The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-03
Nation From Under r. r. Strike
Cloud Goes Under Another.
Only Few Small Shafts Operat-
ing in Indiana.
PENNSY FIELD is THREATENED
$4,000 Soft Coal Workers Join
in Big Protest.
Both Sides to Carry Judge
AndersOn'S Appeal Higher.

Indianapolis. Nov. 3.-Practically
every mine in the Indiana coal field
was idle today as the result of a strike
of union miners in protest against the
injunction issued by Federal Judge A.
B. Anderson. prohibiting the use OF
the CHECK k-off' system of collecting
union dues and assessments.
|. Only a few small mines were re.
ported operating and union employees
of these are expected to walk out as
soon as the "check-off'' system is
abandoned by the operators.
A meeting of the Indiana Bitumi-
nous Coal Operators association will
be held at Terre Haute tonight at
which the operators have announced
the course of action to be taken by
the operators as a result of the in
! junction would be decided upon.
Operators VIII Obey Orders.
Officers of the association have de-
! clared the injunction would be
obeyed and notices of the discontin-
uance of the "check-off" system have
already been prepared for posting at
the mines.
Miners from only a few locals in
| other districts are reported as having
followed the example of the Indiana
miners in striking but officials at
| headquarters of the union here say
that the walk-out will become general
as soon as the order disseminating the
check-off" system is put into effect
Counsel for both unions and op-
orators were busy today in the pre-
paratson of their appeal of the injunc-
/ tion to the circuit court OF appeals at
Chicago. They are expected to make
| formal application for the appeal be-
| fore Judge Anderson either today or
/ tomorrow
Only Four Mines Working.
Only four mines in Indiana were re-
ported working today. Thirty thou
sand miners in the Indiana field are
reported idle in protest against Judge
Z Anderson's decree.
{ Union headquarters here is without
advices as to the number that quit
work, but press dispatches indicate
I that 1880 men in Ohio. and 764 in
! Illinois. are all that have thus far
actually Joined the Indiana miners in
the protest" movement. altho the
strike of $4,000 Pennsylvania coal
workers appeared imminent.
Prepare for Finish Fight.
That the miners are preparing for a
finish fight, however, is indicated by
! the statement of one union official
that they will go to the end regard
! less of consequences"
/ On the other hand, 'ff the miners
] think the federal court is a joke, they
are badly mistaken, to quote another
man, not connected with the union but
/ in close touch with the court.
No general strike order Will be is
sued at international headquarters of
the United Mine Workers. That ap-
peared certain today.
! But there 'is scarcely n man" to
/ quote one man in close touch with the
! coal strike "in the miners organiza-
tion who will not understand the
meaning of the telegraphic orders
sent by the international officers Of
+ the union to seventeen district presi-
dents, in which they were told that
abrogation of any section of the ex-
isting miners orators agreement.
constitutes violation OF the contract
and should be treated accordingly.
Are Abiding by orders.
Springfield ILL.,, Nov. 3.-Thirteen
! hundred miners of the Peabody mines
/ at Taylorville are out on strike. ac-
cording to information received at the
state headquarters at noon today.
More than a thousand coal miners
( at Carlinville and Staunton, in Ma
coupin county, went on a strike this
morning. before they had received the
telegram from state headquarters or
dering them to stay at work. One
! hundred and fifty miners also struck
I at Hillsboro
Acting upon the official telegrams
however, which arrived soon after the
! miners in each of these places voted
to return to work tomorrow, according
: to information received by Secretary
miners union here. Members Of two
T So