The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-05-21
SHALL LABOR BE CRUCIFIED
IN COLORADO?
THE MILLIONS OF WORKING MEN
AND WOMEN WILL ANSWER
THE QUESTION

guilty aaginst John X. Lawson, ma
tional board member of the United
Mine Workers, and fixed the penalty
at life Imprisonment, the press that
hears it's masters voice" has paid
flattering tributes to the supremacy
of that Flaw and order" SO dearly
loved by every licensed malefactor
who sings: my Country 'Tis of Thee"
to hide his infamy LAW AND ORD
Err in the coal fields Of southern Colo
RADIO is but a travesty on human
rights, for LAW is but the WILL of
the economic master.
The sympathy of American hearts
has frequently gone out across the
seas to the downtrodden and Cypress
ed of the old world, and on many &C.
casions in this country the eloquent
tongue has pleaded for the czar-cursed
millions of Russia who have groaned
beneath the royal sceptre of blood
stained monster, whose claims upon
divinity have been a blasphemy
against every chapter of sacred his
tory.
Struggling millions in the limbo of
| cZar have turned their eyes upon
the shores of continent that was
baptized in human blood to sanctify
the holy name of Liberty, and as they
thought republic beyond the waste
of waters, they longed to leave the
hated domain of a dynasty, and plant
| their feet upon the soil of a nation,
where it has been proclaimed that
"the voice of the people is the voice
of Cod
They heard beyond the seas that
here beneath the vaulted dome of
Young Columbia, despotism cannot
live, and that freedom is the heritage
of humanity.
To the enslaved of emperors and
kings, there have been waited "the
tidings of great joy in the land of
the free and the home of the brave, "
and the language of nation has been
left barren to immortalize the heroism
and the matchless valor that tore from
the iron hand of regal Imperialism the
right to lay the foundation of demo
cracy, whose constitution has been
lauded as the grandest document that
was ever handed down for the gov
eminent of man.
The patriots who lived at the birth
of the republic and who consecrated
their all to build government under
whose constitution man, woman and
child should be free, could never have
contemplated even by the utmost
stretch of their comprehensive intel
lects that a day would ever dawn on
the bosom of America when liberty
would be crucified and justice strang-
led to death, by the power OF corpor-
ate might.
Colorado and the states of western
America have been populated by men
and women who sought a wider lib
erty than was to be found in the
crowded and congested districts of the
east, and as they wendell their way
towards the Pacific and gazed upon
the mountains that lifted their rugged
peaks towards the stars, they felt
that on the broad expense of western
| bull 1nr
whose sacred precincts would never
be darkened by the shadows of in
dustrial tyranny.
Dreams of liberty in the west have
been shattered for corporate might
has borne its black flag of piracy
across the prairies of our agricultural
states and planted it's banner of greed
on the Hottest SUBMITS of the Rockies
and the shadow of its flag is reflected
on the waters of the western ocean.
There are no more spots on Ameri-
can soil that are free from the brig
andage and piracy of industrial Sam
sons.
There is no more west in which the
victim of greed can seek shelter The
time is here and now, when the battle
must be fought, and it is the battle
of all the ages-a battle in which
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness" are at stake.
In the language of the Revolutionary
patriot: These are times that try
mems souls" and in this hour when
liberty is trembling on her blood
bought throne, the courage of real
men will stand the test, that gov
eminent of the people by the people
and for the people shall not perish
from the earth"
In the past few years some history
has been written that might well
arouse the people to the dangers that
menace the institutions of this coun-
try.
Greed has pulled off the mask and
hid, IN fba n0Uarc nf pOV-