GETTING JOB DONE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 409, 16 April 1937, Page 5

GETTING JOB DONE.

Sheriff Wanted Union Organiser Killed. Press Association—Copyright. Washington, April 14. Larkin Baker, a coal miner in Harlan County, Kentucky, gave evidence to-day before the Civil Liberties Committee of the Senat?, under the chairmanship of Mr. R. M. La Follette, that] he negotiated for five or six months in 1933 and 1934 in an attempt to get a man to kill Mr. Lawrence Dwyer, a union organiser. Baker said the negotiations started at the request of Ben Unt.hank, the chief deputy sheriff, who wanted. Mr. Dwyer killed before five men charged with dynamiting Mr. Dwyer’E house cams up foi* trial. He was willing to spend £l6O to “get the job done.” Chris Patterson, who served a year in prison in connection with the dynamiting, gave evidence that Unthank paid him £2O. He gave half to another man whom he hired 'to do the actual dynamiting. The evidence was- offered in connection with a plea by the United Mine Workers' Federation for Federal protection for a new drive to unionise the mines of Harlan County.