Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1919 — THE LABOR CRISIS. [ARTICLE]

THE LABOR CRISIS.

FEDERAL JUDGE A. A. ANDERson at Indianapolis issues a temporary injunction restraining all officials of the United Mine Workers of America from going on strike. The order enjoins the officials from starting or encouraging the strike on the broad general grounds that a disaster threatens the country and that the strike would tie up the transportation system of the nation. WAR WITH ORGANIZED LABOR is threatened as a result of the injunction against the miners, according to Samuel Gompers and leaders of the railroad brotherhoods, who protest to Attorney General Palmer, against the restraining order. Leaders of the railroad men say that they can not guarantee to hold rail men in line if the government deals with strikes by injunction process. —o — EIGHT HUNDRED IST DIVISION soldiers $t Huntington, W. Va., awaiting orders to go to mines in that state. More troops placed under Maj. Gen. Wood in central . department and under Lieut. Gen. Bullard in eastern department. United States troops await call in Tennessee. State troops sent to Colorado mines. ———<O—HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, by unanimous vote, adopts senate resolution endorsing any steps administration may decide on in the strike situation. PRESIDENT WILSON ISSUES ORder fixing prices of bituminous coal on last summer’s basis.