Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-17

stroy Liberty and Defeat the win
of the People.
An address ito the officers and uein
|bers of organized lahor" has been is
sued by the executive board of tie
Western Federation Of Miners. 1t Ni!l
be remembered that in the election ot
1902 the voters %! Coiorado dprlars.3
~ a majority Of lG,G)o for II constIt2
tional amendment PROV idinG tor ar
eight hour work dH! ~ the ruiI"S Of
the state ,i'hr Ia4.4..s.t!,c i2llt,f,zii the
mandate of ;ile people ans rolu~ld to
enact the necessssll .aa, 10 Iu,at.t Tie
constitutional amendment operative
'i'he HIilero .is!;.at oietj 10 -srt TIE i4tflIc
owners 10 Voluntarily eoHr,t.r tn
shorter WorA t.a! biij v ere tlt.l=hy IT,,
fusal. y stti31" W. tl5'h eaIlpd, soie!l
to secure w1;it i f;gi.,' n1aJ Jortt4 af tH5.
citizens had declared. Us Tl9t AMI
proper. The s0Nein0r and tjIe. f9iItielI
bosses Of the SAT- :, ..asd i.ss.4..s g,t.t5
the mine oWt-rS IL defeat tlt. miners.
and there has been ii fierce contest III
Colorado Over tie matter for spvef;i!
months Itrth,l= particulars are given
in the address OF tsic federation. the
greater part OF Whie!yis htrr repro
duced:
We have reviewed the Industrial
situation in Colofado We realize that
wa9ed against the Western Federation
of Miners III this state is Il battle to /,
finish. The Mille Owners association,
backed by the financial strength of the
American Smelling and Eptiuing com
pany, supported by the gr0Neliug sym
patny of commercial interests that
have resolved themselves into citizens
alliances, has openly declared tllat the
organization which the lIillers OF the
west have built upon the bedrock of
justice shall be tern from it's founda
tionS and shattered into fragments.
"'rlle will=ot The people that demand
ed Of II legislative body tle passage of
an eight hUur law has been over
thrown Forty Thousand of IL ma .iority
of the citizens Of the state failed to ar
rest corruption and debntrhery that
made the Sworn servants Of the people
forget their honor and sacrifice their
fidelity to the people to serve the i'll
terests Of corporate masters The price
of treason was paid and the eight hour
law became Il corpse, stranSled to death
and consigned to the morgue by the
Legislative aSSaSSinS who repudiated
pledges and trampled underfoot the
greatest issue in the election campaign
OF 1902
''When the miners who had Waged
peaceablp battle for years to place up
on the statute books of the state an
eight hour law discovered that the men
in whom they had placed their political
confidence had ignored the mandate of
the constitutional amendment, then was
1t that hope fled and the Western Fed
GRAFTON Of Miners as We'll as all the 9th
er departments Of organized labor in
the state realized that corporate in
fanny and legislative rascality must be
met with the power of untlinching un-
ionism.
"Since the Western Federation Of
Miners has unfurled its flag upon the
Industrial battlefield in Colorado to
establish an eight hour law and uphold
the voice Of the people as expressed at
the ballot box Il trucking governor
and a brainless adjutant general have
resorted to all the machinery of legal
lied violence to suppress the voice OF
labor and fasten the shackles Of cor
porate serfdom upon the calous hands
Of the tOiling thousands. The citadel
OF civil law has been assaulted with
bristling bayonets, and the liberty OF
citizenship has been inundated upon
the altar Of military might in order
that cold bloodcd monopoly might rule
supreme.
Under the present political admins
tration Of the State the military bull
pen has been made a bastile, where
the Independence of citizenship Is
Knocked by the eXultant jecrs Of a mil
itary rabblr, recruited from the ,slum
and riffratf Of hoOdlum humanity. In
the Cripple Creek district the member
ship Of our organization has been held
WITHOUT warrant or process OIL III" anu
prosecuted by a military vengeance
that has been fed and intlamed by the
official anarchists who tower above law
and the constitution. The ball and
chain. the relics of barbarism and the
dark ages, now fetter the limbs of our
membership in Telluride because their
proud spirits rebelled against bowling
In dishonorable submission to the
cZ0riSm Of tho cytcrminators Of 0r.