Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-06-15
Clearing ! COUNTRY i
OF UNION || men
GEN. BELL ORDERS WHOLESALE
DECORATIONS FROM
TELLER COUNTY.
NONUNlON MINERS
RESUME OPERATIONS

All Save Portland Shaft Reopened IN
der Military Guard-Cost of the
Strikes in Colorado to Date .Esti-
mated at Over $23, 900, 900.
Cripple Creek, Col, June 11.-Depor-
tations are the order OF the day. Gen.
Sherman NJ. Bell, military commander
has ordered that 81 members of the min
ers' union shall be taken outside of
Teller county on special train in &C
cordance with the recommendations of
the citizens committee which examined
them. This committee was in session
nearly all night investigating the cases
of 100 other union men who are
confined in the Victor armory, and SUBJ
mitted another report to Gen. Bell FRI
day, recommending further deporta-
tons.
within 4S hours this district will be
rid of all agitators and other objection
able men," said Gen. Bell, Friday. "One
deportation after another will be made
until none of the men who have terror
lied the district so long will be left here.
We intend to continue arresting men
who are not wanted here and they will be
run out as fast as possible. The union
lists are scared and many are leaving the
county of their own volition to avoid
arrest and incarceration. There are
still some desperate characters among
the hills, however, whom we intend get
ting, no matter what the COST In run
ming them down there may occur some
fights, but do not look for any serious
trouble"
Squads are out securing the hills in
search of certain men who are wanted
| in connection with the Independence as
| sassinations. kilograms have been sent
to sheriffs and chiefs of police at outside
points asking them to watch for these
persons, whose names are not made
public. Sheriff Edward Bell has issued
an order that all saloons in the district
must remain closed until Monday, June
|13.
Nonunion Mines Reopen.
The excitement throughout this dis
trict is gradually subsiding Work was
resumed at mines employing nonunion
men which had been closed since Mon
day, the Stratton Independence being
the first to reopen. The Portland mine
remains closed by order of Gen. Bell and
its 500 employees will be compelled to
abandon the union or leave the district.
Employers in all branches of business in
this city, without an exception so far as
known, have signed the agreement pro-
posed by the Citizens alliance, mot to
employ help of any kind that is in any
way connected with the District Trades
Assembly, the State Federation of La
Dor, the American Labor union or the
Western Federation of Miners, or any
kindred organization" This agreement
of the proprietors has caused consterna-
ton among the clerks and employees in
shops and stores who are members of
the retail clerks, BARRIERS, carpenters,
bartenders, cooks and other trade
unions, as all will have to resign to hold
their positions.
The union cards which have been de-
manded in this camp in order to trans
act business will no longer be necessi-
ty. In fact it is intended that the cards
shall be surrendered as soon as the COM
mittee's report can be acted on. The
present scale of wages will prevail and
individual unions will be tolerated. it is
conceded, if they are conducted on con-
sentative lines and do not give aid, d.
rectly or Indirectly, to the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners. This warfare against
unions is to be extended, the organizers
of the movement say, to every city and
town in the district
The authorities now in control declare
that there has not for months been a
time when life and property here were
as safe as they are to-day. The streets
are quiet, and, as those of the lawless
element who have not fed have been i'm
prisoned, no further disturbance is ex-
pected. The search for agitators and
criminals, however, is still being pros
ecuted. Many prisoners arrested have
been released after being examined by
the cilitary provost marshal or the cit
liens court of investigation and given a
word of warning
May Be Test Case.
Denver, COL, June 1.-THE closing
of the Portland mine at Victor by or
der of Adjt. Gen. Sherman M. Bell will
probably be the means of reaching the
federal courts with a case to test the
power of Gov. Peabody to vest in the
military absolute power in the dis
trict declared to be under martial law.
The Portland Gold Mining company,
being foreign company, incorporated
under the laws of Iowa, it is stated
by eminent lawyers that therefore any
act affecting it may be reviewed by the
United States courts.
In an interview concerning the closing
of the Portland mine at Victor by order
of Gen. Bell, James E. Burns, president
of the Portland company, said that
nearly one-half of the Portland force
were not members of the miners union.
There were as good miners as ever
handled a pick there said Mr.. Burns.
''They are, most of them, men with fam
lilies and they are neither lawbreakers
nor agitators. would not refuse man
work because he did not belong to the
union! nor because he did. wanted the
best men there, and kept wedding out the
poorer ones, without reference to unions.
I am a firm believer in what they call
the open shop If other mine owners