The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
MINERS STRIKE STORY y.
QUITE A FAIRY TALE
DENVER POST GIVES GOLFERS
WEEKLY DESERVING RERUkE.
Greatly Exaggerated Story Of Miners
Strike, and Conditions in General.
Writer Must Have Had Pipe
Dream. So Absurd That They APP
pear Like a Huge Joke. Real Cost
Of Maintaining MiIitarism in Colo.
RADIO.

Denver, Colo, Feb. 1S.-The Denver
Posth ands to Golfers weekly very
deserving rebuke for it's fictitious
story of the Colorado strike.
Eighty-two murders at Telluride dur
ing the strike.
THE fruits of production go to the
producer" engraved on every union
card in the state.
Loss to the state on account Of the
strike s5oooo,ooo.
Denver food strike settled on an
eight-hour basis.
Population of Colorado, 100000.
Three hundred thousand people activ-
ely engaged in industrial strife on one
side or the other
One thousand troops still in the field.
Not a wheel being turned in the
Southern coal mines.
Assessed valuation of Colorado,
$3.50, ,o0o
Number Of men on strike, $4,000.
One hundred thousand members of
the American Labor union actively
participating in the strike.
Deportation from the various mining
camps of all men who refuse to work.
A veritable reign of terror prevailing
In most every section of the state.
New York Dope.
These are Just a few of the facts"
gathered about Colorado and her strike
troubles by a correspondent of Golfers
Weekly, who was recently sent here to
ascertain for Golfers readers the x
act situation.
Til observation are printed in COL
lier's of Feb. 6 and as the paper Is
supposed to have quite an extensive
circulation, no doubt many Eastern
people are under the impression that
Colorado is first rate place to pass
up for the present.
None Of the various brands of dope
on sale in Denver could possibly pro-
duce such a result as the Collier ar
ticle and it is presumed that the in
vestigator came here fully equipped
with some foreign brand which even
the local Knockers club has failed to
discover.
Colorado is portrayed by the Collier
artist as a "hell-with- the-lid-o sort
of state, where no man is safe with
out a gun and where no mine Is i'm
mune from destruction unless guarded
constantly by q regiment of soldiers.
The citizens alliance and the labor
unions, every member Of which is al
legged by the writer to be a Socialist,
are pictured lined up in battle array,
each side waiting, liking Japan and
Russia, for the other to strike the first
blow. The writer Glands it" to both
sides all through and winds up by de-
claring that the situation is hopeless.
Altogether the story is one that ought
to attract attention from the Boosters
club.
The Peabody War.
A conservative estimate of the cos,
OF the military campaign during the
Peabody administration as gathered
from the figures in the state auditors
office and the outstanding bills, is
$4,000 This includes the expenses of
the military invasions Of Colorado City,
Cripple Creek and Telluride up tc
Feb. /.
On Jan. IS the books of the auditor
showed that the total amount of war
certificates of Indebtedness issued was
3347, 498.Sl. To this must be adlhf
about $4,000 in bills not yet passed
upon and $4,000 contracted during thu
last half of January and for which nc
bills have been presented as yet
Therefore the cost up to date is within
about 100000 of a half million dollars.
The cost Of the various military ex.
'ped1tions In Colorado during the past
ten years, itemized, was as follws:
cripple creek strike 1894. ......$ 500
Lake City riot 1899 ............ 25,00(
Leadville strike 1896 ........... 275,0 0t
Colorado City strike 1903...... 22,00(
cripple Creek strike 1903-04.... 305, 0O
Telluride strike l9O3-04.. ,O0t
Grand total of expense of
maintaining military in the
field since 1894 1917. ON