Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-06 | Page 14 | Coal Strike is Declared Off

!.f j Coal Strike Is m . JeclaredOff J j 1 M ' Long1 Iyabor "War in Southern Colo- S'l I ' rado Has Finally Been Con- '. '. jj !' ' eluded, l I l1" "flUEBLO. Colo., May P. From a i I ! j j;; 1J5 telegram received by II. M. I'll!,'' a Simpson, secretary of tho VJc- 1 1 " j ; , tor Fuel company. In this I'fV!':1 PUT. 51 13 Inferred that tho coal i, strike In tho southern coal fields 13 de- I''; j dared off. No details aro given, hut , ill i it h) understood that the reason for de- i , (( !; j daring the Ktrikc at an end l.s the fall-urc fall-urc of tho national organization of the ! ' 'i 1 United Mine-Workers of America to fur- 1 ! " '. I thor support the Colorado strikers. No 'I J; communication hao yet been rocclved I 4 ' . from the headquarters of the national ; organization. ' ' In an Interview this mornlnK Gov. 'V .Tames H. Pea-body said ho was In- M V ' 1 iomied. while In St. Louis, by Pre.s- 0 ident John Mitchell, that the national i I " , ,' j organization had withdrawn Its sup- 1 . 1 porL from the Colorado miners, and to I this fact he attributed the collapse of I :l the strike In the southern coal fields, v j a dispatch from Trinidad says: "Wll- v Tlam Mahcr, who is In charge of the ; ;i coal minors' strike Sn this district In, M !' tho absence of TV. K. Fnlrlcy. today re- ' ' '.j cclved a letter from President John I ' l! :!Mltchc!l of tho United Mine-Workers of i j ' i America, stating: that It was tho sense ' , of tho recent meeting of tho execu- I ; tlve board at Indianapolis that the i strike In district No. 15 should continue, , and that financial aid will be sent from tho national treasury as heretofore. ( ; INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., May 6. Secre- i tary Wilson of the United Mine-Work - j ' rs said today that there was no change 1 , , In the Colorado situation; that the ( 1 strike has not been declared off and 1 that' tho national organization has not ! withdrawn Its support, i 1 t