The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-11
Get Out of Them or Leave,
They Cry.
A DRASTIC MEASURE
P.edging Men to Employ No Union
Labor. Five Members Of City Coun-
Gil Jailed. The Mining Ex-
change Hall a Bull
Pan
(By the Associated Press

Cripple Creek Colo, June g.
Death to unionism in the Cripple
Creek district" is the new slogan of
the Citizens Alliance, which has sent
a decree broadcast that every person
connected with any union here must
either sever his or her connection
with such organization or leave the
district.
Tyson S. Dimes, a Denver attorney.
and one of the executors of the STRAIT
ton estate is here in conference with
Citizens Alliance leaders, and it is
announced that he is preparing a
form which will presented to every
merchant and business man, and all
other employers of labor in the en-
tire district, pledging them not to en-
ploy any person who is affiliated with
labor union. This is considered the
most drastic. step yet taken by the
alliance since it secures the upper
hold in the district, and it's enforce
ment will effect three thousand men
and women now affiliated with various
unions.
General Bell issued q statement to-
day regarding the raid on the Victor
Record office last night, in which the
newspaper plant was destroyed, caus-
ing a loss of $4,000. General Bell
says the perpetrators will be landed
in the bull pen if apprehended. Edi-
tor Iyner or the Record said today
that he did not believe union miners
wrecked his office, because of his edi-
torial advocating that the strike be
called off. He said union miners ap-
proved his course.
The Mining Exchange hall is being
used as a bull pen in addition to the
Victor armory. Armed deputies are
placed in the galleries of the ex
change, the prisoners occupying the
pit of the call room. Several guards
are at the door, each carrying repeat
ing shot guns that contain buckshot.
Families and wives of the prisoners
constantly endeavor to see and talk
with the husbands and fathers incar-
cerated. in most cases permission is
refused.
The City Council in Jail.
Five of the six members of the
Goldfield City council are in the bull
pen, SO that the town is without an
executive body.
The committee on safety had made
a demand upon District Attorney
Henry Trowbridge that he remove his
deputy, j. c.. Cole, and also requested
that S. d. Crump be appointed to fill
the vacancy. Crump is the attorney
for the mine owners association.
Sheriff Edward Bell today appointed
L. r. Parsons, of Cripple Creek, under
sheriff of Teller county, and the ap-
pointment was confirmed by the coun
ty commissioners at once. Mr.. Par
sons is secretary of the Cripple Creek
Mining Exchange.
Coroner George Hall, who succeeded
Coroner James Doran, who resigned
under compulsion, today empannelled
new jury which will hold an inquest
over the men murdered at Independ-
ence with an internal machine.
Marshal Naylor and his squad cap
tured George Gridley today near
Canon City and returned with him to
Victor. He is charged with having
killed Roxie MCGEE in Victor Monday,
and with having attempted to shoot
C. G. Hamlin, secretary of the mine
owners association, when he was adj
dressing the meeting in Victor last
Monday.