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PROBE»i(Continued from Page One.)1taado£iiVtrfchief executive was recommended by Governor-elect George A. Carlson.If the operators had consented to meet the strike leaders, former United States Senator Thomas M. Patterson declared, the strike would have been settled.Demoralising Force.He referred to the action of Governor Ammons in invoking the puwei which suspended civil rights and placed a Adjutant-General Chase in supreme command in the state, and declaredthis decision a demoralizing force.ltaeJohn McLennan, president of district!3 5, United Mine Workers of America,tRV(fi:rdsubmitted that scrip payment, a violation of the law, exerts in the Victor-•Americen company’s closed camps.One jury worked 20 years for a coroner in r southern county, he alleged. Governor Shaf froth had declaredhimself unable to enforce the eight hour law in the state, lie stated.J. P. Welborn, president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, tcsti-fled to having advised during the strike with John D. Reckefeller, jr., Jerome D.Greene, Starr J. Murphy, and other eastern directors. He said that Ivy L. Lee, executive assistant of the Pennsylvania railroad, had been employed by Mr. Rockefeller to write tiie facts from the operators* viewpoint.Rranoa for Unrest.ata8He had never heard of a statute n read by the -comm i as ion forbidding the id employment of mine employes asjudges of election in coal camps.The reason for the unrest in Colorado he said, was the importation of a lawless element by the officials of the United Mine Workers of America.ttPt:nnAmong the correspondence submitted niiby Mr. Welborn covering communications between himself and eastern directors from June 9 until the middle of November, HI4, was a letter from Mr. Rockefeller submitting a plan for a board of conciliation formed inside the Colorado Fuel and Iron company organization formulated by W. K Mac-Kenzie King, formerly Canadian minister of labor, now Rockefeller Foundation commissioner for the investigation of industrial unrest. Mr. Wel-born’s reply indicated he thought ittjgTTSlt;Itlit»Hieaunwise to take up the matter until aafter the strike had been terminated.K. If. Weitel, general manager of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, objected to the United Mine Workers as j ti an organization on the ground that it taught class hatred.Sheriff Jefferson Farr of Huerfano coqnty told of supplying 32t men deputy sheriffs without investigation of their qualifications and sending them to the mines of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, who armed and paid them.Judge Advocate Major Houghton defended the Moyer decision, citing precedents establishing it as the law of the la nd.District Attorne3* J. J. Hendrick, of the third district of Colorado, including Huerfano county and I^as Animas, asserted the county commissioners and the sheriff controlled the jury venires and control of these officials by the coal companies meant control of the juries.nriii,octl a Itlslt;aitlclt;Cl2(itfcJi-di ih tllab.TO MAIU'H OS ISOOALES.Nogales, Ariz., Dec. 13.—-Two hundred. recruits for Carranza’s forces are reported to have been gathered at Hasabe, 75 miles west of here on the Arizona side. According to the report here they were brought from Tucson, enlisted on the American si do and are preparing to march across the border and on Nogales, now controlled by Governor Maytorena’a Villa jtroops. *trtcC8tmtrecaiS'iswm*arcaaiwthdlptPOrNCARK AT RHEIM0.Paris, Dec. 13.—President Polncairc today visited Rheims, which in still being bombarded daily by the Germans. After examining the cathedral, the president made a donation of IloO to the poor of the city.— - — ■— ■■■ ■tGunn Sectional Bookcases - in atvv finish, as a Christinas present, at Herrmann dt Co., 201-203 Broadway.
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Helena Independent Record
Helena, Montana, US
Mon, Dec 14, 1914
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