The chronicle=news. (Trinidad, Colo.) 1898-current, 1914-11-07

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Coal miners today are by no means
the ignorant. whipped-out repressed
and depressed poems that they have
been pictured.
They come and go at Will.
They know all parts of the United
| States
II they can not get work in one
place with proper treatment they
will go to another,
In order to hold his men mine
operator has to look out for the
health, happiness and prosperity of
his people. - So
,, Here were ten thousand miners at
work, happy and contennted-two
thousand out on strike. And this
strike was the work of the agitator.
and not the worker.
The endeavor was to compel the
oEerator to deal with and through
the United Mine Workers. And the
aim Of this organization Is not pri-
marily to benefit the lot of the work
crs, but to- create revolution in our
economic form of government. -'1
The demand was that every owner
Of coal mine must contract with
this organization and agree to ems
ploy only Its members, and to deduct
from its payroll the dues. assessments
and fines for which every member
might be indebted.
In other words. the United Mine
Workers were to manage the mine
and to use the actual owner as an
agent to collect the union dues and
remit these to union headquarters.
Practically. the agitators wanted
the employers to go into partnership
with them and dupe the workers.
These agitators said to the operat-
ors. "If you will not comply with our
terms we will not allow you to oper-
ate these mines.
And they set about to make good
| their threat. W y e
The United Mine Workers is dom
mated by MARKHAM Socialism. and
this of most shameless, lawless and
disorderly character
There are two kinds of Socialism
the Socialism that gives and the So
ClAllBNl tHaL ueLuHuuS.
AS an ideal theory Socialism is cor
rect, but as long as Socialism is in
the hands of anarchists, men who
love liberty and reverence the FLAG
will hate and dctest Socialism
that stands for red revolution.
Trade-unionism has much to COM
mend it. but there is no organization
that / know of which stands for dis
order as does the United Mine Work
crs.
The people of Colorado are fight
ing for liberty. They are fighting
for the maintenance of the open
shop. and it is not local issue, eth
er. They are fighting for the con-
stitutional right of man to work.
when, where. and upon what terms
he sees fit to accept.
The operators in Colorado who are
standing for this principle deserve
our respect and encouragement
The Rockefellers. father and son.
are denounced as murderers., simply
! because they will not order their
employees in Colorado to knuck1e I'M
der the demands of the United Mine
Workers. NO 'is
f., If the Rock efellerst should issue an
order tllatiall' Of their operators must
iointtlle United Mine Workers. as the
agitators demand. they would be
guilty OF tyranny which no good
American could possibly uphold
The men out on strike are most
ly soldiers of fortune. Many of these
fought in the Bulgarian-Grecian war
Wien they came to Colorado they
were fighters still. and finding arms
rcady for them, they succumbed to
habit and entered easily and quickly
into the strife.
But these men are not Americans.
Neither do they symbol the things
for which America stands. Very few
Of them are American. citizens They
are grcasers in ty;c and temporal
ment =. &c 7,r.s t..,It.r
The Shame Of the Thing.
The value of the coal mines of
Colorado. comparatively. Is not great,
the money invested trivial, and the
number, of. employees insignificant
The issue involved. however, is great
and far-reaching.
The majority Of people in Colorado
are cminently intelligent, thrifty,