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Show STRIKE INQUIRY IN COLORADO IS OVER Mombers of Subcommittee of House Miuing Comittoo Depart for Washington. 1 DENVER, March S. The subcommittee subcommit-tee of the house committee on mines and mining, which has spent four weeks Investigating In-vestigating the Colorado coal miners' strike, departed today for Washington. It was expected that the Investigators would hold a brief joint session in Chicago Chi-cago with the similar subcommittee which took testimony rclatlvu to the copper miners strike in Michigan. The report of tho committee will not be made for several weeks. After the record is printed It will probably bo two months before tho briefs and reply briefs from the attorneys on both sldc3 havo beon received. Llttlo Intimation was given in advance ad-vance as lo tho contents of tho report. Representative Howard Sutherland of West Virginia openly announced that he favored a compulsory arbitration law and Indicated that he would urge tho Introduction In-troduction of such a bill by the committee. commit-tee. Other members appear particularly interested In legislation which would prevent pre-vent Interference with the free delivery of mall. The hearings brought out the fact that In several Colorado mining cumps the postofflce was located on company com-pany ground and that to remove It from the property of tho corporation would placo It several miles from the homes of the miners. It. was suggested that cpngress might enact a statute pro'ld-ing pro'ld-ing tliat a road leading lo a postofflce should always bo a public highway. Some recommendations on thc subject. It Is generally believed, will bo Included In the report. Much testimony was received regard-lug regard-lug alleged outrages by (ho state troops quartered In the Btrlke zone. There was difference of opinion among atlornevs as lo tho relevance of such evidence" and thc investigation llnally, closed without the m!HUuimnklng any general defense of Uio conduct of the troops. Representative Represen-tative John Evans of Montana suggested that he would favor legislation providing provid-ing that none but United States troops should do duty In strike regions. There waB no indication, however, as to whether wheth-er such a recommendation would bo Included In-cluded In the report. In the courso of the Investigation tho congressmen made several excursions Into tho strike region, entering mines, visiting BtrJkora' tent colonies and viewing tho scones of bloody clashes botweon miners and guards. Thousands of pages ol testimony were taken from various parties par-ties to tho dlHpute, many witnesses being be-ing examined through an interpreter. |
