Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-09
MARTIAL LAW PREVAILS IN
COAL FIELDS OF CAPE BRETON,
Troops With Bayonets Fixed and Machine
Guns Guard Galleries at Glace Bay
Further Acts OF Violence Reported.

GIace Bay, c. B.. July S.-Martial law
prevails in the southern Cape Breton
coal fields tonight Troops are guard
ing the colleries of the Dominion Coal
CO. and an attempt will be made to-
morrow to operate the mines under
the military protection. Six hundred
mcn from the Canadian permanent
forces arrived here late tonight. and at
once went on duty The men were di-
Vided into detachmentS and distributed
among the various collierieS and now
the general feeling is that the scenes
Whici, attended the first three days of
the strike are at an end. SentrleS with
fixed bayonets guard the approaches
to ali the colliercs and at No. 2 and
No. g. where the most trouble has been,
machine guns command the approach.
Tomorrow morning will settle num-
Der of things definitely. When the
whistles blow for work at the various
n'irVs it will be seen how many men
the company can count on to run their
collerics and whether or not the Unit
ed Mine Workers will still endeavor to
prevent men from going to work
1t was about o'clock when the spe-
cia train with the detachment of the
Royal Canadian Regiment and Cana
dian Artillery arrived from Halifax
The train was run onto the siding ut
Dominion No. 2 and there the mon
staid for some time, until the dispo-
StiCns were made.
one company of infantry, with {,
machine gun. was sent over to DO
mnioin No. 6, where the riot act was
read and which, owing to the disturb
anccs of the previous night, was re
garded as one of the danger points.
Several companies remained within the
gates at Dominion No. 2 and the re-
mainucr were distributed among vari-
| Gus collicres.
An attempt will be made to work all
the collicrcs with the possible exccp-
| ton of No. G tomorrow. A large num-
Der of men are now inside the fence al
Dominion No. and are housed II
| shacks there. With the troops TO clear
Il way it is anticipated by the com
pany that many men who have stale
| away during the past two days viii
come back to work in the morning. Or
| the other hand, the United Mine Work
crS leaders declare that if anything
| the presence of the soldiers will tend
| to swell their ranks.
Strikers stormcd the gates at DO
miniCn No. last night, burned some
property of the company and poured
volleNs of shots into the buildings o.
| the plant. The fence around the min'
| was almost demolished, and the small
| force of constablcs there had all il
| could do to prevent the rioters from
getting at the machinery. That the
presence of the troops was urgently
needed was conclusively proved by the
| attack on No. and there is wonder
that nc one was killed in the melee.
| \ report that the strikers haG
planned a concerted attack on this col
| liery gained ground early yesterday af-
tcrnoon, ard a special train with Sc
county Constables was hurried to the
scene They got there noon too soon
CROWDS If strikers were gathered
around the plant and the few men who
had gone in to work were chased ant
stoned. When the train appeared al
attempt was made to drag the consta
bles off it but with drawn revovers
they forced the Infatuated men bacl
and the engine was run through thu
mob several times to 6isperse it.
AS soon as it became dark the crowd
broke wild. Portions of the fence Were
torn down. one of the gates was TORI
off, and only the drawn revolvers of th'
constables kept. the strikers outside the
fence Suddenly volley of shots came
from the crowd Some of the men made