United labor bulletin., 1914-08-01
RDSLINCSHOT
SHOT AT DUNCAN
and BUMMERIES
Butte is Worst Governed
City on Continent
'sMother" Jones Declares Nation
Is Going Through Big Struggle;
Pleads for Motherhood

In speech bristling with denuncia-
ton of the l. w. ". and Socialist city
administration of Butte, James Lord,
president Of the mining department OF
the American Federation Of Labor, spoke
for 80 thrilling minutes At the Trades
and Labor Assembly meeting Sunday af-
ternoon He was followed by Mother
Jones, who had just returned from New
York and told of the great meetings
held to condemn Colorado coal operators,
the Rockefeller government and to urge
President Wilson 10 act in behalf of the
suffering people of this corporation rid
dent state.
Lord also took rap at Governor Am
mons and said he would perform the
first decent act Of his life when he
turns over his office 10 = successor and
travels across the Divide to his ranch in
Ronit county, which he never should
have forsSken for a political office that
he has so outrageously prostituted TO
the manipulations Of Rockefeller and his
hired men.
Mayor Duncan Held Responsible.
Il went from Denver 10 Butte with
! President Charles II. Meyer Of the West
ern Federation of Miners and was there
when the l. W. w. rioters assaulted the
union hall. making an effort to carry
here TO tell you that Mayor Lewis J.
Duncan of Butte and Sheriff Driscoll OF
Silver Bow county, both elected on the
Socialist ticket. are at the head of the
rotfcnest political machine in the United
Skates- An my life ! have been So.
cialist and preached that political doc.
tripe. and was one OF those who hailed
the election Of Duncan m triumph foi
the people; but. after getting in close
touch with conditions there. am
, ashamed for IL. Duncan and Driscoll
realizing that the union miners would
turn them out Of Office for failing "a
give them an honest government, sided
in with the j. W. w. wreckers sent out
by Jim McNauehton and the Boston
copper magnatcs TO disrupt the oreani.
zation. They have the Hinkey Dinks
and Bath House Johns Of Chicago backed
off the boards They knew what wa,
going TO be pulled off but took nc
steps TO prevent IT, No deputy sheriff.
or policemen were on duty to protect
life and property against the Wonder
wreckerr. I noted number Of facci
there that had become familiar during
my visits to the copper regions Of Mich
igan and then recalled Jim McNaugh'
tons threat TO put the Western FEEDER.
alton Of Miners out OF commission.
Scheme Of Criminal Capitalists
This is the latest scheme Of criminal
capitalists. After failing to check the
onward progress of organized labor by
use Of the courts and militia, now they
>ck to destroy from within the ranks
'sbor and are using the l. w. w. foI
tn.s nefarious PURPOSE. II was TEN.
porary sncccss at Butte but cannot bs
repeated, for this atrocious act has
awakened members of labor unions tc
the danger that turks within, and a
keen watch is being kept for prosclytcrs
of the Wrcckcr filth. who are the spies
and paid agents for the National Asso.
citation of Manufacturers and kindred
corporations Of employers. Perhaps not
all these men are fixed. II not they
are being dupcd and are scabbing on
their fellow -blacklegs
Made to Walk Down the Canon.
II am informed that all the delegates
who attended the Colorado Coal Miners
convention in Trinidad to demand en-
forcemcnt Of the state mining laws were
sent down the canon by order of John
the Baptists' hired men in this state.
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