Montana news., 1907-07-11
Bullpen Experience
Continued from Page l.)

IN lhb SAiBHlo SiNNh hAohAANtt was
member of the relief eommitte from
the woman's auxiliary to the Fedora
tion. She told Of being arrested and
taken before q committee of the cit
liens alliance and tlseatened with
deportation if she did not cease giving
help to the families of the deported
miners. She did not cease her min
istration, but was deported.
Mrs Saunders, who kept furnished
rooms in Cripple Creek, told how the
president of the citizens alliance came
for her signature to their organization,
and when she refused to give it, he
said she could join them or starve,
that they were going to kill unionism
in the Cripple Creek district She told
them she would starve if she had to
and was forced to leave the building
although she had years lease on it.
The most effective testimony of the
day was made by Henry Maxi, the
Austrian who was handcuffed to a tel
egraph pole in Telluride by the sol
\ diers because he refused to clean a
cesspool. This man, in his broken
English, told tale of horror that sur
passed Russia's cold brutalities. The
simple truth of the tale had pathos
that impressed itself on every listener.
He had been brought into the camp
by the strike breakers with a number
of ignorant foreigners, and did not un-
derstand that he was to scab, and re-
fused to do so. Thereupon he was
arrested for vagrancy, although he had
over $500 on his person. He was or
| dered to work on the streets and given
filthy work. On his refusal to perform
it and his hurting the shovel from him,
he was chained to the pole for three
hours on a cold February day. His
hands were both frozen. He was put
in cold cell in the Jail without COW
erings, and kept SO hours without food.
1t is difficult to celebrate Fourth
of-July liberty with thoughts of these
outrages in ones mind.
A number of other witnesses swore
to the falsity Of Orchards statements,
and testified that he associated with
Pinkertons
John and Archie Harper, father and
son, told tale Of the Cripple Creek
atrocities almost unbelievable. The
father was manager Of the union store.
The young man was law student at
the state university. He was arrested
and put in the bull-pen for the reason
assigned that he talked too much at
college His talking amounted to
taking the affirmative in a debate,
"Resolved, That the calling out Of
troops in the Cripple Creek district was
unwarranted and uncslled fcr." He
won the debate.
Yes, this is a country Of free speech,
free thought and free expression in
colleges. Students are persistent be.
cause they have dared to speak for
truth.
The white-cappers, as they were call
ed, that is those who were seizing and
deporting the men, citizens with masks,
surrounded the house, seized father
and son, beat the father numerically
till his head was bleeding, and forced
him to walk to Canyon City, where his
son found him the next day.
John Harper told of the looting of
his store and of how the gun men ran
out all who were employed in it, lined
them up and marched them to the
bull-pen. The business men Of the
town who formed the principal part Of
the mob, were filed with anger at the
commercial success of the union stores.
This one was doing a business of s400
day. It is the battle of the class
fight that is raging and it can only be
ended by ending the system of di-
verging economic interests. The ex-
ploiters are not willing that the work
ers should deprive them of their pro-
I fits.
At the close of this testimony Mr.
Richardson stated to the court that he
wished to show that on the 30th of
: May 1904, the sentiment was over
whelmingly in favor Of the Western
Federation of Miners in the Cripple
Creek district. 1900 union men were
in the big parade. The Federation had
everything to lose and nothing to gair
1 by committing the barbarous act Of
/. blowing up the depot. The sentiment
against the unions began after Jun'
Q, the date Of the explosion. II coult
not have been done by the unions.
G. r. Houghton, another union store
manager, testified that he was captured
in the union hall in Victor during the