Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-01
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
/. DISTRICT MINER
ARE EXPECTED To
LAY DOWN TOOLS
I210O0 of the 25,000 Men
Employed in Mines viii
Obey Command TO Walk
Out According to Unions.
COLORADO PREPARED TO
PROTECT ALL WORKERS
Men Who Desire to Remain on
the Job viii Be Guarded by
State Militia, Which Is
Modified at Golden.


Denver. Colo, oct. S1.-The strike
of bituminous miners. called for mid
night, went into effect In the Rocky
mountain district before nightfall to-
day. No estimate of the number
joining in the strike was possible to-
night, though union leaders declared
approximately $1,000 of the $4,000
miners in District Is, composing coal
fields of Colorado. New Mexico and
Utah, would join the strike. Reports
from Wyoming were that 5000 miners
in that state would be idle, AS no
mines in the district operate night
shifts and some of the operators an
nounced no effort would be made to
operate the mines until Monday, it
was considered that any estimate
made before that time of the number
of men on strike would be largely
conjectural
Troops Ordered to Entrain.
In the meantime the Colorado state
government IS making preparations
for protection of those miners who
wish to remain at work. Three COM
panies of state militia, modified to-
DAY at Golden. had orders to entrain
tonight for Frederick, Colo, in the
Louisville coal district of Boulder
county, Other militiamen were to
camp AT Trinidad tomorrow for dis
trihution in the Trinidad and Walsen-
burg coal districts and mine opera
tors laid plans for opening of the
mines Monday for any miners who
wish to return to work, on assurance
that adequate protection would be
furnished them.
Equipment and dispatch for the
troops We're forward today over the
protest of organized labor and the
sheriff at Wasenburg, the latter ap-
pealing to the governor to send fed
eral troops because he said he feared
a repetition of the Ludlow miners
battles of 1884. Governor Shunp
announced that he had made arrange
ments for calling federal troops if
needed but denied that any request
for federal troops had been for
warded.
Won't Effect New Mexico.
New Mexico operators were conf
dent tonight that the strike would
have little effect in the state. The
governor has received offers of help
from members of the American I.e-
gion and others, but operators esti-
mated that not moro than 800 of the
5000 miners employed in the thirty
eight mines of New Mexico would
would answer the strike call 1t was
said union organizers have been at
work in the state for several days and
until tomorrow what effect their
work has had cannot be determined.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany, the largest single operator in
Colorado, announced tonight that the
Trinidad mines would not operate to-
morrow. 1t was said that an effort
would be made to operate the prop
critics Monday when state troops have
been distributed through the region.
The Walsenburg properties of the
Colorado Fuel and iron company, six
mines employing normally approxi-
mately 1000 men, will open tomor-
row morning at Z o'clock as usual
Miners of this district recently passed
resolutions expressing the desire to
reain at work. No forecast as to the
effect of the strike in this district
was possible tonight.
Twenty-eight Mines Exempt.
Twenty eight mines, employing APP
proximately 1000 men, the largest
group being owned by the Victor
American Fuel company, are exempt
from the strike order because of
expired. Union leaders were count |
ing tonight on the presence of state
troops ip these districts to bring the
men out of these mines, declaring
that the men would refuse to work |
because of antagonism to such pro-
lection.