Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-05-05
THE FEDERAL
TROOPS STOP
LABOR STRIKE
Colorado Strike Zone is Gained BY
Presence of Government
TO DISARM THE STRIKERS
Major Holbrook in Command Ex-
poets to Restore Order Per.
manently.
TO D1sARM THE STRIKERS

| Trinidad, Colo, May 1.-Th
strike zone slept last night. Striker
and guards who had battled inter
mittently in southern Colorado TO
ten days laid aside their rifles ant
lslumbered in their camps or besid
the blackened ruins of mine build
ings. Labor leaders and high offic
ials of coal companies, who hat
watched through nights of alarm
left their desks and slept the sleeI
of utter exhaustion. Women an(
children who had trembled ant
prayed as rifles cracked and machine
guns spat, once more felt safe to seel
their beds.
1t was because a big, pleasant
gray moustached man had brought
some 800 strapping young regulars
to Trinidad early yesterday, anG
announced that he was here to re.
store the peace. The man was Mai
w. A. Holbrook, in command of the
Second squadron, Fifth United States
cavalry.
TO RESTORE ORDER.
eve are not here to take sides be-
tween the strikers and their former
employees explained the major, af-
ter toilsome day of making camp
and comforting with leaders of both
sides of the labor controversy.
eve are here to restore order.
have been assured of cooperation
from the warning factions and I am
confident of our ultimate success"
Major Holbrook admitted that ne
gotiations had been opened in con-
nection with the disarmament Of the
strikers. He declined, however, to
| reveal the exact nature of the ne
gotiations or the success with which
they had been attended.
Asked if the mine guards would
be disarmed, he said:
"The guards of course cannot be
disarmed at present, with the prop
erty of the companies under their
protection. The strikers, however,
will be assured that the use of arms
by the guards will be restricted. The
guards must confine their activities
strictly to protecting the property
of their employers. They will not
be permitted to modest the miners or
their tent colonies
The major said he would visit the
site of the burned Ludlow tent COL
ony in company with leaders of the
miners to determine whether or not
the strikers should be allowed to re-
build it. The strikers encamped
near San Rafael hospital, on the
edge of Trinidad, will not be dis
turbed.
Major Holbrook took care to ex-
plain that martial law had not been
proclaimed: that the civil authori-
ties and the civil courts were exer-
cising their functions.
The main camp of the regulars
and the headquarters of their COM
mander are on the fair grounds,
north of the city. Troop G, sixty
five men, under Capt. C. C. Smith,
was sent to Walsenburg late
yesterday Thirty men under Lieu
tenant Wheeler last night went to
Segundo to protect a district in
which numerous reports of activity
on the part of the strikers were re-
ceived throughout Wednesday night.
Major Holbrook said he expected
to send one troop to Ludlow to re-
place the state militiamen now on
guard in that region. This, howev-
err, will not be done before today,
perhaps not before tomorrow.
Zitterell & Sullivan have inaug-
urated a new manner of removing
dirt in sewer work. They have
rented a trenching or ditching ma
chine and the sewer work has been
going rapidly since the new ma