Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-07-08
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manifesting their disapproval of this
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Now, I do not believe that anybody.
outside Of Colorado, can be made to
believe that tho miners union of, the
Cripple Greek district is respcnsible
for that dynamite outrage. The min
ers of the Cripple Creek district are,
as I am told, very decent body of
men They are mostly Irishmen, Cor
nishmen and Scandinavians; ara not
assassins by birth or breeding. There
must have been some desperate or des-
peradoes In that district who plotted
this outrage. and who probably sup
posed that it could serve the interest
of the miners union. But the men,
bers of the union are not 1mbeciles
and they'could not have helped know
ing that such a crime would be ter
rible injury to them. To hold them all
responsible for it, to give them no
chance to disavow it, to punish them
all, uutried, as the perpetrators Of it,
is a species of justice peculiar to Colo
RADIO. Nothing resembling it has ever
been seen in this country before. 1t is
a evident that the ruling purpose of
the citizens alliance finds expression
in all this. The crime of crimes is
mem bership In labor organization.
It is not murder and assassination
that they want to prevent; it is the
organization Of labor.
This is made quite clear by the fur
Their procedure of the alliance. Not
orly the miners union, but all the
other unions, it appears are listed for
EXTERN ination. The reign Of terror is
to be extended over them sN. Every
employer is to be notified that he must
cease to employ any man who is a
member of a union. Those who refuss y
will suppose. be dsported. "Em-
ployers in all branches Of Business in
this CITY," says Fridays dispatches
from Cripple Creek, "without excep-
ton so far as known have signed the
agreement proposed by the citizens
alliance not to employ help of any
kind that is, in any way, connected
with the district trades assembly or
the state federation of labor, the
labor union or the western
federation Of miners, or any kindred
What a performance is this on Fri
day of the forcible closing Of the Port.
land mine! Mr.. Burns, the manager
of that mine. it seems has not been in
entire accord with the law and or
der.'' forces of citizens alliance. In
his mine, conducted on the principle
of the "epen shop" union and non
union men were working peaceably
together He refused to discriminate
against union men. That was his
offense. The citizens alliance, there
fore. decreed that his mine, which
was working prosperously, must be
closed, and the military, who are the
simple tools Of the alliance, marched
to the mine, took possession Of it and
ordered all Of it's 500 miners to aban-
don the union or leave the district.
"There were as good miners as ever
handled pick working there" said
Mr.. Bruins. ''They are, most of them
men with families, and they are
neither lawbreaAers nor agitators. Yet
these men are all forbidden to work
simply because some of them are
members of the union And now
the "law and order'' mob threatens to
have Mr.. Burns arrested on the GRIM
inal charge Of inciting riot, not be-
cause he has done anything of the
kind, but simply because he has had
the hardwood to employ in his mine
men who belonged to the miners un-
ion.
And Gov. Peabody, on the day
when this thing is done by his troops
at the dictation of mob, has the
nerve to send this dispatch to Col
umbus newspaper: II beg to say
that law and order is being rapidly
established in the affected district. ;"
If this is the establishment of "law
and order,'' what, In heavens name
must lawlessness and disorder look
like in Colorado1 I wonder if this
governor and his acknowledgement and
the motley mob of citizens alliances
DIRE go infatuated as to suppose that
labor organizations, suppressed after
this manner. will stAy Suppressed
very long. The enemies Of the unions
have the power.zin their hands now
at the point Of the bayonet and the
-1auzzle of the Krag- Jorgensen, the
-unionists promptly give up their cards
and renounce their membership, but
not man Of them regards q promise
thus exorted as binding upon him the
unions will all be organized in good