The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-02

of Cripple Creek are threatened with 4
domiciliary visit because of the militia
order that every one who has firearms
shall deliver them over has not been
complied with. One soldier is now in
Jail charged with stealing and selling
firearms.
John Mitchell has come and gone, and
the coal strike remains the same. The
coal operators said they would tolerate
no interference from Mitchell. On the
other hand, he threatens to paralyze
the coal mining industry of the nation
if necessary to secure just treatment for
Colorado miners. He is now in Chicago.
General Bell, smarting under the
stings of Mother" Jones' masterful
excoriation of himself and Peabody
declares in stringent tones that if OPP
portunity offers he will slap her i'll
the bull pen. That declaration was ull-
necessary. Those who are at all &C.
quainted with his record know grey
hairs, womanhood nor any other Of
those things which true men revere
and hold sacred are as nothing to him
if they stand in the way of groveling
service to his masters.
Editorial Suppressed.
The Victor Record, the official organ
Of the strikers, has had a military
patrol and censor placed at the office.
George F.. Kyner, editor, was notified
that no editorials reflecting in any way
upon Governor Peabody or the militia
would be allowed, nor could the daily
official statement prepared by the
miners executive committee be pub
lished. Next day the Record came out
| with black-faced heading Record
Reflections tWO-cOlumn blank
space with a border, on the editorial
page, indicating that the matter what
ever it was, had been suppressed.
The official statement Of the Miners
Union which was suppressed follows:
1.-THE governor Of the state of Colo
RADIO has today pretended to declare
martial law in the Cripple Creek dis
trict. There is absolutely no justifica-
ton for this outrage. The strike has
serious crime has been committed; and
that cannot be laid to strike condi-
| tons. The alleged attempt to wreck
a railroad train is a trick plot of two
detectives employed by the mine own
ers.
1.-THE Vindicator matter was an acct
dent, or a crime committed by some
| one employed by the mine owners.
T.. THE mine owners, have lost the strike
! and thence their desperation.--Dstri
| Union No. L. w. F. Of M =.
Captain Mcclellan, in ignorance of
| r. E. Croskey's removal to Denver,
sent a squad of soldiers to his home
| in Cripple Creek. The order for his
arrest stands. A Denver paper, which
! interviewed Croskey, gives the follow
| ing:
Wall Go Back.
"Althoug General Beel has named me
as one Of the towards who fled from
the rigor of his latter day justice III
Cripple Creek, I shall go back there
| and take my place in the bull pen with
the rest Of my comrades who are strug-
| Cling for what our fathers thought they
gave us in the long ago.
II did not flee from Cripple Greek
when martial law was declared because
I was afraid Of the hardships of the
bull pen. I left because my wife urged
ME to do so. The thought of my ares
and incarceration made her nervous
and she begged me to leave. She knew
would have to return sooner or late
and be arrested. I have been one of tn,
marked men, as we say now, for man!
months. have been looking for arres
No Fear Of Bull Pen.
for long time.
But I do not fear the bull pen. I
has no terrors for me. I am no bette
than others who are now in it. 1t i
a part of my duty to go there, and
shall.
II will spend my time in it reading
I want to read again Thomas Paine
The Rights of Man. I will enjoy
there under the tent of Peabody
tyranny. Then I expect to read agai
the Declaration of Independence, Lin
coins inaugural address and his Get
tysburg speech, and other fiction S
dear to the hearts of Americans"
Mr. Croskey emphasized the wor
''fiction" and flashed his sharp eye
for the instant upon the catechist,
see if the chosen word had gone home
It Is for a Little While.
Then, too, I may read the Consti
tuition O fthe United States, if I al
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