The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-11
How CONGRESSMAN KIndeI of
Colorado Views the Strike
Situation i'm That State

the mine owners of my state, You
must discharge every one of your TO-
600 loyal and satisfied worllmcn unless
they join the United Mine Workers of
America, and if they join, you mast
deduct from their pay roll such
amounts as we may hereafter see fit
to assess against them, and send il to
the union treasury to use as we see
tit
Importation Of Agitators.
Prior to the calling OF this strike
no substantial differences existed be-
tween the mine owners and their
workmen. There had been no state
wide labor trouble for 10 vars: only
2,OiS out of a total OF $4,000 miners
I'm Colorado, New Mexico. and Utah
We're members OF the United Mine
Workers of America. But the officers
of this organization proceeded to i'm
port into Colorado, horde of paid
professional agitators and agents with
the avowed purpose OF circulating
among the miners and injecting into
their minds spirit of discomfort and
dissatisfaction with their employers
and the conditions under which they
were working
Several weeks ago. at time when
the emissaries of the United Mine
Workers of America were trying to
make II appear that Mr.. John ID.
Rockefeller, Jr, was responsible for
hnh hn
Colorado coal strike, the distinguished
chairman of the investigating COM
mittee of this House telegraphed Mr..
Rockefeller that Mr. Green. secretary
treasurer Of the United Mine Work
ers of America, had made public n
statement announcing that the de-
mand for recognition of the union
would be waived, and it was suggest
ed To Mr.. Rockefeller, I'm view of this
circumstance, that negotiations be
entered into looking to n settlement.
Mr.. Green was Immediately called
upon by the miners of Illinois, then
in convention at Peoria to explain
what he meant by making such
statement. He answered by denying
tina such an announcement had ever
been made by him. and asserted that
under no circumstances would union
recognition be waived i'm Colorado.
More recently on June 9th, John r.
Lawson, in charge of the strike, with
headquarters at Denver reiterated the
oft-repeated No peace without recog-
milton of the union
Fighting for the Right to Work.
THE necessity for the maintenance
of the open shop, for which the mine
owners of Colorado are fighting, in
wolves n principle far from local in its
character.
III this country is to endure. ut
least in its present form, the consti-
tutional right of every man TO work
for whom, when. and upon such terms
as he sees 1T must be preserved, and
the employers of labor i'm Colorado
who are standing for this principle
deserve. instead of denunciation, the
encouragement and support of every
patriotic citizen. 1t will be sad day
for our country when men decline to
fight to finish for n principle.
The Remedy.
There is but a single effective rem
edy-let maudlin sympathy for those |
who stand In open rebellion against
constituted authorit5. be banished.
Let all good citizens encourage and |
assist the officers of the law in faith |
fully and vigorously executing the |
statutes and constitutional provisions |
of the state Of Colorado and of the
United States.
I'm this way, and in this way only. |
under existing conditions, can the |
rights of all parties be restored and
preserved and the dignity OF a great
state and the greatest country on
earth be maintained"