The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03


 | Governor Conner last night revoked the
 recent orders issued for relieving the troops on duty in the mining camps. All preparations for departure were held up | except in the case of two companies. l It developed yesterday that certain local unions of the district have expressed 1 their intention of continuing the strike | independently of the national organiza l tion. Fearing that this might result in | some disturbance the governor deemed 1t | wise to be prepared for any develop | ments.
 It Is felt that the few locals will not | long maintain their attitude but will see the futiiity of trying to embarrass work ] at the mines in which they were for
 merly engaged. While no statement has been made on the subject it is under | stood that Vice President White and Secretary Ryan are exerting their inf1u- ence to convince the men that their duty is to obey the order from the national executive officials.
 Troops Will Be Strict. With the issuance of the governors
 orders the police work done by the Ma tional Guardsmen will assume a much sterner aspect than during the strike. Anyone committing depredatons will find heavy punishment awaiting them, while the gathering in mobs will bring the tight arms of the law swiftly around the recall citrants. Under the first instructions issued sev- eral of the companies stationed in the ] most. remote places were to leave for their respective homes today, but under Governor Comer's orders of last night Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard will send | only one company. This Is Company L. of Uniontown, commanded by Captain Townsend, and which is considered one of the best companies in the state It has been stationed at Bloctoh but the men were transferred to Birmingham yesterday. They will leave for Union- town this morning. One company was left at Blocton
 The company which has been encamped at Acton was also to have gone today, but will remain In Birmingham at Camp Eva Conner, having been brought in last night. The men at Blossburg were
 scheduled to depart for home today. but
 
 camp.
 Effect of Convention. That the miners convention, now in session in Birmingham, had much to do with the issuing of these orders by Gov ernor Conner is believed to be true While
 nothing official was given out in regard
 10 the proceedings of the meeting, the expressions of the delegates on the out side of the convention hall would indi- cate that some of the local unions intend carrying on the strike without the aid of
 the national association. Under the ex- isting conditions even a public decara- tion by them to this effect would not make them strikers in the governors eyes, and he would refuse to recognize them as such.
 To sNme of the soldiers these orders will cause disappointment, but so we'll trained are Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard's fighters that they make no expression either way regarding the orders They have acquired to perfection the quality
 of obeying orders without asking ques- tions.
 Just how long the men will be kept under arms as the result of these last instructions cannot be told, but it is believed they will not be kept long, Lieut.. Leon Schwarz of Mobile, battalion adjutant of the First regiment. has re-
 Camp Eva Conner. A number of the
 officers stationed at the various camps
 visited headquarters yesterday. Soldiers Placed In Jail.
 Another feature of the national guard
 developed yesterday when three soldiers
 were placed in the county jail under or
 ders of Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard. This
 is allowed under the new code No
 charges were docketed against the men,
 the record of their entry into the county
 bastile reading, National guard pris-
 oners" The new code does not requireN that the commanding officer placing these
 men under arrest should state for what they are under arrest.
 A slight hitch Arose at Blossburg yes- terday between the deputies and soldiers.
 A report of the matter was made to the sheriff's office by Major Dodge of the Tennessee company. This trouble, accord ing to the report, was that the soldiers
 had taken some of the strike agitators
 into the company camps over the protest of the deputies on guard there. This was | said to be direct violation of the com | panys wishes. and Sheriff Higdon took the matter up with Lieutenant Colonel | Hubbard.
 | Persons at Blossburg when asked about | the matter last night, stated that the af~
 fair was simply social occasion given | by the soldiers; that the soldiers had in- | vited few young ladies to the military l camp and that these young ladies were | escorted by young men who had been numbered among the strikers. Permis-
 sion for them to enter upon the conn
 pany's property, on which the military