Muhlenberg County Kentucky
Mining
Violence at Hopkins County Mines, 1939
26 indicted for violence at mines in Hopkins County
Charged with banding and confederating as result of violence.
Madisonville, Ky., Feb. 15 - The names of the twenty-six men indicted for banding and confederating in connection with picketing and violence at Reinecke and Kentucky Derby mines here last week have been made public. Twenty-nine indictments were returned.
Circuit Judge Charles H. Wilson set bond at $1,000 on each indictment.
Arthur Chaney and James Dunlap, U.M.W.A. organizers and Mose Russell were indicted in each disturbance. Earl Suver, U.M.W.A. organizer, was indicted in the beating of Reinecke miners.
Names are listed.
Those named in the Reinecke mine case are Chaney, Dunlap and Russell, Robert Minor, Albert Tetter, Eugene Kimbrew, Eldridge Lovelace, Jim Bankhead, John Gipson, Otho Bowles, Everett Taylor, Bud Willoughby, Tom Malone, U.M.W.A. office janitor, Mose Russell, Pin Hode and Will Brown.
Those indicted in the Kentucky Derby mine case are Chaney, Dunlap, Russell, Bob Underwood, Joe Grayson, Earl Suver, Stanley Davenport, Amplis Sisk, Jeo Downey, attache of U.M.W.A. district office, Truman Miller, Charlie Wells, Willie Burden, Jim Underwood and Artie Davenport.
The grand jury dismissed a banding and confederating charge against Clyde Downey, who had been arrested on a County Court warrant in the Kentucky Derby case.
Grand jury action in the Reinecke case followed picketing at the mine last Wednesday when six miners were beaten and turned back when an attempt was made to open the mine after suspension since November 15 because of market conditions.
State Police aid Sheriff
Twelve State highway patrolmen have been aiding Sheriff F.C. Wilkey and Deputy Sheriffs B.W. Ashby and Herbert Bilbro since Saturday when the mine resumed operation. The number of workers at the Reinekce mine today was 100. The normal force has been about 150 men.
Six men were also attacked and beaten at the Kentucky Derby mine February 3. The plant is not operating.
Source: “26 indicted for violence at mines in Hopkins County.” The Times-Argus [Central City, KY], 17 Feb 1939, p.1.
Updated February 12, 2019