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Show COAL COMPANIES TO FILE SOUS Officials of United Mine Workers to Be Sued for $4,-000,000 $4,-000,000 Damages. MEN NOT PERTURBED Contemplated Action Another Attempt to Harrass Union Unable to Break Strike. Trinidad, Colo., March 20. Charging Charg-ing a combination by United Mine Workers of Am'orlca to Injur the business of tho coal corporation, a suit asking for damages to the amount of $1,000,000 and body judgment judg-ment against President John P. White, Vice President Frank J. Hayes and a score of others was filed today In tho district court of Las Animas county by the Colorado Fuel & iron company. The complaint charges that in furtherance fur-therance of tho alleged combination and conspiracy, tho United Mine Workers of America officials "caused large quantities of guns and ammunition ammu-nition to bo purchased for use, and which were used In terrifying the said employes of plaintiff into striking- and defendants caused Inflama-tory Inflama-tory and Intimidating speeches to be made to plalntlff.'s Bald employes. which speeches contained Intimations and insinuations and statements that personal injury and abuse would come to those who failed to respond to said call of strike." It Is declared that about one-half the omployes of the company went out on strike and that the greater portion por-tion "did so because of the purchase of arms and ammunition had caused them to fear personal abuse or bodily injury If thoy remained." Charges of Violence. The defendants are charged with "most violent, riotous, unlawful and felonious conduct" In the directing of the strike. It Is charged that the strikers' tent colonies were so "constructed, "con-structed, guarded, policed and managed man-aged as to strike terror to the minds of those who might wish to seek employment em-ployment with tho company," and that "defendants caused rifle-pits to bo constructed around the tent colonies." col-onies." It Is charged also that men I wero restrained In the tent colonies when they desired to "return to work," and that men brought in by the company to fill the places of the strikers "were threatened and Intimidated.' Intimi-dated.' It is claimed that the acts of tho defendants de-fendants have deprived tho company of tho services of Its omployes, reduced re-duced the output of its mines and coke ovens, increased the cost of production pro-duction and Infllctod damage to cover cov-er which $1,000,000 damages are asked. Denver, Colo., March 20. Officials of the United Mine Workers pf Amerlr ca here profoBBcd to bo little perturb cd today over tho announced Inten tlon of the Colorado coal companies to file suits aBklng damages of nearly 34,000,000 and body judgments against them. John R, Lawson, executive boarn momber for Colorado, characterize the contemplated action as "another attempt to harrass tho union and an ndmisslon of the innbllity of tho companies com-panies to break tho strike, called'Sep-tembcr called'Sep-tembcr 2,",, 1913." Announcement of the companies' Intentions was made last night coincident coin-cident with tho mailing of papers in tho Colorado Fuol &. Iron company suit against tho union to counsel In Trinidad for filing in the district court of Las Animas county today. Conspiracy is charged against the United Mine Workers of America and damages of $1,000,000 and body Judgments Judg-ments aro asked against union officials. offi-cials. The defendants Include John P. White, president; FrankJ. Hayes, vice president; William Green, secretary-treasurer; all international officers; offi-cers; John R. Lawson and Edward Doyle, district of floors; John McLennan, McLen-nan, president of tho Colorado State Federation of Labor; Adolph Germer and" other national organizers directly connected with tho conduct of the strike In Colorado. oo |