The Butler weekly times., 1914-04-30
Long Conference at White HOUSE
Ends Without any Action
Resulting.
MILITIA USES MACHINE Guns
Battle at Louisville Rages for Hours
Several Killed and Wounded
Other Camps Attacked
by Armed MIXERS.

Wilson has made personal appe
to John d. Rockefeller to bring a.O,
settlement of the Colorado col
strike and the violence which has col
a score Of lives and large propert
loss.
The great financier, who owns
large part of the mines affected b
the strike, in response to telegrar
from the president, declared he ha
turned over his interests in Colorad
to his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr
whom he would ask to cooperate wit
Chairman Foster of the house com
mittee on mines and mining. Tn,
president sent Mr.. Foster to Ney
York to talk with tho younger Rocke
feller.
After long conference at the Whit,
House between the president, Secre
tary Garrison and Senator Thomas
Secretary Garrison announced that nt
orders sending federal troops intt
Colorado would be issued then. az
said the situation would be taken suE
again at once.
Appeal from Citizens.
Washington, April 2S.-The presi
dent had before him at the conference
pile of kilograms from representa-.
tives of the mine owners and miners,
state authorities and private citizens,
in Colorado, practically all of them
appealing for federal troops.
Officials at the White House indi-
Gated that a final report from Repre-.
sentative Foster, who interviewed
owners of the mines in New York,
was desired before the spresident
reached a decision. Colorado mem.
bers OF congress, however, expected
that the orders for the movement OF
the troops, probably from Fort Rus
sell, would go out soon.
1t is understood that"there has been
a doubt in the presidents mind as to
his power to send federal troops into
state merely on the request of the
governor. In this connection, Section
of Article 4, of the constitution has
been closely examined at the White
House.
Strikers Fire on Towns.
Louisville, Col, April 28.-In the
face of rain of bullets from a ma
chine gun and rifles, force of strii.
ers began attack on the Hecla mine
of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company,
twenty-five miles north of Denver.
So thick were the bullets from the
battle in the darkness that all tele.
phone and telegraph communicating
was halted for hours after the wires
had been severed
Assistant District Attorney Harold
Martin, who lives near Lafayette, or
ganized posse of 200 men and start
ed for the scene Of the battle in auto
mobiles.
Sheriff Buster is among the forty
defenders besieged on the mine pr N.
erty. The strength Of the attacking
force Is not known.
At midnight the battle was sti,l
raging. the strikers directing their fire
at the stockade that surrounds the
mine. The last word received from J.
S. Williams, one Of the mine officials,
was that the defenders would not be
able to hold out much longer unless
assistance arrived. Vi
Mass Meeting Held In Rain.
Denver. April 27.-Steta officials, in.
Guiding Governor Ammons, declared
the truce which had continued for two
days between the strikers In the
southern coal fields and the state milf.
tia had been broken by the strikers
and that the militia now is under no
obligation whatever to refraln from
aggressive acts to restore peace.
A crowd Of men and women-from
five thousand to six thousand in mum.
ber-stood in a pouring rain on the
lawn in front of the capitol buildina.
In the afternoon and heard the stat1s
administration denounced for permit
tig the murders In the southern cosls
strike. district.
What the struggle 10 About. s
Denver, Colo. April 25. Colorado:e
Present labor struggle began inst
seven months ago. SeptSmber ~
1913, the strike called BY the Unite1 !.
Mine Workers Of America became "a
fective. Of approximately twelSos
thousand men employed IN the mine
the number who answered the strlfos