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Hellraisers Journal – Monday August 22, 1921
Miners Gather at Marmet with Plan to March on Mingo by Way of Logan
From the Baltimore Sun of August 21, 1921:
Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 20 (Special).-Fifteen hundred coal miners from the Lens Creek, Cabin Creek and Paint Creek regions are camped tonight in a narrow valley at Marmet, eight miles east of here. Augmented by about 500 others from Little Coal river, they declared they will start tomorrow for Mingo county by way of Logan county in protest against martial law there.
Newspaper men who visited the camp this afternoon estimated at least 700 of the men were armed. Most of those had rifles and shotguns and others carried side arms. The two newspaper men who went to Marmet were escorted back to Charleston by six miners armed with rifles, who came as far as Kanawha City with them. As soon as they were forced to leave the valley a force of 100 men, armed with rifles, surrounded the camp to prevent outsiders from intruding…..
UNION HEAD “HANDS OFF.”
S. F. [C. F.] Keeney, president of District 17, United Mine Workers of America, said tonight that the men could march to Mingo as far as he was concerned and that he would not interfere. He said that he had been informed the miners were to have a meeting at Marmet, but that he had not been invited to attend. “I wash my hands of the whole affair,” he declared. “I’ve interfered time and again to stop such enterprises. I seem to have halted them only temporarily. This time they can march to Mingo, so far as I am concerned.”…..
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Fred Mooney, Mingo Co Gunthugs, UMWJ p15, Dec 1, 1920
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2hg5AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA23-PA14
The Sun
(Baltimore, Maryland)
-Aug 21, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/373282086
https://www.newspapers.com/image/373282101
See also:
Hellraisers Journal: West Virginia Miners Rally at Charleston (Aug 7, 1921),
Draft Resolutions for Settlement of Troubles in Mingo County
Aug 17, 1921, Wheeling Intelligencer
-(re Aug 16) Mingo Men Refused Release from Jail by State Supreme Court
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82780269/aug-17-1921-wheeling/
Hellraisers Journal: Governor Replies to Miners (Aug 18, 1921):
Will Not Call Special Session to Abolish the Mine Guard System
Aug 21, 1921, Baltimore Sun
-(re Aug 20) Miners Gather in W. V. for March to Mingo, Parts I & II
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82760511/aug-21-1921-baltimore-sun-miners/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82760593/aug-21-1921-baltimore-sun-miners/
Tag: Mingo County Coal Miners Strike of 1920-1922
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mingo-county-coal-miners-strike-of-1920-1922/
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They’ll Never Keep Us Down – Hazel Dickens