The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-12
! funds TU MINERS $500 = zo =, = =
- who have participated
important Move Made by I international parley
nOis Union Men. meeting unique in world
designed O
Means Finish Fight Between somIng together Of the
HOWat and Lewis. ana navies.
Heavy Guard
TOTE 10000 Per MONTH thrown ssssy sso1 as5 o5a.ss
of II
Court May Be OF the receipt Of humber
Settled Soon. e eIhs efeI eg hsh A
precautions a.
DepOsed District Chief May satesmeD from all parts Of
Form Own Union. w Vrf i an a air of secrecy
about The nssiva
Important Move Made by IIIi-
nOis Union Men.
Means Finish Fight Between
HOWat and Lewis.
VOTE 10000 Per MONTH
Industrial Court Issue May Be
Settled Soon.
DepOsed District Chief May
Form Own Union.

Action by the Illinois miners in Vot-
ing $4,000 a mcnth for support of
the Kansas strikers is the most i'm
portant move in the industrial court
battle since John L. Lewis, interna-
tional president, INTERVIEWED and di-
rected removal of Howat and his
circles today two issues are presented
as a result of the Illinois action.
First: A finish fight between the
warning mine union factions with the
prospect that Eowat and his forces
may seek to organize an independent
union.
Second: Raising of an Industrial
court issue in which the state will be
called upon to fight back or surrender
its reform labor court law. In spite
of the widespread effect of the Pitts
burg strike, no member 9f the indus
trial court has gone to the coal fields
during the disturbance or made an
open move which might arouse fur
ther displeasure of the strikers.
May Form New Union.
Administration forces in the state
house believe that with the pledge oil
financial support for Howat's sup
porters, the deposed district chief may
seek to form a new union of his own.
The Illinois district has openly defied
President Lewis and his authority.
This hazard is not quite so great as 1t
may seem at first glance. The Lewis
and Gompers forces are at swords
points and Gompers is expected to
give aid to Howat in final clash. In
event there is break, state officials
see prospects that Howatand Gompers
will stand together and that a runp
organization OF labor may result.
OF chief importance in Kansas, tho,
! is the issue which is checked back to
/ the state. 1t is an open declaration
| Of warfare.
| President Lewis deposed Howat be-
cause he held that strikes in the Dear
! and Reliance mines were unauthorized
! and in violation of a contract between
the union and the operators. Howai
asserted the fight was on a broader
! issue and involved the life or death OF
/ the miners union. He said repeal OF
the industrial court law was the one
contention. Practically every ninel
: in the district went on a strike wheT
Howat went to Jail. Howat ordered
the Missouri miners to return to theil
/ jobs A number of Kansas miners
have also gone to work-hunger and
lack of strike benefits driving then
back to the mines.
No Move by Court.
! From the day the strike began the
industrial court has made no open
move nor taken a definite position. II
| has passed responsibility of settling
/ the trouble on President Lewis and
the federal departments in Washing
/ ton. Every effort has been made to
give assurances that the court law was
not at issue.
Now, tho, the Kansas and Illinois
miners themselves fix the issue. The
Kansas miners threaten to stay out
until the law is repealed. The Illinois
miners have voted $4,000 a month
strike benefits SO long as they continue
their test.
Both Governor Allen and members
of the industrial court have refused tc
discuss the strike situation. Action OF
the Illinois miners, tho, brings the
issue flatly to the state. For more
than forty days the miners have been
idle in defiance of the law-and the
court has done nothing. Now this
strikers have won pledges of financial
support If they will continue in theiI
determination to stay out until this
law is wiped off the statute books.