Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1914 — TROOPS SENT TO SCENE [ARTICLE]

TROOPS SENT TO SCENE

FEDERAL FORCES SENT TO ARKANSAS STRIKE ZONE. Secretary Garrison Dispatched Regiment to Quell Riots Among Striking Miners in Hartford Valley. Washington, D. C., Nov. 4.—lt lias b-en decided to send, federal troops into ’.it- Hartford valley (Ark.) strike zone Orders have been prepared at 'he war department and Secretary Garrison, after a conference with At-torney-General Gregory this evening, ■'Hl make a public statement of reasons for the action. ■ • ii-ral Judge Youmans has reportt'd that he is unable to enforce his orders in the strike zone, where mining properties are in the hands of receivers appointed by the United States court, and that the deputy marshals have been unable to cope with the situation. It is the first time in many years that the judicial branch of the government has called upon the military to assist in enforcing its orders.

I nited States Marshal Parker says he has done all he can to continue to operate the property under the court’s orders, but his small force of deputies cannot cope with a body of men numbering 2,000 or 3,000, armed with high power rifles.” The first trouble in the Hartford valley occurred April 4, when the I -ache-Denman company endeavored to operate its mine on an “open shop” basis. A crowd of miners and sympathizers on that date, after holding a mass meeting, marched to the mine, assaulted, the guards, drove off the nonunion employes and pulled the fires from beneath the boilers. The company th>n obtained a fedeial injunction prohibiting union miners and sympathizers from interfering with the operation of the mines. Later the court appointed Franklin Bache receiver for the company. July 17, while the federal receiver was in charge of the property, the mines were attacked, mine guards and miners were driven away from the property the tipples of five mines were burned and two employes of the company killed and their bodies cremated