Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-17
Gov. .Anlnnons Now
Press Agent For
Coal Operators

Denver, Colo, Sept. 17-(Special. y
won for himself the title of chief lick
spittle of the coal operators, is out in
a new role-this time writing letters
to be used as press matter for the
Colorado coal operators.
When the strike was called, Am
mons began at once to use the influ.
ences of his Office for the operators
The state militia was sent into the
strike zone, at the cost of the taxpay-
ers, of $1,0OO,OOO to protect coal
barons' property at the expense of per
sonal rights and constitutional govern
ment.
The slaughter of the innocents at
Ludlow was done by his gunner
militia
Now that the federal troops are in
the field and he cannot use state pow
ers to aid the coal operators, Ammons
is writing wilfull and deliberate lies
in the form of letters to newspapers
to be used as copy" for. the opera
tors.
His first effort was spent in talk
on ''the other gunner" in the coal
strike. He mentions the several motor
ious thugs who were killed when the
gunner of industry attacked the
peaceful strikers, trying to bring out
the point of course that the strikers
were "the other gunner"
III Silent on Slaughter.
But he says nothing of the twelve
children slaughtered and cremated at
Ludlow by his gunmen7militia, nor Of
the other % strikers who have lost
their lives, at the hands of the opera
tors gunner, in their effort to obtain
Industrial and political freedom in
Colorado through an enforcement of
the laws now on the statute books
The miners scale committee met in
Denver this week to make a scale for
contracts to be signed for two years
/ 1nformatiO nhas been given out, but
it is believed that there will be few
changes in the present scale.
There are now thirty-five indepen
dent operators working under a con
tract with the United Mine Workers
and other mine owners are contem
plating the recognition of the union.
Union Labor Efficient.
The greater efficiency Of union Ia
Dor is clearly brought out in the cur
rent report of the State Inspection Of
Coal Mines.
The report shows that mines work
Ing under an agreement >Nwith the
United Mine Workers are producing
almost twice their normal tonnage.
while the operators employing scab
labor are only getting out" about one
third of their normal output.
Aspirants for state and county Of
fees will undergo a rigid examination
next week, when the State Federation
of Labor meets in Pueblo.
For years the workers Of Colorado
have been buncoed by the prediction
friends Of labor. The present strike
of the coal miners, however, has
taught them a lesson severe enough
to make them realize that they must
stand together at the coming election
and go down the line for real friends
Of organized labor, or else suffer in
termittent outrages such as that at
Ludlow. @m
The end and final shape-up Of the
Colorado National guard may come
this week. It is understood that
Chase has refused to pay those men
connected with the Ludlow massacre
who have been awaiting the verdict
of the military (0 court martial. If
he holds up their money, they have
threatened to sue him, and the state
as well as "to tell few things they
know about the militia"
If they do tell even a few things
they know about the Colorado Nation
al Gunner, the world viii stand
aghast at the horrors of military rule
FOUR MAJORITY- :. .oryRt
in the coal strike zone.
Ammons Discredited.
Poor Elias M. Ammons, sometimes
called the Governor Of Colorado, con-
tinues to be Missed, jeered and hooted |
at the Democratic assemblies. Am
mons, commanderin-chiefo of the Colo |
RADIO National Guard and executive. |
who prostituted his Office to the coal !
operators, will go down in Colorado |
annals as the most discredited Demo-
crat in the history Of that party.