Denver labor bulletin., 1915-10-23
Observed From the Mine Tipple
By ]. D. RAMSAY

own busines. to suit themselves, Ind
the coal consumers OF Colorado viii be
very simple ii they allow these fellows
TO levy a tax on the coal they must
use in this climate for such purposes
If anyone has any idea that these
people will treat the consumers fairly,
they have another guess coming. They
never treated their employees -quareiy
and unless rumor lies about them they
haven't treated their business associates
with any consideration at all, and its
not so very long ago since rney SeS.
fighting each other and causing sovGf
scandal by using abusive language -:
each other in public.
If there are any people fools enough
to think of providing these gentlemen
with any real dollars, they hao better
get a list of the properties the merger
owns. then get the valuation that these
people put on il themselves Tor taxa
tioin purposes. This can be had in the
office of the county assessor in the
county in which the property is situ-
ated. Then 90 to the county CLERK IN
these same counties and find what
mortgages are recorded against these
same properties. Then if they think
that coal mining operated by those
peoples management is profitable, let
OF coal mined at the same properties
and the number of men employed min
ing this coal and take their own state
ments in their published strike aivcr-
tisemcnts as TO what they pay miners
and it will be very easy to calculate
from their own figures what available,
profit they will have to pay dividends
from.
Gambling doesn't seem to have been
the only means the Reverend Dwight
Hills has of gaining notoricty IL
seems that this reverend scamp not only
vilified the Colorado coal miners for
what he could get out Of the dirty job.
but that he lied about his nephe~f. and
tried to cover up his own rascaiity by
telling people he was paving the liabili.
ties oi the nephew. Now h. j. being
prosecuted Tor libel. Isn't he b,.anti-
ful specimen OF the modern preacher
The example OF such men would II fol-
lowed empty Heaven and fiji Hell
\ few. very few. new -papcr- src -tili
busy trying to make capital out of the
strike and the trouble that attended h..
They seem bent upon stirring up AN the
class hatred that can possibly b. - rrr-i
up They may imagine by taking this
course they are boosting Governor Carl.
son aud biz administration but ncally
these sweeps are doing more than any.
thing eise 10 discrcdii them. and iu
more than one instance thc-e fclleg-
have deliberately attempted 10 sllk
trouble solely and only for tne cfitSt
such an outbreak would have on the
public.
These same papers have gone out uf
their way to publish the usual hog
conglomeration of crooked nou-s t-
about John Iawson'- release 90 hail.
The stiffness of their throwing mud in
Lawson's direction IL about equal To
the amount of their impudence in saying
anything at all about the case. Th.v
themselves and their associates are ti,c
people who need TO h. ashamed of the
Lawson trial. for il was they who enr,.
ncered the dirty deal
The prejudice against what thk-.
people choose to call the foreign r
be seen in the holding of ZancAn.N
The address Of the public prosecutor 10
the jury was in itself sufficien; to in
validate the whole proceeding. IL ~a-
a mass OF statements wholly untrue and
distorted with a view OF rou-iny any
race difference that there might b. in
the court. Zancanell's real crime secn-
to be that he is an Italian union miner.
and ns such any means available can
be used to get rid OF him. IL j. 10 h.,
hoped that the efforts that are being
made for his release will shortly b.
successful
J. ID. RAMSEY.