New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-15
POSITION TOW4RD LABOR.
Cripple Creek Defines It's attitude
on Unions.

Cripple Creek Col. June IA committee Of
forty heading business men to-day unanimously
agreed on the following statement Of the atti-
tude Of employers toward organized labor in this
district:
IN the future neither walking delegates. agi-
fators nor labor unions viii lie allowed 10 say
who may who may not labor in Teller
County. who may who may not do business
here The source Of all strife in the Cripple
Creek district has been the Western Federation
Of Miners and the Trades Assembly, which they
dominated and through which they carried out
their bOycotts etc.
There is no room in Teller County for these
two organizations. and their existence viii no
longer be tolerated. The citizens and taxpayers
are determined TO have peace and law and order
sn Teller, and, while they have no wish TO work
hardship any person simply because Of his
membership In a labor union. nevertheless dras-
1ic measures must and VIII be adopted 10 pre-
serve peace.
Unions of the various crafts already organized
will not be interfered with their local or
snternational affiliations provided the Trades
Assembly be forthwith disbanded and similar
boycotting agency be organized; provided. fur
1her, that such unions OF the local crafts have
sOt for their national or international utilization
the Western Federation of Miners, the American
Labor Union or the State Federation of Labor
pr any criminal organization.
We declare against all agbators and walking
delegates
We declare against strikes. -boyootts and walk
outs.
Adjutant General Sherman Bell has issued a
sniners and others from the Cripple Creek dis
rrict Al the request Of an Eastern newspaper.
IT is IN part follows:
In older and more settled communities the
election Of who are and who are not desira bic
citizens may be slow process. The people of
Colorado love order and peace and law lust as
much as those Of the older communities but
they sometimes make their election Of citizens
3n a hurry. and the murderous, unspeakable out
rage at the independence station a week ago
coming as a elimination Of many hidden crimes
all traceable 10 the Western Federation Of Min
ers. precipitated such an election. 1t s not IN
common out here for the peaceable citizens 10
20 TO man Of the community and tell him TO
go. that he is not wanted. Such a notice is
never disregarded. The one notified goes for the
good Of the community. If there is no other
law, there is at least a fundamental one that
gives the people the power to hang man,
send another TO the penitentiary, fine a lesser
culprlt and the unwritten power TO Impose the
lighter sentence OF enforced departure to other
fields for those who. not having transgressed the
written law. are yet disturbing elements in the
general peace.
These men were deported to the Kansas
COLORADO line and more viii follow Tomorrow
for which no apologies are made to any one
should they return, they VIII be Immediately
placed IN the military prison. and there remain
Indefinitely.
Thirty-two o. the prisoners confined in the
boA PEN were placed aboard a Florence and
cars VIII be attached to a Denver and Rio
Grande train NJ Florence and taken 20 Pueblo
FROM there il is understood the men VIII he
placed aboard 4 Santa Fe train and taken south
IT is reported that the destination OF the de-
ported men IS Old Mexico