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February ll, 1932 ·
Mr. Herndon Evans
Pineville, Ky.
Dear Mr. Evans:-
D0 you really believe thatrthe vast population
of this country is going to believe the lurid story
you tell of Waldo Frank and Allan Taub fighting one
another to produce injuries?
I am surprised at an editor who is supposed to
. be an intellmgent leader of a community attempting to
palm off such a ridiculous story on the people.
The people of Pineville are evidently of a very
V low order or they would never have objected to the
relief of the starving fellow—cbtizens---but the crowning
insult to the intelligence of this country is your wild
story of how the donors of free food became injured.
I I do not know anyone connected with this--—I am
not a radical at all, but I do resent a community such
as yours, which would rather see its strikers starve
and their children perish, rather than to admit its own
A inability to care for them. .
i To the rest of the country the name of Pineville,
‘ Ky., is a disgrace.
Sincerely,;yuTs,
V VM/L E rr _
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 Because of repeated repoerts that this food would not be
permitted to enter the strike area the following telegram was sort
to the authorities: 4
" The undersigned group are bringing into Kentucky several
` truckloads of food and milk for the starving striking miners,
their wives and babies. lt is prop had at the same time to exer~
‘cise the elemental rights of free sye=ch and free assembly which 1;
~”it is alleged have been abrogated in reliance of the consititution
ef Kentucky and the Unite; Statest The tragic starving conditior.
` _ of these miners Los aroused the sympathy of the entirevnation.
A The right to offer this relief and to exercise these basic civil
rights are certainly beyond question. We are,therefore, inform`;*
you of our plans in order that those officials whose responsibi;Q;
it is to uphold the State and Federal constitutions ·.‘.‘ ill see to A
it that the constitutional rights of the strikers and of our
committee will not be violated and this food which we have
bought and are bringing with us will not be molested."
This telegraniwas sighned by adl the memmers of this
committee. `
\One truckload of food will be taken into La Follette
Tenn. by this deeggation on Tuesday, Feb. 9th and delivered at t
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Herndon J. Evans, Editor, I
The Pineville Sun,
Pineville,Ky.
My dear Evans:
Thank you for your letter of January
28th., together with the copy of the Sun to which you refer.
I am glad you found the material I
sent you of some use. You caught my point exactly, I feel
that the proper way to combat communism is by educating our
people. I have never yet talked to a worker or anyone else
who was for Communism, once they understood the facts.
I spent about a year and a half in
their coal mines in Russia, sometimes as much as ten weeks
away from all contact with anybody but the Russians, not even
an interpreter. I got to know the facts and the low down.
Since coming back to America I have
as well as Mrs. Grady, spent much time talking and writing
about Communism, telling the facts as we knew and saw them.
You have no conception how much of a
hold they have in this country and they are growing all_the
time. They have thousands of speakers all over the country
telling of the wonders of communism, and we do very little to
correct their tales.
For example I enclose you here with
an item that appeared in one of our local papers a few days
ago, and a copy of my reply thereto. Do you think they would
publish my reply, not much. Of course it is a Scripps-Howard
» paper.
I have no desire to make money out of
any talking that I might do down your way. Here in New York
and in the east where I know that they have forums with
budgets that provide for paid speakers, I have charged from
@50.00 to §500.CO a night.
Hy business is engineering, or coal nine
management, not speaking, but like everything else there is
very little doing just now. I could and would be glad to
come down and spend some time with you, after Feb. l8th. and
before Mar. l2th. If I came at all I would like to talk to
your business organizations, your church groups, your school
groups, and if possible to groups of miners. I would like to
tell the latter about their conditions as compared to Soviet
Russia.
I am not a philanthropist, and feel that
your civic. or other organizations should be able to chip in
on the expenses of any trip that I might make down there. Spread
around through the three towns, Pinevilbe, Harlan, and Middles-
boro it ought not to be more than say t50.00 a piece. Very
probably the local coal operators would be glad to treat me

 or put me Eph their club houses.
as their guest I know Campbell Stras would while I was up his
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Where I have talked here in the east
without any charge I have always stated at the conclusion of .
my talk that I was not being paid for talking, or being
sent out by any national or civic organization and in view
of the fact that I was giving my time to this work, could they
not see fit to make some small cash contribution, even if only
the price of a cigar or a pack of cigarettes, and that every
cent collected would go to the releif of unemployment on their
community. These appeals have always gene over very well and
you would be suprised the sums we sometimes collect.
I dont want to push myself on you, but
let me know what your communities decide, and I will try and
help if I can. I
Yours very ‘ruly,
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Wm. H. Grady,
52 North Grame cy Park,
New York City, N. Y.
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February ll, 1932
Mr. Herndon J. Evans, Editor, ·
Pineville Sun,
Pineville, Ky.
My dear Herndon; t
I am enclosing herewith article in the All News Edition
of the Cleveland News in which I am sure you will be
particularly interested. I feel that most of the article
is insidious propoganda.
I would be pleased to have your viewpoint on it and I A
hope that you will write an editorial to which the News
will give an equal amount of publicity, which they have I
to the article they are displaying on the front page of
the morning edition.
I With kindest personal regards.
Yo rs very truly A ·
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Thanks very much for sending me a bunch of your "one way tickets" to
‘ the Ky-Tenn line. Hope I won't have occasion to use one. A very
’ clever stunt. All of us here have gotten a big kick out of the
activities of` the "escorting party" I think you ought to send Dreiser
a few for distribution — It was a great nights work and I am thinking
tha.t about all Waldo Frank and his party will get out of their
conference with the Senators is the courtesy of hearing them. There is
no limit to their gall. ,1/ Everything in connection with the
Pineville "recessional" has met with a loud AMEN un here and we are only
t hoping Heat The Police force of Pineville will see to it that Mayor
J Birook‘|' ultimatum is enforced. Once they are driven out of Pineville
there will be no stopping place this side of Knoxville and from the
editorial of yesterdays News-Sentinel, even the Sentinel will not give
them a very enthusiastic reception
 
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V 1 .—_- Wy cGentlemen:
l , %`iy at - will you please be good enough to supply me by return mail with
‘ ‘ an original copy of the "round-robin" signed by Theodore Dreiser, Fannie
; Hurst and others attacking Bell and Harlan Counties and especially myself.
:4*k `V 4 I also would like to know in what form this press release was
p sent to you and will appreciate any other information you have on it.The
round—robin committee did not honor me with a copy though they give it wide
, publicity. p
Let me thank you in advance for sending same.
A Yours truly,
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Mr. J. C. Stras,
Cardinal,
Kentucky.
Dear Mr. Stuasz
Referring to your letter of February 15th enclosing correspondence with
Mr. Herndon Evans and Mr. Wm. H. Grady, this matter was taken up at our
meeting today and, while all the Operators felt that it would be a fine
thing to have Mr. Grady come down and deliver some lectures on the ‘
Communist question, they felt that should he come his audiences would be
made up principally of those who are already opposed to this movement
and that it would be questionable whether his coming would serve the
purpose intended.
They also felt that it might not be just the thing to do to revive the
matter since it seems to be slipping away from us, and the third point
that enters into the picture is the expense. It looks as if we are going
to be compelled to conserve every dollar we have for our actual legitimate
expenses, which, as you know, are very heavy to say the least.
As per your request, I am returning the correspondence to you.
Yours very truly,
Secretary. /
GSW/L
Enos.

 February 18,1952. M
Mr.Charles Neville Buck, - _
Louisville,Ky., ~ I *‘
Dear Mr.Buck:
_ Your letter reached me just was we were going to press last
night and I sent you under separate cover a copy of The Sun so that you
might get some idea of what we have had to contend with during the last
few months. I am glad to hear from you and assure you a cordial greeting
should you decide to come to Pineville. »
Pineville and the Uumberlands, you know, have nothing to conceal.
The people here welcome-yea, beg- any investigation that will be fair. W,
I ask nothing more than fairness in the treatment of conditions. Naturally,
only the things which have most grossly misrepresented our people have re-
, ached the public eye in recent weeks. The real efforts of our people to
meet the situation have not been given to the world. True, we have sent. -=
them out but, for some reason, this sort of`thing never reaches the public.
_ There are a few things that I would like to call to your atterel
tion so that you can present them to friends of this section who may ha§e,_
like yourself, formed another opinion due to the misrepresentation that§`"
has been in the public press. There is no strike in the coal fields and,
the e has been done. A strike was set for January 1, and less than ten pe
cent of the Bell County miners came out; less than one per cent came outl
. in Harlan. Practically 90 per cent of the Bell strikers have returned to
· work and I understand all have gone back at Harlan. They were out less
than a week. Where mines have clos d it was due to lack of orders or bank
‘ ruptcy. In all the disorders fomented by outsiders not one shot has been,
fired in Bell Uounty, by miner or officer, and yet, reading the radical
press, one gets the opinion that lawlessness is rampant and one'S life is
in danger in this county. Harlan has had serious troubles yet, in spite o.
the misrepresentation as to the treatment of miners, seven officers have
been killed to four miners. That is tragic, we must admit, but true.
Pineville, Middlesboro and Harlan were organized long ago to
handle relief work. As a matter of fact I am informed by the Red Cross dis
trict man that this section was the firgt in the United States organized
and functioning under the Hoover calIT We have our unemployment committees
in each community; we have the Red Cross, and local charities. We have
listed in our city more than 1,000 cases, complete family records, and are
rendering aid every day to those in need. we rnaised $6,000 in Pineville
and Hiddlesboro raised @18,000, the largest amount ever attempted even Qhj
normal times, and all of us are working night and day, letting our own bus
iness houses go to the dogs, trying to do.something to relieve our fellew~
men who_have not been so fortunate during the times of depression. Harlan
also has raised a large sum for unemployment. The Red Cross has shipped

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into this district 120 tons of food, gathered from other section, and our
organization id distributing it in a systematic, scientific manner, under
the approved Red Cross methods. Local purchases add: many more tons to this
total. Middlesboro and Pineville are handling Bell County, the latter, due
to its location, covering about seven-eighths of the county. I
You have noticed in the papers the manner of the previous inves-
tigations. Dreiser and his group of publicity-seekers"Hemanded" protection
from the governor down to the constable before leaving New York. Waldo
Frank and his committee, while claiming no connection with the communists,
came here headed by the most rabid communist yet seen.Her "speech" is in
The Sun sent you and in the daily papers Wednesday and Thursday. Even
though we could swallow communism as dished out by the Frank group, the
method of their relief branded it as publicity and nothing more. They came
Vwith 125 gallons of sweetmilk, gave it out in paper cartons, and had
motion picture machines grinding out the story. They didn't know whether
miners or operators were getting the milk- and it*s hard to tell them apart
nowadays when we live right with them. They came "demanding" protection
from a constitution they sought to destroy. Their appearance in wall Btreet
V with a communist parade Wednesday, as carried in the press, shows the trut•
of our charges. ` f
I know that you understand how the nervous strain of having our
people misrepresented; how the excitement of seeing these outside agita-
tors call hundreds of unemployed into Pineville to march the streets and
threaten officers, and how the falsehoods make us "boil". I am sure that
many will understand that after just so much of this treatment any commun-
ity will rise up and tell these professional meddlers that they are not .»
wanted. They have killed our tourist business, they have ridiculed every
effort we have made to take-care of our own problem and they have traveling
men afraid to come to this end of the state. ‘
‘ I have written more than I intended and probably have bored you
· with too much detail but I want you to get a picture of the situation.from
our viewpoint. we welcome any visitor to Southeastern Kentucky. We have _
- nothing to hide and we want the world to know what we are doing to offset
the unfavorable publicity we have received. By all means come to Pineville
p and we will be glad to show you the real people and let you understand
_ that all that has been said by outsiders hassnot been true. I will be glad
to assist you in any way I can. ·
‘ . _ Sincerely yours, _
p PS&You may ask my friend Tom Wallace about me if you desire any
1nformati0n.HJEr

 Editor Post-Dispatch, February 18,1952.
  HIGH,
» I have just read your editorial captioned "In Darkest K€ntucky" and
I hope that I may be given space to refute some the mis—statements in it.
` There is no strike in the mine region and there has been none despite
efforts of outside agitators, members of the communist party and relief
racketeers to make the world believe there is one. Not one mine is down d
in Bell or Harlan County today on account of this mythical"strike" and
~ every mine could put on twenty more men tomorrow if they had the orders
to justify it.
Waldo Frank and other writers were escorted to the state line. They
came here"demanding" the right to make radical speeches and the "rightV to V
distribute milk in paper cartons to the people at the courthouse door.They
brought moving picture machines and when told that there was no starvation
Pin Pineville and no starving miners they said they would distribute the
milk just the same. Two of their number were arrested for making communis-
tic speeches in violation of the orders of officers. In these speeches p
they urged the destruction of the constitution they begged protection under
and their Wall Street parade yesterday stamps them as members of the group
which is seeking publicity at any cost.
This same Waldo Frank committee was invited to visit our relief head-
quarters where the Red Cross, Associated Charities and Unemployment Comme ,
ittees are working night and day to help the unfortunate. They declined to
— go and said perhaps they would look into that work later: they had to go
look after the milk distribution while it still was light enough to make
motion pictures of the work!
The people here are doing everything to relieve conditions. There is
no more unemployment here, based on population, than there is in St.Louis.
This district was the FIRST organized in the United “States in accordance
with the Hoover program of employment and relief. This little community of
5,600 persons raised $6,000 at a time when coal companies were going broke
and mercharts were on the rocks, and with other sums donated by the Red
Cross, are taking care of our people. We welcome outside aid but we believe
that true relief is sent to recognized distributing agencies where records
of all cases are kept, and is not brought in by publicity-seeking writers
in need of rehabilitation, and distributed from courthouse doors to miners
and operators (they wouldn't know them apart) to the accompaniament of a
brass band and the grinding of moving picture machines.
_ Play fair. Give us a break. Tell both sides of the story. We welcome
i any honest investigation. ` s
Yours truly,
· Herndon J. Evans
" Editor The Pineville Sun.

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‘ Y l)AR?§ES§l‘ KENTUCKY. I . h
t _ £~·•·<-(Fost¢Dispatch) °  
` _ _Eumpea¤.»va1· zones were never {
` more·diHic1i&;gf‘access’ toaycorre-_ é(
spoudents than"the;troubl,ed Ken- W
· tucky.mine4ne_lds are today. Stan- lv
_ i ley.l1ad_.—a hardtime penetrating  
· " the heart of darkest Africa, but te
when he got there tl1e_tribiesmen al
permitted him to '· stay. as along as
he liked. _In the wall of secrecy h,
4 and in the sufferings that occur P;
there,=·the‘Kentucky minefields W
resemble boththe war»areas_.an<$ fg
· "the dark continent. `The latest K
outburst from that quarter is the te .
‘ . treatment given a party of 12 tc
persons, including 11 writers, .
some of them nationally known, w
who dared tovsiit the strike ree in
gion and ‘were‘ summarily has- qi
tened to the State line, with or! S1
ders not to return; Visiting writ¥ _sh
ers previously had been beaten, th
jailed, barred from courtrooms M
‘ and expelled, Theodore Dreiser sh
and John Dos Passos now are un- IH
der indictment there for criminal P1
‘ syndicalism. _ f is
V Kentucky’s version of old—time 0%
Southern hospitality is nothing b€
I V short of unofficial mi1itary/ cen- TE?
sorship and martial law. Whaty
ever the authorities there have to EH;
hide becomes worse in the public_ NC
mind from these rough tactics of · * ·
concealment. If such sound com-
‘ mentators as Waldo Frank, Mary ba}
Heaton _ Vorse, Malcolm ‘Cowley, on
and Edmund Wilson cannot `be OH'
trustedto visit the} mine regions, bm
. lthén affairs Vtheremust be in _a sca
. bad way. Their party had taken Ba]
» food into the area, and every -re- Og,
port over the last few months has Su; .
shown how badly that was needed. him
The State can take care of its `·i
troubles, said the oilicers who’es— Our
V corted the group to the Tennessee ing
‘ line. But it will take far more app?
° than driving out visitors to feed "
the starving amine families and plea
end the killings in the strike zone. ".`

 DEAR HERNDONZ- —   V ` . A   ‘ V
WELL !'I\/I UP HERE FILING THE DAY HAVANA WIRE AND MEANWHILE GOING THROUCH
_ MY FIN/—\L TRAINING BEFORE TAKING A FOREIGN ASSIGNI\:IENT.f E V L _ I
I'I*!I VERY MUCH PLEASED WITH MY PROSPECTS UP HERE. ` · U
‘ T; DREISER HASN‘T BEEN AROUND ITO CALL ON ME_YET• ' ` '
TELL ME ALI. THE NEWS.   I
@ ST §EGARDS,
E. A. CHESTER ' I
ASSOCIATED PRESS; I
383 MADISON Ava., 1 " I
NEW YORK, N.Y•
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MINERS AND SHIPPERS OF
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BY-PRODUCT. DOMESTIC AND STEAM COAL
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