The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-30
Refused to Appear for Sentence
at Morning Session.
Ignores Court Order and Only
Appears When Ready.
WILL NOT OBEY own union
In Speech Declares State Can
Never Enforce Law.
All Kansas Mines Are Idle and
Columbus Crowded.

Columbus, Sept. 30.-For the sec
ond time in his long and bitter battle
against the enforcement of the Kan
sas Industrial court law, Alexander
Howat. chieftain of the Kansas union
coal miners, went to Jail today.
Refusing to give a bond not to call
any more strikes pending his appeal
to the supreme court. a condition of
taking the appeal. Howat surrendered
himself to Sheriff William Harvey and
was PLACED in the Cherokee county
Jail to serve sentence of six months.
He was convicted in June of hav-
ing called a strike in violation of the
criminal provisions of the law With
him to Jail went August Dorchy, the
Kansas unions vice-preSident, con-
victed of the same offense and under
the same sentence. Both men also
were fined $500
To Jail at 2:15 O'Clock.
Iowat and Dorchy started from the
court house to the jail at 2:15 O'clock
Appearing in court with their attorney,
Phil H. Gallery, Howat and Dorchy
surrendered themselves to Sheriff
Harvey.
Gallery told Judge Frank W. Boss
that Howat and Dorchy did not desire
strikes pending their appeal, and that
thcy regarded the Kansas law under
VIII ch this bond was eXacted as uncon-
st.tut ona'. The offic ais, he said, re-
m"rded themselves to the sheriff.
Howat today ignored an order that
he appear before Judge Frank w.
Doss to be sentenced.
Instead, Howat announced he would
so to court when it suited him
probably about 2 o'clock this after
In ar1tf dod I,xr
three bands. he and $500 union
miners marched to the city park for
a mass meeting.
HosTat said he would remain in
Jail tho rest of his life if necessary to
show his defiance of the Kansas in
Custrial court and the Allen anti
strike law. II won't give bond" he
declared.
Dig Crowd in Columbus.
Howat and Dorchy arrived in Co
lumbus shortly after $3.50 o'clock.
They came from Pittsburg. having
reached Pittsburg at midnight last
night from indianapolis where they
attended the international conven-
tiOn Of the United Mine Workers of
America. Howat Immediately went
into the crowd and began a hand
shaking tour.
At $50 o'clock more interurban !
cars brought a large number of men
and the crowd was increased to ap- |
proximately 1000 persons. Word /
came from Phil S. Collery, counsel !
for the miners organization, that the |
attorneys were preparing some appeal
PAL ers and that they desired a delay |
until about II o'clock.
Howot said that this request for a |
delay was not occasioned by an inten- |
ton to give the behavior bond which |
is condition of the appeal. An |
nouncement was made that Howat |
would speak in the park a few blocks |
from the court house, and the crowd l
began moving toward the park. Sher- |
If William Harvey made it clear that /
no meeting could be held in the court |
house yard nor speeches made from |
the steps.
Court Law Assailcd.
It was a few minutes before II |
o'clock when Howat started to speak /
lie explained that he was due to go /
to court at IL o'clock and would speak |
only a short time. 1t was 1920 when |
he stopped. In the meantime, it was ,
stated that the time for appearance /
in court had been postponed and that |
liowat and Dorchy would appear at !
1880.
Howat. in his speech. assailed the
Kansas Industrial court and declared !
that il would have no part in making (
the wage contract. He said that he
would not sit in a room with the
court
Watch the court" Howat declared,
"and you will find it announcing,
when the time for making the con-
tract arrives, that the miners and the
operators seem to be getting along all
right and that the court will not in
terfere.'
IF the court waits a real strike"
IIowat said, let it come down and try
10 get into this contract making"
Cannot Enforce Law.
'aThe miners told Hopkins to go to
he'll and he went straight back to To-
peka," Howat said.
Referring to Governor Allen, Howat
declared that the Industrial law had
not been enforced and would not be
enforced.
There IS no possibility of enforcing
it, Howat said.
Howat declared that legislatures
should make laws for the benefit of
the public and said that the workers
should see to it that such legislatures
are chosen. I'VE are fed up on FROM
ises," he said.
we say that the industrial court
law is a hell of law" Howat shouted
All Kansas Mines Idle. II
Pittsburg Kan, Sept. 30.-An of
the coal mines OF the Kansas district
We're idle today on account of the ap-
pearance of Alexander Howat and
August Dorchy. president and vice
president of the Kansas union coal
miners, to begin serving their sem
tence Of six months in Jail for calling I
a strike last February, it was ap J
parent from early reports to the
~ uarters of the operators asso-
citation.
-- dozen special cars on the interur-
pan railway which connects most of
Sae Kansas coal field with Columbus h
a rsa.r- !.