Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-08-06
Issues An Address Dealing With Cello
RADIO Labor Troubles.
FEDERATION'S BAD RECORD.
The State Militia is an Authorized
and Necessary Power and the Glass
That Should Dread its Exercise is
Not Numerous.

Denver, August 2.-Governor James
II. Peaody today issued an address ex-
planning and indicating his acts in
dealing with the labor troubles in
Colorado. He refutes the contention
that the strike inaugurated by the
Western Federation or Miners at the
ore reduction works in Colorado was
called because of the failure of the
legislature to enact an eight-hour law,
pointing out that it was called on the
14th of February, some five or six
weeks before the adjournment of the
legislature which then had under con-
sideration an eight-hour law. Later a
sympathetic strike was declared by
the federation in Cripple Creek to cut
on the ore supply from the mills. Gov.
ernor Peabody then goes into the his
tory of the Western Federation of
Miners, which, he declares has been
replete with assaults, dynamite outrag-
es and murder. In affording protec-
tlon TO those who desired to labor the
governor explains, lit became necess-
airy in my judgment to confine certain
men in military guard houses as one
one of the safest and most expeditions
methods of restoring order 1t was
loudly proclaimed that this was with
out authority of law. The question
was submitted to the supreme court
and the action of the militia in that
respect fully sustained. 1t is an au-
thorized and necessary power and the
class that should dread it's exercise
is not numerous.
THE general policy pursued in
Cripple Creek was followed in other
parts of the state, and particularly
in Telluride, where the excuses and
crimes of the federation had been still
more inhuman than any other strike
in the state and the reign of terror
still more complete, Order now pre-
walls there"
Quiet had been restored in Grip
pie Creek and the troops withdrawn
when the dynamite outrage was com
mitted at the independence depot,
June 6, followed by the riot at Victor. -
The governor places the responsi-
bility for both these occurrences on
the federation. When the excitement
had somewhat subsidized and the coun-
ty was still under quasi-military rule,
the governor continues, 'it was found
that there were several hundred mem
bers of the Western Federation it
the district who would not work and
had resolved that others should not
use such methods as those in the In
dependence depot, and resolved that
they should be dispersed and 1 dis
perSed them
Governor Peabody denies the charge
that he is waging war on the labor
unions generally and closes as fol-
lows:
81 have had to deal with an organic
alton which has no countei part in this
country. Its official procIamations,
full of defiance and challenge, issued
from time to time, have amounted, as
has been said, to a declaration of
war;"
81 have met the challenge with
policy none too vigorous for the out
lawry l was called to oppose. But
through it all l had but one object
and that to show the people of Colo
RADIO that the laws will be upheld
that a criminal organization cannot
dictate the policy of this administra-
ton and that everywhere within the
borders of Colorado property shall be
secure and labor shall be Free