The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-02
Every Principle Of Human
Rights IsIIgnored., Home. of
Union Miners are Devasta-
ted. Women and. Children
are Abused, and Crimes are
Many.
Non union liners Aid the MIL
itia in AdHing:to the Torture.
incidents 4of Abuse Of Brut.:
ality are numerous. Prison
Camps of1Siberia are Out
done. ~


No one can read accounts Of the tor
lures to the union men and their fam
lilies in Colorado ithout giving utteran-
ce to the strongest sentiment against
the state official: the militia. and tie
mines owners. 0a.account of the strong
press censureshit esta ablished by: Gen
eral Bell it is 5iepossible to secure an
unbiased acconn4pfs conditions as they
really exist. Appeal to Reason
was enabled toendz> a special cores
pondent into >thSfield. He managed
to join the militiaunder a guise. We
are indebted to the Appeal for most of
the news from theHscene of the strike.
We give below some. touching incidents
that occurred in.nnd about the mining
camps of Victor ::5a'~
Prison Camps q. Siberia outdone.
Only a paralleladescription. of sher-
mans raid through Georgia or an ac-
curate revelationIpf the conditions as
they really exist imthe prison camps of
Siberia would begin to do justice to the
situation as presented in the treatment
of the arrested union miners and the
pillaging and searching Of their homes
by the deputized seabs who have long
waited this opportunity to strike this
blow Of vengeance.z.% x. K: - = r
Marshall Proddsd With Bayonets.
Perhaps the most fabolical and in
excusable piece ofcruelty perpe etrated
by the militia vast at inflicted upon
the person of MtkesSO 'gonnell the de-
posed marshal of ictpr. tier being
ruthlessly< torn fron1St he bosom Of his
family, hezwasS prddaed witt #bayonets
all the; way from home to- the bull
pen by the mil II dIrisiYely
called out
s. va.
vas telep every s.iss|
hour of the daN that noosed rope
had been prepared .Sand that If She
wished to witness her husband hang,
she had better hurry, All this was
done to make him renounees his union
sympathies -. =. <.:x> =,
Newspaper Man :Deported.
H j; Richmond reporter for, the Vic
tor Record, was halted on the: street
by committee of deputized non-union
miners, headed by A: Dahl, and was
given five minutes to get out of town.
He started to expostulate, when seven
Winchester rifles were levelled at his
breast. Richmond departed without
further ceremony, hitting the road for
Cannon City.
Unnamed Heroines.
The world will never know the priva-
tions endured by the brave women who
openly declared their willingness to
starye rather than that their husbands
Should forsake the sacred cause of
unionisn. History records the heroism
displayed by women North and South,
who, when the nation was locked in a
death grip of civil strife, endured
worse than the soldiers suffered on the
battlefield. But when the story of the
gold miners strike of Colorado has been
finally told it will be found that the
glory of the women who championed
either the blue or the gray has been
easily eclipsed by the 11eroism of the
women who surrendered their all-hus-
bands, fathers, sons, children, friends,
home and country-for the establish
! ment of the principle Of industrial lib
ertY.
Mrs. Adams Robbed BY Soldiers.
When Mrs. Will Adams opened her
door in response to a. knock, seven
cooked rifles, leveled and ready to fire,
were showed into her face. A demand
for her husband was made. -Disbeliev-
ing her story that he was not there,
the deputies threw her; into the yard
and ransacked the house for them
selves. After their. departure, she
found that $4,000, all the money she
had was gone. A complaint at mill
tary headquarters was met with laughs
and derision. -.
Not Permitted to See His Sick Wife.
Mrs. James Brown was ready to be
confined when her husband was taken
from her side. DR.. Hayes, who arrived
a few minutes later, seeing the col,
lapsed condition of the woman, sent
| message to the, bull pen requesting
his return. The request was refused
and and in an hour later the child was
born unattended by the presence. of q
father. The following day Mr.. Brown
was deported to Mexico. =. r. ~:
/ Guilty Of Feeding Starving Children
Three men: told Mrs: Maggie Morrison
to quit relieving thu: distress Of the
suffering or she would be: deported
She had been guilty of the. crime o1
carrying bread to- starving children.
:.Wholesale Robbery ay the Militia:
In almost every house that was en-
tered money, jewelrv and other ARTICLES
Of value. were taken bys the eput izee
:scabs.' I, No attention was given "a. 5..the
complaints Of M hose obbed. Jack
Green when: search ed managed to Sill