PITCHED BATTLE
COLORADO STRIKE
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
(Received August 4, 9.40 a.m.)
NEW YORK, August 3
Two motorised companies of injfantry, tanks, and artillery arrived at I dawn at Kremmling, Colorado, after | the Governor had declared martial law following a pitched battle in which 400 strikers at the Green Mountain dam and. 350 non-strikers and vigilantes exchanged a hundred shots. The number of casualties has not been determined. A bridge on the highway was dynamited and a telephone line destroyed, cutting off communication, but it is reported that the fighting is continuing. (Received August 4, 2.50 p.m.) KREMMLING, August 3. Troops disarmed 200 special deputy sheriffs and workers and dispersed the picketers. ' The casualties during the night's conflict totalled seven wounded, one of whom is in a critical condition. The fighting started because workers sought to prevent non-strikers from reopening a project the work on which was stopped when the union sought a closed shop and the contractor refused.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 10
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159PITCHED BATTLE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 10
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