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...that," replied the company-hired police chief of Lynch, a company-owned coal town in Harlan County, Ky. "It would mean a Senate investigation and we can't stand that...
...United Mine Workers organizer testified at a Senate investigation last week that he had overheard this conversation in a hotel two years ago, during a U. M. W. drive to organize Harlan County's miners. That drive failed, as union attempts to get a foothold in "Bloody Harlan" have always failed. But last week there was a new tide in Harlan history, and the feudal sway of Capital over one of the world's richest bituminous coal fields seemed about to end. U. M. W. had put 20 organizers in the field on the heels of the Supreme...
Alarming even to tourist-hardened Capitol police looked the men from Harlan's hills-tall, muscular, hip-swinging deputy sheriffs in broad-brimmed black hats and uncomfortable store clothes, scrawny miners in patches. A search revealed several with empty pistol holsters slung under their armpits. But the real bosses of Harlan County were not in evidence. Only about one-third of its coal is mined by local owners. The rest, including "captive" mines whose corporate owners consume their entire output, belongs to outside capital. Biggest captive-mine owner is U. S. Steel Corp., others include Ford (whose mines...
Free to set their own wage scale, Harlan operators claim to follow approximately the standard set by U. M. W. and the Appalachian Conference of operators (TIME, April 12). But Marshall Musick, a frail, sad-eyed union organizer whose .home was riddled with bullets one night last February, killing his son and seriously wounding his wife, told the Committee about the strings to that. Harlan miners, said he, average about $75 per month. Of this, 15% is deducted for rent on company-owned houses, fees to company-hired physicians, contributions to company burial funds. After an additional sum has been...
...keep their employes from organizing to better themselves, Harlan operators have organized a County Association. Conveniently hazy about details, the Association's Secretary George B. Ward blandly informed his Senate inquisitors: "I haven't kept records because I've been expecting an investigation like this for three or four years." One of the biggest expenditures last year was $8,000 for "expenses" paid to a deputy sheriff named Ben Unthank, regularly on the Association payroll at $150 per month. Secretary Ward professed total ignorance of what Deputy Unthank did with the money...