The strike decision was ordered March 22, to start effective April 1.

[2] The Labor World at the time reported the following for many of the states, "... of the 13,000 Kansas miners, but 1,000 are working ... Colorado, also, has a law which outlaws strikes under certain conditions, but only 4,000 of the 19,000 miners before the strike was called are working.

The states that report a 100 per cent strike are: Illinois, 90,000 out; Ohio, 50,000 out; Indiana, 3000 out; Iowa, 15,000 out; Montana, 5,000, out; Michigan, 3,000 out.

Political comics from the time suggest there was solidarity between the miners and rail workers.

Those miners voted to end their strike on August 14, 1923, after failing to gain a contract.