Show I II I. WI WI W. FORCES I SUCCEED IN INCLOSING CLOSING SEVEN I OTHER MINES Pickets Switch Fro F r o in m County To MORE ARRESTED Meeting 1 e e ti n g Is Held II c 1 d At Monument l In Iii Tragic Ludlow Setting DENVER Colo Cob Oct 24 By By The Associated Press The The L I. W. W W. W forces conducting the thc strike in the Colorado coal fields suddenly trans trans- transferred transferred transferred the principal activities from to county today and succeeded in closing seven addi addi- additional mines Nine pickets were ar arrested ar- ar arrested rested and taken to jail at Trinidad I. I W W. W. W members from Wal joined pickets from the Aguilar Aguilan and Trinidad districts in making a 0 sur cur surprise surprise prise attack on the Berwind Canyon Canyons section s What Is described as a n small army of oC pickets watched all roads and induced the miners not to work Preceding the picketing a meeting was held at the monument at Ludlow where several lost their lives In the 1914 coal strike FORCES REDUCED Because of oC the activity of oC the pick pick- pickets pickets ets eta but 67 men were at work at the three Colorado Fuel Iron company mines in canyon while were working Saturday Four inde Inde- independent Independent pendent mines were forced to cease cense operations in the same section when the men did not appear for work wor A check of all the C. C F F. I I. I mines In snowed showed only men working compared to Saturday One small band of oC pickets was as active In the Walsenburg district this morn morn- mornIng ing Seven men and eight el ht women went to the Walsen mine this morning but were stopped by the guards Two mines In the district not op op- operate operate op- op erate crate the Saturday the Lester mine of cf the C. C F J L i and the the Cameron mine resumed mine resumed operations today with witha a small force of oC men CARRY rl PI HANDLES H Additional guards hose have been sent from the Pueblo steel mills to the C. C F F. I. I mines in the Walsenburg dis dis- dis- dis district They are armed arm arm Id I'd and in addi addi- addition addition tion carry pick handles Coal company officials said this morning the situation was becoming more alarming I. I W W. W W. officials were delighted with the results of oC their sur sur- surprise surprise prise prize picketing of ot county mines today and predicted that by the end of the week there would not be a amine amine amine mine operating JI Colo Cob Colorado rado fields The strike reached the Routt county coal fields this morning for the first time The Moffat l Coal company mine at Oak Creek reported that about half haIC of the men reported for work this morning and only a n handful of oC men appeared at the Victor American mine at Oak Creek More than a dozen other mines in the county were still unaffected The northern Colorado lignite 11 fields were still paralyzed by the strike Miners there yesterday laid plans to form a caravan to send to Fremont county to seek seck to have the miners there Join them in the strike |