PROUD OF MURDER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 8

PROUD OF MURDER

THE HERRIN MINERS MASSACRE REGARDED WITH CYNICAL INDIFFERENCE. LAXITY OF OFFICIALS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —CopyrightAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW Y r ORK, Juno 30. Careful independent inquiry indicates that the majority of the murdered. Herrin strike-breakers, and also the majority of tho attacking mob, were not foreign, but Ameriean-tborn. Tbo extraordinary apathy of tho local authorities, and the absolute silence of eyewitnesses of the massacre and of those who took part in -it regarding tiho identity of the leaders or personnel of the mob frustrate official and other efforts to pin tlie responsibility on any particular faction. The Herrin, district has a comparatively small foreign element. No doubt it was represented in the mob, but the majority wore Amerioans of tlie usual mining class. They continue to smile cynically over the affair, stating that they have no regrets, and that the strike-breakers got what they The laxity of the local officials, who are making little effort to bring the murderers to justice, is causing increasing indignation throughout the country.