The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-15
BUSINESS MEMS MANIFESTO.
What Win and win Not Be Allowed
in CriDpIe Greek.


Cripple Greek. June IA committee of
forty leading business men today uuaui-
mously agreed upon the following state
ment on tne pohey on ei4ptoz err Io"s-i
Attitude Of employers and citizens Of
T the Cripple Greek district toward union
ism.
while the wages paid for all labor
iu the Cripple Greek district have been
the highest in Colorado, and while the
Z hours have been for years perfectly sat
I isfactoTy. yet the walking delegates have
been busy exciting strife, strikes, boy
colts and the crimes attendant upon such
occurrences followed by assaults, arson,
murder and dynamite outrage&
I'm many instances as. for example
{ the strike of the last ten months. where
no local pTeteHJ could be found by the
agitators, the quarrels between employers
and employees I'm parts of Colorado remote
from Teller county have been made the
WanJou cause or locking all the wheels
of industry in Teller county.
I'm the future neither walking dele
gates. agitators nor labor unions will
be allowed to say who may or who may
not labor in Teller county, who may on
may not DO business here. The source
OF ali strife i'm the Cripple Greek district
has been the Western Federation of Min
ers, and the Trades Assembly, which
they dominated and through which they
carried our their boycotts. etc.
There is no room in teller county for
these TWO organizations and their eX-
lStence viii no longer be tolerated. The
citizens and taxpayers are determined
20 have peace and law and order I'D Tell
or county. and, while they have no wish
90 work hardship on any person simply
because OF his membership IN labor
union. nevertheless drastic measures must
and viii be adopted to- preserve peace.
Unions OF che various crafts already
organized VIII not be iuterfered with as
to their local or international affiIia-
tluns- provided the Trades Assembly be
forthwith disbanded and no similar boy
cottius agency Dee organized provided.
further. that such unions of the local
crafts have not for their national or i'm
Grafton OF Miners the American Ia Dor
union or the state Federation Of Labor.
on any kindred criminal organization
We deelaFe against all agiJat0rs and
aIkirE dcfesatcs.
We declare against strikes, boycotts
Soldiers ana deputies continue fo patrol
t1e streets of Cripple Greek and victor
Military Order.
Colonel Verdeckberg. in command of the
military during the absence of Genera
Bell. who left for Denver today gave To
the Associated Press aa official order /
which reads:
NO OrEauizati0n win be allowed while I
TINS county is under military control 10 /
furnish aid iu any form 60 the members OF /
any organization or their families in this
county unless the same IS done through /
i-ltary channels Major Thomas T. Lc- /
Dieliand Is provost marshal OF this mill
tary district ana le stands ready 90 re- /
ceiHe ff9H ans person lr organization I
dHF money or other supplies which arc +
Iaf oiStllouLloU- @ ans person rendered I.
needy 5S reason ~ tle military occupation 4
OF this county for Che suppression of IN
sI-rTectloD. ana an money and other SUD- /
piles So furnished VIII he applied Co tile {
2 e.ief g lhe persons above referred Co.
add Mls5oL-Rl HRIBERs
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