Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-28
NEGRO MINERS At OGDEN DGolN
ACTION AGAINST UNITED MINE :
WORKERS OFFICIALS.
MEN BELONG TO UNION,
ARE DESIGNATED As scADs
Ono Hundred Sixty Colorsd Workers
Ask Court to Protect Thorn In Their
Rights and to Enjoin From intsrfsr-
enoe-Troubls Outsrowth Of Walk
Out at Ogden Mines.
Special to Times Repu blican.

| Special to Times Repu blican.
Boone, June ?S.-Seeking thru tho
court to protect their rights as union
| men and to force the union. of which
! they are members, to recognize them,
leo negro union miners OF Ogden have
| filed suit in the district court here for
81 100000 damages against national Of
ncials or the United Mine Workers oe
America and District No. IS. whicH
! comprises the state of Iowa.
The case which was brought up this
afternoon before Judge Wright. OF Fort
Dodge, on an application FOR tempo
rary injunction, gives promise OF
causing n great furore in union labor
| ranks and especially In the miners
union.
EACH Claims $4,000 Damages.
John +. White. of Oskaloosa. presi-
dent of the national union OF miners.
w II. Rogers, president OF the Iowaf
district. all the other officers and
members OF tho board OF directors ot
| the Iowa Mine Workers, and Frank
Rice president OF the Ogden miners'f
| union, are the defendants named I'M
! the petitions. Each of the 100 negro
| miners asked damages in the sum OF!
$4,000.
| Ask court r or FFOt0CSioh.
| Asking that their union rights b6
protected the petitioners have made
| application for II temporary Injunction
to restrain the Iowa miners union OF
hcials from taking from them their
| union cards They also ask that Og-'
| den white union miners be restrained'
| from rolesting or harassing them.
| In addition they have petitioned ths
court to force the Iowa district to
| grant them a charter for Mine No. ] ~
OF Ogden in which they are employed
| and to force the Iowa union officials
| to recognize them.
Dates Back to Strike.
! This case had Its beginning In tho
strike of white miners employed by,
the Boone, Fort Dodge L. Southern
Railway Company In the Ogden mines
last spring. In February these miners
struck Threatened with n heavy pen =
| atty to be imposed by the Iowa union
| officers unless they returned to work.
| the miners did SO Later they quit
one by ono.
Some time later the mines were
| leased to the Ogden Consolidated Coal
| Company. and the company imported
union negro miners to take the places
| of those who had quit. Before going
| to Ogden to go TO work the negroes
! asccrtained II there was strike at tho
| ogden mine They allege to havo
| been assured by the Iowa miners Of
| fcers that there was no strike on. and
| II Is claimed that they have filed In
court here letters from the Iowa mino
! offic lals to that effect.
Barred From Meetings.
After going to work at Boone tho
| negro miners allege that the white
union miners would not recognize
| them and that they were barred from
the union meetings and We're abused
| and harassed and called 'scabs" by tho
| white miners whose places they had
| taken.
| Prominent attorneys from Des
| Moines. Abba, oskaloosa and other
places have hcen retained by both
sides and the contest promises TO he
| bitter 4 great many negro miners
from ogden are here today attending
the hearing