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FEAR OUTBREAK BY MINERS AT BENTON PARLEYOfPrecautions Are Taken to Guard Pres. Lewis There Tomorrowth; Springfield. 111. Aug. 1 - ■ AP—‘ | District President John H. Walker undlscouraged by the demonstration that prevented him from addressing a meeting of miners on behalf of the new mine wage scale at Johnston City, announced today h” would speak at Noko-mis in Montgomery county tonightThe meeting at Nokomis is sponsored by sub-district officers there. Walker said as far as he knew, he was not scheduled to address Johnston City miners to- ; I] day and was not planning a trip fj to Franklin county. He maintain- | ed silence about the Johnston City disturbance in which his automo- I bile was stoned Saturday.Wednesday afternoon he plans! to address a meeting of miners favorable to the scale in Taylor- j ville. Union officials here said an anti-scale demonstration was al-so planned there for this week. A mass meeting of scale objectors in the Springfield sub-district, has been called for Thursday.Renton, 111., August 1 — (AP— With an atmosphere of unrest hanging heavily over this section of the southern Illinois coal belt, county officers today were prepared to take stern measures to guard John L. Lewis. International President of the United Mine Workers who is schedued to talk here tomorrow afternoon on the proposed new wage contract which supplants the contract rejected by miners several weeks ago.County authorities seeking to prevent repetition such as the reception accorded state President John H. Walker, at Johnston City Saturday when he was atoned from the platform by alleged radi- jj* cal miners, have sworn in many * miners friendly to Lewis as Deputy Sheriffs to help preserve order. Members of the Stanley McCollum Post of the American Legion have likewise been sworn tn as Deputy Sheriffs.20,000 ExpectedIt is expected approximately 20,000 miners from all sections of the state will hear Lewis.Pat Ansboury. recently elected president of local union 4173 (New Orient), the largest miners’ local j“ in the world, but W'ho has not been seated owing to a controversy regarding his ineligibility to ,a ; hold the office inasmuch as he is a board member, today asked the j miners to show President Lewis every courtesy g j “I am not advising miners to ie’ J attend this meeting/’ Ansboury f' said, “but in the event they do 1C attend. I ask them, in all fair- (^ j ness, to give Lewis the right ofj1 j free speech We w'ould like to L( r_ J hear cur international president |r. j,j give his 'irie of the wage controv-Id jersy and there we, the union, will 7 0f ! present our side of the question, j lfjc — — tvj. INI). TROOPS \SKEI)Terre Haute, Ind. Aug 1 — (AP) jn ip 1 - -Vigo County officials awaited j ns today, reaction of Governor Harry t s. iG. Leslie to a request for National If, p. Guardsmen to maintain order at L us the Dixie Bee coal mine south of j here, w'here presence of union pic-| kets numbering up to 3.000 have U for three days caused suspension 11 of operations. j *j The Governor could not be jc j reached last night, and it was not j t j learned whether he had received jg | the request, telegraphed by Prose- ? I eutor Charles C. Whitlock and j v SheifT Joe Dreher, H^ was said] to be at Dunes park in northern t Indiana. gStarting last Thursday, each ji morning pickets at the non-union 1 I shaft have prevented, temporarily, jf j entrance of the day shift andl departure of the night workers, j Interference with operation of 1 e j the mine is forbidden bv a feder- j 5-al curt injunction, and about 170 t miners are now- facing charges of 1 j contempt of court for alleged vio- i c j lations. There has been no open^ 6 when about 1.200 men «ur- (—udrd it and severely beat. a nber of workers and officers of j 1rrvmnarsvgs
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Dixon Evening Telegraph
Dixon, Illinois, US
Mon, Aug 01, 1932
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