Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
All Saints Day and Saturday
Rest Both Affect First
Day'of Struggle.
POWER OF MINE UNION
STILL LEFT IN DOUBT

Operators State That Results or
Effort to Tie Up Industry
Will Appear Tomorrow.
CHEYENNE. wvo.. November 1.
Brig. Gen. BENJAMIN A. Poore.
commander Of Fort ID. A. RUSSELL
near here. tonight issued a procla.
nation assuming "militAry con-
trols Of the state Of Wyoming. He
said he was acting at the request
Of Gov. Carey in the coal strike.
Five hundred cavalrymen are
available. One troop hns been dis
PATCHED tn Rock Springs.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 1.-Although
tonight found nearly all the nations
vast bituminous coal fields idle as
result of the miners strike. effective
Friday midnight, thousands of nom
union miners were at work, and in
scattered districts where contracts
were still in force union miners re-
ported today as usual.
Figures compiled last night based
chiefly upon union leaders claims. al
though in many cases conceded by the
operators showed that 435,s20 men
were on strike.
In its physical aspects the strike
apparently had largely stopped pro-
ducticn Of soft COAL but with large
non,union fields in Pennsylvania, Ken
lucky, and West Virginia still op-
Grating at somewhere near normal
and with a number of smaller fields
also working with union contract
miners. the actual effect on produc-
ton could not be definitely stated.
The first day Of the strike was All
Saints day and also Saturday. a
virtual holiday in many mining
regions, and the full power Of the
United Mine Workers Of America,
which ordered the strike, cannot be
fully ranged until Monday. operators
sd.
Coal operators said thousands of
nen-union miners were producing
csaI in usual quantities, although con-
ceding that in union fields the strike
was effective.
Union headers reported in most in
stances that the strike was virtually
100 per cent effective throughout the
country.
Number Of Men Out.
Tonight's figures on the number Of
men out were as follows: Alabama,
13.oe0; Arkansas. 1000; Colorado.
5000; Illinois, 10000: Indiana. $4,000;
Iowa, 1900; Kansas, 1900; Ken
lucky, 10000: Maryland. 1000: Mich
igan, 1900: Missouri. 5000; Montana.
1000; New Mexico. 500; North Dakota,
12e, Ohio. 10000: Oklahoma, 1o.50o;
Pennsylyapia, $1,000; Tennessee. TO-
eco; Texss. 1900: Utah. 1000; Wash
ingtsn, 5000; West Virginia. $4,000.
and Wyoming, 5000.
The number of men reported on
strike Is considerably in excess of the
401,4s0 members in good standing on
the union roster at the end of August.
but union leaders explained that at
that time fully Is per cent of the
union were behind In their dues and
had since been reinstated. While
union mines were tied up in Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia. Illinois. Indiana
and Iowa, as well as other important
coal producing states, about half OF
Kentucky's 10000 miners were still at
work That was said to be due TO the
fact that in the western Kentucky
field the miners and operators signed
an agreement about six weeks ago
- inn vaarlA af
be affectedby the strike.
An usasual situation prevailed in
Utah, where most of the miners re-
manned at work. John II. McLennan,
Utah representative of the union. call
ed off the strike Friday, announcing
that he had received a telegram from
John L. Lewis. head the organiza-
ton. that the strike was on. That was
repudiated by Lewis, but McLennan.
apparently, made no move to further
the strike.
North Dakota's 1900 Ignite miners re-
manned at work. with the exception Of
120, who struck in the Burlington field.
Meeting to Be Held.
The only development in Illinois, where
approximately $4,000 mine workers are
idle. according to Frank harrington.
president of the Illinois district, was
preparation for a meeting Monday of
members Of the executive board of the
Illinois district, summoned by President
Harrington before the restraining order
Of Judge Anderson was issued at In
dianapolis. The meeting originally was
for the purpose Of perfectinE state
strike plans. The call for the meeting,
it was said, had not been rescinded.
new element in the strike was the
acknowledgment by the management OF
the O'Gara mine near Springfield that
an order had been received from the
office OF. the quartermaster general OF
the United States Army directing that
the mine, which is engaged in furnish
ing coal for Camp Grant at Rockford
continue to fill its contracts. With the
mine closed by the strike the officials
were confronted by difficult problem.
Military Protection.
Troop orders transpired tonight al