Evening star., 1921-11-03
MINERS MARK TIME
|NPROTEST STRIKE
Few Others Walk Out, But
Main Body Will Await
Operators Action.
By the Associate Press.

by The Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, November 3-Om-
cials OF the United Mine Workers of
America said today that soft coal
miners throughout the country were
awaiting discontinuance by operators Of
the CHECK Off" as directed by a fed
eral court injunction.
No answer had been sent to Frank
Harrington, the Illinois Union leader,
who had asked for definite instructions
on calling a strike, but President John
L. Lewis said h. expected to make a
reply during the day.
Officials regarded their original strike
message as sufficiently clear, and indi-
Gated that such a statement would be
ton, who was leader Of the anti-admin-
istration element at the recent miners
convention. No question IS to inter-
probation [ ( the message ha6 arisen in
any other Of the sixteen states to which
it was sent, according to the officials
Indiana Field Tied Up.
Practically all the Indiana mines were
closed again today, reports from the
ccai fields indicating that $4,000 men
continued their zwalkout in protest to
the federal court injunction. Pennsyl-
vania operators in the Pittsburgh dis
trict have given notice that they will
abolish the ''cr eek on but reports from
other coal states, received at union
headquarters hele. said the operators
had not announced their policy.
A meeting of the Indiana Bitumin-
Gus Coal Operators Association will
be held at Terre Haute tonight. at
which members have announced their
course of action to be taken by the
operators as the result of the injunc-
ton would be outlined. Officers of
the association have declared. how
ever. the injunction would be obeyed.
and notices of discontinuance of the
check-off system have already been
prepared Tor posting at the mines.
Few Locals Follow.
Miners from only a few locals of
other coal mining districts of the
country were reported as having fol-
lowed the example Of the Indiana
miners in striking. but officials at
headquarters of the union here ex-
general as soon as the order discon-
tinuing the "check-off" system is put
into effect. This may not occur for
several days in some of the districts,
it was pointed out, as there is eX-
pected to be some delay before the
pTOSlSloHS VI tHt are put
into actual operation.
Counsel for both the union and the
operators were busy today in the
preparation of their appeal of the in
junction to the circuit court of ap-
pealS at Chicago and are expected to
make formal application for the ap-
peal before Judge Anderson either to-
day or tomorrow. Counsel said the
application was only a perfunctory
proceeding.
Ordered Back to Work.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. November s.
More than a thousand coal miners at
Carlinville and Staunton, in Macoupin
county, struck today before they had
received telegram from state head
quarters ordering them to remain at
work. One hundred and fifty miners
also struck at Hillsboro.
Acting upon the official telegrams
however, which arrived soon after,
the miners in each of these places
voted to return tomorrow, according
to information received by Walter
Nebit, an official of the state miners
union here. Two other locals in
southern Illinois which struck yes
terday. Mr.. Nesbit said, are back at
work today.
Six Working In Indiana.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. November g.
Reports received this morning at
Headquarters Of the United Mine
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