Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-21
LINDSEY HAS PLAN
TO MEDIATE STRIKE
Discusses Colorado Situation
With President Wilson
This Afternoon.
FAVORS KEEPING TROOPS
IN THE TROUBLE DISTRICT
Survivors of Ludlow Massacre" to
Tell of Sufferings at National
Rifles Armory Tonight.

Rifles Armory Tonight.
| With a plan to mediate the Colorado
| coal fields strike, which he believes will
| be successful If fathered by the Presi-
| dent. Judge Ben B. Lindsey, who came
! to Washington with delegation of
women and children refugees from Lud-
low, called at the White House this
| afternoon by appointment.
| Judge Lindsey stated he is emphati-
CAY in favor of keeping the troops in
| the strike district. He hopes the Presi-
| dent will hear the stories of the women
survivors of the Ludlow massacre who
| can tell him what they personally suf-
/ fered during the battle and fire.
| Judge Lindsey declares that the peo-
| pie of the country are guaranteed re-
| publican form of government; that no
! such government exists in Colorado at
/ this time. and that 1t is fully within the
! power of the President. backed by public
| sentiment to force settlement OF the
| troubles.
Judge Lindsey urged the President to
keep the federal troops in the coal strike
| region under all circumstances. asserting
that If they are not retained there blood
shed will continue and that there will be
Suggests U. s. Close Mines.
Judge Lindsey declined to go into de-
tails as to what his plans are, but in
a general way he hinted that public
opinion would justify the President,
under the guarantee of a republican
form of government to all citizens, to
close down the mines and practically
assume charge OF them by federal
troops, compelling the mine owners and
the striking miners to mediate their
differences. He recalled the steps taken
by President Roosevelt IN great
Pennsylvania coal strike some years
ago, and believes it within the power
OF the President to do almost anything
he wants in Colorado.
The PRESIDENT may not think he has
power to settle the strike. but think
ne has, declared Judge LINDSEY. lie
has gigantic powers under the Jaw and
under the reign of pubic opinion
Judge Lindsey bitterly criucized Gov.
Ammons. declared him incompetent and
limited that Ammons and Rockefeller are
in agreement as TO how the hgnt should
be solved.
Judge Lindsey has asked an interview
with John d. Rockefeller, jr. He didn't
know today whether Mr.. RockefeIter
would grant this Interview, in which he
will seek to have the New York nil
lionaire accept some plan of mediation,
if the party with him would also see
Mr.. Rockefeller.
Il do not know, he answered. but
Mr.. Rockefeller is no bigger than the
President of the United States Mr..
Wilson has seen us-aH of us-and l
think Mr. Rockefeller can afford to do
the same thing
Judge Lindsey persisted in his view
that the President should bump the
heads of both sides together and bring
about settlement.
Greeted by Mrs. Mccormick.
Judge Lindsey, accompanied by Mrs.
Lindsey and delegation Of women
from the strike field, whom he de-
scribed as victims OF the Ludlow
massacre" arrived in Washington at
4:40 o'clock yesterday evening. They
were met at the Union station by Mrs.
Medill Mccormick, who has long been
a personal friend Of Judge Lindsey.
and who represented the Washington
woman's Suffrage Council, under
whose auspices Judge Lindsey and his
delegation are to tell their story to
the Washington people tonight.
Representatives Kent of California
and keatng of Colorado, and William
II. Malone of Denver. the latter a
longtime personal friend of the judge,
also were at the station.
In the judges party are Mrs. Lee
Champion, wife of district judge In
Colorado, who is chairman of the wom-
ans relief committee; Mrs. Pearl Jolly,
who was under fire and wounded while
acting as a Red Cross nurse at Lud
children were burned to death after
being shot at on the firing line in the
strike field; Mrs. NJ. H. Thomas, who
cared for fifty children and many
mothers. helping them to hide in a
well. who brought to Washington with
her two children who escaped the fire
and bullets at Ludlow.
The women from the strike field were
| taken to the st. James Hotel, where they
would be under the protection of Frank
Hayes of the Miners Union.
Women Outraged, She Says.
In discussing the object Of her trip to
see the President. Mrs. Champion said:
The outrages that the women of Lud-
low suffered at the hands of the militia
| when they fired on the tent settlement
| are beyond description. When the firing
began early in the morning, and a part
| of the miners sought refuge in the hills
| were unrelenting in their attacks on the
| women. The women sought refuge in the
pits, but. regardless of their sex and
their inaggressiveness they were the
target of a continual firing, which lasted
through the day.
| Mrs. Jolly had had experience for three
years as nurse. When the firing began
Louis Tikis. known to the strikers as
Louis the Creek who had charge of the
camp, asked her II she would remain to
| care for the wounded. She lodged the fir
| ing for while and finally put on the
| badge of the Red Cross. This the militia
men used as a target. During the day
one Of her heels was shot off. She only
escaped with her life that night after
she had sought shelter of a farmhouse.
Sought Refuge in Well.
Mrs. Thomas was one of those who
| sought the protection of the well, where,
with fifty children, she was fired on by
the militiamen- Around her were dead
| and dying. She stayed there until
night came and then made her escane
| up the arroyo.
MRS Pettrucci saw her three chill
dren killed. She was in tent No !
the nearest to the firing line, when the
| machine guns were trained on the
camp. She ran to the nearest tent and
asked for protection. A militiaman
standing near cried out, Go away. She
| asked him where she could go. but he
aid not answer. This was the tent
which was later burned, and thirteen
persons including her children. were
killed and afterward dug from be-
The members of the delegation from
| the Colorado strike district are To
speak tonight in the National Rifles
Armory. s0s G street Northwest, under
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