Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-14
RELEASE WIVES
OF WORKING
MINERS
TWO WOMEN CAPTURED BY WIVES
OF STRIKERS IN LUDLOW TENT
COLONY ARE TURNED LOOSE
BADLY SCARED WANT HUS.
BANDS TO RETURN TO EUROPE.
women ARE AFRAID
TO JOIN Their HUSBANDS

Trinidad, Colo, Oct. 14.-Frank j
Hayes, vice president of the United
Mine Workers. this morning made {
fiat denial of the report that the ad
jutant general John Chase. acting
under instructions of Governor Am
mons, had ordered him personally tC
produce the wives of Matt Benega and
John Ludiac, two women who yester
day We're alleged to have been kidnap
the Ludlow tent colony. The women
were brought to Trinidad early last
evening from the tent colony in an
automobile by John McLennan, presi
dent of district 15. They are now
quartered at a private house in Trini,
dad
The women are at liberty, but both
declare that they are afraid to again
attempt to join their husbands at
Delagua.
A third Slavish woman who is quar-
tered with the two women in this
city and who speaks English, acted as
an Interpreter to interviewers this
morning
! The women declared that they were
badly frightened by their treatment
at the hands of the wives of the strik-
/ ing miners at Ludlow yesterday. They
verified the story that they had been
intercepted and taken to the tent col
ony and declared that the women of
, the tent colony told them that the
strikers were enemies Of their hus-
bands, because they continued to
work.
These statements, said the women,
Iserved still further to frghten them.
This morning Mrs. Benegar told her
husband by telephone of what trans
lpired at Ludlow yesterday. She said
she urged her husband TO quit work
and return. to Europe but he refused
Saying he wanted to work.
Since the outbreak of the strike
Benegar and Ludiac have been provid,
ing for their wives in Trinidad, but
they are now anxious for the women
to join them at Delagua.
Denver, Oct 1i.-Acting upon in
structions from Governor E. NJ, Am
mons, Adjutant General John Chase
last night in conversation with Vice
President Frank J. Hayes. of the
United Mine Workers of America,
ordered him to personally produce
the wives of non-union miners who
were kidnapped by wives of strikers
and are now said to be held prisoners
in the camp at Ludlow. or that martial
law would be declared in that section
of the strike zone and the entire
state militia rushed to Trinidad on
the first special train available.
Hayes promised General Chase that
he would see that the women were
returned either to their families or to
the state officials Tuesday morning
by Q O'Clock, which, after confer
ence with the governor, General
Chase declared would be satisfactory.
Late last night, however, according
to report from Clyde Fairchild, Gov
ernor Ammons' secretatry, now in
Trinidad, the women have disap-
peared under circumstances which
he says seem unfavorable to the union
officials. Hayes and John Lawson
last night declared that they did not
know the whereabouts of the two wo-
men. and Secretary Fairchild and Ma
jor General Lee of the state national
guard, are firm in their belief that the
two women are still being held pris-
Oners.
Deputies Captured.
Eighteen deputy sheritfs were sez-
ed this Afternoon by strikers and strike
S, ,mpathizers as they were about to
board special train for Ludlow and
are now being held at the local union
headquarters.
A large crowd has gathered about I.
the place.
The strikers are apparently in the
best of humor and regard the episode
as huge joke. 4
lHe UIeH arrived III lue CITY tulS I
from Santa Fe, N NJ, and !
had just received deputy sheriff's COM
missions.
Sheriff Grsham's threat to arrest /
Robert Uhlich( president of the local
union and every man in the hall finally /
resulted in the release of the deputies
who were taken to the county jail. !
The strikers locked the doors of the /
hall and at first refused to permit the
sheriff to enter. They then refused to
allow the deputies to leave and told
the sheriff that the New Mexicans pre- i
ferred to stay there
Finally, when the sheriff gained en- .
trance and read list of the deputies. !
that each come out of the ,
com. the deputies were released.
Many of the deputies were armed,
out failed to use their weapons. The .
strikers believed the deputies were |
strike breakers.
Rafael Gomez, Ascension Racl, 3a.
mon Trujillo, Maxine Martinez, /