Evening star., 1933-07-29
SOLDIERS ARE SENT
INTO COAL FIELDS
.Pinchot Acts to QueII Trouble
When Sheriff Refuses
to Admit Police.
Continued From First Pase)

&C.y
at Mount Gretna, Summer encamp-
ment Of the National Guard, and start
ed for Brownsville.
Battalion From Erie.
The troops comprise the I'd Battalion,
112th Infantry, in command Of Mai.
Kenneth Momeyer. The battalion is
from Erie, Pa. Military authorities say
they expect the troops will arrive about
10 am, eastern standard time).
The Governors action climaxed bit
ter clash of authority with Sheriff
Hackney on the sheriff's fiat refusal to
remove his deputies from the strike area
at the Governors request, and followed
personal conversation with Hackney
by long distance telephone in the early
morning hours.
Meantime $4,000 to 10000 miners
seeking to enforce union recognition,
are on strike. More than 20 mines are
shut down in the Brownsville area. Ten
casualties have resulted from sporadic
rifle and pistol fire and violence in
clashes between deputies and pickets
within the last four days.
Pinchot Statement.
Gov Pinchot said, after issuing orders
/ to dispatch State troops to the scene:
Having learned from press sources
| that Sheriff Hackney has wired me
refusing my offer to take charge of
| the strike area and thus prevent vio-
lence, I called him by telephone about
o'clock this morning and laid this
definite proposal before him:
| If he would make way for the State
police by taking out his deputies, whose
handling Of the strike already has led
to so much violence. I would send the
police in at once in sufficient force to
maintain order.
If he would not. would send in
the National Guard The sheriff re-
| fused to withdraw his deputies and
have ordered in the Guard"
| Sheriff Hackney, at Uniontown. after
! the telephone conversation. said he
would. under the circumstances. re-
lease my authority, but only under
martial law"
| He said the Governor, according to
| law, is entirely in control of the situa-
ton. He said he had considered ap-
| peaGng the matter to President Rcose-
welt, but that such an appeal now
would be out of the way"
The sheriff ordered his deputies to
take the field at am. and enforce
orders he has issued against forming
groups on State highways, and said the
deputies would be withdrawn on the
arrival of State troops.
MY position is clearly stated in my
telegram to the Governor" Hackney
said. Under the circumstances I have
| done all I can. 1t is plain the Gov
error meant he would be in control.
/ He is"
Physicians early today gave up hope
! for the life of one sheri1's deputy
wounded in the mine disorders. He is
! Mike Joyce, who suffered fractured
/ skull in a clash at the Colony No.
Mine of the H. c. Frick Coke Co. two
critical condition.
/ Machine Guns Carried.
I Included in the battalion Of troops
sent to Brownsville are five companies.
including machine gun outfit. A bat
| talon section of the regular service
company in charge of supplies and
! transportation and a battalion section
i of the regimental medical detachment
are attached
Each company's regular rife equip
ment is supplemented by four machine
rifles. .30-caliber weapon. rapid fire
designed 1or prore-posltlon use.
| Only half the usual number of pickets
i were seen in the vicinity Of the mines
early today None of the mines was
operating. general closure following
Gov Pinchot's move last night In re-
calling State troopers another quick de-
! velopment in the fast t-moving coal field
( drama.
Sheriff Hackney. in his telegram to
Gov. Pinchot which precipitated the
sending of State troops, outspokenly
scored the executive for calling the
State police of duty.