ANOTHER DEATH

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 101, 30 April 1914, Page 7

ANOTHER DEATH

DESPERATE MEN IN COLORADO FIGHTING CONTINUES VMR. ROCKEFELLER MAKES A | : STATEMENT. ' (By Telegraph.-- Press Association.— Copyright.) XV.W YORK, 28th April. The- fighting at Boulder, Colorudo, has 'rt'osulted hi another death, while many v have> been wounded in the neighbour* .'hood. Women and children took refuge \ within- «tne Hecla Mine ci. closure, remained tlicr« for a whole day. lying i, on j the -floors, of their homoj,. in older to javoid"the bullets winch werr poured inio the mine. Strikers are. entrenched on every hill. .preparing for the arrival of the State troops. Ths citizens have organised a, volunteer force, to endeavour to dislodge the> strikers. Mr. John D. Rockefeller states that if the strikers have any grievance the company's officials are ready to meet them la a reasonable spirit. IMr. Rockefeller referred to numerous coni cemioii's which had been nwdc io the employee? from time to time. The unionisation- of the mine, however, would ■ not he toleiated for a single instant. ten per cent, of the employees were i-actually union men. Owing to the absolute paralysis of the State a-uthorities, President Wilson *has allowed the despatch of State troops, stipulating tlwt the troops shall only be used in the actual restoration of older. '-SEVEN MORE PERSONS KILLED. MORE BUILDINGS BURNED. (Received April 30, 2 p.m.} DENVER (Colorado). 29th April. Seven persons were killed when the strikers attacked the mines in the neighbourhood of Forbes. The mine buildings were burned and two bodies charred therein. DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE ROCKEFELLER'S OFFICES. SEVERAL AR.RESTED. INCLUDING UPTON SINCLAIR. (Received April 30, 2.10 p.m.) NEW YORK. 29th April, Demonstrators against Mr. Rockefeller's attitude at Colorado were arrested after holding , a demonstration outside Mr. Rockefeller, jun., offices. Those arrested include Upton Sinclair (the author), his wife, and children, Elizabeth Freeman (an English Suffragette). Socialists had arranged for a parade in front of Rockefeller's offices. They were vrearing signs of mourning. , The police intervened, and the pa-rad« did not take place.