
will receive dividends in addition
to their wages.
Sentiment in Clinton. mining
town, is with the miner mob, it is
reported. while around Newport, the
county seat. the reverse is true. since
this is a farming community.
HufSnith reported an incident OF
the Clinton sentiment where a
woman was ordered TO resign q po-
sition in a local bakery, where she
had worked six years, because her
husband was a miner at the Bono
mine.
Miners Resume Work
The mine was to open today and
return of Ewing was expected. HUFF
smith said. It is thought that he
may have been threatened and or
dered to leave town and stay out
The prosecutor is investigating this
angle. according to the deputy at
torney- general
HufSmith expects 20 return there
next week and continue a check on
the licenses Of the cars OF the mob
members. Some are said to have
been from Herrin. Ill. scene OF a
bloody mine war. which U. NJ. W. A.
officials attribute TO the reds