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Show PUIS IHE BAN ON IMPORTED LABOR STRIKEBREAKERS ARE BARRED FROM COLORADO FIELDS BY ORDER OF PRESIDENT. No Man Shall Be Employed in the Colorado Mines Who Was Not Actually in the Employ of :he Companies Prior to April 22. Trinidad, Colo. President Wilson, through the war department, on Sunday Sun-day instructed Colonel James Lock-ett, Lock-ett, commanding federal troops in southern Colorado, to permit no importation im-portation of strikebreakers and announced an-nounced that a time limit would be set at once within which delivery of arms must be completed, according to a statement by Major W. A. Holb-rook. Holb-rook. Major Holbrook said both subjects sub-jects would be treated in proclamations proclama-tions later. Colonel Lockett announced that the war department had determined to permit the rehabilitation of the strikers' strik-ers' tent colony at Ludlow provided the federal military officers are given i roll of the inhabitants, together with the addresses of their former places of employment and provided further that a union man of strong influence is placed in charge of the camp with whom the military officers might confer. In his statement on President Wilson's Wil-son's inst'juctions regarding striko breakers, Major Holbrook said that the commanding officers here had been advised that no man shall be employed em-ployed in any mine in the Colorado coal fields who was not actually in its employ April 22, the day the president's presi-dent's first proclamation ordering the federal troops into the field was published. pub-lished. No mine that was closed down at the time of, or before the strike, will be permitted to open, according to Major Ma-jor Holbrook's statement, but all others oth-ers may be operated under full protection pro-tection of the government. Strikers, those formerly employed at certain mines, will be permitted to turn to work at the specific places of their former employment if they choose and if tney are desired by their former employers, according to Major Holbrook. |