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Show KANSAS TO ENFORCE - LAW AGAINST STRIKE PITTSBURG. Kans.. Feb. 5 On receipt re-ceipt of unofficial reports today that Alexander M. EXowat, president of the Kansas Mine Workers' union, had called call-ed a strike at a coal mine lU Crawford Craw-ford county, and that about 200 men were idle the state authorities immediately immed-iately took steps to ascertain whether a strike- actually existed and whe ther, If called, it violated the state industrial indus-trial relations law. R- J. Hopkins, attorney general, announced an-nounced he had wired the county attorney at-torney at Pittsburg to make a thorough thor-ough Investigation and telegraph his findings to Topcka- Any action taken, tak-en, Mr. Hopkins said, would depend on the report. In a statement K. A. Crawford, 'tate labor commissioner, declared nb strike existed in tho Kansas coa. fields. 1 |