Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-10-23 | Page 1 | Women Strikers in Coal Fields Loyal to Miners

Women Strikers In hi Coal Fields Loyal to Miners Miner Are Willing to Go to Jail for Their Men Haired Bobbed Girl Proves Active WALSENBURG Colo Cob Oct 22 AP AP Wom Women n enrolled under the blazing red banner of the Industrial Workers of the World have added a new and effective touch to strikes in the Colorado coalfields Standing shoulder to shoulder s-houlder with their striking fathers and ands the women have ha added a rp of militancy tf to the p present sent in southern ado Colo-ado that liaR has amazed veteran miners who lio have gone through five strikes e in th the past score of years ears earsA A year old bobbed haired l Mexican Mex Mex- ican lean girl Ir named Rosia has been one lne of the most active of the wom women 1 workers workers' A dirt-begrimed dirt felt hat pulled down over o her shorn ahorn tresses she has trudged forth daily dally to help to wage the conversational battle baUe that has l kept ept scores of af men from the mines Two of her brothers were killed in th the blood bloody days o othe of the 1913 14 Colorado coal strike We will stand staria behind our men they make our homes she said to toda to- to da day The They are arc our living and a poor living it is at best We e will viLl sta stay behind our men forever we will not starve If It we do not have a loaf o of bread blead between us we will beg teg from house to house Ever Every day w wa vs will wiH picket and go to jail for out oui men For the most part the women omen foreigners and tho tim picket forces ex exhort fX cx- hort the men not to to- work worl in a strange collection o of tongues Quiet Hangs Hangs- Over Coal Fields DENVER Colo Cob Oct 22 2 United Press Press Press-A A menacing quiet h hung ng Continued on page 5 S. 4 WOMEN STRIKERS IN COAL Fi FIELDS LOY LOYAL L TO MINERS Continued from m page image I. I o over or r Colorado paralyzed coel fi fields floid tonight Although l leaders ladora of or the Indu Industrial Vor Workers rs of or the World who call called the TU Tuesday declared J lb there e o would ld be no violence mine O owners ra strengthened the guard at their thell properties in the southern rn ar area aron ll The fhe Jail in iii vies v filled tilled to capacity with vItI m mom mom- m. m bers bels of f the I. I W. W arr ari lM in Ute tile thelast last two days for tor violating the States stales leUng law JR POI Possibility that troops would be becent becent cent ent Into the strike area to pr ent l picketing a amid otherwise and nil oti maintaining maintaining maintain maintain- ing order was vas l 16 lessened a nM today following fol fol- fol- fol lowing a a. conference nC b between t n Governor Gov GO William WIlHam Adams nn anu author author- authorIties Hies lUes of county e coal J o op operators up orators and members rs of or th the state eLate industrial commission No Xo troops nor financial nl aid was wai n asked k d Governor Adams cald Reports that a woman accompanying p tile the pickets pleY-ob at the Ia dl mine mimic near r stoned atoned the tense enso councel in th tho outline o of the case to the tho jUI Jury Besides developing for ti th J Jy jU y th fact tha-fact fact that Teapot Dome DOM Va s EeL l aside as lS ft tt naval na reserve under a policy c calling for or l preserving oil for forthe the lIa navy in 11 the ground tho the n has shown that Fall IaU WM Instrumental In Itt Et in having control t this and other naval reserves turned tl O to tho the Interior r department and leaded tIle the Wyoming field without comP competitive bidding and In Ina a j t man n I 1 Time lt government also alEo h hits s of oer l levid evid nce to combat th defenses defense's C lIs ii c contention nt that thaL the imminent Imn danger dan sian- aner an- an ger fier er of ot drainage caused Fall to turn th the over ovet to tu Sinclair tot for development de sin- Ie- Ie under a plon 1 fo fo- furnishing t tAnks tank at t the seaboard in which tt Us to stole afore tub gov o 1 oil front ft tile S armed when ua ds ben they prevented her from front steppIng on 01 the rIne pro t d n ny fey county author au- au thor U ansi and of the they I y W. W W V. V E Et CT FELT Meantime the t effect t of the coal cal were beginning to be felt One school In the northern part of the state where approximately miners walked out in sympathy strike tat fared d a 8 shutdown through lack Jack of coal coul ers Denver's supply was I c dwindling and anti con coal bins in other were reported short Attorney General ht in informed In- In formed time the state officials that Colorado Coo Cob radii rado l. l nut not enforce m mediation as IS suggested SJ fl by one of the tho county authorities attending the confer confer- ence enee This mu must l be handled bandied by the district ills dis rid attorney a at t g said Sh Sheriff C Harry Cupps of county said more snore de deputies ull would bo be eln employed to 1 prevent l' l vent picketing Kristen 8 I. I W. W W. W Iz Raid picketing would continue until mem member t in the tho state were placed l ced in Jan jail