The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-08-17
STRIKE OF MINERS HAS SETTLLD
DOWN TO BATTLE OF ENDURANCE

States government steel plate for tho
manufacture of battleships which is &
permeated with blow holes? q .s s.s$S
Is it patriotic to furnish the railroads
of the United States with Gull steel
rails which have caused innumerable
accidents, resulting in the injury and
death Of thousands of our people?
Our authority for the above is the
report Of government officials in the
first instance, and a statement made
by a former president of the Steel
Trust, Chas NJ Schwab, in the other.
They speak about anarchy on the
Mesaba Range. So far as we have
been able to ascertain, after careful
search through our dictionaries, an
arChy means disrespect for law. Have Z
the miners shown any disposition to 5.
provoke lawlessness and disorder? No.
The real culprits, and the real anar-
chists, are the paid tools Of the Steel
Trust, temporarily clothed with the
livery Of the state. E.
The trial of the miners at Hibbing
is the best. evidence of the truth Of
this position. The fact developed in
the examination of witnesses that it
was the paid detectives who were re-
sponsible for whatever trouble took
place. and these were non-citizens Of
Minnesota, who acted as deputy
sheriffs, contrary to the laws of this
state, and the assistant tcounty attor-&
ney, in his jealous desire to cater to
the Steel Corporation, did his level
best to shield this fragrant violation
of the law
DastardIy Act At Virginia. "a
Over in Virginia a non participant
in the strike, foreigner who could
not understand the language. was
walking across the wide domain Of the
Oliver Mining company, and was
stopped by a posse Of deputies. He
could not understand them, nor could
they appreciate his explanation. They
then placed him under arrest, and
through his ignorance of what they
intended to do with him, he attempted
to run away. One of our cowardly
peace officers, deputized by Sheriff
Bates, who gets the votes of work.
| ingmen every time he runs for sheriff,
forthwith raised his trusty gun, fired
and the escaping man bit the dust, -
shot in the back. He today is strug-
Cling between life and death. s
These deputies were placed at the
location of the Oliver Mining COM
| pany to protect the property. This
man was attempting to get off the
property, and while doing so was shot
by an expert man-killer Of the Steel
| Trust.
It afterwards developed that the
| ScSx \ Is
brother-in-law who lived on the loca-
ton. These sacred property rights of
the great Steel Trust: must be- pre-
served at any cost What is a human
life to it? It has become so used to.
killing men in the Mines, that it en-
tertains no scruples about assassin-
| attng them with its INSCRIPTIONS hire
| lings.
| Can any patriotic, liberty loving citi-=
zen of the United States, who really.
| loves the flag which stands for lib
| erty, remain mute while such outrages
| as this are perpetrated at our very.
doors? Shame on those towards?
What a1ls our people? Have they
| ceased to champion the cause of JUS
| tice? Have corporations become so
omnipotent, that they can override
| the claims of right and justice without
protest-from newspaper, the pulpit
or the people? Is it true that the
| really influential people of this COM
| munity are bound hand and foot by
the fear of being ostracized by the
| predatory classes?
If it be SO, may God have mercy
! on our country. But we ar. not dis
| heartened yet. Privilege has not run
it's race. There will be other outrages.
and other like travesties of justice, but
underneath there is growing and
gradually developing demand for
more equitable conditions. The intel
hgent men and women who have not
been purchased and whose souls are
free, are standing with their faces to-
ward the morning, singing new songs
of liberty. The pen of the age is on
the side of humanity, only the hired
scribblers for the press are on the
other side. They are advancing high
er ideals, which are giving birth to
new thoughts, which will chrystallize
into new institutions, and these will
some day give to the world a new
age and a new civilization. "A new
morning will dawn radiant with the
splendors of true freedom and the
children of toll will come into their
inheritance. d. .2.;EE ;. \. y "
There must be- a strike on the ranges
and according to statements being
made by disinterested persons who
have visited the mining communities,
the ore now shipped Is being taken
from the stock piles. %s
Just as we go to press correspond
ent for the Labor World writes from
Hibbing as follows: ~ ~
II am going to send you = little bit
OF local news and you can use your
own judgement whether to use It or
not. It will serve to show the meth
DDS of the Pinkerton thugs In this v1-
cinity and at the same time serve as
an object lesson to some OF the people
who were SO anxious to have them
here just two short weeks ago.
great many Of the people who were
the. most anxious for them are now
the loudest In denunciations Of them.