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h I I THE DAY BOOK JOO S. PEOI&A ST. 398 TEL. MON-ROE 353 Vol. 1, No. 298 Chicago, Monday, Sept. 9, 1912 One Cent COWARDLY PLOT AGAINST MINERS BROUGHT TO LIGHT BY DEATH OF MINE GUARD -.Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 9. A new plot of the mine owners of West Virginia against the strik ing miners has been uncovered. ' It is a plot equalled in baseness only by the dynamite one planned Jby Wm. M. Wood, head of the Wool Trust, against the striking textile workefs of Lawrence. ' Compelled to abolish the mine guards they were using to drive the miners to desperation by Ad jutant 'General Elliott, the mine owners were beaten. Their mines were idle. Gov. Glasscock had forbidden them to import strikers. There was no way in which they could workjthe mines and satisfy their greedT The striking miners, protected from murder, assault and starva tion by the spldiers, were able to hold out for months. They had - strike benefits" to live on. , So the mine owners turned to I Russia to find some way tQ beat heminers into .submission and a return to work at the old starva tion wagfes i From Russia, they adopted the method, known in that country, ' as that of the "agent provoca teur." In Russia, tne agent prococa- teur is a spy who joins a revolu tionary society, frames up a plot against the government, and then leads his comrades into a trap. The mine owners are trying to use that system against the min ers, and cause the shooting of miners by the soldiers, the stir ring up of trouble, and a turn in public sympathy. Saturday, in a little village in the hills in the Paint Creek dis trict, a man standing in a group of miners, suddenly drew a revol ver and began ipumping lead at a soldier. The' soldier shot and killed the man. The mine owners raised a great cry. "Now you see why we needed the mine guards," they cried. "These miners are-all murderers. We had to have the guards or they would have murdered us and burned ( out our mines." That night men in other groups of miners fired upon the militia at various places in the district until marital Jaw. The tide of public opinion, which had been with the miners, began to turn against them. The citizens of Charleston who peti tioned Gov Glasscock to abolish the mine guard system said they k'Sr-Jir Si Sm ..aafc-S . ..m-mmmm-mmm