The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-04-30
JOHN MITCHELL GIVES
PEABODY HOT ROAST
SAYS THAT COLORADO REPUR.
LICANS SHOULD REPUDIATE
HIM.
Supreme Court Refuses to Release
President Meyer. Is Taken Back to
the Bull Pen. Can Not Give Bail
Because Gen. Bell Holds That Peace
Can Never be Had in Colorado
While Meyer Is at Liberty.

Can Never be Had in Colorado
While Meyer Is at Liberty.
Denver, Colo, April 28.-At a mass
meeting held at Denver Tuesday night,
John Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers took the hide off the
Governor of Colorado for his acts in re-
lation to the existing strike on the
southern Colorado coal fields. He re-
pudated the governor as 81 Republican
and challenged the oft-repeated asser-
ton of the governor that he had ex-
hausted every effort to bring about
settlement of the strike by bringing the
opposing forces together in conference.
He said:
] want to repudate. as far as I can,
the acts of the governor of this state.
If l have friend in Colorado, if there
is Il trade unionist in this state, if there
is good citizen in Colorado who be-
licves my judgment to be good, say he
should repudiate the acts of Governor
Peabody. Governor Peabody has said
in regard to our coal strike that he had
advised the companies to treat with
the men, and the companies said they
would treat with their own employees
and not with q committee dictated by
John Mitchell. | sny publicly that I
offered last December to allow Cover
nor Peabody to appoint a committee
OF coal miners to treat with the opera
tors. He has had the chance to nonni-
nate committee Of miners and has
not done SO. AS an admirer and friend
OF President Roosevelt and as a men,
Der Of the Republican party, say that
the Republican party of Colorado
should repudiate Governor Peabody. I
further say that every Republican
workman should work against him. I
a,n usually called conservative labor
leader; in fact, in this Western coun-
try, l am said to be too conservative.
Yet to the most radical of you, I an
nounce myself as against any man who
is against the people I stand for the
man who is the friend of the people, be
lie Republican, Democrat or Sosialist.
In conclusion 1 want to repeat, with
emphasis What l have said about Gov
ernor Peabody. He is no friend of
yours. no friend of government and no
friend Of law and order T am against
him. ~ =, 3x
Moyer Still I'M yaiI.: ss&5..
~, EIa stataesaap
MED the motion for the release Of Char
les Fl. Meyer, president Of the Western
Federation Of Miners, on bail, pending
a decision on the habehs corpus pro-
ceedingS in his behalf.
The hearing on the merits of the case
was set for May S. Meantime Meyer
will be held as prisoner in the military
bull pen at Telluride.
The opinion on the question of ad-
mtting Mover to bail was delivered
by Justice Steele. 1t is in part:
In the case ut the bar, the respond
ent, Gen. Bell, declares that he detains
the petitioner through military neces-
sity and that he has been commanded
by the governor, not to surrender the
petitioner on writ of habeas corpus or
otherwise.
If the liberty Of the petitioner alone
were involved we should probably re-
solve the doubt in his fovar, admit him
to bail and determine the question Of
jurisdiction afterward; but the head of
the executive department of the state
has stated in the return of the writ that
in his solemn judgment peace and
tranquility cannot be speedily restored
to the county of San Miguel unless the
petitioner remains nthe custody Of
the military authorities.
wherefore the ma tier involved af-
fects not only the liberty of the petit
toner but the peace of the people of
San Miguel and incidentally the tram
guilty of the people of the entire state.
ITO admit the petitioner to bail be-
fore we have determined the main ques-
ton would it seems to us, be invading
the legitimate province of the exc
cutive department., and that we are re-
strained from doing so by the funda-
mental law.
To Appeal to Highest Court.
President John Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers declares that if the
Supreme Court declines to release
Moyer, an appeal will be taken to the
United States Supreme Court
An abject tool Of the mine owners of
this state. Governor James Pea body
has overridden the advice of his At
torney General and the protests of
County Sheriffs whenever called upon
to declare martial law to assist in
breaking a miners strike. That has
menat the substitution Of military for
civil government, the suspension of trial
by jury and habeas corpus, wholesale
arrests of strikers and their syrnpa-
thizers. imprisonment in the military
bull pen or banishment by military or
der the suppression of the press and
defiance Of the courts.
So prolonged and widespread has been
this suspension of the constitutional
rights of a great number of the citizens
of this commonwealth that the matter
was called to the attention of the I'm
tied States Senate last December by
resolution.
Investigation Ordered.
The Judiciary Committee was direct
ed to investigate the labor troubles in
Colorado and the conduct of the Gov.
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