Denver labor bulletin., 1915-09-04
Names Inquiry Court to Apply
WhiteWaSh Coat
Mine Workers Retaliate by Threaten
ing Arrest Of Rockefeller, Welborn,
Brown and 0seood for Murder

upon the governor and those who were
responsible for the Ludlow massacre and
other crimes committed in the name of
law and order.' Each day this week
the fretful chief executive of the state
has issued charges and determinations,
written by an attorney for the coal op
orators and complacently signed or given
to the press by Carlson.
The Rockefeller Carlson Farrar clique
was goaded into fury first by the
state supreme court decision ousting
| their hand-picked judge, CRANKY c. Hill
yer, from presiding further in the strike
cases framed up by Farrar, and grant
ing a stay of execution of the sentence
to life Imprisonment imposed on John
r. Lawson by Judge Hillyer. Then came
the Frank p. Walsh report of the federa,
industrial commission exposing all the
rottenness OF the state government un.
der Ammons and Carlson, puppets of the
Rockefeller system, and the state mill
tia under Adjutant General John Chase.
This was followed by a committee OF
thirty former and present state militia
officers forcing Carlson to hear their
charges against Chase and his hinged
knee staff of discredited militia off
GERS. Then came the disclosure that Of
ficers of the United States war depart
ment We're investigating the sale OF
S2l 900 worth of federal army supplies
by Chase and his officers to Mexican
bandits while camped in the southern
strike zone last year.
Militia Raids Hotel Room.
Little wonder that Carlson, Farrar,
and the whole Rockefeller gang are so
mad they are charging President Wilson
with using his influence to keep men
from joining the discredited state militia.
Acting under orders of Carlson and
Chase. a detail of state militia officers
raided room at the Savoy hotel Sat
urday night, as they said, to gain evil
dence that the United Mine Workers
had Joined President Wilson and Seere-
tary of War Garretson in a conspiracy
to prevent a reorganization OF the Colo
RADIO national guard"
It's all SO ridiculous that it mounts
almost to a tragedy, and Carlson Is
proving himself the biggest buffoon who
ever disgraced the governors chair of
any state. Truth is, he had no bus
mess getting into the mess handed
down by Ammons, but hadn't the nerve
to fire Chase in face of orders not to
do so by the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company officials.
Following the testimony submitted to
the governor behind closed doors by the
protesting officers committee, of which
Captain Phillip S. Van Cise is chairman,
the governor appointed a military court
of inquiry. This board, composed of
Lieutenant Colonel Edward j. Boughton,
Major II. ]. Hershey, Chaplain Henry
Pingree and Private r. j. Mcdonald, Is
| for the sole purpose OF whitewashine
Chase and his thieving, dirty gang
Boughton, chairman of the board, is one
of the men against whom the Van Cise
| obar nd tutUp
| advocate of the courtmartial following
| the Ludlow massacre, ordered acquittal
| of the militiamen guilty of those muir
ders.
May Prosecute Operators.
| This board has been busy all week,
| under orders of Carlson and Chase, try
| ing to involve the United Mine Workers
and other union officials upon charge
of treason or melting an insurrection, or
| some other dire offense created by n
nightmare in the governors office.
| Space in this issue of The Bulletin
| does not permit going into all the de-
tails. But the United Mine Workers
and their attorneys have not been IDLE.
Indications are now that criminal prose
cutions will be brought against John ID.
Rockefeller ir., Jesse +. Welborn, pres
ident of the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany; David w. Brown, president OF the
Rocky Mountain Fuel company, and
John c. Osgood, president OF the Victor
American Fuel company.
In preparation for the arrest of these
men. the Eastern officers of the United
Mine Workers have had detectives scour-
inc the state for months, following the
failure of negotiations looking to the
abandonment of prosecutions against
Lawson and several other miners for
killings during the strike.
investigators Have Been Busy.
The general officers of the miners or
panization sent into this field, in addi-
] fion to these detectives, Major q. ID.
Elliott, former adjutant general OF west
| VIRGINIA as a special investigator, ana
charged him, besides others, to make an
effort to induce the abandonment OF pro-
ceedinqs against the miners, as was done
in west Virginia following the great
coal strike In that state, in which
| E1I;ott commanded the militia.
II was Major Elliott's room in the
savoy hotel that was raided by the
militia officers sent out by Carlson and
Chase. TT
In preparation for the raid, which he
| had been warned was coming, Elliott
"nIanted" his room in such way that,
when the raiding party arrived, ana
while he was on his way to see the gov
ernor at the latter's request, the mill
tarv sleuths obtained just what Elliott
wanted them to Finland no more.
Boughton Called Crook.
Those military officers who filed
charges against Chase, Lee, Boughton
and Others, have ignored the court OF
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