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Godman was working in an catry with Wwe nenbers of the Pregrese~ ive Pitt Committees. At atovt meen & telephones call wes reesived at the mine that the we Progressive Pitt Comnittee mentors word wated fmsediately at Progreseive Readquarters, Werd was sent te the tus monbers of the Pitt Comittee whe immediately left their werk. Ateut & half hour later a mele driver feund Gedman wandering up and dow the eatry withowt oa light mumbling te himeelf, and bleeding profusely. Re was taken te a hospital where he is new sonfined and examimtion die- @losed that hie arm fe breton in Gwe places and thet he has a soneunlon of the brain. A waited xember by the mame of _Taungartner was working in enetber satry approximately 1500 feet away. The General Coumsel of ee Progressives sought te have Oedman eign an affidavit fer the leswane of a warrant for Damgartnsy. Gedeen, the strike vietin, refused. Jehan Greh, a member of the exesutive beard of the Pregressives, signed an affidavit and Baumgartner was arrested en a charge of assault with o deadly weapon, Ba-mgartner bas ontered a plea of not guilty te the charge. The United mezbers in the mine contend that it weuld have bees physisally imposeible fer Saumgartmer te have ecemitted the act with whieh he is sharged, that it would have been pecessary for him to walk out of his entry inte the main entry and beck inte the entry in whi il Ge dman was working, Moreover, the Taited menbere maintain that en the previows dey Gedmen bad aprrosched a United member and asked him for an application ecard im the United, that the United ann had only twe ecards, beth of whieh had been signed. It ie the United's theory that the telephene 7all te the twe Pregreseive Pitt Cormitteemen working with Ocdman waa ;innned and that the two Progresaive Pitt Committeenen committed the assault om Ssémen who had en the previous day voluntevred te jein the United. They esztended alse that the Pregressives pla: sed th: entire assault for the purpese of eecusing some United. aber of deing 1%. Gedman elaine that he was struek ever the bead from behind with a piek handle and thet se be turned and raised his aras 43 preteet himself the assailant etruek Aim Guiee en the arm, resulting in 3 ¢onpound fracture. Whether Coduan knows mere thes he has stated etill remains o mystery. Oe January find the effieials ef Hine B being foarf:i ef an sut break of vielenee, requested ths Sheriff te etation guards at the nine. The Sheriff somplied and eines that time there have teen saver Geput!ss eon atantly om mine ;roperty. The placing of asven ds uty sheriffs at the mine preeipitated @ threat free Idiummdson that wiiess the ,.uards were r.asved he would atrike the mine. On January rd tha Bheriff requested Busalaer ©]. .% to newt with hin and Coense) fer Mine 3 far the purpose of reporting tha r2aul% ef a egeting whish the ™@ .iff had had with a samittss of the United, a etcaittee of the Prey. ssaives, and the Mine Sup: rintend. nt at the mine. The Sheriff stated ta Pisminer Clark that the Prograasives Pitt Commi ttee abt the mine stated to hia that the they were willing to haya “>a Board eondus ae. ern The Taltad “sumlit foe se. ‘late Ti oye mes . “Ee BSB S479 ti OMe 228 VHS DS & Sia ae. ‘dately StatGa aha a o¢ficers -