Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-08
Sold
Ordered to
Coal Fields.
Martial Law Declared in Gal.
lup District of New Mexico
Following Report Of
Strike Riots.
Crowd Stones Workers

santa lie. \. NJ. April Martial
law va, declared in the Gallup Goa
mining field this afternoon, III a
proclamation issued BY Gov. NJ. I.
Mcchen. Headquarters troop At Al
huqGerque and Troop d OF the Ma
iional guard at Santa fc. were Of
dered 10 proceed at once to the field.
The proclamation was issued on
Tport oi an appeal from the sheriff
fl Mckinley county, who reported
riot At Mcntmorc camp. No de-
tail, OF the riot were given.
Srikebreakers Stoned.
Albuquerque. \. NJ. April 7.-rhc
first disturbance III the Gallup coal
rcldS occurred at Mentmorc today,
according To reports reaching here,
when crowd OF men and women
bombarded mine workers with stones
IL they lett the mine. No one was
injured, according to the report.
The headquarters troop oil the
New Mexico national guard was mo-
bililcd this morning following word
last night that 900 miners in the
Gallup field had been organized and
we're parading through the streets.
Advices from the governors office
IN Santa Fc today, however. stated
that no immediate movement OF
troops was contemplated, the guards
men merely being held in readiness
in case OF call for assistance from
Gallup.
Union officials say not more than
100 men are working i'll the mines
and operators assert that y per cent
ui the miners arc al work today,
compared with 90 per cent up until
yesterday.
Prevent Clash.
Charleston. w. Va. April State
police, headed by Sergeant Hays,
yesterday prevented what seemed a
threatened clash between mine strike
>ympathizcrs and nonunion miners in
Wheeling on the line between Mar
shall and Ohio counties. when 90 or
more men on their way to work were
intercepted by strike sympathizers.
Arguments arose and were fol-
lowed by kissing and angry words.
but the arrival of Sergeant Hays and
his detachment OF police stopped the
outbreak and the nonunion men
were enabled to 90 to their work.
Gaining Strength"
Indianapolis, Ind, April THE
first week of the nationwide sus-
pension OF work in the coal mines,
ordered by the United Mine Work
crs of America, ends today. At union
headquarters William Green, secrc-
,ary-treasurer. asserted that the
strike is gaining strength in non
union fields particularly central
Pennsylvania and West Virginia, he
said, however, had no detailed fig
ures, adding that reports from the
coal fields were going direct to
President John L. Lewis at New
York.
Hits Steel Industry.
Youngstown, O., April 7.-Further
effect of the coal strike upon tine
steel industry was felt here today.
The Republic Iron and Steel COM
panv. which had announced that a
Besscmer plant, idle for a year,
would resume operations has CAM
cclled the order, owing to the strike
situation in the Fayctte county coal
fields.
Back National Officers.
Washington, April 7.-Miners'
union representatives, now on strike
in central Pennsylvania, backed up
the national officers today in appear
ing before the house labor commit
tee to urge federal attention to the
industry.
Our belief is that an industry
which gives only 100 days work a
year needs reorganization John
Brophy, president of District No. ?,
United Mines Workers, testified.
TO get this we must have the facts
asccrtained by impartial federal conf
mission"
400 Quit Strike.
Chattanooga, Tenn, April u
Probably the first break in the coal
miners strike in the 18th district oc-
Cured Yesterday when more than
100 men employed at Soddy. near
here, notified the Durham Coal and
Iron company, that they were ready
to return to work under the scale
and conditions existing before the
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