The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-27
Kansas Shaft Worked Despite
Strike Dynamited.
HoWat Forces Told by Workers
They Were Hungry.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ENTERS
Department of Labor MediatOrS
Sent to Kansas.
New Chief of District IA to
"Test Court Law"

Washington, Oct. 27.-The depart
ment of labor interviewed in the Kan
sas coal strike situation today when
Secretary Davis ordered conciliators
w. H. Rogers and H. B. Dynes to at
tempt a settlement.
Mine Is Dynamited.
Pittsburg, Kan, Oct. 27.-The Grey
Wolf mine, near Gross, Kan. was
wrecked by two charges of dynamite
shortly before midnight last night.
One charge of dynamite wrecked
the tipple of the mine and the other
the mouth. The Grey Wolf is slope
mine
Damage was so extensive that the
mine cannot be worked for several
The Grey Wolf was worked yester-
day. About eight miners were there.
At 4 o'clock a group of thirty-five
miners appeared at the plant ard de-
manded to know why the men were
working.
They Were Hungry.
because we are hungry" the work
ing miners told the marchers.
Sheriff Milt Gould is in possession
of the names of several of the march
ing miners and an investigation of the
dynamiting of last night is proceed
ing.
The Grey Wolf is a mile from the
Acme steam shovel mine, where men
stopped work this week after q visit
of 100 miners in motor cars. Gross
is seventeen miles northeast of Pitts
burg.
At noon today a march of striking
coal miners on the steam shovel pit of
the Acme company at Gross appeared
imminent. The strikers, hundreds of
them, were milling around the camp
during the morning.
The Acme pit is at the edge of the
camp. Sheriff Milt Gould and a
deputy sheriff spent the morning at
camp ana were prepared to do their
utmost to prevent a march of the
miners.
To Test Kansas Law.
Formal announcement of the inten-
tion of the international organiza tion
u. NJ. w. A. to give the Kansas indus
trial court law a thoro test in ord erly
procedure in the courts OF Kansas and
the United States was made today by
Van A. Bittner, special representative
of President John H. Lewis in the
Kansas field.
! Bittner announces the employment
| of John T. Garrison, Iowa lawyer, to
conduct the litigation. Clarkson ap-
peared in one of the Howat cases
when the state sought the strike in
junction which now is in force in Kan
sas. Clarkson will come to Pittsburg
| Immediately to prepare for the litiga-
ton.
State Anxious For Test.
The state of Kansas is prepared to
make a full test of the constitution :
ality of the court of industrial rela-
tions and will cooperate with counsel
for the U. NJ. w. A. in arrangements
to that end, Richard ]. Hopkins, at
torney general, declared today.
81 have always been anxious to have
the industrial court law tested in every
phase by the highest courts in order
that there might be no question as to
its validity" Hopkins said.
I'm the first strike called after en-
actment of the law, 1 made an offer
to Howat and Phil Gallery his attor-
ney. to bring a friendly suit to test the
| law. This offer was refused and from
| that day to this How at has asked delay
in every case against him ans has
thrown every possible legal obstacle in
the way of an early decision by the
United States supreme court"
The attorney general said he was
not informed what procedure would
be followed by the U. NJ. W. A but
| that it might concern speeding up of
! the several cases no-y pending.