Scenes in Colorado.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8, 30 April 1914, Page 5

Scenes in Colorado.

MINE STRIKERS AT WAR. CONFLICTS WITH THE TROOPS. (x>r Eijsotbio Telegraph—Copybight) [UMTKB pKiLBB ASSOCIATION." New York, April 28. Fighting at Boulder, Colorado, resulted in another death and many were wounded around the neighborhood. Women and children who had taken refuge within the Hecla mine enclosure remained the whole day lying on the floor of their homes in order to avoid the bullets which poured into the mine. The strikers are entrenched on every hill, preparing for the arrival of the State troops. Citizens have organised a volunteer force to endeavor to dislodge the strikers. Mr Rockefeller has stated that if the strikers had any grievance tho company's officials were ready to meet them in a reasonable spirit. Mr Rockefeller referred to the numerous concessions made to the employees from time to time. The "unionisation." of the. mine, however, would not be tolerated for a single instant. Only ten per cent, of the employees were actually union men. Owing to the absolutely paralysed state of the authorities, President Wilson has allowed the despatch of State troops, stipulating that tho troops must only be used in the actual restoration of order.