The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-25
JOHN D., JR., BLAMED
FOR COLORADO WAR
Held Personally Responsible by
Men and Women Who Wit
ness Conflicts.
THEY TELL GRAPHIC STORIES
Call to Every Workingman Will
Be Sent if There Is Recurrence
of Slaughter.
THEY TELL GRAPHIC STORIES
Special to The Times-Dispatch. !

! fcllcr. Ji., was held personally rcspon-
| sible for the Colorado strike war a,
! :, meeting at tho Murray Hill Lyceum
| to-day by women and men who saw
| Holdicrs set tlre to tents. who witnessed
| the murder of >men. women and chill
| dren; who dragged scorched bodies
| from pits, and who themselves were
+! shot at repeatedly by soldiers and
! mine guards.
Graphic stories OF the horrors they
endured were told by Mrs. Pearl Jolly.
I sife Of p miner, and 4 trained nurse.
! and Mrs. NJ. H Thomas. also n miners
! wife.
Mrs. Thomas came to this country
! ten months ago from Wales. and she
! said that when she saw the Statue or
Liberty her heart thrilled. but that
now she feels that it is such travesty
that it ought TO be destroyed.
The miners were having bali
I game on April 90" said Mrs Jolly,
broke up the game. That night they
! began To fire on the tents with ma
J chine guns. We had only forty rifles
| In the camp, and the men took them
! and went into the woods, thinkins
! tho guards and soldiers would not fro
| Oh women: but they were mistaken.
The fire continued all night.
MAN WITH FLAG; OF TRUCE
DRIVEN BACK BY BULLETS
Louis kappas. the Greek leader,
went out to see Mayor Hamrock with a
! flag of truce, but they drove him back
wiki bullets. Later they captured him
! and beat and shot him TO death.
| ~ boy sat In u tent with his baby
| sister on his lap, caressing her. Other
| children stood around. bullet struck
! him in the head and his brains were
/ scattered over the baby and the other
| children
| Thinking they would respect tho
! Red Cross, / put on a white dress with
| crosses sewcd on the arms and breast,
| and ran toward 4 pit In which some
| women and children had taken refuge.
! was triven back by storm of bull
let's. The crosses furnished targets
| tor the guns.
"Dr. Curry's wife told the wife Of the
mine superintendent that they had
roasted twenty eight of the brutcs.
When we got permit from Governor
! Ammons to get the bodies from the
| pit we found only eleven children and
two women. Nothing in the pit showed
! evidence of fire, but all the bodies
'verc badly burned. Where were they
| burned? Possibly the furnace could
tell. but they would not let us go near
| that"
| WOMAN TELLS STORIES
| OF BRUTAL TREATMENT
/ Mrs. Thomas told similar stories or
| brutal treatment and said that the
| day Mother" Jones was put in Jail she
/ no conveyance and she hailed an au-
| tomobilc In which there were three
| nlen. She rode with them.
when l reached Trinidad was ar
/ rested" she said. General Chase came
along, and a soldier said Is this Mrs.
! fhomas?'
1T Is" said the general Take good
care of her"
| Il was guarded there for two hours.
and then marched, with nifty men With
guns ready 10 shoot, 10 the Jail l was
put in 4 tilthy cell and kept there for
eleven days. Food was thrown on the
/ fioor to me. For seven days l had my
two girls with me. Rats ran over our
! bodies at night. On the eleventh day
| was set free. No charge was made
against me. i never had trial. | do
not know now why | WAS arrested"
/ y scathing denunciation OF John ID.
| Rockefeller Jr., and Governor Ammons.
! of Colorado. was delivered by Adolph
| Germer. an organizer OF the United
Minc Workers.
THERE WILL DE; 40 PEACE;
UNLESS RoCkEFELLER GIVES IN
"Unlcss Rockefeller gives In there
will never be peace In Colorado" pro-
claimed Gcrncr. THE men want hon
est weighing of the coal they mnc,"
! he said. They want an enforcement
| OF the Colorado mining laws; they want
TO be permitted to board where they
| physician; they want to be allowed TO
deal where they want"
| or the slaughter of the innocent wo-
men and children, lie said:
! I'VE charge that John ID. Rockefeller,
Jr., is primarily responsible and guilty
! for the killing of every life that was
/ lost in Colorado He may go To his
Sunday school classes every day, but
/ never, from now until doomsday will
| his conscience acuuit him for causip;
: the carnival OF murder In the coal
/ fields of Colorado. His conscience will
! no more acquit him than did those OF
Lefty Louie ana Gyp the Blood Next
to him, we hold Governor Ammons
guilty, for sending his murderous
militia there.
I If there Is a recurrence of tho in
nocent slaughter of helpless ones In
Colorado. a call will be sent to every
| workingman In the United States To
come to Colorado. not armed with
toothpicks. but to come armed with
modern Implements of war, to inscribe
| on tho banner, An eye for an eye, and
q tooth for tooth. But hope that
ii will not be necessary to send out
such n call"
Defends TIIF; ARMING
OF STRIKING MINERS
! Defending the arining of tho strik crs,
/ he continued
| I'VE would have been towards if we
| had permitted those murdcrcrs Uho
miiitia) to como down and shoot our
women and children without raising a
| hand in rcbukc.
Governor Ammons IS now appealing
to patriotism. What care those gun
men and militia about patriotism, when
they do not show respect for the Stars
and Stripes? On every tent at our tent
colony in Ludlow the Stars and Stripes
were dying on the morning of the
cowardly attack on Sthc innocents
! When tho smoke OF the battle lifted,
every flag was shot into shreds and
then n match was applied to them by
the militia. What has Governor AM.
mons TO say about such a display Of
patriotlsm?"
Gcrmcr made the interesting state
ment that the total taxes paid into tho
! Colorado State treasury last year by
the coal companies was but $4,000. 1t
cost the state $4,000 II day to keep the
militia in tho fold.