Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-31
is TOO LATE
FOR STEP TO
BE HELD OFF
Impossible to Prevent
Strike Now Says ILL
nois Union Chief.

Springfield. ILL., Oct. 31.-As-
Stunning a defiant attitude to-
ward the governments move to
stop, by Injunction, the threat
ened strike of soft coal miners,
Frank Harrington, chairman Of
the miners scale committee,
and president of the Illinois
district, declared today the
@Strike had developed into
something more than miners
strike,o and that it was "an at
tempt to enSIaVe the working
men and women of the cOun-
try"
"I don't believe there is any pow
er on earth that can stop the min
ers from going on. strike tonight"
said harrington. <The action of
the government will only inflame
them. The question involved now
is whether working men and wom-
en- have the right to strike when
they think they have cause to do
So"
Illinois miners officials were
official notification OF the
Issuance of the Injunction at In
Injunction Denounced.
Branding the act of the govern
ment in obtaining the Injunction
rs the most far-reaching and high
handed restraining order ever is
sued by a court in this country"
Erarringtons declared Its influence
was to breed radicalism.
Nothing that / could know OF
could have a tendency to incite boil
shevism in this country as this re-
order will do" said Far
rington. "AlI the agents of Lenine
and Trotzky and the influences at
heir command could not do as
much to create bolshevism in this
country as the Injunction granted
1y Judge Anderson will do"
VIII Go Through With 1t.
I'VE are going through with the
strike" Harrington declared. La
,or is bound to fight this injunc-
ion. If it stands it is within the
power of any court to enslave the
working man and woman any time
he court decides to do so.
If this injunction stands there
will be a lot of us deceived as to
he liberties We thought American
itizens enjoy. The restraining or
Ter is a blow at the very heart of
rec institutions of our country"
Harrington, who is president of
he Illinois district, was at his desk
oGay to direct the fight in this
tate which will affect 10000 men
nd cut off coal production at the
ate o. approximately 100000
ons annually.
"TOO Late Now"
ct is too late to try to stop this
trike," President Harrington de-
Jared. 1.-The men have made up
heir minds to go out and nothing
an defect them from their pur-
ose."
Although the strike call fixes
Midnight tonight as the effective
our, the stoppage of production |
yill begin so far as Illinois is con- |
erned between p. m. and p. m. |
oday, when the day shifts are
oisted from the workings. This
orce Harrington said, comprises
bout $4,000, OF the approximately |
0 900 miners.
Reports at state headquarters in
icated that very few men remain
1 away from their work this morn
lg in anticipation of the shutdown
My a few hours distant.
VIII Issue Orders to Men.
Mr.. Harrington was preparing a
.atement directed to Illinois min
rs in which, it was indicated, the
of the union will be
lstructed as to the way in which
ley will be expected to conduct
lemselves during the tie-up.
trike leaders, it was said, are urg-
Ig the rank and file to give no
luse for criticism and to do moth
Ig that will provoke the use of
rec by the authorities.