The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21
Refuse to Return to Jobs Until
Mishmash Money Paid.
Court Officer Cannot Find Boy
to Whom Due.
new ACTION IS ANTICIPATED
HOwat Declares Payment by
Court Not Payment.
Recognition of Industrial Court
Now Main Issue. -

Pittsburg. Kan, Feb. 21.-Mines II
and of the George X. Mackie Fuel
company remained idle today. The
Kansas court of industrial relations
last Friday issued an order for re-
sumption of work at the mines this
morning after strike of two weeks
Ihe ouier was made in connection
with a decision awarding Karl Mish-
mash, a. former employe of the COM
pany. nfoney alleged to be due him in
increased wages. A controversy over
the MiShmash claim caused the CALI
ing OF the strike by Alexander Howat
and the executive board of the KAN
sas Miners union
Mines Remain Idle.
The mines were ready for operation
this morning but the 200 MIXERS eua-
pioy.ed there did not report for work.
lhet industrial court sent the order for
resumption of work to the COMPANY.
the local unions involved and the dis
| trict board of the union. When tho
oroer was served on Howat Saturday
ne refused to sign the receipt of the
papers. saying that he had not had
any relations with the industrial court
!, and would not have any
Howat in statement Saturday de-
| clared that the miners would not go
PACK to work until Mishmash had re-
cefved his money from the office OF
the Operators association here
| Howat Denies Court.
| The money awarded to Mishmash
was paid to Mrs Edna NJ. Burns. clerk
OF the Crawford county district court
saturday and she made an effort TO
locate Mishmash SO that she could
send the money to him. He was sum
posed TO be at Henryetta, Okla.
! Howat, ver emphaticallv
stated that the Mackie miners would
not return to work until Mishmash
! had received his money and that the
money must be paid to him from the
operators association office. This
was the regular channel. he declared.
Mrs Burns this morning had been
unable to find Mishmash She said
she had instructions to deliver the
money amounting to $22O.4O, to Mish-
4 mash and no instructions to turn the
money over to the operators associa-
tttion.l4. s
Late this morning. officials of the
| Mackfe company said that they would
pay Mishmash If he appeared at the
office of the company in Scammon
and asked for his pay.
4 Expect Vigorous Action.
Vigorous action by the Industrial
court in connection with the refusal
OF Howat and other district union Off
cials to end the strike, with the cause
or the strike removed, is anticipated
here. No members of the court were
here today but from Topeka the court
Reports gathered by the operators
u association showed a general resump-
tlon or work at the mines turnout the
kansas field. Fewer than a third of
/ the mines were operated last week
due to the work refrain" of miners
during the court proceedings. which
| included the trial and conviction of
Howat and five other union officials
charged with contempt of court and
their sentence to a year in Jail and
| the arrest of Howat and August
t'Dorchy, district vice president on a.
criminal charge of violating the indus
trial court law in Cherokee county.
Mandatory Injunction Next.
The next step by the Kansas court
of industrial relations. in case Howat
maintains his attitude of refusing TO
! order the Mackie miners back to
| work, Will be a mandatory Injunction
Tomorrow being holiday, the
court does not contemplate furthef
action in the matter until Wednesday
morning. mandatory Injunction. it
was explained. would place Howat in
the same position before the Crawford
county district court that he occupied
in indianapolis when he refused to
acknowledge a mandatory Injunction
y issued by Judge Anderson in the fed
eral court, to call off the miners'
strike AT that time he was sent to
Jail
Information obtained at the indus
trial court here today was to the ef-
feet that the 1920 was placed in trust
in the ha nds of Mrs. Burns. clerk of
the Crawford county district court,
with instructions to deliver 1t to
} Mishnash. A1tho not empowered to
deliver 1T thru the Operators associa-
ton. as demanded by Howat. she may
deliver it to Misnmash wherever she
sees fit, o. thru any bank. it was ex-