The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-23
SECRET DEAL BY GOVERNMENT WITH COAL MINERS, IS
 SENATOR'S CHARGE
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der Howat, president of the Kansa. district (No 1D of the United Mine Workers of America tonight is in jail here awaiting hearing on a charge oi | contempt of court for alleged violation 1 of the federal court injunction against l furtherance of the strike of coal min- CTS. Hearing has been set for nex' 1 Monday at , p. m.
 Howat appeared in federal court this | morning at the order of United States | District Judge A. E. Anderson. He was under bond of $10.00O provided in the 1 form of check on Kansas bank. i Judge Anderson disa pproved of thii form of bond and immediately after the i afternoon session of court began at 2 , o'clock remanded the miners official .o 1 jail until he reached a decision as to the amount and kind of bond which will be acceptable
 Judge Anderson this morning de lEounced Howat for his attitude in con nection with the courts injunction against the strike and declared:
 MUST VINDICATE LAW
 Either l have to vindicate the law or abdicate in favor of Mir Howat'
 The hearing this morning began with
  counsel for the United Mine Workers of America. in which the position was taken that Howat, ip keeping in force 8 local strike of lQA0 miners in the Kansas dis trict which was called last July, did not violate the injunction against fur therance of the general strike, but com@ pied with instructions of the miners general committee in that operation of mines in Kansas was resumed on the same basis as obtained on October 31, the date the general strike became effective.
 Dan w. Simms, special district attor- ney, representing the government fol- lowed with an outline of the evidence against Howat.
 He declared that the Kansas miners official had issued several statements oY given newspaper interviews in violation or the injunction and asserted that the local strike was merged with the gen. eral strike on October s1 and there after was affected by any action which had to do with the general strike.
 HAD. FULL KNOWLEDGE
 In reviewing the miners case, Judge Anderson declared that the Lever act, under which the action was brought, was still in force and pointed to the United States supreme court decision on the wartime prohibition law as a paral- Tel case, Gpholding the theory that the
 
 he had defined the law on November 8 and that the miners officials had knowl- edge of that definition.
 This defendant he declared accord ing to the statements in the verified bill of information which was filed here on December 3, violated this order (the courts injunction and the Lever law ever hour since that time Now the question is what sl.all I do? It is perfectly plain that this man has not in good faith attempted to comply with the order of this court It is quite ap- parent that there is ample ground for the grand jury to bring a bill against him for a felony. What should I do under the circumstances? Why, hold him. of course. That is what I have to do Now have continued this case to a time when he could get counsel, as he wants, and the government can get it's witnesses to prove as to whether he has heen contumacious. and in the meantime I am going to hold this man right here under the Jurisdiction of this court"
 LED 164 STRIKERS During the outline of the governpent,s case by Mir. Sinnis it was declared that during B efSfonths before December N 3l 1918, there were 364 strikes in tie Kansas l field under the leadership of Howat. It was stated that Howat probably did not call all or Che strikes, but that he vas responsible for the organization which made them possible, and that he was feared by both operators and busi- ress men in the Kansas district as wield- ing power too great for them to combat. Judge Anderson asserted that he con-. sidered the situation in the Kansas fields as intolerable. and said that Howat would have to change his attitude toward the law and the court if he expected to secure his liberty. He declared that Howat had -breathed defiance" right here in Indianapolis, and that he was go- ing to show him that there Is a govern ment in this country.