The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-06-04
It is a Strong Statement of
Facts. Every Sentence is
Strongly Written. It Ap-
peals to the American Peo-
pie to Arise to Action.

the Western Federation of Miners shall
be exterminated from the boundaries
of Colorado? The governor of this
state, with hut sixteen soldiers on duty
in San Miguel county, continues the
reign of martial law In order that he
may continue to defy judicial tribunals,
believing that confinement and re-
lentless persecution will ultimately
bring about the death of the man who
has Incurred the Unsuitable enmity of
Mine Owners, Association and a Citi-
zens' Alliance. If the life of Charles
II. Meyer shall be sacrificed to appease
the wrath Of corporate and commercial
hate, then there will be forced upon the
peaceful, law-abiding and liberty-lov-
ing membership Of our organization,
the ancient words in the old Mosaic
law: AN eye for an eye, and tooth
for a TOOTH" and here in the Rocky
Mountains may be reared a monument
ting the era when despot-
ism met it's downfall and manhood it's
regeneration. We have sent message
to the president Of the United States
calling the attention of the incumbent
of the White House to the dastardly
reign of corporate anarchy backed and
supported by the armed might of a
lawless administration, but the invent
or of spiked policemen's clubs, the
broncho buster that sent Federal rifles
to Arizona to awe and intimidate men
Wagfng peaceful battle in defense of
right, the military Caesar who declar-
ed that STRIKERS should be stood up
against stone walls and shot down like
dogs" lacks the courage to declare that
the federal constitution shall not be
violated, and that the rights Of an AM
erican citizen shall be protected from
the lawless assaults Of licensed mob.
We have sent our message to the
senate of the United Safes but the
members of the "Millionaires' Club on
the banks of the Potomac, with but
few exceptions, have ignored our Pc
tition for an investigation of the in
dustrfa1 condition of Colorado. We
have shown to the-people of this nation
that the men who stand beneath the
folds of the Federation flag, are per-
meated with q ..law-a biding reverence
that IS ~ munequaled byg any class Of smen:
sheneath the stars 4 and .sStrin ns. We
tude
under sh= the cor rporate whip
and the bayonet ofs the Hired so1der,
that excels the mute submission; Of the
victims of the Spanish Inquisition
We will now recommend to the
Twelfth Annual Convention; which
meets in the city Of Denver on May
H. Meyer with all the rights and
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the United States, and we will further
more recommend to the convention
that such steps shall be taken as will
nerve the arm and fire the brain of
the great labor army of America, to
rise as unit and demand that the
monster of despotism shall not live
upon the soil of free republic. We
will further recommend that the Dick
Military Law that arms a president
with greater power than has Russian
Car shall be repealed in order that
this nation shall meet the ideal of an
Abraham Lincoln: IA government of
the people. by the people, and for the
people," and we shall appeal to the
honest citizenship Of the nation to
bring to an end the political career OF
the military Napolean, the official lion
hunter of Oyster Bay.
JOHN c.. WILLIAMS,
Vice-President,
VIM. D. HAYWOOD,
Secretary Treasurer.
J. T. LEWIS;
l.. J. SIMPKINS,
JAS. p. MURPHY,
D. C.. COPLEY,
JAS. KIRWIN,
J. A. BAKER.