United labor bulletin., 1911-01-19

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:. members be present. BY order of :.
:. FRANK SPEIGL. Chairman. =
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1t was decided to hold the demonstra-
ton by parade at o'clock in the after
noon of Feb. ?, when pilgrimage will
be made to the state capitol In the
evening the great Auditorium will be
filled and the best speakers in the
country will be present.
Labor unions and central labor bodies
all over the state are passing resolutions
and awaklug themselves from the sleep
in which they have been indulging for
the past few years.
And II is time that they were waking
up and making a fight to retain thar
which has been won by other battles in
the past.
The special interests" little reaiize
what they are doing when they ask for
a special dispensatlon to jail men that
are struggling for existence who happen
to conflict with the boarding of money
by n dozen Denver coal operators. BY
this act they have aroused half hun
drcd thousand men and women In the
state OF Colorado and 1t is hoped tnat
they cannot be stopped until the Judge
that sent the miners to jail is unseated
and the legislature makes it Impossible
for Judge who f. placed on the bench
by special Interests 70 send men TO jail
for constructive contempt.
The union men have been enjoined
from In any way interfering WIN the
strikebreakers who have taken their
places. They are not allowed TO talk TO
the afrikebreakcrs While this is going
on the guumen who have been imported
by the companies 10 the different camps
are !ndulging iu high carnival They
sneak from thoir stockades under cover
OF nlrht. shoot up the town. frighien
women and children and then return 10
tho disgraceful places built by supposed
IS respectable Denver business men. IL
is said that these stockadCs are similar
10 the illustrations In DantCs Inferno.
The men are said TO be the scum OF the
United States-criminals aud bad men
of the lowest type-who are brought TO
the district by a detective agency OF
Virginia whose speciality is breaking
strikes.
Secretary OF state Pearce has made
a special investigation ana his report
Secretary Pearce states that he found in
Sheriff Capp OF Boulder county an official
capable of handling the situation. but
that the strikers are law-abiding and
that they spent their time at home or
at union headquarters.
"oficers OF the union were exercising
their best influences over the men, re-
cites Secretary Pearce in his report
Constantly they urged them to obey the
law, keep sober and do nothing that
would injurc their cause with the gem
eral public well knowing that they had
everything TO lose and nothing to gain
by unlawful acts.
"The mine operators had employed a
detective agency from Virginia, whose
speciality is breaking strikes. This
agency had shipped in number OF gun
men. who constantly went armed. and,
from their general demeanor in some in.
stances where | observed them, appeared
to invite trouble.
There were instances where some OF
these men would go into the towns with
their arms conspicuously displayed.
which served as an irritant, and was not
conducive to good feeling.
The action of Judge whitford in en-
couraging the strikebreaker has caused
many unlawful outbreaks in the district.
few days ago Superior suffered from
the rowdyism and exploding of firearms
in the camp. and recent Boulder was
awakened in the night by the wildmen
from the stockade shooting into the
dwellings and awaking the town.
And only Saturday the rifran i'm
ported by Colorado's best citizens"
ended n three-day reign OF terror in La
fayette For that length of time the res
idents lived in constant fear of death or
bodily injury Dynamite was exploded
In different parts of the town and much
shooting was indulged in. The strike
breakers were after" Sheriff Capp, ac-
oording to the wife of one of the men
The three men alleged to have done
the shooting, Edgar Willett and Sam and
John Coombs, were only captured after
lively row between the employees of the
coal mines and Sheriff Capp and his
men.
As soon as they had fired the shots
they ran to the stockade which has been
erected In Lafayette by the mine own
ers Sheriff Capp followed and demanded
of the armed guard. Young. who Keeps
watch at the gate OF the stockade for the
coal company, to give up the three men
Young refused at first to admit that the
men had even entered the stockade and
told Capp he must get warrant before
he could search the place. Capp put one
of his men on guard at the gate and
started after the warrant. But Young