Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-01

the state, which already was paying
5000 day for its protection to prop
erty and for maintenance of the peace.
Nine hundred miners at Fremont
vowed they would 90 to Trinidad and
release Mother" Jones by force OF
arms. II necessary. and a few days later
liberty" parade of men. women and
children toward San Rafael Hospital
was dispersed by state cavalrymen with
drawn sabers. General Chase was In
personal charge. and under his direc-
ton twelve men and seven women were
arrested.
Appeal having been made to court.
Judge A. w. McHendrie Of the third
judicial district decided that the mill
tary authorities were within the scope
of their power in arresting and detain-
I ing those charged with fomentilg
strike disorders
During hearings of the congressional
committee which went to Colorado. in
! February to investigate conditions IN
the coal mining districts charges OF
peonage, of illegal Imprisonment and
of an overriding of laws were made
by the strikers against the operators,
. who countered with Stories of violence
and ir resurrection against constituted
authority.
Cites Acts Of Violence.
]. C. Osgood president of the Vic
tor American Fuel Company said that
violence against his company began
with the very start of the strike, and
cited the killing of the town marshal
Of Segundo on the second day of the
strike and the dragging of two women
from a stage coach and their detention
against their wills, this act being
charged by him to the strikers. 1t
was because Governor Ammons did not
call out troops and because the sher-
if was helpless in the premises, he
said, that the company manned it's
mine property with guards armed with
machine guns. The belligerent miners,
he declared, greatly outnumbered the
guards of the company.
Charges Of peonage preferred before
the committee against the Victor
American Fuel Company were denied
emphatically by B. w. Snodgrass, SUI
perinteDdent Of the Delagua mine.
Early in March Edward l.. Doyle,
secretary treasurer of district No. Is,
United Mine Workers, told the con-
gressional committee that IL was his
opinion that the union had right to
coerce workmen to give moral and fl
nancial support to the miners Organi-
zation OH the grounds that it was do
ing work and making sacrifices that
would benefit all labor. He said the
United Mine Workers had devoted
100000 to strike benefits in Colorado
coal fields since 1910.
Troops Cruelty Charged.
The committee was informed with
much detail of the alleged destruction
of tent colony at Forbes by state
troops acting under orders Of Adjutant
General Chase, of the arrest Of sixteen
strikers and of the turning of wom-
en- and children out of shelter in a
binding snowstorm.
The more recent clashes between
state guards and strikers began a few
days age around Trinidad, whSl ma
chine guns used by the troops demol-
/, ished the strikers tent colony and left
thirteen dead on the field AS a result
of this fourteen-hou battle citizens of
Trinidad began to arm themselves, and
squads Of armed men from, Fremont
county and from near Denver started
to the aid of the 900 or more armed
strikers at Ludlow.
The menace of a statewide strike of
labor was precipitated with the dis
charge of train crews on the Colorado
& Southern road because they refused
to operate trains to carry state troops
from Trinidad to Ludlow
Women and children figure extern
sively. it is said, i'm the latest victims
OF battles. One report had it that
eleven bodies of children and two OF
women were found in and near the
ruins of the Ludlow tent colony.
thof r,t,-
10 spread over the state and the decla-
! rati IN OF Governor Ammons that Col
orado was not in position to take
care OF It's own troubles in the i'm
mediate future brought President Will
son and federal troops into the stu
alton.
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