Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-01
REAL TEST MAY NOT COME TILL
 NEXT TUESDAY
Impossible to Estimate Last Night How Many of 425,000
 Miners Will Quit.
DENOUNCES
 ATTITUDE OF MINERS
Attorney General Emphasizes That Injunction Is Not Infringement of Workers Right to
 Strike.

Washington, Oct. 31.-The big news in the coal strike situation to- ! day was the federal courts order for bidding the walkout. It was follow ed by long line of developments and opened the door to wide possibili- ties.
 The principal leaders in the min- ers' union met the courts action with with denunciation as "violation o\ | constitutional rights" Declarationss that it came too late to reach their l men with countermanding order, and with predictions that it would be disreearded anyway.
 During the nipht mived renorts were coming in from the mining states of mon who decided to remain at work and others who went on strike. despite the courts restrain inr order. It is not possible to es- timate what nroportion of the 425- GOO miners affected remained at work and what proportion walked out. The real tost may not come until Monday. Saturday generally is "dead" day in the mines.
 Labor Aroused by Injunction.
 Meanwhile. orpanizod labor lead- CTS showed sion of takinp up cndgels on general issue over the ri~ht 10 strike President Gomners of the American Federation of T4ahor. with Vice President Woll and Secretary Morrison. protested as deleeation to Attorney General Palmer aoainst the governments action in suiro ont the ini,,nction and predicted that # conld "only result in creating new and more disturhino issuos, which nav not be confined solely to the miners"
 1 Heads of the great railway hroth- nrhoods also conferred with tha at- tornev general but disclaimed that they did more than offer services to intervene
 Attornev General Palmer empha- sized to tho labor feeders that the povernment's injunction was n no wise an infringement of the working mans richt to strike. but that # was a lawful process against calamity 1 to the country He pointed out that the injunction had been issued for the government acting for all the reople. and not for the employers acting in conflict with their emnloves l The attorney general declinad to predict what would be done if tho miners failed to heed the federal courts order. rointing out that the court itself initiates means 10 deal with those who disrecard it's man. dates All day long. the government continued steadily takinc measures to deal with the practical as we'll as tho leoal ph"se of the crisis.
 President Wilson bv executive ord- CT fixed maximum prices of coft coal.
 Troons Reach Many Mines.
 Fuel Administrator Garfield re- stored the war orders which will give the railroad administration power to seize coal in transit and divert it to consumption. in accordance with a. preference list arranged with the idea of doing the greatest good for the greatest number. The machinery of the railroad administration. through which the acts of the fuel administra- tion will be carried out was put ready for functioning.s
 ! United States troops began. arriv- ing in some of the mining districts ready to take part in keeping order and protecting those miners who wished to continue work. The extent and full nature of the troop move ment were not disclosed, but it was apparent that the war department was acting on carefully worked out plan to be ready if the local or state authorities, reinforced by federal deputy marshals, were unequal to the situation.
 Congress continued to show it's temper, and the honse. amid speeches of denunciation of an attempt to paralvze the country, unanimously adopted the senate resolution nledS- ing support to the administration m < its measures to deal with the enaef-