Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-06-11
Made by Some Of Striking
Miners in Colorado.
Deeds Through Long Years
Which Will Appa|| the Nation.
Deportation Of the Criminal Class of
,,n;onists Begins-People Declare
7ba, District Shall Be Freed from
All Such Characters.


a,co c. Hamlin. secretary of the Grip
ai,tion. gave out a statement, today,
in reply to a telegram from a New
York newspaper asking him as head
of the vigilantes' to present his side
of the labor troubles here. Mr.. Mann
lin declares that the position of the
Cripple Creek operators has been
placed in an absolutely false light by
the Eastern press. He says:
Labor leaders attribute these
troubles to the defeat Of the 8-hour law
in Colorado. The fact is that we have
been working on S-hOur day for 10
years, paying a minimum wage of So
and an average wage of about 81 per
day The actual working time of Il
miner is only about seven hours. No
grievance was lodged against the
operators when the strike was called
and had the question been left to tn"
miners themselves, 80 per cent. would
have voted against it.
while this strike is called sympa-
thctic one to aid certain millmen, most
of them also working an S-hour day. its
real purpose was to compel every
miner in this district to join the West
ern Federation of Miners or leave the
country. This organization has
record of lawlessness, murder, arson
and dynamting in Cocuer DAlcne,
Butte, Leadville, Idaho Springs, Tel
lurid. Cripple Creek and elsewhere, ex-
tending over Il period of 10 or - years;
which should appall humanity These
outragcs eliminated here, Monday,
when IL men were blown into eternity
and nearly as many more manned so
that death would be Il mercy. The
only parallel to this organization can
be found in the Molic Maguires of
PENNSYLVANIA and their members were
law abiding citizens compared with
the organization which we have to deal
with.
since Mondays calamity we would
close every mine in this district for 10
years rather than let q single member
of this organization work or live here
I:ut this is not necessary. for all our
mines are working full handed with ii
better cass of men, all non-union,
than ever before.
"Our fight has not been against
unionism Us such. but against criminal
organization and il Will not be dis
continued until no member of this or
E,uizitjon is left in TeIlurc county"
EcportatioES are the order of the
day Gen. Eel. military commando.
has ordered that 81 members of the
Miners Union shall be taken outside of
Teller county on IL special train in ac-
coidaucc with the recommendations of
b,. n
ed them. This committee was in ses-
sion nearly all night investigating the
cases IF 100 other union men. who arc
tnniip"d in the Victor armory and sub
miltcd another report to Gen. Bell. to-
day. recommending further depOrta-
tiOus.
within As hours this district will he
rid of all agitators and other objec-
tiontbe men," said Gen. BELL, today.
"onC deportation after another will be
made until none of the men who have
tcrroriZed the district so long will be
left here. We intend to continue ar
resting men who are not wanted here
Hni they will he run out rs fast as
pnssihle. The unioniStS are scared AMI
many are leaving the county of their
own volition to avoid arrest and in
c'rccratiOn. There are still some des-
i"rate characters among the hills,
however. whom we intend getting, no
matter what :he cost. In running them
down there may ocur some fights. but
do not look for any serious trouble"
squads are out securing the hills in
S"Hrch Of certain men who are wanted
in connection with the Independence
@ssassinati kilograms have been
sent to Shcriffs and chiefs of police at
outside points asking them to watch
for these persons. whose names are
not made public.
Sheriff Edward Bell has issued an or
der that all saloons in the district must
remain closed until Monday, June 13.
Work was resumed. today. at mines
employing non-union men, which had
h""n closed since Monday. the STRAIT
ton and Independence being the first
to reopen. The Portland mine remains
closed Ivy order Of Go. Bell and its
c'urlovcs will bn compelled to abendon
III" union or leave the district. Employ
cre in all branches of business in this
city without an exception so far as
known have signed the agreement pro-
POSED by the Citizens Alliance mot to
employ help of any kind that is in any
way connected with the Trades Assem-
lily o. the State Federation of Labor.
IT." American Labor union. or the
Western Federation of miners or any
kindred organizatiOn.'' -.
This agreement of the proprietors
has caused Consideration among the
b clerks and employees in shops and
J stores who are members of the retail
clerks. BARRIERS, carpenters, bartenders.
cooks and other trade unions as all will
have to resign to hold their positions.
The scale pf wages will prevail and
individual unions will be tolerated, it
Is conceded if they are conducted on
conservative lines and do not give aid.
directly or indirectly to the Western
Federation of Miners. This war against
unions is to be extended the organ
izers of the movement say. to every
city and town in the district.
The authorities now in control de-
clare that there has not. for months,
heeh a. time when life and property
mere We're as safe as they are today