Hellraisers Journal: From the Duluth Labor World: Keeney and Mooney Were Far Away at Time of Alleged Crime

Quote Mother Jones, Powers of Privilege ed, Ab Chp III —————–

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday October 11, 1921
Keeney and Mooney Were at State Convention at Time of Alleged Crime

From the Duluth Labor World of October 8, 1921:

UNION LEADERS WERE FAR AWAY
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Keeney and Mooney Were at State Convention
at Time of Alleged Crime.
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HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Oct. 6.—At a mass meeting of citizens these questions were submitted to Governor Morgan and the coal owners of southern West Virginia.

“We would like to know how C. F. Keeney and Fred Mooney, president and secretary of the miners’ organization, can be held without bond for a murder which we understand was committed in another county while they were attending the West Virginia state federation of labor meeting in the city of Huntington, and the personal aides of the coal owners’ association, who we know did kill Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers, still run at large on a small bond?

“We would like to ask if the law is being carried out which provides for a weighman at the mines also in regard to pay days.

“The coal owners of Logan claim they pay more for coal than is paid in union fields. In the same statement they say if their fields were organized the price of coal would be so high the public could not buy. Please explain.”

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