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Show ALLEN SAYS HOYAT: MAY 'SOOH. FIND.' OSEFMv SAUNA, Kan, Feb. Alexander Howat, president of the Kanaaa miners' union, being prosecuted fop alleged violation ol tha Industrial . court law by - calling a strike, may; aoon be expected to be doing "soma useful work for the state of Kansas in th coal mlnea aX Lansing." (tho state penitentiary), Oovernor Henry J. Allen declared In an address here Friday Fri-day at the Kansas Livestock association associa-tion convention. : "If you go to Flttaburg now," eon- ! tlnued the governor, "you will see tho former leader of tha miners sentenced, to Jail, but you will find the miners at work, without any talk of an Indignation Indig-nation meeting or a protest of any sort. Several months ago under similar sim-ilar clrcumstanoea the mlnera sur rounded the jail and demanded How-at's How-at's release, refusing to return to . work." ..... 1 ANSWERS ALLEN. ' 1 PITTSBURG, Kan, Feb. IV Reply-Ing Reply-Ing to the statement of Oovernor Allen Al-len today. Howat said Allen had never done a full day's work In his life. - Howat said that h had been a workingman always and offered to go into the coal minea with the governor and shovel to support their respective) families. "I'll dig four tons of cost to his one." Howat said, adding that "the one who, backs out first must agree to lea." the state." "I'm getting tired of Governor Allen going around over the atate telling the people what a wonderful thing his industrial court Is and what a soft Job I have and how 1 sponge off the miners. min-ers. Now la his ch&ncs to prove l'sa ByselessBSBBBBBSsssesSEBssswsBaaEBSssKBsr |