Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — MINUTE MEN RESPOND [ARTICLE]

MINUTE MEN RESPOND

Pick and Shovel Brigade Rally to Kansas Mines. Volunteers Ready to Save People From Freezing at Governor's Call , for Help. Topeka, Kan., Nov. 28. —To protect the people from “unspeakable suffering” from cold ami coal shortage, Governor Allen has asked for volunteer coal diggers and more than 400 have responded. A formal statement by the governor, said the state “is brought to the pass of using all its power to protect the people, whose suffering will be unspeakable unless relief Is afforded.” The Wichita post of the American Legion has 200 men. signed up and ready to go to the mines at once, and among the volunteers were the owners of five steam shovels. Each shovel is -Biiid to be able to uncover 300 to 400 tons of coal a day In a strip mine. • The governor expects that 4,000 to 5,000 men will respond. The state will list them and it is hoped they will start work Saturday or Monday. At Pittsburgh, Kan., Thomas Hardy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers In Kansas, said of the volunteer coal diggers: • "There will be no question of the attitude of the district or officers. From the standpoint of the union officers, all men who came into the field to work at the strip pits will be strikebreakers.” ' ■ / t