United labor bulletin., 1911-05-18


At the regular monthly meeting of the
central delegate committee of city and
county of Denver local, on May 13, the
following resolutions were adopted:
The working class is now face to face
with another crisis in the war of the
classes. One of the chiefs Of a great la
bor union which has become offensive to
the magnates of the infamous steel trust
has been kidnapped by detectives and in
violation of law. hurried out of the state
of his legal residence and cast into pris'
on in a distant state.
The extradition papers, issued secretly
by the Republican insurgent governor Of
California and honored by the Democrat
ic progressive governor OF Indiana be-
fore the arrest was made; the denial OF
hearing to the accused in the courts
of his own state; the sweating OF his
associates under third degree methods to
extort confessions, and the Indecent
haste in removing the accused beyond
the Jurisdiction of the courts Of Indiana.
all show a carefully planned conspiracy
similar to that planned against the of
ficers of the Western Federation of Min
ers in 1906 by the Mine Owners associa-
ton of Colorado, to the lasting disgrace
of this state.
We believe that it is the duty of every
citizen to strive, by every means within
his power, to maintain the constitutional
rights of all citizens and to resist to the
utmost the encroachments of the capital
list class upon the lives and liberty OF our
fellow workingmen.
Therefore we, the members Of the dele
gate committee of local Denver Socialist
party of the city and county of Denver,
in regular session assembled, do hereby
resolve:
First, That we condemn the kidnapping
of the Mcnamara brothers as crime
against the individuals and against the
working class and high treason against
the state and the nation. the laws of
which have been ruthlessly trampled
under foot.
Second, That we have nothing but
loathing and contempt for the creatures
who by some mysterious obsession of
the working class voters have become
the governors of California and Indiana,
and we look forward to the day not far
distant when an outraged public will
throw them on the political dump along
with Peabody and Mcdonald Of Colorado.
Third. That we condemn in most un-
qualified terms the business of the de-
tectives who for the sake of monetary
rewards lay plans, manufacture false
evidence. violate the rights of the citi-
zens and subvert justice at the demands
of the masters of the bread.
Fourth, That we pledge ourselves TO
agitate increasingly and to do all In our
power to arouse public interest to the
point where it will demand for the ac-
cused fair and impartial trial. which
the previous experience of the working
class shows cannot be obtained without
agitation.
Fifth, That we heartily approve and
endorse the proposition of the Appeal to
Reason to inaugurate campaign of agi-
tation in the state of California with a
view to the capture of the political pow
ers of that state by the Socialist party at
the next general election.
Sixth. That copies of these resolutions
be forwarded by the county secretary to
the Mcnamara brothers in the Los An
geles jail and to the governors of Cali
fornia and Indiana, and that they be pub
lished in the United Labor Bulletin.