United labor bulletin., 1913-10-25
Calling Of Troops in Abeyance
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Grating about half a force with coal
that is being shipped from New Mexi-
CO mines. In Denver coal is retailing
at So and 81 per ton, and hard to get
at that
Strike at Crested Butte.
On Tuesday $50 miners at Crested
Butte, who joined the union, walked
out of the 9. F. & l., and Bulkley
mines. The Pueblo and Floresta mines
in this district, owned by Littell
brothers, signed the union scale and
the men are at work. In all about
1900 union miners in Independent
mines are at present employed.
A carload of strikebreakers arrived
in Denver Monday from Chicago, but
Rock Island railroad officials appar-
emily shipped them out of the state
when State Labor Commissioner e. v.
the state law forlbidding the importa-
ton of strikebreakers.
1t is reported that trainmen on the
Colorado roads entering the strike
zone are seriously considering refusal
to haul coal mined by non-union men.
Pickets Released BY Court.
About seventy-five pickets who had
been arrested at Ludlow and Forbes
mines and lodged in the Trinidad Jail
were released in justice court with
the exception of four, who were held
weapons.
Thirty-four strikers are still de-
tanned in the Boulder jail in the north
ern Colorado field for doing picket
duty. At trial of four of them this
week before Judge Strong jury
failed to reach an agreement. The
district attorney declared he would
make another test case of the mat
ter
Recruits of Mexicans as stlikebreak-
ers are being secured In a few in
stances from the beet fields for the
Monarch and other mines in Boulder
county
Mass Meeting Arrangements.
At tomorrow afternoons meeting of
the Denver Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, arrangements will probably be
completed for the big public mass
meeting soon to be held in Denver in
the interest of the striking miners.
This movement is being supported by
all the miscellaneous trades, building
trades and railway brotherhoods and
orders. General President John
White of the United Mine Workers of
America, Vice President Frank ].
Hayes, in active charge of the Colora-
do strike situation, and other promi-
nent speakers will be invited to be
present and address the meeting.
Gunmen Raid Tent Colony.
Early Thursday morning seventy
five of the Baldwin-Feltz gunmen, with
four machine guns mounted on ar
mored automobiles. made a desperate
raid on the tent colony of striking
miners at Forbes mine. They broke
open trunks, rifled every nook and
corner of the tents, secured six re-
volvers and arrested six strikers on
the charge of having the weapons
Women and children were rustled
about. but the miners restrained them
selves and offered no resistance.
Mine Disaster at Dawson.
AS The Bulletin goes to press with
this issue, word comes from Dawson
N NJ, of an explosion in the Stag
Canon coal mine No. 2. in which 2s1
men had been trapped in a tunnel.
Thursday morning fourteen dead
bodies had been removed and seven
found alive by rescuing parties. 1t
is believed most of the men were
killed outright by the explosion of ac-
cumulated coal dust Telegrams
were sent to Denver to rush coffins
and embalming fluid. Dawson is fifty
miles south of Trinidad and is In
cIuded in District No. Is of the United
Mine Workers Union.
Nearly all of the men employed in
this mine were members of the union.