The Labor enquirer., 1885-01-10
Intimidation at Gallup.
Editor LABOR ENeu1RER |:

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BLossBURG, N. NJ, Jan. 5.-Please allow
me space in your valuable paper to in
form the public of an outrage that was
lperpetrated on some of the miners who
worked at Gallup, New Mexico.
The miners of Gallup suspended work
a short time ago in accordance with re-
Iquest of the miners who we're on strike
in the northern part of the territory and
lin Colorado. 1t was unanimously re-
solved by those miners not to resume
Iwork until the trouble in the north was
lssttled. M
There were great many brays md
fhonorable men il Gallup, men who ale
ftruo 20 JneIr 1eI1oWmen, and men who
will not be deprived Of that freedom
which everyone should enjoy in this free
land of ours. On the other hand there
are men in that place who are capable OF
doing anything, no matter how degrading
it may be, men who sacrafced themselves
to become the tools of their tyrannical
bosses to defeat themselves and their
fellow-miners. -@ N ..-+
1t was the action of these parties that
had thirty-fiye men discharged SO that
they will have to leave there and seek
employment elsewhere; simply because
they had the manhood to ask for justice
and for what belonged 20 them. The
parties who are guilty of this action are
the first to cry aloud for the rights of an
American citizen. This is the cry uf the
men who live and accumulate fortunes
by defrauding the laborers of their
wages. Their action only shows too
clearly their policy, and should show
their meaning to every workingman-
that is, freedom and wealth for them
selves and poverty and tyranny for the
men who work for them. Yet some
men are so blind that they will not see
this but by their daily actions bind the
chains of their slavery the tighter.
Shame on such men; they have lost all
their manhood, if they ever had any.
In order for the officers of the Gallup
mines to carry their unjust and tyranni-
cal impositions to successful issue and
continue the slavery Of their employees
they appealed to the sheriff of Berrallia
county, for protection in time of peace,
at time when not law of the territory
was being violated when the miners
who had quit work had not committed
an act of violence or made a threat, but
.Colonep, Bell, as he stigmatizes him
self, in company with Weaver, went to
albuquerque and called upon the sheriff,
whom be employed as tool to defeat
and bulldoze- the law-abiding citizens of
Gallup.
AS this sheriff had no respect for the
laws he had sworn to execute to his best
ability, he at once employed twenty of
the buns of albuquerque and armed
them with repeating rifles and double
action revolvers, and proceeded at once
to Gallup, to intimidate the peaceable
citizens of that community. The en-
ployers of labor are always the first to
call for the militia, after causing trouble
themselves. 1t is fact that this mob
under control of the sheriff. committed
acts of violence against citizens whom
Bell said were the instigators Of the
suspension and that they were agitators.
They went so far as to make some of tile
men leave the town, simply because
they would not go to work on the ope-
rators' terms. The mob marched one
or two of the men around town at the
point of the rife. And Mr.. Bell went
SO far as to tell one of the miners when
getting his pay that if the delegates who
were sent, there by the miners of the
north had not left before those depu-
ties, as he called them, came they would
have been riddled with bullets or sept
out of the town at the point of the rife.
/ wish to say that the delegates who
were down there were peaceable and
law-abiding, and they and their friends
would probably haye objected to,
such treatment.
There are men at Gallup who are fitE
only for slaves, and / would advise ALI
liberty-loying people to stay away from
there. PIcKAwAY.