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Show STRUGGLE IS ON IN SOFT COIL CENTER COURT ORDERS MEN TO STAY ON THE JOB, BUT FAILS TO PREVENT WALKOUT. Labor Laders Denounce Court's Action as Violation of Constitutional Rights and Declare Men are More Determined to Win. Indianapolis. The strike of the bituminous bi-tuminous miners went into effect Friday Fri-day night, October 31, in face of a court order forbidding the strike. An order was issued by Federal Judge A. B. Anderson of the United States district court of Indiana forbidding for-bidding the walkout a restraining order or-der to stop engineering of the strike by union leaders. No "last word" or other messages to the members of the union could be issued by the executive execu-tive board or lofficers of the organization, organiza-tion, and they only smiled grimly when this fact was brought to their attention. atten-tion. The principal leaders in the miners' union met the courts action with denunciation de-nunciation as a "violation of constitutional constitu-tional rights," declarations that it came too late to reach their men with a countermanding order, and with predictions pre-dictions that it would be disregarded anyway. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, with Vice President Presi-dent Woll and Secretary Morris, protested pro-tested as a delegation to Attorney General Palmer against the government's govern-ment's action in suing out the injunction, injunc-tion, and predicted that it could "only result in creating new and more disturbing dis-turbing issues which may mot be confined con-fined solely to the miners." Attorney General Palmer emphasized to the labor leaders that the government's govern-ment's injunction was in no wise an infringement in-fringement of the working man's right to strike, but that it was a lawful process pro-cess against a calamity to the country. He pointed out that the injunction had been issued for the government acting for all the peiople and not for the employers em-ployers acting in conflict with their employees. The attorney general declined to predict what would be done if the miners min-ers failed to heed the federal court's order, pointing out that the court itself it-self initiates means to deal with those who disregard its mandates. United States troops began arriving in some of the mining districts ready to take part in keeping order and protecting pro-tecting those miners who wished to continue at work. The extent and full nature of the troop movements were not disclosed, but it was apparent that the war department was acting on a carefully worked-iout plan to be ready if the local or state authorities reinforced re-inforced by federal deputy marshals were unequal to the situation. |
