The Mena weekly star., 1919-12-25
HOWAT IN JAIL,
 MINERS STRIKE All Coal Mines in Southeastern Kan sas May Be ClOsed--Walkout of 250 at Grove Mine Starts
 the Movement.

iiJtSbul E. hdS.s DcC. LG.--AleAdn- der Howat's hold on the coal miners of Kansas will be tested again tomor. row morning If that hold is as strong as has been indicated on mum. erous occasions, one hundred and fifty coal mines will be made idle by miners who will refuse to work be- cause Howat was sent to jail in Indi- annapolis by Judge Anderson today They will follow the lead of two hun dred and fifty miners at Grove No. l6- mine, who struck this morning, de- claring that they would not work un- til Judge Anderson decided he was not going to send Howat to jail
 Every report brought into Pitts burg from the mining camps today and tonight said the miners would walk out tomorrow. In the cigar stores and other places where miners gather, there seemed to be no ques- tion among the miners that another strike would begin tomorrow.
 Had Worked Just a Week.
 1t was just a week ago today that the miners returned to work after six weeks of idleness. Large numbers of them were actually in need. The food supply was getting low and. strange as it may seem, the fuel bins were empty. Christmas season was at hand and there was no money with which to buy Christmas presents. And if they strike again tomorrow, they will demonstrate an allegiance to one man no one can question.
 August Dorchy, vice-president of District IA said tonight he had no official reports from over the district as to the attitude of the miners. Ru- mors of all sorts were coming into dis trlct headquarters, he said.
 The state receivers at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon stopped the sale of sup plies purchased for the volunteers and the national guardsmen brought here by Governor Allen December l. The receivers had opened a salvage sale in building in Pittsburg, and shoes, clothing, hardware, stoves and gro- ceries were being sold at cost and be- low. As soon as dispatches from h. dianapolis telling of the sending of Howat to jail became public, the re- ceivers closed the big bargain store. The receivers previously had received
 
 See Return of Volunteers.
 The receivers would not discuss the situation tonight but it is understood they were in communication with Gov ernor Aliens office Pittsburg tonight had visions of the return of volunteer miners and soldiers.
 The strike, if it occurs tomorrow will not be confined to the Kansas mi Tho Do field is just across the state line and 1t IS in the Kansas union district. The miners there are reported just as strong for "Howat" strike as are the miners on the Kansas side of the line. The report that Judge Anderson in his remarks today spoke of having re- ceived many scurrilous letters from | the Kansas district was received with much interest here Numerous local unions and many other labor organi- cations adopted resolutions severely condemniDg Judge Anderson for granting the government the injunc- ton against the miners. Many of the resolutions were alike and evidently were prepared and sent out from one central place
 Howat Wrote Them All? It was said by man closely allied with the mining industry that affidav- its had been sent to Judge Anderson stating that these resolutions were prepared under direction of Howat and sent out to the local unions for adoption. That the judge received many letters from this district occa- stoned no surprise The miners have been in the habit of flooding the news paper offices with letters concerning the strike. The special object of the attacks of the letter writers of the past six weeks have been Judge An derson and Governor Allen.