El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-13
Given False Promises
Strikebreakers Taken to Colorado and
Then Put to Work by the Piece
UnderErOund-Inter

s." HE statement that Mexicans
were taken from FL Paso to
the Colorado mines under false
pretenses, by agents Of the companies,
is not in the least exaggerated,' de-
eli red Dan O'Leary. International or
ganizer of the L w. ". of Amer "a,
now in FL Paso. He conrilJed:
Those men have only told the truth
so far as they have gone, but they
could have gone much further and still
be truthful For instance, the MCXlCans
who have been enticed to go to Colo
RADIO were promised $3.50 day, but
when they arrived and were led into
the mines, they We're told that they
would be paid by the ton The $3.50 a
day went glimmering, for men who had
never seen the inside of mine. could
not make anything like a living work
ing by the ton, nor did they know OF
or appreciate the dangers they had to
encounter. To further pauperiZe them
and hold them in subsection, they had
TO face the payment OF good sized
debt chalked up against them, in the
shape of guards fees. transportation
and feed charges, so that the poor fell
lows saw little hope of ever even get
ting out of debt and many of them
took the first opportunity to escape.
Others wanted to follow, but armed
guards drove them back and now hold
them in absolute peOnage. They cannot
get away and the poor dupeS who did
a
climate, to which they are unaccuS-
toned, without money or friends, are
compelled to resort TO Ja1lS and Sher-
ifs city followers and city marshals
for shelter, and, has been said, the only
ones who feed them are the men they
were brought there to injure, the strik-
, ing miners. Are we not right in try
ing TO open the eyes of those men so
that more of them may not be deceived
and led astray like those who have
gone before and are now suffering tor
lures of cold and hunger unless fed by
jure?"
although I have been in HermO-
sillo on business, 1 carry no commits
sion or orders for Villa on my return
to Chihuahua" L. CarvilIa said Fri
day afternoon. 4 am engaged in bust
ness in Chihuahua and went to HermO-
sillO on private business My arrival
in Ell PasO at this time had no con-
nectiOn with the revolutionary move
ment and 1 am travelling as Il private
citizen and nothing more. 1 checked
out of the hotel Friday morning and
took my bags to another place. This
must have been the cause Of the report
circulated to the effect that 1 had left
for Chihuahua to deliver a message to
Villa. This is not true. I have no con-
nectiOn with the revolution and my trip
to HermosillO was not Of political
nature"
X
Courts and Justice are not devoid of
the element of human kindness and
charity that are commonly attributed
to the supposed blind goddess. Friday
afternoon, during the course Of a white
slave hearing, the prosecuting witness
was asked as to her home and her par
ents' name. The presiding magistrate
informed the attorneys that he would
excuse the girl from answering this
question. as he did not think any girl
should be asked to reveal her real iden-
THY after she had entered a life of
tod
from the record and the girl told that
she would not have to tell of her past
life when she was a good girl
They say Tyrone is going to be as
big town as Bisbee soOn," said c. p.
Henry, who has just returned from an
automobile trip through that section
Of the country The railroad IS about
completed and when it is finished the
camp will be booming in no time. Be
sides its copper mines, Tyrone has
section. The scenery is simply great.
With the Phelps-DOdge interests back
ing the place. Tyrone is going to be q
good spot on the map before very long.
'EI Paso does not boost its best as
set" said F. c. Human. we have
the most wonderful climate in the
whole state of Texas, yet we do not
advertise the fact as we should In
san Antonio, which hasn't even a patch
on our climate, they average 10000
tourists year Whyt simply be
cause they advertise what climate they
have. There was recently a meeting
of II railroad passenger agents in San
Antonio and the first thing they began
to do was TO boost the climate. San
Antonio did not have very much in the
attraction line when they first began
boosting. Now San Antonio has 50
beautiful city parks and two amuse-
ment parks. The largest city park has
200 acres, the average 100. and they
are all well kept There is a great deal
of civic pride there now. and almost
every yard is small park. Prizes are
offered for the best kept yards and ev-
cry indUcement is made for the citi-
zens to make and keep the city beau
tiful. All this was brought about by
boosting the climate of San Antonio
and securing tourists. Why, FL PasO
climate is not sufficiently boosted right
here in Texas. to say nothing of out
side the state. Everyone who lives
here realizes how splendid it is. but