Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-23 | Page 3 | Colorado Flour Mills may Close Grain Men Say

quit their jobs, the walkout was de-1 de-1 scribed by union men as "an indefinite indefi-nite vacation" demanding" union recognition. recog-nition. In Fremont county and at Crested Crest-ed Butte, where properties of the Colorado Colo-rado Fuel & Iron company .were forced to shut down, the miners frankly said they were "striking Independently" because, be-cause, they alleged, the company was discriminating against their unions. All mines In the Weld county fields have ceased operations. Attorney General Keyes announced tonight to-night if the men were not at work on Monday morning next. prosecutions would be start d alleging violation of an injunction issued in the district court ; here on Thursday night ordering mine union officials to cancel a strike called j for Friday as a protest agaipst alleged discrimination. COLORADO FLOUR MILLS MAY CLOSE, GRAIN MEN SAY DENVER. Nov. 22. If the new walkout walk-out of miners that began today is not stopped within a week, every flour mill in the state except those operating by electric power will have ceased operations, opera-tions, it was predicted by flour men here tonight. Thirteen hundred coal miners laid down their tools today throughout Colorado, alleging discrimination by coal operators against their unions. Added to the TOO miners who have never gone back to the mines since the nationwide coal strike was called off, Colorado tonight therefore there-fore had approximately 2000 coal miners I idle. In the northern field, where 700 men I