The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-30
LABOR OF COLORADO
STRONG ON GOVERNOR
DEMANDS THAT PEABODY WITH
DRAW STATE MILITIA.

Citizen Must Be Permitted to Re"
turn to f1is Home. vag Order Must
Be Reseinded. Labor Will Appeal
its Case to the Highest Courts in
the Land.
Denver, Colo, Jan. 28.-The Conven-
ton of the Colorado State Federation
of Labor carried the war into Africa
when it appointed committee to call
on Governor Peabody with list of de-
mands, says Denver paper. The COM
mittee visited the governor and by di-
rection Of the convention demanded the
following:
First, that the militia be withdrawn
from San Miguel and Teller counties;
second. that any deported citizens of
community shall be allowed to return
to their homes and be permitted to en-
joy the same rights as any other citi-
zen of the state who is not member OF
organized labor, and that no Vag order
shall be enforced against self-support-
ing citizens simply because they are
out work; third, the committee is di-
rected to inform the governor that in
the event he refuses to allow deported
citizens to return to their homes and
exercise their lawful rights this con-
vention will carry the cases of these
citizens to the highest court in the land
and will support their rights to the full
Dor Of the state; fourth, the committee
shall submit it's demands in writing and
request written reply from the gover-
nor as soon as practicable.
Peabody gave a pacific reply to the
demands.
During the deliberations of the body
kilograms of endorsements and SYM
pathy were received from the Washing
ton State Federation and also from the
Missouri body. The latter in addition
to its moral support rendered financial
aid.
The resolutions adopted by the Fed
GRAFTON condemn the state administra-
ton and the corporation and associa-
tions involved in the present labor war;
declares the fight is for the right to or
gandze; charges Peabody with con-
spiracy; denounces the vag, military
act, and in conclusion says:
whereas, Free speech has been
strangled, the press muzzled and the
writ of habeas corpus suspended by
military imperialism, backed by bris-
Ting bayonets, and,
whereas, The presence of an armed
soldiery in. Teller and San Miguel coun-
ties was for the sole use and benefit of
the Mine, Owners association in their
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Resolved, That the delegates and
representatives Of organized labor in
| convention assembled, condemn and
denounce the assaults of the state ad-
ministration upon the rights and lib
critics Of citizenship, by trampling under
the iron heel of military despotism ev-
cry principle Of the organic law of the
| state;
Resolved, That we are unalterably
opposed in placing upon the shoulders
of the taxpayers the expense incurred
by the state militia while quartered in
the strike regions during the years of
1903 and 1904;
Resolved, That the membership of
| this convention, representing $4,000
| members of organized labor in Colo
rado, will vote for no candidate for
| the fifteenth general assembly who will
! not pledge himself in the event of his
| election, to use his vote and influence
against any and every measure looking
! to the payment of single dollar of the
| expense referred to;
Resolved, That when the reign of
military anarchy is at an end in this
| state, we urge the membership of or
| ganized labor throughout Colorado to
come to the aid Of the martyrs of "bull
per" imprisonment. so that the wrongs
and .outrages which they have suffered
| may be righted in the courts;
"Resolved, That we commend and ad-
mire the gallant and unflinching battle
i of the Western Fedora ton of Miners
and the United Mine Workers of Amer
| ica, who have. barred their breasts to
! corporate power, and who are now fore
| ing greed to hoist the white flag;
Resolved, That we urge the mem
bership of organized. labor to estab-
lish cooperative stores wherever pos
| sible that unionisn may; successfully
| measure steel with that band of brig
ands and pirates awho have registered
their names upon the roll Of the Citi-
zens' alliance;
Resolved, That we call upon the men,
|
city, town and hamlet and every liber-
ty loving citizen of the state, to march
to the polls in November, 1904. and
bury the present administration so deep
beneath an avalanche of ballots that a
! million blasts from Gabriels trumpet
will not be able to awaken it from poll
| tical oblivion"
An assessment of Is cents week was
! ordered levied upon every member OF
the Colorado State Federation of Labor
for the purpose of rendering aid to such
Of the strikers as needed it. This rev.
enue will be used largely to swell the
strike fund of the Western Federation
| of Miners. The resolutions make this
| assessment operative until such time
! as the officials of the federation should
deem it no longer necessary.
CORSET FAcToRY's METHODS
EXCITE SEVERE CRITICISM.