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The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-01-24
WOMAN IS HELD
FOR The MURDER
-
Negroes are Much Stirred
Over the killing of
TulIy Pepper
CORONER HOLDS AN INQUEST
Verdict Is Returned Charging Wife Of
the Negro with the Shooting.
She Has Been Arrested and
win be Tried Next Month.

Colored people Of Brunswick are
much stirred up over the death of
Tuliy Pepper, which occurred early
yesterday morning in the negroes
room over Carter's clothes pressing
establishment, his death being the re-
suit Of pistol wounds received Mon
day night.
Al account of the mysterious shoot.
ing OF this negro appeared in The
News last Wednesday morning. Pep
& per wassashct twice. once in the side
], - MI the back early last Tues
The negro when ques-
ED that he accidentally
but this statement was
8ved, as it was almost I'M
the han to h6ve shot
hignself the back.
nothing could be learned
oting both Pepper and his
hat it was an accident
-. lingering between
the shooting oc-
erday it was de-
lest. Officer Sam
on the case and
ring enough evi-
10 F8Qper. wife Of
g q b the Glynn
large Of muir
obtained some good
coroners jury.
h was composed OF
r. Rrauss. w. NJ
ills. s. A. Burney and
night 1T O'Clock
in session until 10: 80
ging verdict:
a that Charles alias
b to his death from
MA the hands of Pearl
81 nd mat said crime was muir
e showed that the wo-
ll ti1aes threatened to
I'D and on one occasion
9istol 49, Aseveral times.
Ess ~ w.ssasu VI hin the city.
dcCrary's
~ be tried
sr at the SEES
It next month.
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CALIFORNIA UNIONS
SET PACE FOR LABOR
URGE UNIONS EVERYWHERE TO
FORCE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
Chief Executive Will be Urged to Show
His Hand in the Colorado Sit,/tion.
Labor in GenersI Will Comma nd
that Authorities Take a Stand for
Human Rights-criticaI Condition Of
AffSiGs is Imminent.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 3d.
That union labor is determined to force
President Roosevelt to show his hand
in the Colorado situation is evident by
resolutions passed in this city last eve
ming: The California unionists urge
organized labor everywhere to pass
similar resolutions. They are as fol-
lows: =
Whereas, Conditions-~ in Colorado
having reached a stage where thous-
ands of the citizens of that common
wealth have been and are now being
denied their constitutional rights:
their lives endangered and property
destroyed; their homes broken UP and
the: fathers and husbands exiled by
force of arms and opportunity denied
for recourse to the regularly constitut-
ed courts of justice; and : = -
. Whereas Many citizens have. been
forbidden the right of earning their
livelihood in the state of Colorado
solely because of their, affiliation with
labor organizations, as evidenced by
tIlessunwarranted: and unlawful !. clos
ing Of. The Portland mines, the destruc-
ton Of the, plant Of the Daily Record,
and many otherS illegal acts OF an an
Iarchisticz organizat lion known .as the
Citizens Alliance, aided and abetted
sby the Colorado te mil
alaVful
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organized labor, and he at all times
treats his employees with uniform
courtesy.
In addition to this he has built and
equipped a separate and distinct fac
tory for the manufacture of union
made working gloves, the first one of
it's kind in this country.
Mr.. Carhartt was formerly treasur-
er of the National Association of
manufacturers, but their attitude to-
wards organized labor not meeting
with his approval, he declined NOM
ination for reelection and retired
from the association. :.
Surely such friend as this should
not be misunderstood; rather every
thing should be done, and no doubt
will be done, to show the apprecia-
tion of organized labor in the stand
he has taken.
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BIC TOBACCO TRUST
|NVADEs MINNESOTA.
GREAT ARMY OF statesmen ARE
At WORK IN THE STATE,
Effort is Being. Made to Monopo'ize the
Tobacco Industry. in the Country.
American and Continental Tobacco
Companies Use Every Method to
Discourage the Sale Of Union. Made
Tobacco.

LOUISVILLE, KY, June 3o.-At the
convention Of the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor held in New Ulm
recently, some strong resolutions were
adopted declaring the goods made by.
the great tobacco trust unfair: Inn:
mediately after this was done the Am;
erican and Continental Tobacco trusts.
dispatched 1856 men to that part Of the.
country with Instructions to stoop to:
every method, honorable or dishonor-t
able, to drive all union made goods:
from the market. They are now at;
work throughout. the state, and no
stone is being left :unturned. to ac-5
complish the purpose. s., i: :. Se,:5i d
; The Tobacco Workers International
Union is alive to the occasion, and q;
corps of Representatives. are closely
following the representatives fsthe to-.
bacco trust and replacing union made
goods with remarkable success. IF II
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CROSS INJUSTICE IS
DONE To Mr.. CARHARTT
aREAT FRIEND OF LABOR AS
SAILED IN MYSTERIOUS WAY.
Charge Comes from Strange Source
That he is Unfriendly to Organized
Labor-Secretary Harry White Of
the Garment Workers Union I'm
mediateIy Sets at Rest All Reports
and Defends Mr.. Carhartt.

NEW YORK, June 3O-The most
ruel work yet done by the enemies
If organized labor happened last week,
when Il report was sent broadcast that
hr. Hamilton Carhartt, manufacturer
# overalls and kindred goods, at De-
foit, Michigan, had become unfriend-
y to organized labor. No sooner was
his false report circulated when Sec
htary Harry White of the Garment
Workers union, who had been apprais-
d of the work, issued the following
bitter to all unions:
For some time past it has been re-
|eatedly brought to my notice that in
bme mysterious way a rumor has got
EN- out to the effect that Mr.. Car
lartt, manufacturer of overalls and
hndred goods at Detroit, Michigan,
tas unfriendly to organized labor.
AS nothing could be further from
he truth than this, I write to you
ersonally to ask you to do what you
hn to put Mr.. Carhartt in his true
sht before your lodge, as great
lrong is being done to one of Our best
tiends.
Not only is Mr.. Carhartt friendly to
fganized labor, but he never leaves a
tone unturned to show that friend
hess. H >'>ftH;
He carries on a very large overall
lanufactory entirely manned with
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zation, with the connivance, aid and
knowledge of the Mine Owners AS
sociation and the Colorado state MIL
itia, have, compelled many regularly
elected peace and judicial officers of
the said state of Colorado to resign,
that is: sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, con-
stables, chiefs of police, district ator->
neys judges and others, by intinida-
tion and menace of personal violence,
i. e., threats of hanging and other
methods Of the mob; and,
Whereas, Fully convinced that these
conditions ahve been largely brought
about by and with the connivance and
assistance Of. the executive officers of
the state OF: Colorado, and that thous~
ands of members of trade unions have
been and will be driven from their
homes simply because they insist upon
the hitherto unquestioned right to re-
tain membership in recognized legal
and lawful organizations, that is, lab
or unions; now, therefore, he it
Resolved, That the San Francisco
Labor Council, in regular session as.
sembled, calls upon the President Of
the United States, the Secretary Of
War, the Attorney General and the
other regularly constituted authorities
of the United States. Of America,
sworn to protec= the lives and property
Of it's citizens, to~at once take such ac-
ton as will guarantee to every citizen
his inaleienable right to life, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness" and
that all crimes against. the state no
matter by Wohm committed, De fully,
impartially and thoroughly investigat-
ed, and the criminals punis shed without
fear or favor: and. belt further, I
Resolved, That a.copyS Of these reso-
.lutions be immed ediately forwarded to
the. President of the United States,
each member of his Cabinet and to
the members of both branches =of Con-
.gress from Califor and to the Of
=ffcers .of B the A1nerican Federati ION of
Labor, the esterll derat tion off Min
.ers,Sand F'ederati q
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=
ONLY IN 1904 NOW,
The Washington Post:

From the Washington Post:
The French artist, Alphonse Marie
Mucha, whose posters of graceful
Nonoer are no less popular in America
than in Paris, is making a tour of the
United States.
What pleases me in America" M.
Mucha said the other day, "is xlhe in
telisence, the general enlightenment,
Of ths' people. The American public
deserves. in this respect. to stand be-
side the French public. It is far ahead
Of the English.
ION my way over here I stopped a
few days in London, and in the Britt
ish museum one afternoon I overheard
a. remark that showed we'll how be-
n:gkted the English public is.
"Two men were looking at some old
Egyptian coins.
"+Them. there said the first man,
must be three or four hundred years
old, eh, Bill?" :,
They're three thousand years DID,
the second man returned. :.
"'Ah, g'arn, Bill. What do you take
me. for?' said the first man. Why,
we're only lin 1904 now ~: 7: + e ~: IT.
4 a! -
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movement is nohin any way identified
tharaWifh Il ic1 leo .x1all 1-.a.. AA.A

movement is not, in any way identified
herewith. 1t is also we'll known that
there are certain policies pursued by
the Western Federation of Miners that
run counter to those advocated by the
American Federation of Labor. but
we submit that in the conception and
execution of justice there cannot be
and ought not to be one rule or law
for one and another for the other
among our people.
Under the combined domination in
Colorado of the mine owners, the gov
ernor and the military forces, the state
courts have been unable or unwilling
to accord men either fair trial or any
trial at all, or accord them the rights
to which they were entitled under the
constitution and law of the state and
the United States, so that the iudic-
larry in Colorado has largely yielded
the civil rights and functions of the
court to the combination Of plutocracv
and militarism.
IT the striking miners have been
guilty of the crime with which they
are publicly charged, they should be
arrested, indicted, and tried by the
by a jury of their peers, punished.
But this should be by the due process
Of law provided by the statutes and
the constitution Of Colorado and our
country.
There, can be no. justifable excuse
sfor.aaho
eminent HI any: district :Tof &c CoIorad az
and establishing military rule so long
as there is one district in all the state
in which a trial in the civil courts,
before an impartial and unprejudiced
jury, is possible.
Weeks have elapsed since the dyna-
mite disaster by which many men were
killed and wounded at Victor Colo,
yet not one scintilla of evidence either
official or unofficial, has been vouch-
safed the public connecting the strik-
ing miners Or their organization with
that disaster. Yet men have been
placed under military arrest, thrown
into the bullpen without any charge
having been made against them by any
complainant, judge or grand jury.
The mine-owners, under the as
sumed name Of the Citizens Alliance,
have unceremoniously summoned the
officers elected by the people and de-
mande1A their resignation, and if eth
er refused or hesitated ropes with
nooses at the end were flung at their
feet, the alternative given them for
signing their already prepared resig-
nations Or be hanged.
Men against whom no charge, eth
er direct or indirect, was made, were
dragged bodily from their homes by
armed guards, placed on trains and de-
ported from the state.
The Citizens Alliance has declared
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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
l)pHOlDS AMERICAN LIBERTY and
ASKS AID FOR DOWN. TRODDEN Miners
THE SITUATION
IN COLORADO .

The American Federation of
Labor has ut last asked the GOv-
ernment to put a stop to the out
RACES which have been practiced
and which would have dfsGraced
Siberia. Steps will he taken to-
secure the punishment Of those
who are responsible for the ter
rible condition Of affairs that
exist In the Western state. The
Erent parent labor body says that
Anarchy must cease in Colorado.
Four million WOrkinRmen are
called upon to rise In their might
and insist upon the observance of
the constitution of the United
States. Every trade and labor
union in the country In urged to
send financial aid to the Western
Federation of Miners. The miners
fight has ceased to be state
struggle. The whole nation has
Its eyes upon the affair.
1T Is the cOncensus Of opinion
everywhere. among rich and Door;
among great and small. that Pea
body and Bell are dangerous en-
emfes Of free government.
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A. F. of L. Takes Firm Stand
for Colorado Miners. Will
Insist Upon the Fullest Pro-
lection for Every Citizen.
ALI Labor Interested.

death to Unionism in the Cripple
Creek District" and this is evidently
it's purpose though it's members have,
for strategic reasons, moderated that
declaration. Nor do they have in
mind the Cripple Creek district alone,
but organized labor of the entire
country for all will readily UNDER
stand that the mine-owners' organiza-
ton of Colorado, that is, the Citizens
Alliance, is an offshoot of the Parry
species of antagonism, regardless of
the attitude which the trades union
movement may take.
In view of the critical situation Of
affairs in Colorado, and the fact that
there is not now and may not for some
time to be fair opportunity for the
miners of Colorado to have accorded
to them and maintain by the courts
Of that state the rights to which the
men are entitled, but in accordance
with the laws and constitution Of Col
orado and the United States, we are
firmly of the opinion that their only
redress is to and through federal
courts of the United States.
And inasmuch as there are unlimited
millions at the disposal of the mine
owners of Colorado in their lawless
and brutal attempt to rob miners of
their organization and their liberty
(and if they deem it necessary, of their
very lives), in the interest not only
of the labor movement, but in the in
terest of justice and right, fair-d deal
ing. the protection Of the rights and
liberties and lives, the rights for which
the labor movement stands, we appeal
to all organized labor and friends to
not only give their moral, but finan-
cial assistance, SO that the great
question of constitutional liberty, hui
man rights and civil government may
be properly presented and defended,
and, we hope. finally proclaimed and
sustained by the federal courts of our
country.
A special session of the Colorado leg
islature must be called at once to
comply with the command Of the state
constitution, by >enacting an ,eight-hour
law !: With proper . penalty tproXisfon
must hofd Us ssas strict account ta biffta
All"Who have violated statutory, con :
stttutional and fundamental law and
human rights. In the meantime, every
effort should be made by all lovers of
their fellows to bring to an amicable
adjustment the industrial conditions
which now obtain in Colorado. The
freedom of speech, the freedom of the
press, the right of home are involved; !;
the principles of our republic, the pro-
gress of civilization are hanging in the
balance.
Send all financial contributions to
maintain the legal rights Of the Colo
rado miners to Mr.. w. D. Haywood,
secretary of the Western Fedora ton
Of Miners, 625 Mining Exchange Build
ing, Denver, Colo.
Fraternally yours,
SAMUEL GOMPERS, President.
Attest:
FRANK MORRISON, Secretary.
JAMES DUNCAN, 1st Vice-Pres.
JOHN MITCHELL, I'd Vice-Pre
JAS. O'coNNELL, sd vice-Pres.
MAX MORRIS, 4th Vice-Pres
THOS I. KIDD, 5th Vice-Pres.
u. A. HAYES, 9Th Vice-Pres.
DAN J. KEEFE, 7th Vice-Pres.
VIM. ]. SPENCER, Sth Vice-Pres.
JOHN B. LENNON, Treasurer.
Executive Council, American Fedora =
tion Of Labor.
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EVIDENCE RELATING to- KILLING "
OE NON-UNlON MEN AT INDFpFNDECE
COMPLETELY VINDICA1ES THE UNION
THE SITUATION
IN CRIPPLE CREEK

The following account of the
Colorado reign of terror. inauRur-
ated by the Citizens' Alliance. Is
written by MIR. George HI. Shoaf.
representing the Appeal to Rea-
SON. Mr.. Shoaf arrived at Cripple
Creek the day following the aw-
ful explosion at Independence.
Posing us a representative Of an
Eastern paper he was permitted
to accompany the sOldiery on their
raids against union men. He was
with General Bell when that
doughty soldier fired on nInteen
union men during the now famous
:) battle Of .Dunville.. The other
correap0ndents on this occasion
sent out reports of that 'battle''
dictated by General. Bell. Mr..
Shoaf managed to smux9le his re-
port through. a .confidant.. All nvail
addressed to labor papers at Grip
pie Creek ts being held and Is
being unlawfully opened by the
military authorities. Mr.. Shoaf's
version of the explosion at Inde-
pendence II probably the truest
account yet given. Lack Of space
prevents us from KivinE 1T in full.
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Blood Hounds Placed Upon the
Trail Immediately After the
Explosion Lead Directly to
the Home Of a detective of
the Mine Owners.

TO the average reader who is used
to reading sensational "tommyrot," as
it appears in the capitalist prass, the
following story Of the horror which
took place at the Independence depot
may appear rather tame. But what it
lacks in color will be made up, In
truthfulness. The Appeal to Reason
sent correspondent, Mr.. George H.
Shoaf, to the scene Of the trouble, and
the following unpublished story was
sent in: !
Monday morning at 2:45 o'clock
June 6, while some twenty-five or thir-
ty non-union miners were standing on
the platform of the Florence & Grip
pie Creek depot station waiting for
train. which was at that moment just
pulling around the curve from Gold
field, some person or persons pulled a
wire attached to revolver which ex-
ploded into a couple of hundred
pounds of dynamite placed beneath
where the men were standing. The
result was terrific. The station was
wrecked. Men were hurled in every
direction. Arms and legs, detached
scattered twenty-five yards from the
oSSAAO VI IiC CApAoo4oA1' AItCVC1 UOulco
were picked up in pieces and eight
more were so severely injured that
two have since died.
The news of this terrible catastrophe
was at once heralded to the limits of
civilization as the deliberate vi1lany Of
union men.
Before entering upon a relation of
the facts or a description Of the condi-
tions that prevailed in the Cripple
Creek district Immediately proceeding
the awful holocaust, it would be we'll
for the reader to let the significance
Of the circumstantial evidence con-
tanned in the narratives Of the two
foregoing incidents sink deep in his
mind.
Charles M. Mckinney, whom the de-
the E. & C.. c. passenger train, stood
"a self-confessed perjurer and would
.be: wholesale murderer. 1t was an op-
n5secret that<after the attempted train
eking were lllshed dcr
idenee
snd
Alliance q al, a was the ti1late
. associate Of the two detective uess5 WHO
arraigned him at the trial.
>. K: G. Sterling for years has borne
the reputation Of being the most cold
blooded villain unhung. He is des-
perate gambler, has a private grave
yard to his credit, and is not ashamed
to admit that when necessity demand
ed he never hesitated to drum up
business for women in the red light
district. Recently, however whe1
the mine owners organized to resist
the demands of unionism, he was em-
ployed by them as a detective, be-
cause of his utter lack of principle
and for the further reason that ir
some things he was really fearless
man.
Clarence C. Hamlin, secretary of the
Mine Owners Association is a gooc
talker is fearless, INSCRIPTIONS and
his only apparent ambition seems tt
be the utter extinction of the Western
Federation of Miners
A. E. Carlton, president Of the FRS
National Bank Of Cripple Creek, il
several times a millionaire. His COW.
ardice and cruelty were demonstrated
in his unwarranted attack upon the
person of Mrs. Ada Hanna in the
union store on the day of the riot al
Victor. He is cordially hated by
every man of principle in the district
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CIGAR TRUST FIGHTING
C|GARMAK[RS At TAMPA
WILL PERMIT NO REGULAR Or
GANIZATION TO WORK,
Members Of Cigarmakers International
Union up Against Hard Struggle in
Great Key West city-AppeaI for
Aid from Unions in General to Start
Soup Kitchens to Feed Strikers and
Families,

TAMPA, FLA, June 30-The most
bitter struggle between the Cigarmak-
ers international union and the in
famous American Cigar company is
being fought out in this city. For
several years the cigarmakers have
attempted to plant unionism in this
locality, and every attempt has been
foiled by the tobacco trust. The trust
operates three large factories here, to-
gether with more than one hundred
other factories which have an asso-
citation here. The trust, with it's we'll
laid plans, precipitated a strike in it's
houses, and the independent factories
combined with it to lock out the
Workmen, to force these unions out of
business. That means more than
5000 cigarmakers are idle. The ma
jority Of them are out of the union,
without any means Of support what
soever. The unions are making small
assessments weekly for locked out
members, just to help these destitute
workers: :'.@ !"
y They are n1al<inE a strong appeal for
financial laid from >organized labor in
general The money lis to- be used for
the, purpose of esta blishing soup kit
:chens for the striking cigarmakers and
their families ~ .z .! Ss:: s:;= J:
/ 1 The fight on to onpel the cigar
and tobacco c trusts to recognize or-.=
ganlzed
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and would stop at nothing to achieve
his ends.
In addition to the attempted train
wreck and explosion in the Vindicator
mine, there Is. another incident we'll
worth considering.
Several months ago, at the same
hour OF the night, eleven assayors' Of
fees were blown up by dynamite.
Though it has never been judicially
determined. yet no informed man ac-
quainted with mining affairs doubts
for an instant but what the RESPONSE
bility for those simultaneous explo-
sions rests absolutely with the Mine
Owners Association. No one else
would be interested in their exter-
| minatio
In the case of the Independence de-
pot explosion, several theories are ad-
vanced, among the most probable of
which are the following:
The union stores, established at the
beginning Of the strike on account of
the regular business men refusing
| credit to the striking miners, were
doing an enormous business. That
! in Victor, in the last month of it's
existence alone, cleared $4,000, the
| others profiting in proportion, This
successful compel tition: was almost
lIbank 1ll1A 1kAr'agting business
zedYInfo itizessn, iance; ana
|though they were ntinate bed-fol-|
I lows of the Mine Owners, and had
received the promises. of the latter or
| nj i1of f1 ho1y iv of
! driving out the union stores, still they
were inclined to be a trifle suspicious.
When it was given out that a. settle
| ment OF the strike was under serious
contemplation the week preceding the
independence explosion, the business
element was driven to desperation.
They saw that if the strike was settled
with union recognition their houses
might as well suspend. With them
it was a. question of exterminating
the union OF leaving the district.
So, to prolong the strike, recall the
militia, create a. reign Of terror and
effect the, deportation Of the union
miners during the mad riot they knew
would follow, a. secret agreement was
formed which resulted in the explo-
sion that has astonished the civilized
world.
Another theory popula arly entertain
ed by many people fixes the RESPONSE
bility directly upon K. c. Sterling,
Charles M. Mckinney and A. E. Carl
ton. Chagrinned at the defeat of the
attempted train wreck, and disappoint-
ed at the mild results following the
explosion in the Vindicator mine, these
worthless determined to accomplish