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...eleven months in 1924-25, Harlan Fiske Stone introduced a period of zealous prosecuting efficiency in the Department of Justice, even going so far as to press for antitrust investigation of Aluminum Co. of America, dominated by the family of his Cabinet colleague, Andrew Mellon. Mr. Stone was soon kicked upstairs to the Supreme Court and law enforcement became a subordinate job of the D. o. J. for the next 14 years until righteous Frank Murphy came along. There has been plenty of kicking in the Department since his appointment last January, but the kicker has been Frank Murphy...
Longest and liveliest part of the story tells of Glenn's shattering experiences as a Red trade-union organizer in a Southern coal strike (resembling that of Harlan County in 1931). When two deputies are shot, mass arrests hit both the Red union and its rival. Glenn, who is nearly killed by vigilantes, urges a united-front defense. But Comrade Silverstone, of Manhattan, sneers: "There's too much of the artist in you, Sandy." Silverstone says they will take care of their own comrades, let the others, who are "politically undeveloped," take care of themselves. Their own comrades...
...HARLAN, Ky.--The Black Mountain Corporation, operating two soft coal mines at Kenvir, Ky., today signed a union shop contract involving 1,150 men with the United Mine Workers of America...
...rich Grandfather Warren Delano had anthracite holdings in eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later to be called "bloody" for its bitter strikes and brutal strikebreaking. His point: Franklin Roosevelt knows about coal mine management from personal experience...
...HARLAN, Ky.--Coal mining operations were resumed in scattered sections of Harlan County today under the watchful eyes of heavily armed National Guardsmen who clashed twice with United Mine Workers pickets but otherwise held violence to a minimum...