Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-08

Victor, Col, June s.-The Record, owned and edited by George E. Kyner, and recognized as the official organ of the Western Federation of Miners in the Cripple Creek district, published an editorial to-day urging the miners to call off the strike inaugurated ten months ago, the article saying:
 The sentiment is growing against the Western Federation Of Miners on account of it's continuing the strike. There are few people who believe that this organization of miners is responsi- ble for the crimes that have been committed here, except that if the strike had not been called and contin- ued so long the dynamiting would not have occurred and in that respect the strike is responsible for this outrage, whether there was justice in the call ing of it or not. In the interest of the men and women who have made the. Cripple Creek district, the Record asks the Western Federation of Min CTS to call off the strike. Miners liv- ing in this district are losing their homes or being obliged to go away and leave them. None of them, when they express their convictions. as many of them have to the writer, be- lieve there is any chance of winning the strike. but that the longer it is kept going the further they are away from securing work. They are not in 8 position to stand it much longer and the Record asks, as labor's best and demonstrated friend through this hard struggle, that it be called off at once or else people will either be forced to leave the federation or their homes.
 "The Record does not have the con fidence of the mine owners, of the
 military, or of the Citizens alliance,
 and it makes this plea solely in the interest of the men and women of this
 district that are without work, with out food and who believe there is no
 hope of winning the strike and want it called off.''
 Three more Victor city officials have been forced to resign. They are Jus tice of the Peace J. D. Thomas and
 Aldermen J w. Murphy and J. J. To-
 bin. Police Magistrate Michael Gib- bons. who refused to resign, was | made prisoner at the Victor military armory, where many union miners are also confined
 Frank J. Hangs, leading attorney of l the Western Federation of Miners I here, has been warned to leave the 1 district
 Tn all about 200 union men and sym 1 pathizers have been arrested by the 1 sheriff and military since Monday. N c1fe I1f r&F o1v <1x been deported Records of the un- ions have been seized whenever found and are under examination for the purpose of securing evidence showing 1 that unions or some of their officers
 have participated in or approved of crimes that have been committed. In
 addition to the unearthing of about
 thirty group photographs of non-union
 workmen at various mines, which
 were concealed In heap of rubbish in 1 the Victor union office, it is alleged l that in the office of the Altman union
 were found quantities of electrical fuses and batteries to produce explo-
 sions.
 Talk of lynching or violence has subsided to degree. though if the
 man who exploded the internal ma chine in Independence killing 15 men should be captured, 1t is doubtful
 whether any military force could pro tect him from the vengeance of the l friends of the murdered men, The man who killed Roxie McGee at the mass meeting here on Monday has positively been identified by an
 eye witness of the shooting and al- l though he has not been captured it is believed he cannot escape.
 No further deaths have been report ed among those wounded in the explo-
 sion and riots of Monday.