The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-13
KANSAS MINES
ARE MOBBED BY
ANGRY WOMEN
Coal Field tAmozons'
Attack Miners Tooth
and Nail.

Girard, Kan, Dec. 13.-Onited
Press. AN amazon army throw
ing red pepper, bricks, stones and
Jumps of coal swept through the
southern Kansas coal fields TO-DAY.
mobbing five mines and forcing
miners to quit work.
Shirts and shawls ffving. the
women. wives and relatives of
"rump" strikers, swept down upon
the mines and in many instances
put working miners to flight with
their fists.
Fight Like Tigresses.
Fiercely, like tigresses. the won-
en- clawed and in some instances
used their teeth on miners who
failed to heed their warning cries
OF get out OF here-you dirty
traitors"
Several miners were bruised by
missiles, others were almost blind
ed by the shower of red pepper.
-Four Jackson-Walker mines and
another near Mulberry were
cleaned out" The women, most
iy foreigners, jerseyed, shawled
and picturesque, then turned their
attention TO another Mulberry mine.
Carry American Flags.
Well run every Lewis traitor
off the job in southern Kansas -
their leaders shouted. Following
American flags carried at their
head, three divisions of the fem
mime militants plunged over en-
bankments and across fields after
their leaders.
About 1000 women participated
in the riots.
Between three and four hundred
men working at the mines were
driven from the shafts by the fierce
onslaughts of the women who, as
they did yesterday shouted threats
and used bricks and stones effec-
lively wherever a miner was re-
luctant about dropping his tools.
Hundreds of strikers, husbands
and relatives of the women watched
the attacks, warning the working
miners not to hit or shoot back"
-Army" of 1000.
The women mobilized today, be-
fore dawn at Franklin and other
radical" mine centers. They were
u Z tAL4ECO II III CG SIOupS undtt
three leaders. Each group of from
between 40R and 600 militant fem
mime fighters, waving fists and in
some instances reported to have
welded pepper boxes effectively
descended upon mine.
Sheriff Gould and deputies were
powerIess to stop the onslaughts on
the mines where as a rule miners
dropped dinner pals and tools and
fed.
At Gould's office today it was said
no extra deputies would be sworn
in, in an effort to stop the attacks
as you can't get men to go into
this sort of thing"
Troop Call Doubtful
That state troops may be asked
for or called out was also regarded
as doubtful. Any attempt of body
of men to stop the militant women
would bring on o1islaughts from
husbands and fathers in force with
bloodshed, it was feared.
"Rump" miners who are striking
because Alexander Howat, Kansas
mine chief who has been ousted
from the United Mine Workers Of
America for refusing to halt out
law strikers, is in jail for violating
the Kansas industrial court law,
were jubilant today over the sue
cess of the women in keeping men
from working.
The women are counted on to
stop work in every mine in the
Pittsburg district, it was openly de-
Hclared Provisional mine union
district headquarters, set up by In
ternational President Lewis when
Howat was ousted, estimated that
about so per cent of the 1900
miners in the district had return
ed to work before the women start
ed marching
The Amazon Army was expect
ed to play q big part today in the
election being staged by the ousted
district union organization HowaI
and his confederates were expect
ed TO be elected by a great major
ity, it was declared
State Officials Worried.
Topeka, Kan, Dec. 1S.-(United
Press THE state will undoubted-
ly have to take action if conditions
remain as they are in the southern
Kansas coal fields, Emmett George,
secretary to Governor Henry J. Al
len, said today. following conin-
ued mobbing of working miners by
an Amazon Army.
State officials were plainly dis
turbed over the prospect of sending
state troops into the fields with the
possibility that the guards voubd
be forced to quell riots by wo-
men