The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

Miller drew his gun and shot
Simms in the abdomen. Lawson
was unframed. The two deputies
roughly dragged Simms to the
railroad car and threw him on it
and then continued on to Artemus
where they jailed Lawson on a
gun-carrying charge while they al
lowed Simms to lie bleeding on the
ground. Simms was permitted to
lie bleeding profusely for more
than an hour before the two gun
thugs carried him to the local hos
pital in Barbourville. An opera
tion was performed on him two
hours later but the heavy bullets
had perforated too many tissues to
permit him to live.
While he was dying in the hos
pital he was tortured by the cross
! examination of the District After
ney of Knox County but refused
to answer any of his questions. He
lapsed into Inconsistencies to-
ward the end and although he was
family revived by Two blood trans
fusions, but died without recover
ing consciousness.
He was cold-bloodedly murdered
by the gun thugs at the order Of
the coal operators for his devotion
to the fight against hunger and
; terrorism.
Criminal syndicalism warrants
have been issued for the remain
: der of the strike leadership not yet
: in Jail. Only mass defense guards
: prevented hundreds from being
= wounded and killed on demonstra-
ton day before yesterday.
Pineville residents estimate that
about half of the towns populs-
tion of 5000 were deputized and
provided with guns to smash the
= demonstration that had been call
4 ed jointly by the Workers Interna-
4 tional Relief, the National Miners
Union and committee of some Of
the most famous writers in the
- United States to test the elemen-
tary rights of the miners to as
semble and receive relief collected
in by and from the American work
a ing class through the Kentucky
er Tennessee Relief Committee by
the w. l. r.
I'd Even high school boys of six
S: teen and seventeen were provided
he with revolvers and deputies insig-
If. MIA. Machine guns were placed
Of around the court house jutting
of out from every angle. One depu-
st ", a boy, scarcely out Of his
ed lnickers, dropped a As revolver
DIS when he stopped to pick up a
cigarette.
er The huge show of armed force
in served but to increase the Assem-.
he blage of the miners, many o.
M whom walked more than ten miles
ng to Pineville when they heard depu
he ties would try to break up a.
Is meeting.
ne Not less than 500 and probabl!
he more than 1000 Bell County po
ed lice and deputized gun thugs yes
ad terday tried unsuccessfully t
me smash the demonstration of 500
,ad miners who had started gathering
he at the outskirts Of Pineville at
till o'clock in the morning, despite tn
terrier, perhaps unparalleled in tn
i'd history Of the American labo
est movement.
ia, During the course Of the demon
na- stration % local strike leader
I'M, were arrested as was the 19-year
op. old wife Of strike leader.
the The entire COMMITTEES of famou
or writer's and Doris Parkers, locs
Of secretary of the Kentucky ennes
is see Workers international Relic
of Waldo Frank, chairman Of tn
writers committee and Alan TAU
ers international Labor Defense Law
a. year, were brutally slugged. FraR
I'M suffers a possible conclusion (
ing the brain and Taub's nose wa
nm broken.
zed Nineteen of the strike leader
ate who included most of the Centr
of Relief Committee were arrested
raid by deputies on the w. /.
the relief warehouse in the course
nd which the warehouse was demo
bid ished and food and clothing d
strOyed.