Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-08
THE COLORADO WAR.
A FIGHT TO THE DEATH BETWEEN
LIBERTY ANO OESPOTlSM

civil and Military Powers Pr">titut-
ed to Aid OnslnuEhts Of P1ut"cracy
IPon the Constitution and Express
ed VIII of the People.
The daily newspapers of the country
for reasons OF their own have had little
or nothing 10 say about the great labor
struggle that has been going on Ill Col
orad0 tCy months. can the silence CT
the great purveyovs OF public matters
" because the situation III the CenteI2-
NAL State hrGgarS Icssrptluuf He that
rs it may il is 4 truth that the corte-
s2endeut Who Nan"s his reputation for
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sorslli4 lHe militia hs> ~lqL down
citizens who dttemPtetl=to defend fet't
property ffem Invasion ~ aa -;
seHreberS after arms. and 4 lsl1H OF
military terrorism has Iean established
III one Of our [ nitod States which
would ae i'll harmony With the most
auteeratic and brutal regime in darkest
+ Russia
Ict rS pause for a moment and take
Il retrospective view of the Colorado
trouble What has brought deWn up
on The honest and industrious miners
nf Colorado this terrible wrath of the
powers that be:
At tIa general election in 1902 the
people of Colorado, hy a ma 5erity of
4O,oGo votes. adopted Il constitutional
amendment empowering the legislature
10 enact Il law making eight hours a
legal days work in mines. mills and
smeIterS The legislature which con
vened in January, 1903 absolutely dis
regarded pledges made i'll platforms,
turned It's back upon the instructions
given by the voters to the extent Of 40,
600 ma ainlity and refused to pass the
eight hour law. The Western Fedora
ton of Miners then tried to get their
employers to voluntarily recognize the
eight hour law and, failing in this, de
clarcd Il strike, first at Colorado city
and later in the Telluride and Cripple
Creek districts The strike was peace
able and orderly, according to the tes-
timony of the shcrjffs and other peace
officers of the districts affected All at
tempts to break the strike by import
ing scabs failing the bosses appealed
to the governor for the state militia. al
leging acts of interference and lawlcss
moss upon the part of the strikers.
Against the protests of the peace Off
GERS Of the counties concerned the gov
ernor sent the militia to the scene of
the strike. and the outrages outlined
above followed
In answer to a call issued by the
Colorado Federation of Labor con
vention composed of 800 delegates as
semblcd in Denver, Jan. II, TO consider
the labor conditions of the state. The
following resolutions adopted by the
convention vii! show the present feel
ing of organized labor in Colorado:
Whereas. Organized labor in the state
of Colorado is sighting a deathess battle
for the right 10 organize and live, and,
Whereas. The chief executive and the
state administration have eonSpred and
entered into collusion with the Mine Own
ers association, the smelling trust, the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company and the
commercial allies known the Citizens
alliance in defeating the political mandate
of the people as expressed at the polls in
November. 1902. and.
Whereas, The state militia have become
I corporate hrrlings and resolved them
| selves into military moh To aNnihiate
organized labor, to train Gatling gums up
on the temples of justice, to defy the
courts, to invade the sanctity of homes,
to arrest without warrant or process of
law and incarCeratc in prison, known
as a military "bull pen" men who have
committed no crime to clasp hands
| under the banner of unionism, and,
I Whereas. The governor of this state has
declared martial law in Teller and San
Miguel counties and with the power of
or llliGInlr litI-