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from certain death at the hands of
the gum thugs.
Offer Reward for Borich,
Dead or Alive.

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Offer Reward for Borich,
Dead or Alive.
Coming on the heels of thts
latest outrage on the part of the
Operator-controlled KENTUCKY
law there is the well
Gated report that the Bell County
coal operators have offered $1,000
reward for the body of Frank
Borich, dead or alive. Evidence IN
support of this report is the fact
that carload of Harlan gun thugs
Is cruising through the streets Of
| Knoxville. One of the thugs in
the car has definitely been recOg-
niEed as the leader of the group OF
Harlan deputies who threatened TO
kill John Harvey and Frank Borich,
strike leaders, in Pineville on
Jan. g.
Weber and Duncan, on their way
to Middlesboro, Kentucky, last Fri
day night, got off the bus near Cum
berland Gap, Tennessee, to eat, hay
ing decided to walk to Cumberland
and from there to proceed TO
! Ndiddlesboro, just across the state
| line.
The restaurant owner recognized
Weber, left the restaurant for min
ute to call up the deputy shariff Of
Claiborne County, Tennessee. Sus-
picious of the restaurant owners
manner, Weber and Duncan decided
to leave, but were met at the door
by the deputy sheriff with drawn
pistol in his hand. The deputy sheriff
told Weber and Duncan that they
were being arrested for the reward
that was in It," He then handcuffed
them.
The reference to the reward was
apparently caused by the deputy's
mistaken belief than Duncan was
Frank Borich, and is further cor
roboration of the report of the re-
ward for Borich.
The deputy sheriff then called up
the Harlan County authorities and
told them: I'VE have got your two
men" Weber and Duncan demanded
extradition papers. The deputy
sheriff, stumped for a minute, de-
Cided to let them call UP the Ten
nessee miners relief office. This &C.
ton unquestionably saved their lives,
Tor while Weber was at the tele-
phone the shariff of Claiborne County
entered the restaurant and pulled
Weber from the telephone. The dep
uty sheriff and the sheriff kept
Weber and Duncan in the restau-
rant for two hours until the Harlan
gun thugs arrived.
The thugs put Weber and Duncan
in car and drove them into Harlan,
where they awakened q score OF
thugs, all Of whom then held a con-
sultation- The thugs thereupon put
Weber and Duncan in q car, drove
them to g. lonely spot in the road.
The thugs got out, made six-foot
clubs from thick branches, stripped
Weber and Duncan to the waist and
beat them into insensibi1ity.
The last thing they remembered
was being hit over the head with
= soft but heavy object, either q,
sand bag os rubber hose. As
dawn came an approaching auto
mobile picked them up and took
them to Appelachia, Virginia,
whers Duncan has friends, They
went to the home Of these friends
and they were nursed until YES
terday, wher they left for Knoz-
vile.
The Knoxville News Sentinel cay
RED a special edition on tbs escape
from death Of Weber and Duncan
They carried photographs Of Weber,
showing black and blue welts two
feet long on his back
Assistant Attorney General Boyd,
sent by Governor Horton Of Ten
nessee to investigate the ddnap-
ping" is trying to wl1itewash the at
fair by saying that the Harlan au-
thorities deny the kidnapping and
the brutal beating. He questioned
Weber as to whether he was
miner. Weber told him he mined
coal for eight years, and, in fighting
with the Kentucky miners, he was
fighting his own battle,
1.-THE Tennessee officials are
aiding the Kentucky gun thugs in
trying TO murder the strike lead
ers" Weber told Boyd. Every
thing is being done by the coal
operators and the Tennessee and
Kentucky state and county officials
to break the strike.
scMil1ions OF dollars are being
squandered by the Horton admin
istratton in Tennessee while the
unemployed who demand unem-
ployment insurance are starving"
A mass demonstration WAS hel5 in