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importation of strike breakers, was the
governors advisor in formulating the
policy, and he has eloquently testified
to the chaos and violence that resulted
when the coal operators coerced the
governor into abandoning it.
Beginning Immediately after the state
gave its sanction and assistance to the
importation of strike breakers, the dis
cord increased in violence until the oc-
currence at Ludlow, five months later, IN
which thirteen women and children and
six men living in the strikers colony
were killed by militia and mine guards.
President Wilson sent the federal
troops to Colorado one week after the
Ludlow massacre. In his first orders to
the commanding officer, Secretary OF
War Garrison directed the troops to pro-
hibit the importation of strike breakers.
Disorder at once ceased, and during the
six months the federal troops remained
in the field under these orders peace was
maintained without difficulty.
Chicago an Example.
in the summer of 1915 the city OF
Chicago witnessed a strike that com
pletely tied up the surface and elevated
street ear transportation for three days.
The companies telegraphed to New York
for strike breakers, and these were dis
patched by the trainload. En- route to
Chicago, one consignment OF these rowing
desperadoes broke from their guards at
a station in Pennsylvania and raided
depot lunch rooms, seiZing all the food
and drink in sight and defying the au-
thorities. Desperate men accustomed to
the quick ise OF fire arms swarmed into
Chicago from every direction. The city
looked forward with dread to bitter
strike. Then the city council passed an
ordinance introduced by Alderman John
c. kennedy, which in intention and effect
prohibited importation of strike breakers
by requiring that no man should be EN-
ployed on the transportation lines who
had not had six months experience. The
companies uncompromising attitude i'm
mediately collapsed. They announced
that they would accept arbitration as
proposed by the mayor. Within, twelve
hours traffic was resumed on all lines.
Not man had been injured, a dollars
worth of property destroyed, or an arrest
made. The city was saved weeks and
months of intense discomfort, violence,
bloodshed and property loss running into
the millions.
A Governor on the Job.
Quite recently, Governor Hunt OF
Arizona averted conflict between mine
operators and miners that promised to
be as disastrous as that in Colorado by
insisting that the companies not import
strike breakers.
I'VE are to have no repetition OF Colo
RADIO here" said Governor Hunt. And
by placing his finger on the direct and
immediate cause of strike violence he
saved Arizona from disaster.
What are the facts regarding the prac-
tice which Congress is asked to stop?
They are startling, and known only to
a few.
Strike breaking has been organized as
profitable industry. 1T is in the hands
of men who are experts in organizing
brutality and terrorization.
The manager of singre strike break
ing agency has boasted that within
twenty-four hours he could gather an
army of 10000 armed men ready for
shipment to any point in the United
States. He had admitted that some of
these men have served prison sentences,
that they are proficient in the use OF
fire arms, that they love adventure OF
the sort which strike breaking affords,
that a prison record is no bar to their
employment. His attorney has called