The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-17
ANARCHY OUTDONE
Citizens Alliance Of Cripple
Creek Puts il to Shame.
BIDS DEFIANCE TO THE LAW
Arrest, ImprisoD and Deport Onion Mem
bera and Coerce business Men
to Declare Against Unions.

Death to unionism In the Cripple
Creek district Is the new slogan OF the
citizens alliance, which has sent a de-
cree broadcast that every person con-
nected with any union in the Cripple
Creek mining district must either sever
his or her connection with such organ
ization Of leave the district.
The latest stand of the anti-unionists
was vaguely limited at but the move
ment on the part of the alliance seemed
SO absurd to three or four thousand
~unionists In the camp and its enforce
ment fraught with sc many difficulties
that IL was not taken sediously.
Tyson S. Dimes, a Denver attorney,
and one of the executors of the STRAIT
ton estate. is I'm conference with the
citizens alliance leaders, and il is an
nounced that he is formulating an
agreement which will be presented to
every merchant and business man and
other employer of labor in the entire
district p~ledging them not to employ
any person who is affiliated with a
labor union.
No person who works for a living
will be exempt, and the absolute ami
hilation of unionism in that county Is
predicted by members OF the citizens
alliance and the mine owners associa-
ton. This is considered the most dras-
tic step yet taken by the alliance since
1t secured the upper hold in the dis
trict and It's enforcement will affect
5000 men and women now affiliated
with the various unions.
Among the unions that will be af-
fected by the new movement are
clerks, cooks and walters, b~artenders.
carpenters, electricians. trainmeD and
stone and brick masons. The union
lists assert they will fight the move
ment to a finish.
The mining exchange hall is being
used rs a bull pen in addition to the
Victor armory. Armed deputies are
perched In the galleries of the ex-
change. The prisoners occupy the pit
Of the call room. Several guards are at
the door, each carrying repeating shot
guns that contain buckshot. Families
and wives of the prisoners kept close
to the building In an endeavor to see
and have a talk with the husbands and
fathers incarcerated, hut In most cases
permission was refused.
Subsequently " committees COM
posed Of the citizens alliance started
out with identical forms OF agreement
to secure signatures. With two excep-
tons all business houses visited signed
through authorized representatives.
Tho agreement reads:
I'VE, the undersigned merchants Of
the Cripple Creek district and employ
ers Of help hereby agree not to employ
help of any kind that IL in any way
connected with trades assembly or the
American federation OF labor or the
western federation of miners or kin
dred organizations"
Every clerk employed in stores On
Bennett avenue, the principal street
belongs to some union, but all will be
required to surrender their cards. ac-
Cording to the agreement made today
by their employers.
Deputies have been busy all day
making arrests. and at 6 o'clock there
was confined In the bull pen a total OF
ffty-seven lei Since the wholesale
arrests have been in progress the mine
owners association Office has been
filled with men who are hocking there
to take out cards, but none are being
Issued at present.
The Portland Ia the only large mine
In the district that has continued in
operation since the explosion az indie
pendence or Monday which killed or
manned more thar twenty n%on-union
miners.
The Portland Gold Mining company,
through its president and manager,
James +. Burns, who is not a member
OF the Cripple Greek district m%ine-own-
ers' association, conceded the demands
OF the union men when the strike was
~inaugurated last August and has stead
lily given employment to about SOC
g
The military authorities are credited
with saying that when the Burns in
Junction If asked ioI an attempt VII
be made to arrest MIR. Burns himself
on the criminal charge that he in
cited the riot. II Is not claimed tina
there is ground for an accusation tina
Mr.. Burns personally melted the riot
the Implication being that he should b'
held responsible for the recent trou
bles at Cripple Creek. because he main
| tanned the unions by giving employ
ment 10 union miners.
Following the closing OF the Port
land II was announced that the mines
I will begin to reopen tomorrow, tn,
non-union mines first, and Others later
and that business is To be resumed IL
, the district at once. All miners VIII,
: want work must first secure a wurkinI
!, card from the mine-oWners' associa
ton.
Rulo Roy Gets Damages.