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Show CLEARS MYSTERY , OF BOND THEFT Youth's Confession Solves Case Involving $250,000; Trio Arrested. CHICAGO. Oct. SI. Twenty-five $10,-000 $10,-000 Liberty bonds disappeared from the South Bend. Ind., plant of the Stude-baker Stude-baker corporation on January 4. The mystery, which had puzzied police officials, of-ficials, private detectives and postoffice inspectors for months, was solved today with the arrest of three men in the Indiana In-diana city and the recovery of three of the bonds. The remainder of tho bonds, amounting to $220,000, were burned.' according to the alleged confession of one of the men. The men arrested were L. M. Kenneth, telegraph operator in the corporation's offices; George W. Good, manager of the jewelry department of a South Bend store, and John Cook, superintendent of a foundry at Kalamazoo, Mich. Kenneth, according to J. S ctiuimacli-or, ctiuimacli-or, operator for a private detective agency, confessed to taking tile bonds, flood and Kenneth were heid, although no charges were brought against them. According-to Kenneth's story, as given out by Schumacher, tie found the bonds, which had been sent by registered mall from a Detroit, bank, on the floor of the corporation's office when he returned to get something he had forgotten, after checking out on the Dine clock. "I picked it up," KenueUi told Schumacher, Schu-macher, 'intending to nut it on the desk. It was torn and I saw thgt It contained Liberty bonds. 1 pulled one out. It was for 510.000. I put It back cuiekly and slipped the package ilnto a pocket of my overcoat. Then 1 went out. "1 said nothing to anyone about that i package. I counted the bond- when I was alone. Twenty-five of them, each fori 10.0?0. A fortune In : shabby overcoat pocket." Kenneth then related uow h6 could ! neither eat nor sleep and of the reajjau- i tion of the tact tiiat lie could not dispose : of them, becauso the numbers had been sent to the banks throughout llio county ! "I, in my duties as a telegrapher, had : seni the numbers to nunierou..; banks,' he said. "I. who ha.1 stolen them, helped ' to make their disposal taponSlbje. "Monday evening. I went dowustalrs to! the furnace. I slipped out cno bond. 1 1 looked at. it a long time. End then I put: it on the coals. I put another 011 the ! coals, and another and Another. Twenty-two Twenty-two bonds 1 horned. T'ie twenty-third I I extended toward the rire. then drew it back. 1 would giv e it and the two others I back." After keening the remaining three! bonds for almost ten months. Kenneth I told tiooa. who was ,hief usher ln al church, of the bonds. Good then tooKI Cook into his confidence, according t -, Schumacher, and a scheme wan batched between the two for disposing of t' e' bonds. The two made out tore ntei fori 110,000 each and signed bj V John-son. John-son. i)ok then took the rot. to bia at-! torney. Albert Mies, ami said he mM as cobaterai three Lib.-- r.omfs and that he wanted to collect on 1 ; leiti'Mii; ! ' obtained the. oon.! .i.,d wgfc ' ittMtn to' Me bankn he;-,. found t-Sc n,, ,,! of tllosojioivu 111 J-:: 'a'r ti... . -.' followed, ft " . '';-., GREAT MINE STRIKE EFFECT TONIGHT (Continued From Page One.) which the government contracted to pay the railroads when it took control of them. Although eighty-four leaders of the big coal miners' union were named In tiie restraining re-straining order, federal marshals here were given names of twenty-five men to serve in Indianapolis and readied eighteen of them as follows: John L. Lewis, acting president ; "William "Wil-liam Green ; secretary -torasurcr; Percy Tetlow, statistician; Kllis Searles. editor of the JIlue Workers' Journal; John Wilkinson, Wilk-inson, district president of district No. 21, Muskogee. Okla., and the following me tn hers of the executive board : John O'Leary. Pittsburg; A. R. Watklns, York-ville. York-ville. Ohio: M. J. Ferry. Hazeltou. Pa.: Lawrence Bramlet. Diamond, hid. ; J. J. Mates, Willlarnstown, Pa.; W. D. Van Horn, Tcrre Haute. Tnd.; Samual Ballan-tyne, Ballan-tyne, Boone, Iowa; Frank Waiters. Jelli-coe. Jelli-coe. Tenn.; William Dalrymplc. McAlester, Okla.: Hugh McLeod. Acme, M'yo. : George Baker, Central City, Ivy.; Andrew Steele, Novlnger, Mo.; G. L. Peck, Pittsburg, Kan. In addition to these men, the order named all other executive board members, mem-bers, district presidents and secretaries of the various districts, including officials of anthracite and Canadian districts unaffected un-affected by the strike. U was stated bv L. E. Slack. United States district attorney attor-ney for Indiana, that to reach tiie men resident outside the Indiana federal district dis-trict It would be necessary to bring ancillary an-cillary proceedings in the various jurisdictions. jurisdic-tions. Mr. Slack was left in charge of the government's gov-ernment's case snortly after it became evident that tiie union would make no immediate move In resistance to It. Judge Ames left for Washington and other mem- . hers of the special . staff which prepared the petition for the attorney general announced an-nounced they would depart tomorrow. The defendants were summoned to appear ap-pear November 8, when a motion for a temporary injunction Is to be argued. While the executive board or the union was effectually restrained from strike activities, ac-tivities, it took occasion to clear up a number of routine cases which were awaiting its decision. The afternoon session ses-sion was postponed until late In the day, and it was understood. but not announced, an-nounced, that plans for combating the government- tnJunctiBn suits were discussed dis-cussed then also. The Injunction obtained here today cannot can-not avert the strike of bituminous coal miners, according to John U Lewis, acting act-ing president of the United Mine Workers. Work-ers. Lewis' pronouncement came shortly short-ly after ho had been served with a writ slopping slrike activities at union headquarters head-quarters here. Lewis dictated the following statement: state-ment: "I regard the issuance of this injunction as the most sweeping abrogation of (he rights of citizens guaranteed under the constitution and defined by statutory law that has ever been issued by any federal court. This Instrument will 'not avert the strike of bituminous mine workers and will not scltle the slrike after it comes. The injunction only complicates to a further fur-ther degree the problems Imolvcd in an adjustment of the controversy. " Judge Anderson signed the order on the showing set forth by C. B. Ames, assistant-attorney assistant-attorney general, that a" national disaster was Impending and on the broad grounds that the government has the right to enforce en-force Its laws and protect Its people from calamity. Service was had on Lewis, Green and several other union officials and members mem-bers of the executive board at union headquarters head-quarters a few minutes before noon. This was a little more than an hour after Judge Anderson signed the order. Judge Ames' Contention. In presenting the petition. Judge Ames made it clear that the case will not involve in-volve the general right of workers to organize or-ganize or quit work. He said it would have no bearing on other Industries and "merely involves the right of labor during dur-ing the war to restrict or destroy the supply sup-ply of food and fuel." "It rests,-' he added, "on the broad general gen-eral powers of the government to enforce en-force its laws and to protect its people against disaster.-' Judge Ames made it plain that the action ac-tion was a government affair, taken at the direction of the attorney general as a measure to carry out the policy of the country during a state of war. The petition averred that the defendants defend-ants had entered Into a conspiracy to restrict re-strict the supply and distribution of bituminous bitu-minous coal and to restrict the operation of the railroads by restricting or destroying destroy-ing the supply of necessary fuel. The petition brought out that the application ap-plication for the temporary injunction was based upon the act of August 10. li'18. which makes it unlawful to conspire to limit the facilities of transportation or the supply or distribution of food or fuel. It also directed attention to section 2i! which keeps the act In operation until tho end of the state of war is proclaimed bv the president. The petition rehearsed the establishment establish-ment of the federal fuel and railroad ad- I dom to work or not as they sec v0 strike can go on without dlreeti' "If the Injunction is disobeyed nun can act on its own initiative tista the violators.-' Mr. Palmer dech ,T,P next step depends on what happel Mr. Palmer said he told the un men that they were at liberty to sav fcS.r s.de In the strike that the preside , ready to act immediately to have t An troversv settled amicably whene , ,; strike was called off 111 President Gorhpers and other oii, of the American Federation of IaWm-p said, however, to have urged their Z on the matter 0f the injunction faS" conference with tho attorney genet? "I explained the necessity for til lion.'- Mr. Palmer said, '"and the rtw In which this, case must he diffrrom on its fa ts from all other in . 1 " injunctions have lenn used, r have S opposed and the administration has r" opposed to government bv InJunn whereby emp.oyer.s might use the i'"' esses of the courts on an ex-oarte h " ing to force their emptoyees into '" mission. ' "- "This Is the government il-p!f uii'ni own courts to protect itself rroin pari! , t was sought because If reliance was placed on criminal proceedings the strike would be in effect and the Injury done before they could be concluded. He said the proceedings In equity would put the defendants de-fendants on an equality with tiie government govern-ment and Insure Justice to tiie government, govern-ment, the union, individual workmen, the mine owners and the public. The petition gave nollec that when the j proceedings to make tile temporary Injunction In-junction permanent came up oh November Novem-ber S, the government would flsk an order commanding lhe union officials to wlth- I draw the strike order Issued October If,. Judge Ames said that the restraining I order nMained loday does not affect any acts of individuals nor unions which took place prior to the issuing of the injunction injunc-tion "There arc three stages to the proceedings." pro-ceedings." lie said. "Tiie restraining order issued today; tiie temporary injunction, application for which is lo be heard November No-vember S. and the permanent order, which probably will como up November Novem-ber 20, "The right of the Individual workman to quit work Is not Involved by lodav's proceedings, nor Is the general strike order issued October 15. That general strike order will not be considered until the injunction bearing, as it would be unfair to the union to ask that it rescind Its action without giving notice of an Intention In-tention to request such an order. "The restraining order simply halts strike activities and Is specific In forbidding forbid-ding exchanges of messages of exhortation exhorta-tion or encouragement or the issuing of further directions for carrying on the strike. It applies to the act of one Individual In-dividual in conjunction witli one or more other Individuals. " "Ooes it operate to prevent addresses at mass meetings?" b was asked. "It dos." replied Judge Ames. "It has a broader application lo am- concerted act or thing calculated to aid or abet the strike. " ministrations, the concluding of the Washington wage agreement between miners and operators on October ti. 1917 and the subsequent extension of this agreement to cover the period of the war. Sketches Miners' Action. It sketched tho proceedings of the Cleveland convention of last September and called attention to the recommendation recommenda-tion of President Lewis of the union that the Washington agreement be declared void after October 31. The recommendation recommenda-tion of the scale committee at Cleveland for a six-hour day.lvc-day week and e per cent increase in wages was also set forth. "Vour honor will notice." said Judge Ames at this stage of the reading, that the new wage agreement would apply only lo the central competitive field' Whereas the strike has been called for the entire united Stales. " The petition charged that the scaie committee attempted lo intimidate the operators and In violation of the act and aga'nst the public policy of the United States, conspired, agreed and arranged lo issue the slrike order sent out from Indianapolis In-dianapolis on October I.-,. "lie petition also averred that the minors refused arbitration ar-bitration when it was proposed by Secretary Sec-retary ol l.abor Wilson at Washington. - The petition asserted thai the strike If effective, would stop operation of the railroads and c'ted the fact that, under the railroad administration contracts the government was obliged to pay the roads a guaranteed return for the use or their properties by the government. The railroad administration, it was! averred, has more than 1200 contracts for coal. SO per cent or which are based upon the extension of the Washington wage! agreement to March i. in2n. Far Reaching Effect. "If the aforesaid strike becomes effective." effec-tive." said the petition. "It will he Impossible Im-possible to fulfill these contracts and Im- I possible lo operate the railroads, and the , deficit in Income will have to be supplied sup-plied hy the federal government out of the public fnnds." It was pointed out that suspension of hie roads would mean also (he stopping 0t the malls, transportation of the armed 1 forces of the I'nlted states and cessation cessa-tion of Interstate commerce. "Is the government In position to bring tlii? s iit " - queried Judge Anderson. "Vcs. rrom every standpoint.-- replied Jndce Ames. lie then explained that un injunction today that the coal strike order had been rescinded in Hopkins. W;ebster and ChriS' Lian counties. Kentucky, comprising one half of the western Kentucky fields. Extension of the hever food control act six months after conf Irniation of peace, was requested of congress today hy Attorney General Palmer. In his lettei to Speaker plllett, Mr. Palmer did not go into the reasons for his request, but said lie would be glad to explain it before be-fore any congressional committee.,-' Mr. Gompors, Secretary Morrison and Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Kedera tion of Labor conferred with Mr. Palmer for an hour and a half. The federation officials declared the Injunction In-junction violated tho rights of union labor, and indicated Unit the coal miners would have their support in any fight brought lo dissolve the injunctions. Mr. Palmer reiterated that the government was pro eeeding solely against one union, which, he declared, was trying to Violate lhe law. He said the right to strike was not Involved;, In-volved;, It is understood that there wii! be no change in tin- policy of the government as a result of the representations of the union men. Railroad union officials, conferring late loday with Attorney General Palmer, entered en-tered no protest against lhe Injunction Issued in rjndianapdlis today against the calling of the coal strike, -and tendered the good offices of their organizations in attempting to arrange a settlement of the strike. The attorney general told the railroad union chiefs, as well as Samuel Gompors. i president of the American Federation of I Dabor, with whom he conferred after the j meeting witli lhe railroad men. that lie i did not believe it would be necessary lo use any other power than the courts "to I protect the government." "It Is not an injunction obtained by employers," Mr. Painter said; "not for The I benefit of the employe, not to settle the controversy, but to save the people of the entire country from disaster. It doetn't affect t ho right of a man to work when lie pleases." In tins connection he explained lhat the petillon for Injunction, as prepared bv the government, seeks lo restrain the officers of-ficers of the United Mine Workers from i doing anything in furtherance of the strike order. ) "If the Injunction is obeyed.-- Mr. Pal- mer said, "and it goes without saying I Hint the law must he obeyed, it will hike away the direction of the strike from I above aud leaves In Ihc men p4rfcdt free- 40,000 MINERS IN OHIO TO GO OUT DESPITEJNJUNCTIO COLUMBUS, Ohio. Oct. ?,. ppro mately forty thousand soft coal minors Ohio will go, out on st,ilio tomoTrbh despite rumors to the contrary and de plte the injunction issued against ' m" strike at Indianapolis today "v. p '' Judge Anderson, according lo p ' rU John Moore or the United rii, . 'an of Ohio. ,,r "'orlnri Mr. Moore sa'd he had received , , gram from John I.. Lewis a, t ,0 dent of the United Mink i "? PrS1 America, saying Ulat the strike fe8 ," sued October i.-, will become r. ' "' ls-midnight ls-midnight tonight. "Octlve a Me declared that state offlcl.1. , union have no power to call S "r '" culled by the national head'u '. ,, a strlkf that, in view of Preside,,, 1I gram, the scheduled strike wo, , ,H'' effect as Originally planned K" One of the reahny.o,,, (Continued on Page 9, C!oli,nriZ FEDERATION HEADS PROTEST ACTION OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. -Officials of lhe American Federation of Labor protested pro-tested to Attorney General Palmar today against the action of the government ii. Obtaining an injunction In the coal strike Tin, department of labor was advised 15,000 union employees, voted today to j notify all its miners to report for work I tomorrow morning. A federal order was issued to Cleveland managers of railroads, providing for the commandeering of a!l coal In transit and to conserve this supply for railroad use. Later another government decree was issued, prohibiting further loading of coal on boats for upper lake shipments. GREAT Mil STRIKE EFFECT HOT (Continued from Page Tour.) opments was the quitting of work by many miners In the eastern Ohio coal fields Reports from Wheeling, W. Va., stated that at Bellaire, Ohio, more than 500 miners quit work tnis morning, nearly eighteen hourS in advance of the strike time, and that 1000 or more had left the mines in the vicinity of St. Clairsville, Ohio. Report were received from other points indicating similar action. State union headquarters announced that It had received no information of the walkouts today at Bellaire and St. Clairsville. Clairs-ville. President Moore and other officials of the Ohio miners declare that, as the Ohio fields are 100 per cent organized, the miners' strike will absolutely stop the production of coal in Ohio. They indicated that the" strike will be the most gigantic contest between capital and labor ever staged in Ohio and that it will he a fight to the finish. They said that the miners are prepared for a long strike and that they intend to fight for their rights upon the principles laid down by the national organization. The union leaders declared that reports re-ports that Ohio miners were SO per cent foreigners were untrue. They said that under the laws of their organization every member must be a naturalized American citizen, or must have applied for citizenship. citizen-ship. "Instead of 80 per cent foreigners, Ohio miners are more than SO per cent naturalized natur-alized Americans," said one of the officials. HOUSE APPROVES RESOLUTION GIVING SUPPORT IN CRISIS "WASHINGTON". Oct. 31. By an overwhelming over-whelming vote, the house today adopted the senate resolution pledging support to the "national administration and all others in authority" in their efforts to meet the "present industrial emergency." On the roll call not one of the 286 members mem-bers present cast a negative vote. As the senate has adopted the resolution, the house action completed its enactment, as the measure does not have to receive presidential approval. Representative Kitchin, Democrat, North Carolina, said such a resolution should have been passed before industrial conditions became acute. "Then people of this country would have learned not to follow Bolshevistic leaders, which the miners In their ignorance have done," said he. Representative Wood, Republican, Indiana, In-diana, declared "that if there ever was a time the people must stand in solid phalanx pha-lanx behind constitutional government, it is now," adding that 300 strikes were pre- 1 vailing in the country. LEWIS DECLARES STRIKE ORDER IS TO BE OBEYED BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 31 United Mine Workers of America will disregard the injunction ordering them not to strike, according to J. R. Kennamer, president of the Alabama district, who said he had received re-ceived Instructions from Indianapolis this afternoon to proceed with the walkout. Mr. Kennamer . received the following telegram from John L. Lewis, acting president pres-ident of the Mine Workers: "Our position remains unchanged. Strike order issued October 15 becomes effective at midnight tonight in all its provisions. We enter this great industrial contest serene, in the knowledge that our cause is Just and is in conformity with our rights ,g.uarapteed, by the. constitution, and. laws of the United States. (Signed) , "JOHN L. LEWIS." INDIANAPOLIS, Opt. 31 The message of John L. Lewis to the president of the Alabama district was filed before the restraining re-straining order was issued by Judge Anderson, An-derson, it was explained at union headquarters head-quarters here today. "Not one message of any kind has been filed since the writ was served," it was stated. MINERS ASKED TO DISREGARD THREATS OF TROOPS' USE SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 31. Illinois soft coal miners, who went on strike late today, were encouraged in circulars prepared pre-pared tonight by Frank Farrington, district dis-trict miners' president, to pay no attention atten-tion to threats that troops would be used. "You should stay away from the mines, preserve order and do everything in' your power in a lawful way to make the strike effective," the circular said. "Threats of placing troopa in the various mining camps need have no terror for you, as their presence need be of no concern to you if you stay away from the mines." Miners were warned to be on their guard against radicals who might take advantage of the strike, Farrington stated, to preach their "isms." In a telegram late today to John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers of America, Frank Far-, rington, chairman of the miners' scale committee and president of the Illinois district, declared "the Anderson injunction injunc-tion only makes us that much more determined de-termined to fight to the bitter end," and offered the Illinois legal department's aid. in combating the government's restraining order aimed against the strike. "Let the consequences be what they may," said the telegram, "we feel we must now", once for all, determine whether or not the working man and woman can be enslaved by a writ of injunction." IOWA MINERS TO NUMBER OF 15,000 ARE REPORTED OUT "DES MOINES,' Iowa; 6c't. ' 31. Reports being received here tonight indicated that the majority of the 15,000 union coal miners min-ers in Iowa had qnlt work when the day shifts ended, or would do so at midnight. Definite figures were not available. John Gay, secretary of district No. 13, United Mine Workers of America, over the longdistance long-distance telephone from the state headquarters head-quarters at Albia said he had nothing to add to his statement this afternoon that ihe men were expected to go out as planned. The state headquarters of the Iowa operators' op-erators' association closed at the usual hour this afternoon without reports. D. F. Pushing, the state president, said the operators expected their mines to be idle tomorrow. Reports to the state association headquarters head-quarters will not be made until tomorrow, he asserted. Governor W. L. Harding of Iowa went to Chicago tonight for a conference with railroad officials on the order to confiscate confis-cate coal. He and Charles Webster, in charge of coal distribution In this state, believe train schedules should be reduced to a minimum to allow more coal for other purposes. These Fields Not Affected. PADUCAH, Ky., Oct. 31. Coal mine operators in this city tonight declared that the strike of bituminous coal miners, set for midnight, would in no way affect the west Kentucky fields. Officials of the St. Charles mines, with offices in Paducah, said that the operators had signed an agreement With the miners six weeks ago which forbids them to participate in the present strike. OPERATORS MEET; WELCOME INQUIRY, STATEMENT SAYS CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 31. The first step toward a possible arbitration of differences dif-ferences between soft coal operators and approximately 500,000 miners in the threatened coal strike, scheduled for midnight, mid-night, was taken here today at a conference confer-ence of the executive committee of the central competitive coal field by the adoption adop-tion of a resolution welcoming an Investigation Inves-tigation of the strike by a tribunal which President Wilson may appoint. The conference con-ference then adjourned. The resolution reaffirmed acceptance of President Wilson's proposal of October 24 and welcomed an investigation by a tribunal appointed by him with a view to an early settlement of the questions at issue. Possibility of the mines being worked In the -event the strike takes place seems remote, according to some of the operators, opera-tors, who pointed out that some states require an examination of all mine workers work-ers and that there might not be enough men to successfully pass this examination. They declare, however, they will keep the mines open and do all in their power to continue them In operation, if the government gov-ernment so orders. The Pittsburg Vein Operators' association, associa-tion, operating more than 100 mines with from the, strike order because of union contracts which have not yet expired. he tied up 100 per cent by tomorrow morning, according to a message received today by Alexander Howat, president of the district, from August Dorchy, vice president, with headquarters at Pitta-burg, Pitta-burg, Kan. "They say America is a democracy," asserted Mr. Howut. "Now is the time for a showdown. The government's injunction in-junction does not alarm us." 377,500 MINERS RESPOND TO CALL AND LEAVE MINES CHICAGO, Oct. 31. Bituminous coal fields of the nation tonight were in the grip of a strike, effective at midnight, which leaders of the union miners declared de-clared already had seen more than 95,600 of their members out of the works to remain out until the strike should be settled. Thousands more of the minors, whose whole number Is roughly placed at 500,000, will be out tomorrow, Ihev said. The men already on strike, the leaders reported, were those who had left the mines today, taking their tools with them? Reports from the soft coal fields were Incomplete tonight, and even the union leaders agreed they would await tomorrow before being able definitely to know the number of men who had obeyed the strike call. But in almost every Instance, the miners' spokesmen asserted, the tie-up of the mines would be virtually complete, although the unions will leae a sufficient number of men In the mines to man the pumps (Continued on Page 10, Column 2.) MINING SUSPENDS IN GREAT INDIANA AND OHIO FIELDS By Universal Service. CHICAGO, Oct. 31. Coal mining operations op-erations in the great fields of Indiana and Ohio ceased tonight, according to reports re-ports from the chief mining centers While the strike did not become effective officially until midnight, there were few men below ground at 6 o'clock tonight That the tieup would be complete In spite of the government's order was the opinion expressed generally tonight. "Every miner will respond to the strike order," said Andrew T. Murphv, publisher pub-lisher of Black Diamond and for thirtv-five thirtv-five years an authority on the coal mine situation in the middle west. "I am satisfied from what I know of the situation that not one of the 400,000 miners will be at work tomorrow." Mr. Murphy predicted the strike would be of short duration. "The Injunction directed against the United Mine Workers' officials at Indianapolis Indian-apolis will bring the strike to a head very soon." he said. "As I understand it the injunction ties up the funds of the Union and they cannot carry on the fight iong without money." Mr. Murphy said he believed the mine organization committee would rescind the strike order within the next two or three days, order the men to go back to work and then open negotiations with the government gov-ernment and the mine owners. "I don't think there will be much difficulty dif-ficulty in reaching an agreement after the demands of the miners are actually taken up -for discussion," he said. "It seems, so far as I have been able to learn, that the whole contention up to this time has been on the strike order they never got down to discussing the actual demands of the miners." Frank Farrington, president of the miners" union, said the organization was .00 per cent effective. He sent instructions instruc-tions to each of the 320 locals In Illinois to assign men to the mines to protect them. He denied that these men were to act as pickets. He said his sole object ob-ject was to keep the mines in shape so work could be started as soon as the strike was over. Major Genera! Leonard Wood, commander com-mander of the central department, U. S A., was in Springfield, HI., tonight conferring con-ferring with state officials regarding disposition dis-position of troops if it became necessary to send armed forces to hrt mines. Approximately 10,000 regulars under direction di-rection of the central department were reported ready for duty on six hours' notice. characteristic evidenced in the camps of the opposing leaders. Officers- of the United Mine Workers of America watched the advance of the fiour hand with lips set and faces tense. Three blocks away in the Central building, build-ing, officers of the United States, who have proclaimed themselves generals of an army of the people, received reports from operatives, made notations, dispatched dis-patched telegrams and waited. The coming of tomorrow morning will find bituminous coal mines in twenty states emptied of workers. Union officers of-ficers here insist the strike will prevail until the coal operators have been beaten to their knees and agree to yield at least something to the miners' demands. The federal men also admit that the strike is assured of a beginning. But they express hope that the forces of the strikers have been so weakened by the action taken in the United States district dis-trict court today that within a short period the determination of the workers will weaken to the point of collapse. This action was in the nature of a prewar pre-war diplomatic stroke. By obtaining a writ restraining the union officials from further carrying on strike direction work, the United States government has made impossible establishment of communication communi-cation between the striking units. And, most important of all. the strikers strik-ers now remain without a general leadership. lead-ership. It Is true that this restraint only holds good under the present order until November 8. when argument will be had between Federal Judge A. B. Anderson on the question of issuing a temporary injunction. If the temporary injunction is granted, then a permanent one will be asked, this to serve not only as an order against aiding the strike, but actually ac-tually directing the executive board to rescind the strike proclamation and call the workers back to their jobs. Men have made themselves liable to contempt of court for forecasting decisions deci-sions from the bench. It can be pointed out, however, that the miners have not bullded their campaign plans on a theory the-ory o an opinion favorable to themselves. LEADERS DECLARE DISTRICT FIFTEEN MINERS ON STRIKE DENVER, Colo., Oct. 31. The strike of bituminous miners, called for midnight tonight, went into effect in the Rocky Mountain district before nightfall today. No estimate of the number Joining in the strike was possible tonight, though union leaders declared approximately 21.000 of the 26,000 miners In district No. 15, composing com-posing the coal fields of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, would join the strike. Reports from Wyoming were that 8000 miners In that state would be idle. As no mines in the district operate night shifts and some of the operators announced an-nounced no effort would be made to operate op-erate the mines until Monday, it was cons.dered that any estimate "made before be-fore that time of the number of men on strike would be largely conjectural. In the meantime, the Colorado state government i3 making preparations for I protect. oh of those miners who wish to remain at work. Three companies of I state militia, mobilized today at Golden, 1 had orderB to entrain tonight for Frederick, Fred-erick, Colo.. In the Louisville coal district dis-trict of Boulder county. Other militiamen militia-men were to camp at Trinidad tomorrow tor distribution in the Trinidad and Wal-senburg Wal-senburg coal districts and mine operators oper-ators laid plans for opening of the mines Monday for any miners who wished to return to work, on assurance that adequate ade-quate protection would be furnished them. Equipment and dispatch of the troops I went forward today over the protests of I organized labor. New Mexican operators were confident ton ght that the strike would have little effect ir. that s'ate. The governor nas ; received offers of help from members of 1 the American Legion and others, but operators op-erators estimated that no more than 30 j of the 5000 miners employed in the , thirty-eight mines of New Mexico would answer the strike call. The Colorado Furl & Iron company, the largest single operator in Colorado, announced an-nounced tonight that the Trinidad mines would not operate tomorrow. It was said that an effort would be made to oper-I oper-I ate the properties Monday when state I troops have been ditsrlbuted through the legT.n. ! The Walsenburg properties of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company, cornpris- i ing six nines, employing normally ap-proximately ap-proximately :0j0 men, will open tomorrow tomor-row morning at 7 o'clock as usual, company com-pany officials said. T-. enty-eight mines, employing approximately ap-proximately 400'; men. the largest group being owned ty the Victor-American 1 Fuel company, have been inac6 exempt COURT'S ORDERS ARE DEFIED BY DIS TRICT LEADERS MUSKOGEE, Okla., Oct. SI. Orders were telegraphed tonight from headquarters headquar-ters of district Xo. 21. United Mine Workers Work-ers of America, hero calling upon all miners in Oklahoma. Arkanya? and Texas to obey the strike call at midnight. BILLINGS, Mont., Oct. 31. Miners in Montana and North Dakota will quit "to a man" at midnight tonight, declared President Henry Drenr.an. district No. 27,' United Mine Workers of America. The assertion that North Dakota coal operators have a contract effective until September 20, 1910, "Is the view of the operators, not the miners," said Dren-nan. Dren-nan. j CHICAGO. Oct. 31. District No. ;4 of! the United Mine Workers of America, j A'itli a membership of approximately 12.-000 12.-000 In Kansas and part of Missouri, will GRIMNESS MARKS MINERS' ATTITUDE AS DAY ADVANCES By Universal Service. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Oct. 31. With the approach of the zero hour midnight mid-night it ws clear nothing could avert the nation-wide coal strike. A rescinding rescind-ing order might be issued, but it would never r(?ach the miners before they had quit work. Indeed, reports tonight showed practically practi-cally all the miners had laid down their tools hours before the strike order went into effect. The battle, which of neces-s'ty neces-s'ty involves every individual in the United States, has its central fighting fie'd in this city. As the clock t'Cked away he last hours cf the day. grimness beoame the sir.zle GREAT IE STK 11 EFFECT MR (Continued from 2age Nine.) and keen th'' property In aiafio f ir ro- ''I 1 ' i 1 of work when l(h strike. Shall bo ended. Some, union lfjadfcr-l r closed to talk on account ut the neatrn-lni ny order or-der Issued at Indianapolis.' Ileports to the, union lnyter3 (ujntght Indicated that the bulk on the pm iners in the great producing regirfcis of J 'enn-sylvanla. 'enn-sylvanla. West Virginia, (Alio. Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky. Coloriulo, K inhlis Montana Mon-tana .uid Wyoming had left tho T mines at the doae of thu day shift , to domain on strike. Hut with the strike officially starting at in.dnlght, tomorrow ben:g virtually a holiday in ooal mining, and Su.d)Y also a day of non-productvm. If watt i.'ener-ally i.'ener-ally conceded that QOt befofe Monday would the actual effect of the grille, be known definitely. By thot tlmte ualon leaders will have nearly Complete! rfciwrts from union locals, and the coal operators opera-tors will known to what txtent ithey y!ll be able to operate if they shouM de:lde lo attempt actual mining work. The following list, by state, tollmen who left the mines today and toi(iglit to obey the strike call Is based on (esorts. In most Instances estimutes, received by union leaders throughout the country: Arkansas, 4000; Colorado,, 6000; lUinois, SO, 000; Indiana, 25,000; Iowa. 14,000; Kansas, Kan-sas, 12,000; Kentucky, 20,0(10; Manland, lXOft; Michigan. 2 100; -YUsnissippiJ 10W: Montana, 4000; New Mexico, 40110; North Dakota. 1000; Ohio, 40,000; Oklahoma, 2000; Texas. 2500; Utah. 1000; Washington, Washing-ton, 6000 West Virginia, 40,CI)0; , Wyoming,. Wyo-ming,. 8000. While no reports were avail;- from Manama and Virginia, uniort leaders said thero were numbers of .mien on strike and thousands would be dut to-morgogtf to-morgogtf in the southern fields. , What tomorrow's reports would) show, the union chiefs said, thoy were tunable I to predict, except that the strike Iwould bo of so vast an extent as to pitralyzfc) production of bituminous coal. i y |
