The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-05-03
SAYS LAWSON
IS VlCTINlZED
ATTORNEY General of Colorado
Says Sentence Should he
Set Aside


with its old cunning, if not with its
old violence, put John K. Lawson, Of
the United Mine Workers of America,
in prison, as it thought, for life. But
the Colorado Investigations of the
United States commission on in
dustrial relations saved John Lawson
from that conviction.
The attorney general of Colorado
has Just now declared in written
record of the supreme court of Col
orado, that Lawson's conviction and
sentence should be set aside, because
there was clear and admitted pref
udice against Lawson in the trial of
the case.
Walsh Condemns System
This is the most terrific arraign-
ment of the court" declares Frank p.
Walsh, chairman of the commission,
that was ever heard Of.
"The Rockefeller system in Colora-
do which procured this fraudulent
conviction, and which brought on the
Ludlow massacre, thus gets another
singing blow on top of the lashing
it received from the supreme court
Of Colorado last summer, when that
court ousted the political creatures
of the Rockefellers, Sheriff Farr and
the others from office, on the ground
that the Rockefeller system had cor
rupted the election and invaded every
constitutional safeguard of liberty
and justice in the land,"
And yet exposed and condemned as
it is. this Rockefeller system still
fights the unionism of the miners,
and is the one powerful influence
still striving to prevent peace and
good will between the mine workers
and the mine owners.
Decries Fake Unionism
The Rockefellers have not only i'm
posed upon the mine workers a hand
made and fake union, directed by
their superintendent, but they are
trying to force that same fake union
izra isfts the r1ines Of independent
companies.
There is not even the shadow of
excuse now for this attitude of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company and
the Rocky Mountain company (the
big Rockefeller corporations in the
Colorado coal fields" says Frank J.
Hayes, vice president Of the United
Mine Workers, who has just won the
union recognition. They are hold
ing out against the inevitable, al
though the other big corporations
not controlled by the Rockefellers
have made strong union contracts
with the United Mine Workers
''The president Of the great Victor
American Fuel company, which has
just entered a union agreement, was
one Of the strongest opponents Of the
miners all through the Colorado
strike He was the chairman Of the
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commenting on IHe7e recent We
tories IN OoioIaoo anu y" C'e oolICi'l-
ued opposition o. Iie NocAeIeilei
companies III collilecVIoi WIN Cle
Johh H. Lawson case MI aI7ii
SAID:
Praises Mine Workers Union
"The mastelful ability and the he
roic persistence Of the great United
Mine Workers organization has again
proved its invaluable service to the
coal miners and to all American
workers.
"By their new contract with the
Victor American Fuel company the
mine workers have gotten everything
from that corporation which the