Hellraisers Journal: Martial Law in Mingo Used Against Union Men; UMW Organizer A. D. Lavinder Held Incommunicado

Janet RayeBattle of Blair Mountain of 1921, Hellraisers Journal
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Quote Mother Jones Princeton WV Speech Aug 15, 1920, Steel Speeches, p227—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday May 24, 1921
Mingo County, West Virginia – Martial Law Used Against Union Miners

From the Minnesota Daily Star of May 24, 1921

JAIL ORGANIZER OF MINE UNION
Martial Law in Mingo Is Used as
Weapon Against Men

WV Revised State Seal, Sc n Lbr Str p1, May 31, 1912
-from The Socialist and Labor Star of May 31, 1912

Washington, May 21.-Jailing of union organizers by state police has begun in Mingo county, according to word received here this morning by Frank Keeney and Fred Mooney, president and secretary of District 17.

A. D. Lavinder, organizer in the Matewan district, was arrested late yesterday in Williamson by constabulary for carrying a pistol. He was roughly handled and put in jail where he is now held incommunicado.

Lavinder had a permit to carry weapons but under the proclamation of martial law weapons may be carried only in one’s home or place of business.

Several other union men were arrested yesterday in Mingo county.

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[Emphasis and cartoon added.]

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SOURCES

Quote Mother Jones Princeton WV Speech Aug 15, 1920,
-Steel Speeches, p227
https://books.google.com/books?id=vI-xAAAAIAAJ

Minnesota Daily Star
(Minneapolis, Minnesota)
-May 24, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/178831648/

IMAGE
WV State Seal Revised
-from Huntington WV Socialist and Labor Star of May 31, 1912
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059765/1912-05-31/ed-1/seq-1/

See also:

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 21, 1921
Mingo County, West Virginia – Governor Declares Martial Law

Tag: Mingo County Coal Miners Strike of 1920-1922
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mingo-county-coal-miners-strike-of-1920-1922/

Chronicling America search:
-“a. d. lavinder” found:
Charleston WV Labor Argus during 1909 & 1910
Huntington WV Socialist and Labor Star during 1912 & 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1900&date2=1921&proxtext=%22a.+d.+lavinder%22&x=17&y=17&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic&sort=date

Report of Cases Determined by the
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, Volume 88
WV, 1921
(search: “ex parte a. d. lavinder et al”) (page 713)
https://books.google.com/books?id=n6VKAQAAMAAJ

West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly
VOLUME XVII, NO. 3, July, 2003
“Mere Military Color: The State Police and Martial Law” 
 -by Merle T. Cole
http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs/wvhs1731.html

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Fire in the Hole – Hazel Dickens