New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-15
ADMITS MILITIA
FIRED ON MINERS
.....ocant Testihes at the
'' Court Martial About
Ludlow Tragedy.
COLORADO APPEALS
TO WILSON FOR AID
,or Arbitration Commission
-" Strike Breakers Kept
from Working.

n
,.,vsr MAY i4-The first admission
made by an officer of militia that
,..- had nred into the Ludlow tent
=, striking miners just before it
s-sd came out to-day in the court
..i being conducted at the Golden
Rig. Range under government d're'-
ton -. u,S.s.r ;o,,-
uerrice c. Rigelow. who was
.-,,rc with Company b Of the I'd In
- during the battle. He said that
-. & o'clock in the evening he and
.,.;rT c. Linderfelt and Lieutenant
= Lndcrfclt we're fired upon by
strikers in tho tents.
arben We opened FIRE on the tent
colony" he said.
ron, r. Lawson. Colorado member OF
t-vocutive. Board Of the United
49,. Workers Of America; Edward l..
noyle. secretary-treasurer of District
q. " T Hickey. secretary of the state
v,lsrat,on of Labor. Jack Carter. ar
...oa with Hickey recently on
,ssree Of carry ing ammunition to the
.,,,kers: John O'Connor. Of the Louis
,ils local union; Joe Potoetsi. secre-
- of tho Louisville local. and more
nan on, hundred others have been in
s,,e6 by the Boulder grand jury on
,hsrees of conspiracy to murder and
corsriracy 10 attempt to murder. These
charges resulted from the killing of a
minor in a boarding house during
hattie az the Hecla mine, in Boulder
county. near Louisville, on April %.
The grand jury indicted one hundred
o,hsr strikers on charge Of conspiracy
% murder
4 Joint memorial addressed TO Presi-
dent wilson. was introduced in the
House Of Representatives this AFTER
noon, requesting him to maintain fed
ersl troops in Colorado until the set
tlsrrent Of the coal strike.
The President also is requested TO
send 10 Colorado a federal commission
composed Of representatives OF labor
and capital with instructions to at
tempt 10 bring about such a settlement
q, the strike as was arranged in the
anthracite district Of Pennsylvania in
1902 BY a commission appointed by
Presid dent Roosevelt
In the Senate an attempt TO bring
about settlement of all difficulties was
made in a proposal for a joint legisla-
tive commission. A resolution as
sailing Governor Ammons as incompe-
tent to handle the strike and calling
for his resignation was also proposed.
Under the rules the resolution goes
over Until tomorrow.
Trinidad Col. May l4.-Twenty-hVe
miners imported into the strike region
ty the Oakdale Coal Company TO work
in the Oakdale mine. near Laveta, were
stopped to-day by United states regu-
AIRS under Captain c. G. Smith. Five
men were also held by Captain Cush-
man AZ Primero. Colorago Fuel and
Iron Company property, on the ground
that they were employed by the COM
pany in violation of the order against
the importation Of strike breakers.
None Of the men was arrested or
deported. The officers merely pre-
vented them from going to work.
The Development caused the issuance
Of a statement of policy by the mill
tary authorities. Unless further orders
are received from Washington the atti-
tlde Of the army toward the employ
ment Of miners may he summed up as
follows
Men brought into the district by the
coal companies will not be allowed to
work in the mines.
Men who come voluntarily seeking
employment will he permitted to work.
Skilled workmen whose services are
needed 10 prevent the deterioration OF
property will be permitted to go from
one to another mine owned by the same
cooperation.