Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1919 — PROPOSE SOLDIERS RUN MINES AND RAILROADS. [ARTICLE]

PROPOSE SOLDIERS RUN MINES AND RAILROADS.

Authorization for the president to use soldiers in operating the nation’s boal mines or railroads in the event of a strike would be given under a bill introduced Monday by Senator Thomas, democrat, Colorado. The measure was referred to the military affairs committee wi.hout debate. . Under the bill’s provisions federal troops could be used “to- perform work essential to the continued operation ’of the facilitiesTSpr "Instrumentalities of interstate dr foreign commerce which 'have been abandoned or substantially obstructed, prevented or interfered with as the result of a strike, lockout, or other labor -disturbance.” In addition to their regular pay, soldiers used for such work would receive the wage prevailing in the district for the labor performed.