Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
COAL FIELDS HOPE
FOR EARLY: ACCORD
Feeling Grows Code Action
Will Send 10000 or More
Back to Work.

by the Associated Press.
UNIONTOWN, Pa, September Is
With II men wounded in clashes be-
tween striking miners and deputy
sheriffs, the embattled bituminous coal
fields today look hopefully to Wash
ington for an early accord on work.
ing code for the industry.
Amid tension intensified by increas-
ing additions to the ranks of the work.
ers ON holiday" the feeling grew that
adoption of code By tonight will send
between 10000 and 10000 miners back
to the Southwestern Pennsylvania pits
at orice.
To preserve order in the Fayette
County section, where yesterdays vio-
lence broke out, Gov. Clifford Pinchot
sent reinforcementS of SO State police
into the field, changing his previous
plans to call out $50 National Guards
men.
The guardSmen, however. are held
in readiness at Erie and York.
Change in Policy Denied.
The so State police joined about a
score of others who have been on duty
since local union leaders called the
holiday in protest against delay in
Stephen RauShenbush, one of the
Governors representatives in the strike
area-scene of disorders in which one
man was slain last month-Said chang
ing from the Militia to the State police
meant no change in Pinchot'S policies"
The Governor wants it clearly I'M
derstood," said Raushenbush, that the
change of policy in having the State
police instead of Militia on duty does
not change any policies as far as the
protection of the lives and rights of
strikers is concerned"
Pinchot in last months strike, after
q dispute with Fayette County Sheriff
Harry E. Hackney, over policing of the
strike zone, stressed the point that he
meant to protect the strikers as well as
to preserve order.
Hope Trouble Will End.
Roushenbush said it is the Governors
opinion that if the code is signed and
approved by tonight, the trouble will
end Immediately.
While Fayette County remains the
center of the embattled area, "sympa-
thy holidays" are being declared in In
diana and Cambria Counties, as we'll
as in the adjoining counties OF Wash
ington, Greene, WeStmoreland, Allie
gheny and Somerset.
No disorders marked the return to
work today of handful of men at the
Edenborn Mine, an H. G. Prick Co.
colliery where pickets and deputies
clashed yesterday.
About 100 strikers gathered along
the highway outside the mine, but with
a half dozen State troopers on duty,
they made no move to prevent malnte-
nance men and a few laborers from
entering. =,
AS the night shift came out, the
picketS shouted:
Did you leave your guns in the
mine?'-a reference to strikers charges
that the men were carrying guns as
they entered the pits last night:
At the Gates mine, another FLICK COL
liery, where the shooting took place yes
terday, no miners appeared for duty
and only four picketS we're on the scene.
Offices of the Prick Co. reported that
Joe Beranek. assistant foreman OF the
Prick mine at Norwood, in Westmore-
land County, shot Carl Stohl, 80, in
the leg today after Stohl and two other
pickets tried to prevent him from gong
to work.
Their version of the affair is that
Stohl and two companions halted Ber-
anek and that the latter returned nome,
got gun, went back to the mine, was
stopped again and during scufne' sho'
Stohl in the leg.
Stohl is in a hospital at Mount
Pleasant.
The Norwood mine is operating
normally.
C. H. Bubyauger, 81, was beaten and
seriously injured by three men, who
waylaid him en- route to work at the
Edenborn mine shortly after S am.
Bubyauger said two men held him
while the third beat him with a rock
and club. They fled as an automobile
approached The motorist took the
injured man home