STRIKERS SHOT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19165, 23 November 1927, Page 9

STRIKERS SHOT.

* AMERICAN COAL DISPUTE. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, November 21. A message from Denver states that the long and tense mine dispute broke into open violence, when State police and striking miners battled at the Columbine Mine. Official reports declared that two strikers were killed and at least thirty persons injured. The fight occurred when five hundred miners and their women sympathiser rushed fifteen State Guards at the mine, which tad been the testing ground since the strike was called, and was the only property operated virtually throughout the strike. When the miners approached the property the Deputy-Sheriff mounted a truck and warned them against entering the enclosure. The miners paused, but their leaders urged them on and the crowd pushed inside. The police used teai bombs and the miners retreated, cursing and yelling, but charged again when the gas cleared, despite further police warnings. The police then fired in the air, hoping to stop the advance, but the attackers swung clubs, waved knives, and swept on to the officers, who then tired into the advancing ranks. Two miners ' dropped dead at the first volley. In the meantime in another clash near Aguilar, twelve more«miners were injured, and thirty-five arrested i>r deputy-sheriffs, but no shots were fired Governor Adams stated that martial law would shortly be declared National Guardsmen, were being dispatched to the strike zone. ANOTHER CLASH. FOUR KILLED. (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, November 21. A message from Denver, Colorado, states that four were killed, and more than a score were injured, six critically, in a clash this morning with the State police, when 500 striking coalminers stormed the property of the Rocky Mountain Coal Company. After a hand to hand fight, the police were overwhelmed, and resorted to their guns, the demonstrators using all manner of weapons. The I.W.W. inaugurated the strike on October 18th. NATIONAL GUARD CALLED OUT. (Received November 22nd, 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 21. The latest report from Denver Bays three miners are now dead, five near death, and twenty-five persons, including eight State police, injured. Governor Adams has called out the Colorado National Guard, proclaiming the rioting miners to be "bodies of men acting together by force in an attempt to commit felonies and offer violence to persons and property." Three hundred Guardsmen are now patrolling the mines in the Boulder and Weld counties.