Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-19

and Michigan and written by Rev. n
cisi Service Commission of the Con
Rotary Of the commission on the ehu
Council Of the Churches Of Christ o
The Companies and the State.
The attitude OF the coal companies
toward the state government, as vel
as their relations to the enforcement
OF the laws, Is revealed in the latest
bienniaI report OF the bureau OF labor
statistics OF the state OF Colorado fol
1912. Leroy .Monical, deputy state
factory inspector, reported as follows:
March 81, l912-Wooten Land and
Fuel Company, two mines situated
close to the New Mexico line on the
Santa Fe railroad: / found the scales
az the Wooten mine unbalanced, the
scsles at the Turner mine very un.
favorable TO the miners. They could
not be balanced and on weighing a
car OF coal the weight OF three men
weighing $50 pounds only increased
the weight OF the car so pounds
March 26, I9l2-Delagua--Yictor.
American Fuel Company's mine:
Working good force OF men. Was told
Il was an open camp, but found gun
men resdy 70 exile all undesirables,
and was not allowed TO test the scales.
March 20 found the same conditions
existing at hastings, but was over.
looked by the marshal, who failed to
see me enter town ... ~. .
March IL, 1912-Segundo-C. F. &
] Co., washer and co.le ovens. found
the machinery unprotected and the
stairways without hand rails, and the
superintendent refused To give the
number of men working" IT
April 90, l912-Ludlow Ramey mine
Of the Huerfano Coal Company: Found
the men were having trouble getting
the increase of pay promised Was
invited TO attend meeting called by
the men and held on the open prairie
They asked my opinion and I gave II;
bat / am OF the opinion that there is
likely 10 be strike called, unless con.
ditiohs are adjusted
s.sMay is. Observation-Disclosures al
lowed 70 examine the scales at Victor
American fhel Companys mine.
ssMay 16, 1917 Gordon Coal Com
pany Werking boys under is years
Of, age had them laid off Immediate
MAY 76. 19i2-P ictou--C. r. & 1.
Cos nine visited. Was told by Mr..
Manley, superintendent that the Pic
ton mine was one mine that i could
not inspect; that he was running that
mine, not the state OF Colorado, and
the only way ] could inspect that place
was TO get aspecial permit from Mr..
Waited the general superintendent at
Pueblo. which ] did the next morn
ing. Mr.. R5anley met me the next
morning and apologized profnsely, say
ing he had made a mistake; that it
was the scales that could not inspect,
which did not"
Splendid laws have been passed by
the state OF Colorado regarding mines,
for. checkweighmen, and also
giving the state inspectors the right
to inspect scales, machinery and
mines, but from the reports of the in
spectors Il would seem that the coal
companies deemed II their right to de-
Iermine In what measure>the viii
1bey the law.
Political Domination.
The cosl companies dominate the
,olitics In those counties where th,s
mines are located. They have brought
bout the election of the judges, shsr-
IFS, coroners and assessors. They can
do about as they please so far as the
law is concerned. A mass OF evidence
was brought out in the congressional
Investigation TO show that they control
the political, social and economic sit
uation. jefferson Farr. sheriff OF
Huerfano county, has been in Office
for Is years and pricr to that his
brother was sheriff for four years. lie
IL known as the king of Huerfano
county what he says goes"as
one OF his admirers put 1t TO me. 1t
Is not what he says, however. but
what the coal companies say. These
companies have secured his election
as well as that OF other officers and
they control them. The federal grand
jury made a report at Pueblo Monday,
December 2, 1913. in which Is OF the
officials Of the United Mine Workers
OF America we're indicted for alleged
yiolati0nl of the Sherman antitrust
law. In the same report the jury says:
The coal companies have been suf-
a a.