Labor Disturbances

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 278, 25 April 1914, Page 5

Labor Disturbances

CIVIL WAR IX UNITED STATES,

OUTRAGES ST] Lh CONTINUE.

By Cable —Press Association—Copyright New York, April 23. The women and children who were believed to have been suffocated in the Empire Mine at Trinidad, Colorado, are known to be still alive. Strikers are firing and using dynamite, as a considerable number of non-unionists are using the mine as ;i refuge. The conflicts with the troops and nonstrikers are still proceeding over a wide area. Further fatalities are occurring. The strikers are thoroughly out of hand, and the troops are able to effect little. The sober elements of the community are appealing for intervention hy the President, as it is reported that the conditions are equal to a civil war. A mine manager near Aguilar, Colorado, has telephoned that thirty women land children, who took refuge in the mine store, are likely to die of suffocation, as the mine mouth has caved in owing to the dynamite explosions caused by the strikers in the attacks on the State troops. ;

A HAIL OP LEAD. Received 24, 8.50 p.in. New York, April 23. Trinidad, Colorado, reports that the outrages in the strike district continue. Twenty miners, with their wiveß and children, took refuge in another mine after the mine buildings were fired. The strikers poured in a hail of lead as the non-strikers fled. The death list since fighting began is thirty, including children.

THE POSITION IN ENGLAND. London, April 23. Mr. Asquith promised Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald that a committe would enquire into the use of troops in connection with trade disputes and other civil disturbances.