Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1914 — GIVE UP ARMS IN COLORADO MINES [ARTICLE]

GIVE UP ARMS IN COLORADO MINES

General Surrender by Both Operators and Operatives to Be Made Today—Drastic Orders. Trinidad, Col., May B.—All was quiet tonight in the coal mining fields of Colorado, on the eve of the disarmament tomorrow, an order for which was posted today by the military authorities. All civilians are directed to report with their arms at specified' places at speefle hours. -■ / v “Any member off the union failing to comply with the order to surrender weapons will be stricken from the relief list and barred from membership in the United Mine Workers of America,” concluded the union order sent out by William Diamond, international representative of the union. The mine operators’ statement read; “Our guns have been waiting collection by the federal officers ferr some time and when the soldiers go for them they will find them all there—machine guns and all.”