The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-01
Martial Law Rules in Neav Mexico Coal Strike
Send Troops When
Strike Closes Down
MineDespiteGuardS
Utah Miners Firm in
Face of Threats
of Massacre

GALLUP, N. NJ, Aug. 81
Despite the most vicious terror
and the arrests of leaders II
the N.M.U., the strike of the
coal miners begun at Helper.
Utah, is rapidly spreading through
out Utah and New Mexico with all
of the Colorado coal miners in
ferment, ready to join the strike.
Governor Seligman of New Mex
leo yesterday declared martial law
in Mckinley County where thou
sands of miners, under the leader
ship of the NMU, are striking for
union recognition and series Of
demands for improvement of their
conditions.
The governor sent two artillery,
two cavalry and one machine gun
outfit to the strike area at o'clock
yesterday. Utah is already an arm
ed camp with hundreds of miners
in jail, and repeated bloody attacks
on the picket lines.
The reasons given by Governor
Seligman for sending troops is that
property was threatened, and the
water and light supply systems
were threatened because of lack of
coal. The governor is inquiring OF
General johnson what the National
Miners Union is.
Gallup officials declared the sit
uation is beyond their control, when
a thousand minens broke through
the terror and closed the Gamerco
mine, despite the presence of 90
armed deputies guarding the mine
The Gamerco mine is the largest
and most powerful mine in this sec
ton. Four hundred members of the
NMU local attended the meeting
and voted for the strike call which
closed the mine down 100 per cent.
The governors of Utah, New
Mexico and Colorado, together with
the NRA officials in Washington
are cooperating in an effort to
smash the strike, and all have mo-
bilized armed forces against the
miners.
In Helper, Utah, hundreds of
miners are in Jail. Many leaders OF
the NMU have been arrested. Utah
is like an armed camp with the
well-armed gunner spelling for
massacre attack on the picket lines.
Charles Guynn, and Charles
Wetherbee district secretary of the
NMU who were arrested by the
armed thugs and are in danger of
their lives, are held under $4,000
bonds, on the charge of rioting
Over 10000 miners are involved
in the strike, and more than 1000
carry NMU cards. 1t is for this rea-
son that the attacks on the picket
lines have been so vicious. The OPP
orators originally had an agree
ment with the NMU. The strike
started when the bosses broke the
agreement.
Mass picketing, including women,
is going on at the mines beginning
at $50 in the morning; and in
some instances picketing goes on
all night.
The entire Utah and New Mexico
coal fields are joining the strike,
and the strike now threatens to tie
up the Colorado coal fields where
the miners are aroused by the Utah
and New Mexico strike.
The Colorado State Industrial
Commission is rushing commission
ers into the northern and southern
coal fields in an effort to head off
the strike. They are using the same
tactics used by the NRA and John
L. Lewis in the Pennsylvania strike.
The strike area covers a tre-
mendous distance, and with the ex-
IRENE terror and the wholesale ar
rests of leaders, as well as ship
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