The Labor enquirer., 1885-05-23
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assistance they needed. BE said the
Fint National bank had been trying TO
boycott the executive committee of the
Union Pacific. The knights Of Labor
had Offers made to them BY the Union
Pacific to sell out. He called the man
Who ofsfed the brbe dirty scoundrel.
Their opinion regarding Us must be
measured BY themselves. They must
think that we have been brought up IN
the same business as themselves. We
have been called the common people,
but think the Union Pacific men who
tried to bribe us must be altogether too
common people. The receiver is as bad
as the thief. CaJackson," said some one.1
I believe they call the mans name
Lyster who made the order. The offer
was $3.50 month. So you, see that we,
are really the directors of the Union
Pacific after all. S
/ Mr.. Jackson has been trying to run
/ the Union Pacific in the person of Mr..
( s. T. Smith. I ordered Mr.. Smith away
from here and Mr.. Smith went away the
next morning. We want to be honest
and then do right. II we keep on and
maintain our rights, We will not only run
the Rio Grande and the Union Pacific,
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but all the railroads in the United States.
hoi g. that no Rio Grande man will 60
to work till we have a fair and honest
settlement.
Mr.. Lewis, secretary Of the coal
miners beard, said 1 do not feel quail
fed to speak, but am yin sympathy
with the,cause. l know there is q con-
spiracy between the Colorado Coal and
Iron company and the Denver and Rio
Grande. / have portion of letter
written BY the head Of the coal depart
ment, which reads, Il want to say
plainly to you men, if you put your
neeks under the Knights OF Labor you
will regret it" (This was Mr.. Danforth.)
He further said: ANY man who did
not like the rules might quit"
The Rocky Mountain News may tell us
this and that, but the strike is against the
organization. want to tell the press that
4 had nothing to do with organizing the
strike, but will help it all l can and the
coal miners win stand by the Rio Grande
men to the last dollar they have. The
speaker then read the following resolutions:
Whereas, The necessity of a working
mans daily paper has been 50 forcibly dem
onstrated during the present struggle
against the aggressi1eness of corporate
power and inasmuch as the day has arrived
when the organized labor of the city of
Denver can command daily, exclusively
in the interests of labor, be it g..
Resolved, That this vast assemblage of
worEngmen give its hearty support to the
movement now on foot to start such paper
under the management t and control of our
noble and trusted friend, J. r. Buchanan.
Where's, The Rocky; Mountain News
has assumed such an lostile attitude to the
worthy efforts Of tn, Denver and Rio
Grande brethren to get their grievances re-
dressed, and has lent its influence to aid
the attack of corporate power against the
organization Of the Knights Of Labor; belt
Resolved, That this assemblage with
draws its support from that paper and from
all that viii sustain such an unscrupulous
sheet believing that the interest of labor
will be well served by defeating such a
lying foe"
The resolutions wece adopted with one
dissenting vote, and that chap was roundly
hissed. !
The chairman read an extract from
paper called the Railroad
IN REGARD TO THE BAD POLICY r.
of the Missouri Pacific in discharging men
from their shops and taking work away
from them. The resalt was, as it was sta
ted in the article, that the Knights of La
Dor warned the road and the Missouri Pa
eifc stopped the work of discharging men
believing that they didn't want another
strike.
J.W. Mccarthy was introduced and pro-
ceeded to make a few remarks. He had
heard great deal of abuse of the Knights
of Labor and had read a good deal in the
papers, but for himself. he was proud to be-
long to that order. The Knights of Labor
did nothing wrong. They simply sought
to protect their own rights and interests.
In reading the papers he had seen articles
published in certain paper derogatory to
certain brothers in this noble order. Itac-
cuses them Of being the instigators, the sole
movers Of these ignorant classes that they
talk about. They seem to think that we
are not intelligent enough to think for our
selves. 1 claim the men that instigated
those editorials or wfote those articles wrote
an Internal lie, I am not prepared to say
whether the report is true or not that this
paper was bribed q, write those articles.
I don't believe quite all gead in the news
papers.
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They might be little sore in the News
Office, rittle off their base, so to speak.
MI. Stapleton wanted to be melter, Mr.
Atkins wanted to be postmaster and MI
Smith wanted something else. Well, we
hear that Mr. Loveiand, the head and front
Of the whole outfit, is to be surveyor gem
eral. That might satisfy them. 1 ask you