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Show INJUNCTION SEALS LABOR HEADS' MOUTHS; LEADERS ARE SILENCED BY FEDERAL AC! Judge Anderson's Restraining Re-straining Injunction Is Being Observed to the Letter by Officials. Both Sides to Controversy Contro-versy Marking Time Until Hearing of Case in Court November 8. CHEYENNE. Wyo., Nov, 1. Brigadier General Benjamin A. Poore, commander of Port D. A. Russell, near here, tonight issued a proclamation assuming ' ' military control" of the state of Wyoming. He said ho was acting at the request re-quest of Governor Carey in the coal strike.1 Five hundred cavalrymen are available. Ono troop has been rli snatched tn R,ork Sm'inffH. By Universal Service. ' INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. l.-Hcad quarters of tho mine workers were all but deserted tonight. John L. Lewis, acting president of tho miners, went to his home at, Spriugficld, III., to spend the week-end with his family. Ho did not expect, there would bo any import ant. developments over Sunday. "The Mine Workers' Journal, which wa3 ready for distribution at headquarters head-quarters of the miners, was withdrawn. Ellis S. Searles, the editor, said it contained con-tained matter, the circulation of which was forbidden by Judge Anderson's injunction. in-junction. While union officials refuse to give out any statements, fearing they might violate the injunction, which they are obeying to the letter, they did not fail to lot it be known by their actions they were well pleased wilh the progress prog-ress of the strike. Thoy relied largely on newspaper reports from the vurious districts and there showed the miners had come out almost to a man wherever there was an organization. Henry Warrum, attorney for tho strikers, spent today going over Iho petit ion restraining order as issued by Judfje A. B. Anderson. It is believed unlikely that Mr. Warrum could familiarize famil-iarize himself with tho material in tho thirty-page petition in timo to enter dissolution proceedings on the restrain ing order before tho timo fixed for tho temporary injunction hearing. SAFETY FIRST. PLAN OF UNION LEADERS. Nor is there much possibility thai any of these union officials will lay themselves open for citation for con tempt of violating the court order. By way of making doubly sure that no action of the union can be made a basis for immediate attack, tho executive board this morning agreed to adjourn until the occasion made necessary its recall. Federal officers directing Ihr suit said the complaint of the federal government gov-ernment on which the restraining order or-der was issued, presents the question of whether the government has tho power to protect the public as ugainst a group. Daniel W. Simms of Lafayette lias been appointed special assistant United States attorney to act (luring the miners' min-ers' strike emergency in the enforcement enforce-ment of the tnporary restraining order or-der and of whatever other orders may iss ie on the petition for an injunction. John B. Creighton, special representative represen-tative of Attorney Genera Palmer, left, for Danville, m., today. It was said he would direct the filing of supplcnicn tal bills and have them served on all fk-fondaiits. IMPORTANT ORDERS f ; BARRED BY ACTION. I If was largel; due to his activity that j eighteen .,1 the twenty si: defendants I in Judg- Anderson's jurisdiction were served almost instantaivously after tho writ had been issued, j This stopped mine union officials (Continued on Page 2. Column X) LEADERS SILENCED DY FEDERAL ACT Miners' Officials Observe Restraining Order to the Letter. 'Continued rom rase One i from sending out important orders for the conduct of the strike. The government's powerful weapon injunction against the coal miners ul Do put into use in twenty states tt became known tonight. The "writs' are aimed to cripple the activities of the smaller officials in everv soft coal district The restraining order issued by Judge Anderson lierw is only effective effec-tive within the boundaries of his jurisdiction juris-diction By obtaining similar writs in the other bituminous coal districts tho government expects to silence all agitationadmittedly agi-tationadmittedly the miners one powerful pow-erful weapon for the successful conduct of the strike. Mine officials tonight, stood by their earlier announcement that -100,000 men had quit work. Belated reports, however, how-ever, were expected to show a furtlner increase by Monda3' virtually a 100 per cent strike. AGREE THAT MOVE WAS AN INSPIRATION. General officers of tho United Mine Workers agreed that the fedoral authorities' author-ities' war by injunction was inspirational. inspira-tional. They realized the psvchologicul effect whicli is obtained. They know that the purpose of the United States is to weaken the morale of the strikers. strik-ers. But, they said, the government hns mado its move too late; that the esprit' do corps of the union men is firmly established and tho men do not require oratorical stimulus to remain firm. The union officials hesitate to give out copies of messages of assurance that began coming in to headquarters whon the strike wient into effect last midnight. They pointed to stacks of yellow messages and grinned complacently. compla-cently. Twenty-five thousand men have quit work in tho southwestern Indiana field. This roport is authentic. The number comprises practically tho entiro union membership of tho district. Until the federal- request for a temporary tem-porary injunction comes up for hearing hear-ing here November 8, there is littlo probability of auy largo development from this center. |