Arizona republican., 1904-04-20
John Mitchell Pays His Res
poets to Peabody
CALLS HIM ANARCHIST
lmplores Republican Party OF Colo
RADIO to Repudiate Him as an Enemy
Of the Political Organization and of
Law and Order.

Denver, April 19.-Coliseum hall was
crowded to the limit of it's capacity
by mass meeting tonight, which was
addressed by members of the executive
council of the American Federation OF
Labor, now in session in this city. The
principal speakers were John Mitchell.
president of the United Mine Workers
of America and Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor.
Mr.. Mitchell devoted his entire
speech to an arraignment Of Governor
Peabody OF Colorado for his acts in re-
lation to the existing strike in the
southern Colorado coal fields. He re-
pudiated the governor as a republican
and challenged the oft-repeated asser-
tion of the governor that he had ex-
hausted every effort to bring about
settlement of the strike by bringing
the opposing forces together in con-
ference. He said:
Il want to repudiate as far as I can
the acts of tie governor Of this state.
If 1 have a friend in Colorado, IL there
is trade uniOnist in this state.if there
is a good citizen in Colorado, who be-
heves by judgment to be good, I saw
he should repudiate the acts of Cover
nor Peabody.
Governor Peabody has said in re-
gard to our coal strike that he nad
advised the companies to treat with the
men and the companies said they
would treat with their own employees
and not with committee dictated To
by John Mitchell, 1 say publicly that
l offered last December to allow Gov
ernor Peabody to appoint a committee
OF coal miners to treat with the o1er-
ators. He had chance u nominate
a committee Of miners and has not
done so.
AS an admirer and friend of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and as a member of the
republican party 1 say that the repub-
Hcan party of Colorado should repudf-
ate Governor Peabody. / further saw
that every republican workman should
work against him. 1 am usually called
a conservative labor leader: in fact. in
this western country 1 am said to be
too conservative. Yet, to the most
radical of you I announce myself as
against any man who is against the
PEOPLE. 1 stand for the man who is
the friend of the people. be he repub-
hcan, or democrat or socialist. In
conclusion L want to repeat with en-
phasis what 1 have said about Gov
ernor Peabody. He is no friend of
yours, no friend of the government and
no friend of law and order. 1 am
against him.
Mr. Gompers said that a new DIS
ease had developed among the bust
ness men of the country. which he
characterized as trades union-phobil.
The two persons most seriously aftiictei 4
he said, were Governor Peabody, of
Colorado, and President Parry of the
National Manufacturers association.
.Gompers said that he did not claim
that no labor unionist was ever guilty
OF violence and wrongdoing, but he en-
phatically denied that all union men
were criminals, as they have been
characterized by their opponents
He maintained that a workingman n
had right to strike whenever he be-
heved that his employer was mistreat-
ing him and that while he regretted
the necessity for strikes, labor unions
would continue to WELD this weapon for
their defense. He discussed the eigh.
hour movement and said that the fight
for this achievement had only Just be-
gun throughout the country.