The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-04
Operators Will Not Help Fight
Judge Anderson Ruling.
Oppose "Check-Off' Injunction,
But VIII Stand Pat.
INDIANA MINES ARE IDLE
More Than $4,000 in Indiana
Struck in Protest.
Ohio Men Who Walked Out Are
Ordered Back.

Indianapolis, Nov. 4.-The United
Mine Workers will have to fight 1t
out alone" in their effort to obtain
suspension of Federal Judge Ander-
sons injunction aga INST the check-off
system.
Indiana operators, AL OF them
named defendants in Judge Ander-
sons decree will not JOIN in the ap-
peal to be taken today in the United
States court of appeals at Chicago
Meeting at Terre Haute last night,
the Indiana operators Unanimously
pledged themselves to abide by jude
Anderson's decision and to refrai
from jo' rg the miners in. their ap-
peal.
No Contract Violation.
The operators were assu.ed they
could abide By the decree without vio-
lating their contract with TIE miners
inasmuch as the agreement for the
Indiana district. unlike others, pro-
vides that the operators shall not OPP
pose the check-off unless it is prohib-
tied by tho courts.
Counsel for the miners proceeded
today with preparations for playing a
lone hand in the appeal and if they
fail to obtain suspension of judge An
derson's decree, planned to ask that
only Indiana be included in the ruling.
Judge Anderson made clear that all
operators using the check off ere af-
fected by the temporary Injunction.
Indiana Miners Idle.
Meanwhile. with 10000 Indiana
miners still idle and Ohio and Illinois
strikers ordered back to worl; by their
district officials pending decision OF
the operators on abolition 0 the
checkoff, the Threatened tieup of Tie
coal industry marked time. The next
move directly affecting the walllouts,
union leaders said. is up to the op-
! orators.
Reports from the Ohio field were
that miners taking part in the pro
test" strike in that district had been
ordered back to work by district union
officials pending decision by the en-
ployers Oh whether to apply the order
prohibiting the check off,
Union Chiefs To Meet.
The executive board of the miners
union of the Pittsburgh, Pa district
| is scheduled to meet today to act on
District President Robert r. Gibbons
decision to call a strike next Monday.
| The strike which if called, would be
confined to bituminous coil companies
which have notified Mr.. Gibbons they
will no longer observe the check off,
would affect forty thousand miners.
officials said
In other bituminous coal fields of
| the country minCrs were said to be
awaiting enforcement of the injunc-
strike action.
Appeals Are Filed.
| Washington, Nov. 4.--Attorneys for
/ the u NJ. w. A. filed in the federal
circuit court of appeals a petition for
an appeal from the injunction issued
! by Judge A. B. Anderson 3 { Indian
apolis last week in which he barred
| the check off system of deducting
union dues from miners wages by the
| company.
Thousand Illinois Men Out.
Springfield. Ill. Nov. 4.-Nearly one
! thousand coal miners in Illinois were
still on a strike today, $50 of them
at Taylor Springs, and 324 at Kort
Kamp, both near Hillsboro. and also
J the force at Percy. near Murphysboro,
/ according to information received
here by coal operators. These mines,
| according to Secretary Treasurer Nes-
BIT of the Illinois miners union, were
out yesterday and have already voted
/ to return to work tomorrow.
| Pennsy Miners to Join Strike.
| Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov. 4.-The ex-
ecutive board of district No. 5. U. M.
| w. A, at a special meeting here to-
day decided to call a strike at mid
night Monday. November 7. in the
| Pittsburgh district. This action was
taken after President Robert r. Glib
! bons had been notified by r. W. Gar
diner, commissioner of the Pittsburgh
| Coal Producers association. that the
coal operators would no longer con-
t.nue the check Off system.
Few Ohioans Walk Out.
Columbus. Ohio, New. 4.-Altho the
executive board of the Ohio United
| Mine Workers has ordered Ohio min
erS who are out on strikes against
Judge Andersen's anti-check off de-
cree to return to work, reports avail
able here early today were that about
1000 miners had walked out in the
Hooking Valley district during the
past two days and that union miners
had predicted that the strike would
be general within a few hours.