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...second Herrin trial is on. The witnesses for the prosecution and the defense have assembled, the jury is chosen and the judge has made his opening statement. Again the lines of battle in the class war are sharply drawn; the zero hour is about to strike, and once more the nation will listen to the citizens of Herrin-farmers, strikebreakers, tradesmen, victims of the mob, union miners-as they reconstruct the massacre in which 22 strikebreakers and mine guards lost their lives...
...June in the mining town of Herrin, Illinois. There is a coal strike on and all the mines are shut down. It is peaceable, good-natured, loafing summer strike, with none of the strife and bitterness of the cold weather conflicts in the coal industry. At the Lester strip mine all is quiet. Then one day strangers begin to appear in the town. They come in motor trucks and by train. They are armed and wear police badges. Others follow them, and all at once the Lester mine commences a feverish production. For a day or two nothing happens...
...literature" of a sort, and some one has said, "literature is a criticism of life." If the modern successors of Poe are still popular, there must be a reason for it. If men still want to know that 57 lynchings were recorded during the year 1922, that the Herrin murderers are to be punished, and that two men were tortured in the Mer Rouge outrage, it must be the fault of "life", and not primarily of literature. One optimistic critic offers the suggestion that it is not even a "fault" really. Men read of murders because their own daily life...
HARVARD BOSTON UNIVERSITY., Conion, s.s., s.s., Hartnett Thayer, l.f. l.f., Williamson Captain Emmons, 2b. 2b., Wagner Owen, 1b. 1b., Captain Miller Buell, 3b. 3b., Lord Janin or Crocker, r.f. r.f., Colby Crocker or Hallock, c.f. c.f., Furniss Blair, c. c., Herrin Russell, p. p., Small...