Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-17
DONE WITH TYRANNY
Business Men Of Cripple Greek State
Their Attitude Toward the Unions
and Employment Of Union Labor.

Cripple Creek, Col. June ia com
mittee of forty leading business men
yesterday unanimously agreed upon the
following statement of the attitude o!
employers toward organized labor il
this district:
'In the future neither walking dele
gates. agitators nor labor unions will be
allowed to say who may or who may
not labor In Teller county. or who may
or may not do business here. The
source of all strife in the Cripple Creek
district has been the Western Fedora
ton of Miners and the Trades Assem-
bly, which they dominated, and thru
which they carried out their boycotts,
etc.
There is no room in Teller county
existence will no longer be tolerated.
The citizens and taxpayers are deter
mined to have peace and law and order
In Teller county, and. while they have
no wish to work hardship on any per-
son simply because Of his membership
in labor union, nevertheless drastic
measures must and will be adopted to
preserve peace.
Trades Assemblies Must Go.
Unions of the various crafts already
organized will not be interfered with
as to their local or international aff1lia-
tons, provided the Trades Assembly be
forthwith disbanded and no similar
boycotting agency be organized; pro-
yided, further, that such unions of the
local crafts have not for their national
or international utilization the Western
Federation of Miners, the American
Labor Union, or the State Federation OF
Labor, or any kindred organization. We
declare against all agitators and walk
ing delegates. We declare against
strikes, boycotts and walkouts."
The citizens committee of investiga-
ton has resolved itself into perma-
nent organization and has decided to
hold meetings every day until the dis
trict is cleared of men Objectionable to
them. When martial law is lifted it is
the intention of the commission to work
III unison with the sheriffs office.
Virgil King, Charles Matthews and
Patrick Mullaney We're taken from the
Victor bull pen to the county jail yes
terday. The military authorities say
that. King and Mullaney will be
charged with completely in the indie
pendence dynamiting, and that Mat
thews is held as a witness. The three
men are prominent members Of the
Western Federation Of Miners.
With the resumption of work in the
mines the streets of all the cities and
towns in Teller county have taken OH
their normal appearance.
Two posses secured the country to
the west of Cripple Creek yesterday
without encountering the armed bodies
of men reported to be intrenched on
West Four Mile and North Four Mile
creeks General Bell says he will send
out military expeditions daily until he
rounds UP all refugees in the surrounds
ing mountains.
Eighty Seven Charged With Murder.
Denver, Col. June 15.-Eighty- seven
warrants are out for miners who are
accused of completely in the explosion
at the Independence station and the
rioting at Victor. Among those wanted
are the following:
sherman Parker, secretary of the
Altman Union, who was acquitted after
having been held in the bull pen three
on the charge of having con-
spired to wreck Florence & Cripple
Creek train.
"E. l.. Whiting, secretary of Engi-.I
neers' Union, No. SO, Of Cripple Creek.
wv. F. Davis, president of local Min
ers' Union. No. 10, of Altman"
1t is said that some of the men for
whom warrants have been issued in
Teller county have left Denver for
Butte. Mont, to avoid arrest and incar-
ceration in the bull pen.
In each warrant the charge is muir
der.