Show i n. n n r. r t f t t r. r r. r I m 70 M I pt r- r ri k e u of Co a LV I r rk ers ers' erse rs' rs Reduces Reduces' e I n te r ly I l joiel u e el 1 Mines M I n e s in Central Region Badly Crippled IB By Protest Walkouts eads of Union Believed Sure to I Issue sue General Generali i Orders If Operators Abide by Checkoff Prohibition 1 I tJ 1 rIke at a glance e Cause s o of strike strike Injunctions Issued by Judge A. A B. B Anderson Anders n In United ites court at at Indianapolis prohibiting collection of union dues by withholding assessments from miners miners' pay and then turning It Ito o union o union treasury 1 5 Twenty IndIana Twenty eight thousand miners striking Only four mines work work- 7 TT Operators obey checkoff injunction tHigh High union officials meeting at Indianapolis believe belleve certain to call can leral strike if all operators abide by checkoff Injunction Approximately Illinois Approximately 1000 striking miners ordered back to work by by ink st state te president pending meeting of mine operators Novem- Novem plo o to decide whether tl they ey will obey injunction Several Ohio Several hundred miners striking against injunction S Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Coal Producers Producers' asso association agrees to abide by byckoff byckoff koff injunction Forty thousand miners wait for word from union heads ore oro acting Strike Iowa Iowa Strike of Iowa Iowa- miners I certain If operators abolish checkoff S union ids declare p Many Kapsas-Many Many miners already on strike In protest against imprisonment Alexander lexander Howat former head of miners in that state for violation of oft t Ji industrial court l law w f i Sufficient Wahington-Sufficient Sufficient t country to to last three weeks according IJ national If tIp al coal as association exp experts experts' t sh W Wt rne l Coal t rike ilc Threatens r IJ INDIANAPOLIS Nov 3 Another Another led threat of a general coal strike of coal miners if mine owners a de S by the check check oft off Injunction came h of the United United Mine 1 today S sId hn L. L Lewis de declared lared in I. I erl nc t the operators operators' ot ot iJ ny W IC ally alty abrogate an an g t. t y thereby Impair the v validity of the theIre theire the their ir Ire agreement S eak Lk ak Threatened i Miners' Miners Ranks Nov 3 A A rift in ranks of ot th tie coal miners today their unity on the eve of a sible general strike ti old fight between Frank Fargon Far- Far gon insurgent leader of the Illinois Mine 1 Workers and President John L. L Lewis cropped Farrington said Lewis is passIng uck in his telegram to district I t rs dIrecting them to consider any ort of of mine operators to abolish the k off as an abrogation of contract to treat it accordingly Is and his today consid- consid gaa reply to Farrington n his message Lewis expected to toke toli li ke clear lear whether or not the men will called on to strike If it the operators the check rhe he date for the general strike If it ordered was believed to have been I for r November 16 16 the next pay day hough bough official confirmation was not tt from union headquarters R Reports ports of miners walking out In InIS IS Indiana and nd some parts of 1111 i received at union Oday today Operators S Meet II Nov 10 CHICAGO Nov 3 By United Press al llop operators of Illinois will meet elon ejon November 10 to decide whether r nol t. t they will obey Judge A. A B. B Ansons Ansons An- An sons Injunction abolishing the ck ff system ly ly about miners have walked n Illinois fields sipco since the a was vas issued They are expected to urn to work worle t today da by union leaders a result of oC the tho telegram sent by byank byank ank FarrIngton president of the 1111 i branch of the miners' miners union Far- Far urged the men to remain on Jj b as long as ns the operators did abolish the checkoff NES iNES CLOSE IN OHIO r NELSONVILLE 0 O. Nov O 3 By ByThe Bye Byg g e s g The The strike of union miners S 'S Spreading spreading in the I Hocking valley Id ld today and early estimates were 2000 men were out closed to- to 1 large mines n near ar here hen the workers failed to report and indications were addi- addi duty uty Sl nal operations operationS' would be bo affected the day OUT IN INDIANA Ind md Nov Ko 3 Strike Strike coal Indiana southern in the MS leI i continued to spread today Sev Sev- ld s men walked out tying hundred Practically every mine In this sec sec- n r practicallY About men are now out ut R KERS REtURN TO WORK II Ill Nov Coal a.-Coal hero here who struck oi near agaInst the checkoff In- In day to work worl today returned S liners It Dec Declare I are inn win Stand B VICTOR LITTLE By CARL Correspondent United Press Staff nl e Ind N Nov ov 1 Coal Coal CoalT HAUTE A LJ J T TERRE i determined ry 1 to fO fit starve s today were bow to a a federal court ther than iff Ie S co for the very life 01 of fIght fighting i n P c are the tle f I and can t quit quit was on a Continued on page Dage 2 L I fUEl MINES Continued from page 1 lips of thousands of ot miners who paraded paraded pa- pa the streets of a dozen Indiana mining towns while mines were idle Close to thirty thousand workers re refused refused refused re- re fused to mine a bucket of coal after Federal Feder l Judge A A. A B. B Anderson at In Indianapolis Indianapolis In- In issued an Injunction against off check system whereby operators deducted union dues es from the pay of the men and turned it over ovEt in a lump Isum um to union headquarters The men today many of them pressed in their best clothes as If on a holiday did not go near the mines The workers did not blindly follow their leaders Into this strike Everyone Everyone Everyone Every Every- one one of ot the the many many interviewed knew exactly ex- ex exactly exactly ex ex- why he was striking Back In 1897 they said the checkoff checkoff checkoff check check- off system was established after unions had struck eight months to get it written written written writ writ- ten into union agreements The ruling was unfair said Arthur Donnelly West Vest Terre Haute miner What we fought so bi bitterly terly for cannot cannot cannot can can- not be so easily lost Practically all miners held the same view as Donnelly This strike which has not been formally for for- mally ordered by union heads Is one of the most singular on record Miners rs are not picketing the mines and owners are making no attempt to operate Dire want Is faced by those on strike Most of ot them have worked only two or three thre days a week all summer Judge Andersons Anderson's injunction tied up all the funds of of the United Mine Workers Work This means and the miners realize it that they Jiey can get no financial aid fro from h fr i their war chest I Union officials of district No ll 11 the e heart of the soft coal fields of th the e country said no strike call tail had been n I issued However John S S. S Hesler president president president pres- pres ident said that all but four mines were e idle Operators refuse to comment on th the e situation Two hundred d of them are t to o meet in Terre Haute tonight to decide e whether or not they will obey Judge Andersons Anderson's ruling |