Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-27
WILSON APPEALS
TO ROCKEFELLER
TO END STRIKE
Congressman Foster and Oil
Mans Son to Confer on
Colorado Warfare.
NEW MOVE SlDETRACKS
SENDING OF u. S. TROOPS
Conditions in Colorado Strife
Termed Worse Than in Mex
ico by Cabinet Member.

WASHINGTON, April 2a-Presi-
dent Wilson has made personal ap-
peal to John D. Rockefeller to bring
about 4 settlement of the Colorado
coal strike and end the violence which
has cost q score of lives and large
property loss.
The great financier, who owns a
large part of the mines affected by
the strike, in response to telegram
from the President, declared he had
turned over his interests in Colorado
TO his son, John ID. Rockefeller, jr.,
whom he would ask to cooperate with
Chairman Foster, of the House COM
mittee on mines and mining. The
President sent Mr.. Foster to New
York today to talk with the younger
Rockefeller.
Upon the outcome of the confer
ence depends whether Federal troops,
which have been asked for by all
sides of the controversy will be sent
so the strike zone. Recently the
younger Rockefeller at hearing of
the mines committee of the House
said the mine owners would fight to
the end, even though they lost what
they had invested in Colorado. Since
then the conflict has ragged with all
the horrors of actual warfare. The
President, cabinet officers, senator's
and congressman have Leen flooded
with kilograms describing the most
greWsome happenings and terrible
scenes.
Nothing that has happened in
Mexico" said a cabinet official to-
day, compared with the awful things
that have occurred in Colorado. The
public mind has for the moment been
centered on Mexico and has not OBJ
served the great domestic struggle
between the strike breakers and the
miners and the militia in Colorado"
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, con-
ferred at the White House today and
all the members of the Colorado dele
CATION in Congress kept in touch with
the situation. j. w. Burkhardt,
chairman of the Democratic county
committee at Chandler, Colo, in tele-
graphing today TO Representative
Heating about the miners CAPTURING
the Chandler mines declared that the
only surrender of the mines would De
to Federal soldiers, but that the min
ers promise not to destroy property.
Secretary Garrison said today he
had not been consulted as 10 the
sending of troops to Colorado to ham
die the mine strike situation. 1t was
stated at the department, however,
that if troops were ordered to Color
ndo by he President, a detachment
would he sent from the two troops of
the Twelfth Cavalry now al Fort
ID. a. Russell, at Cheyenne. Wyom-
ing.
PUEBLO, Colo, April 27.-Three
men, employees of the steel mill in this
city, yesterday were shot and slightly
wounded by armed men near here.
They were members of party of
twenty men on their way to Williams
lurg in an automobile.
The machines were passing through
a canyon, when at point near Flor
ence. in Freemont County, dozen
armed men lined up across the road
and began firing at the party. At
the same instant bullets rained down
toward the men in the machines from
the hill cops on either side, Wounding
the three men.
The automopiles then turned back.
hearing the wounded men, Gilbert
Murray, j. Schmidt and j, Leithead,
to a hospital here