The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-10
SIXTEEN ARE
ARRESTED IN
Mine CLASH
Union Leaders Defend
PicketS at John Bull and
Sergeant Shafts.
BOTH GROUPS ACCUSE
Unorganized Workers Said
to Have Been Seen
Armed.

Armed.
Labor trouble at two southern In
diana coal mines has resulted in
arrest of sixteen persons on assault
and battery charges. Warrants have
been issued for two more, a man
and wife.
Governor Harry G. Leslie has re-
ceived appeals from officials of
Warrick county, in which the mines
are located. Sheriff George Ward
of the county is said to have in
formed the Governor that he needs
more deputiec. 10 control the sit
uation, but that he can not hire
them because the county council
refuses to appropriate funds.
Although no stand by orders
have been issued, it was learned at
the acknowledgements office today
that if need arises for troops in
the Warrick county field, the First
battalion, One hundred fifty-Second
infantry of Evansville and possibly
planes from the One hundred thir-
tenth Observation squadron, Mars
Hill airport, Indianapolis, will be
sent to the scene.
Adjutant- General Manford G..
Henley has been in communication
with Major Robert l.. StillWell of the
First battalion at Evansville, formu-
lating plans for use if an emergency
arises.
Eight men were taken into Gus
today at Boonville following a clash
between union and nonunion work
erS at the John Bull mine. These
held are Andy and Joe Collins,
Glen Williams, Ed Spencer, John
Enlow, Ed Anderson, Clyde King,
and Raymond Sloan. The man and
wife are wanted in this case. Those
held are said to be union pickets.
Russell Hawkins, nOnunion work.
ers at the mine, has told authorities
that union men gathered on road
near the mine and stoned his auto
mobile while he was en- route to
work.
Asserts Pickets Unarmed
However, the nonunion men are
declared by Edward Stamps, union
worker, to have been the agrees
sors.
MANY Of the nonunion workers
we're seen carrying guns as they ap-
preached the union picket line"
Stamps asserts, land l am sure not
one of the picket group carries
weapons"
In the second case, eight men are
charged with attacking Glenn Doane,
superintendent, and Jacob Har-
grave, engineer, at Sergeant Mine 2
at Newburg. Those accused are Unie
Posey, Thomas Hadley, Henry Bice,
Chester Lynch, Jack Washington,
Richard Kennedy, Lark Spradley
and John Joseph Jr.
The charges are denied by Thomas
Rowe, president of Newburg local,
United Mine Workers of America,
and by William Stamps and A. r.
Seals, union miners. Rowe says that
instead of an attack by forty men
as had been reported, only one union
picket was involved.
Picketing Held Legal
Rowe's statement follows:
1.-The same union picket line that
has formed off mine property for
the last three weeks since miners
struck for better conditions formed
Thursday morning. 1t is their GUS
tom each morning to talk to the
nonunion mine laborerS as they
come to work and attempt to con-
vert them to the miners cause.
when Willard Mcmillan, mine
boss, got off the traction car near
the mine he was addressed by the
pickets. Doape was on mine prop
erty and called to Mcmillan to hur-
ry to work. When the boss con-
tinued to talk, Doane left the mine
property and in threatening man
ner approached the picketS and at
tempted to intimidate them. He
attacked the man talking to Nc
MILAN and was beaten by that man
alone. The picketS did not club him.
Miners are given the right, under
the laws of Indiana, to carry on
peaceful picketing off mine property
in the cause of the organization.
Three mines are operating with
union men in this vicinity. They
are the Monroe House Coal Com
pany, the Dewey Willy Company,
Paradise, and the Hillenhrand Coal
Company, near Sharon. There are
40 members of the Newburg local