Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-03
TODAY EXPECTED
To BRING CRUCIAL
TEST OF STRENGTH
IN COAL CENTERS
Both Factions Are Waiting for
Developments This Morning
When Mine Whistles Sound
the Call to Go to Work,
UNION LEADERS ASSERT
WALK0UT IS EFFECTIVE
More Than 425,000 Miners
Have Laid Down Their
Tools, According to Officials
of Mine Workers Union,

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Chicago, Nov. "A crucial test of
strength in the great strike of soft
coal miners which already has, made
idle more than 425.O0O men. accord
ing to union leaders claims. was
awaited tonight by both operators
and miners to develop tomorrow
morning when the mine whistles
sound the call to work,
Although the strike went into eff
feet at midnight Friday night, both
sides to the controversy have agreed
that Monday would prove the power
or lack of it on the part of the United
Mine Workers of America to stop
production of bituminous coal. In
some sections. notably western Ken
lucky union miners have continued
at work under an agreement entered
into several weeks ago.
Tomorrow also will put 20 the test,
in part at least, the power of the
United States government as express
ed through the Injunction issued Fri
day by Federal Judge Anderson at In
dianapols restraining union officials
from issuing further strike orders or
encouraging the miners to join in the
strike. Most union chiefs gave inn
mediate obedience to the government
order, but their men in most in
stances left the mines Friday and re-
Trained yesterday from returning to
work,
Strike 100 per Cent Effective.
Union leaders in announcing that
more than 400, 900 had quit work, de-
clared the strike was virtually 100 per
cent effective.
Coal operators did not wholly con-
cede the union mems claims.
The operators pointed to practic-
ally normal production in the huge
non-union fields of West Virginia
I'd "a ApsvlVania, there being about
1867 non-union miners in those
two states West Virginia operators
maintained that in that state soft coal
production was so per cent normal.
About SO per cent of Kentuckys 40,-
600 union miners also were at work
yesterday under contracts.
In Alabama, where the miners
chiefs said 23, 900 of the 26, 600 miners
had walked out, operators while not
denying the figures, pointed to some
of the larger mines of that state as
still in operation. In North Dakota
most of the 1900 Ignite miners re-
NAMED at WORK
In Utah the majority of miners re-
manned at work, 1t was reported, be-
cause of conflicting statements that
the strike was off and that it was not
off. At least 1000, however, had
struck, it appeared,
Colorado's mining districts were
largely closed down, although the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company re-
t,a fiua in
Yesterdays reports said only 500
of the 4S0O Aminers in New Mexico
had struck
Elsewhere, especially in the great
bituminous fields OF Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, the strike apparently was
fully effective, Z
Governments Plan Unknown.
The full effect of the governments
action in the strike, including the re-
habilitation of the fuel administra-
tion and the seizure of coal in transit
by the railroads for Redistribution
by regional committees has not been
indicated. The war department, it be-
came known yesterday, had ordered
the O'Gara minc. near Springfield,
H., which supplies Camp Grant at
Rockford, ILL.,, with coal, to continue
operation.
The company was unable to comply
as the miners remained away from
the mine.
Coal operators in many regions
have expressed themselves as ready
to operate if possible under govern
ment orders and protection. Union
leaders generally have asserted not
even the government could compel
the miners to work.