Evening star., 1939-08-03
New Disorders
Feared After
5 Are Shot
Colorado Troops Speed
To Disorm Deputies
And Strikers

BY the associated Press.
GREEN MOUNTAIN DAM, Colo.
Aug. 3.-National Guardsmen hurry
ing with tanks and machine guns
to Federal project where five men
were shot in labor disorders received
reports today that new trouble was
threatened.
A. K. Anderson, superintendent
of the 100000 reclamation
project, telephoned the Guardsmen
at Kremmling, Is miles north of
the dam site, that "back-to-work"
forces. which broke through strike
picket line yesterday, were threaten
ing to chase 200 union sympathizers
The leader of the Guardsmen
urged Mr.. Anderson to hold the
men in check" until the Guard ar
rived and promised to disarm both
the union pickets and the "back-to-
work" forces.
Colorado's Governor considered the
situation so grave that he indicated
he might take personal charge OF
pacification efforts.
Five Men Shot.
The five men were shot in two
gun battles last night.
A sixth man was gashed on the
head in one of the clashes between
armed and deputized back to work"
forces and sympathizers with the
strike called July IL by five craft
unions at the 81. 900 900 Reclamation
Bureau project.
The injured:
Thomas Kellerhalls, about IS,
Denver, shot through the left eye.
His condition was critical.
Art Morrow. 43, Denver, shot
through the arm.
w j Blalock, 26 Denver, shot
through the left shoulder.
George Judy. IT, Yuma, Ariz.,
grazed on the right hip by bullet.
Art Kuhlman, Denver, shot in the
leg.
Bill Deming, %, Dillon, Colo.
gashed on the head when pulled
from truck.
zoo Guardsmen on Way.
Gov. Ralph L. Carr declared
state of insurrection" last night at
Glenwood Springs. where he had
gone to meet former President Her.
bert Hoover in Colorado for a fish
ing vacation.
Adjt. Gen. Harold II. Richardson
Immediately issued mobilization Or
ders for the 45th Tank Company at
Golden, Colo; Company B and Bat
terry B Of Denver, Company A of
Craig and Battery G of Loveland.
BY dawn approximately 200 Guards
men were on their way to the strike
zone, the first modified for active
duty In Colorado since 1927.
Attorney General Byron G. Rogers
said in Denver the order decreeing
"a state of insurrection" directed
the adjutant general Ito move in
and take over and Bring in law
abiding citizens to aid in restoring
order He said the order did not
involve suspension of the courts and
other processes of civil government
as would occur under a martial law
decree.
The dam site lies $50 miles west
OF Denver on the Blue River, be-
tween Dillon and Kremmling, Colo,
a mile and half above sea level.
200 Non Union Men Armed.
Kellerhalls, Morrow, Judy and
Deming were injured when they and
other Denver sympathizers with the
strike, called by American Federation
of Labor unions, attempted to ap-
proach the dam site, where 200 nom
union men had been deputized and
armed.
Townsmen and ranchers of this
area aided the back to work" group
in breaking through the unions
picket line Tuesday night.
Later, back to work" picket
line two miles south of Kremmling
halted a caravan of Denver strike
sympathizers~ with gunfire, and Bla-
lock and Kuhlman were wounded.
Before the gunf1re started, small
bridge was dynamited on the high
way between Dillon and the dam.
In calling the guard, Gov. Carr ex-
planned that when two opposing
factions of several hundred people,
both armed, are shooting and fight
ing, this is the only action possible
for me to take"
The striking unions seek recogni-
ton by the Warner Construction
Co. of Chicago, project contractor,
as collective bargaining agents. The
project is a unit of the $44 ZOO, 900
(See TROOPS, Page A-4D