Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-15
TRINIDAD UNIONS
ASK FOR JUSTICE
Assembly Declares Courts Are
Railroading Officials
Tyranny Of Rockefeller and His Class
Must Cease to Control Courts and
Politics in the State Of Colorado

At a regular meeting of the Trinidad
Trades and Labor Assembly, following
the court verdict convicting John X.
Lawson, the following declaration was
adopted by a unanimous vote as an APP
peal to liberty loving citizens OF this
state and nation:
We. the Trinidad Trades Assembly,
representing organized labor in Las Ami
mas county, appeal TO you to come to
the assistance of the victims of the
tyranny of Rockefeller and his servants.
You are acquainted with the Colo
RADIO miners strike and its unfortunate
outcome, as well as with the brutalism
Of the coal company officials, the mine
guards and the Baldwin -Felts assassins.
Many strikers, women and children
were murdered and burned by those
bloodhounds and the Ludlow massacre
will never be forgotten by the working
class the world over.
Men Being Railroaded to Pen.
Row, that the strike is over for the
present the influence OF Rockefeller com
menced to railroad to the penitentiary
the union men who We're most prom
inent in this strike. Louis ZancaneIli
and John r. Lawson have been con-
yicted to imprisonment for life, in the
courts of Las Animas county.
The evidence against Louis Zancanell
i that he was arrested; the evidence
against John X. Lawson is that he was
the most prominent strike leader.
Under the system of cooperative
tyranny, the coal barons ask for the life
Of John r Lawson and finally decreed
that he be sent to the penitentiary for
life
Lawson was born in the coal mining
regions Of Pennsylvania and went TO
work in the coal mines at eight years Of
age and worked in the coal mines until
elevated TO a position Of honor and trust
by his fellow workers.
lie i a man without a stain or blem-
ish, either in private or public life; a
man OF family.
But the tyrants do not heed the vir-
tues OF the working men They want
to destroy Lawson because he represents
the principles of organized labor.
Crush their leaders and we crush their
cause is the battle cry of Rockefeller
and his class. then we can make profit
undisturbed by those who work for us"
Trying to Take Away Leaders"
They are endeavoring by every foul
means to take Lawson from us and other
trusted leaders in our cause.
The time for action on the part OF the
working men OF this country is at hand.
We, the workers, must demand that
the tyranny OF Rockefeller and his class
shall cease. That their tyranny through
political control shall cease. That their
control OF the courts of justice shall end,
and that the working men shall be given
fair and impartial trial
We appeal to the international officers
OF the United Mine Workers of America.
the American Federation of Labor, the
Colorado State Federation OF Labor, and
every other organization, national, state
and local>and all sympathzers to arouse
against Rockefeller Justice.
The Goddess of Justice has been pros
tituted by corporate tyrants to cover
with her clothes the crimes of the coal
corporations and their servants.
Inhumanity and Brutalism Charged
The inhumanity and brutalism OF the