The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-04-30
COALSTR|KECROWS
Colorado Miners Violate Truce and
Fighting Is Resumed.
Strike Breakers in Pueblo Mills
Fired On" Mother" Jones
Addresses Denper Meeting.

Denver-State officials Monday de-
clared the truce which had existed for
two days between the strikers in the
Southern coal fields and the state mil
tia had been broken by the strikers
and that the militia now is under no
obligation whatever to refrain from
aggressive acts to restore peace.
Concerning the violation of the
truce agreement, Governor Ammons
said:
''Of course the truce has been brok-
en- by the strikers. They broke it
Sunday night in Trinidad, Sunday in
Chandler and again Monday in .Chand-
Ter.
'They say they could not get word
to the strikers in Fremont county, but
that is absurd. They are getting
word to them there now, and they
could have done it then.
'No one is under further obliga-
tions so far as the truce is concerned,
and the state troops will do their ut
most to enforce peace throughout the
region until the situation is taken in
hand by the federal troops, as | under
stand it will be at once.
General Chase has been ordered to
push aggressively his campaign against
disorder in the zone, irrespective of fu-
ture promises from the strikers"
Governor Ammons and others quoted
Horace Hawkins, attorney for the
mine workers, as expressing deep
chagrin that the truce, which he had
gone to much trouble to arrange, had
been violated"
Pueblo, Colo.-Three men, employees
of the steel mill in this city, were
shot Sunday by strikers. They were
members of a party of 20 men on their
way to Williamsburg in an automobile.
The automobile brought the wound
ed men, Gilbert Murray, ]. Schmidt
and ]. Leithead, to hospital here.
Denver = Colorado strikers, strike
sympathizers and radicals of various
types swarmed on the capital grounds
and the corridors an hour before the
mass meeting of the Workers Defense
League began at o'clock Sunday.
Mother" Mary Jones created {
sensation when she appeared, unan
nounced.
In her exhortation, sprinkled will
"reminiscences of West Virginia ant
Washington, she reiterated advice tina
they keep COOL" do nothing unlaw
full, and in the fall elections, cleo
representatives and an executive VIII,
mould sfha r,lod 70 earua tba booor n
the state and not the Standard OIL"
Just before the arrival of Mother
Jones, resolution was passed de
nouncing absentee landlordism, alleg
ing that 1000 miners died because ''di
vidends could nou be lessened by tn
expense of the improvements" With
the last 20 years; that the state
county and municipal officials cha
! been purchased and the election ma
chinery seized, desperadoes hired ant
militia used as a constant threat"
The resolution pledged the lives an
liberties of the audience to the relic
of '12, 900 men speaking SO tongues
in the strike district, who were in re
, volt; demanded the withdrawal o
troops; the seizure of mines by tn
state, pending adjustment by the strik
ers and operators; the cancelling 0
leases to $4,000 acres of school land
and the development of the state
coal land acreage; a constitutions
, amendment repeating the Meyer de
cision; denounced Governor Ammon
and Lieutenant Governor Fitzgerald a
TRAITORS to the people and accessorie
to the murder of babies" and Gale
on the special session of the legisls
ture to impeach them.