The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-17
Santa Fe Miners Declare They
Will Not Work.
Walk Out Until National Guard
Is Recalled.
TO DEPORT AMAZON CHIEFS
Union Attorney Applies for
Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Despite Tradition of Coal Field,
More on Jobs Today.

Franklin. kan, Dec. 17.-Miners Of
the Santa Fe miJ No. II altho of the
antI-Howat forces, walked out of the
pit a noon today declaring I'VE Will
never dig another shovelfuI of coal
while troop are in the field"
Their decision was reached at a
meeting in the tipple house in which
they voted to Join Howat until the
troops had been pulled out" The
miners, it is said. altho opposed to
Howat, res t working under the pro-
lection of mil.tiamen.
To Ocport Amazon Leaders
Pittsburg. Kan, Dec 17.-Deporta-
ton of Amazon warriors" was the
plan Of +1e t.iple- ffensive-federal
agents. Kansas militia and mine own
ers- the Kansas mine war today.
T,-.th four women in Jail, and with
Deputy Sheriff o. NJ. Lyons in the
field hum, twelve other ''Amazons,'
the government. thru United States
District Attorney Al Williams of Kan
SIS, and George H. Wark. prohibition
director. stepped into the situation.
In addition to the four women ar
rested Lite Friday night, Wark, with
and three women into custody near
Frontenac. Wark said he found 5000
gallons of Illicit liquor in the miners
homes.
More Miners at Work.
A gain of 100 miners at work at the
coal field this morning was reported
at the headquarters of the operators
association when returns were COM
plete from over the field.
Van A. Bit+ner, chief representative
of the international union in Kansas,
issued a statement this morning as
serting that 5000 miners are at work
in Kansas today.
L was Saturday and an unwritten
law in the mining field has for many
years, provided where a suspension OF
work, due to any cause, has occurred
late in the week, there would be no
resumption of work until Monday.
The same rule has applied to the
day after a holiday. And a third and
in times past considered the most un-
favorable Of all possible conditions was
the presence of troops on duty in the
mining field
Arrested Women Given Bond.
At 1925 o'clock this morning the
four women marchers, arrested late
yesterday and charged with rioting
and unlawful assembly in connection
with the marching on the mines the
first of the week, were taken before
Judge George F. Beesley of the sec
ond division of the Crawford county
district court and arraigned
Judge Beesely set January as the
date for a hearing and fixed the bonds
of the women at $3.50. p. II. Gallery
who appeared as counsel for the wom-
en-, appealed to the court for reduc-
ton of the bonds to $500, which is
the maximum fine that can be i'm
posed. The court refused to make
the reduction.
After some time in which Gallery
discussed the matter with the women
it was announced that it would not
be possible to get bondsmen until
o'clock and the marchers were taken
back to Jail.
Ask Habeas Corpus.
Papers requesting the issuance of
writ # habeas corpus for the release
of four women of the mine fields ar
rested last night by county authorities
of Crawford county were filed this
morning in the office of the clerk OF
the district court hearing on the
request will be held some time today
before Andrew J. Curran, district
judge here.
Meanwhile. sheriff's deputies have
been dispatched to the coal fields to
make further arrests. on warrants is
sued by the county attorney office
under the direction of Attorney Cen
eral Richard J. Hopkins of Kansas.
There were no reports of violence in
connection with the serving of the
warrants.
The women under arrest are: Mrs.
Mary Battatori and Mrs. Mary Sku-
bitz, miners wives who We're taken
from their h les at Ringo during the
night; Mr.. Marie Deloney of South
Radley, mother of two small children,
and Mrs. Fannie Wimler, a miners
widow living near Franklin.
The women yVprn still held IN 10
Genel ! r. J. Hopkins. refusing any
o.-s permission to communicate with
the prisoners.
Strike Zone Apparently Quiet
The strike zone was quiet on the
surface. TIE temper of the strikers,
howeveT according to observers in the
field, was ct fever heat.
After being refused permission to
see. the four women of the mine fields
arrested last night and lodged in the
city jail, Phil H. Gallery, their attor-
ney, began the preparation of an ap-
phcauCn for writ of habeas corpus
Since the arrest of the women last
evening the jailer at the city Jail has
refused permission to any one to see
them, saying he was acting upon or
ders from Richard ]. Hopkins. at
tOrney general of Kansas, who is here
Gallery explained he was attorney for
the women, but was denied admission
Jail officials said today that none
of the women had asked to see an
attorney and that the rule had been
not to permit lawyers to see prisoner
until the prisoners had asked to see
q lawyer.
Gallery. counsel for the Howat