GETTING JOB DONE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 171, 16 April 1937, Page 11

GETTING JOB DONE

Sheriff Wanted Union Organiser Killed (Received. April 15, 8.50 p.m.) Washington, April 14. Larkin Baker Harlan, a county of Kentucky coalminer, testified before the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee that he negotiated for five or six months in 1933 and 1934 in an attempt to get a man to kill Lawrence Dwyer, union organiser. He said negotiations were started at the request of Mr. Ben Unthank, chief deputy sheriff, who wanted Dwyer killed before five men charged with dynamiting Dwyer’s house came up for trial. He was willing to spend SOO dollars to “get the job done.” Chris Patterson, who served a year in prison in connection with th:' dynamiting. testified that Unthank i -ill him 100 dollars. He gave half t.- another man whom he hired to do the actual dynamiting. The testimony was offered in connection with a plea by the United Mine Workers Union for Federal protection in a new drive to unionise the Harlan mines.