Denver labor bulletin., 1918-02-23
fer committee.
j. w. MORRIS.
JOE TRUJILLO.
CHAS. LEVEQUE.
w. NJ. JOHNSON.
Huerfano County Miners Kick.

SouutN hlCh.
The following letter from Huerfano
county indicates that the miners are
no longer in a temper to be fooled
with; that the frauds committed by
Moran, Pippin and McLennan in the
State Federation election and later in
the District miners election, have
brought a revolt that may mean dis
ruption to District Is, and withdrawal
from the international union.
"Walsenburg, Colo, Feb. Il, 1918
Editor Denver Labor Bulletin,
Denver, Colo.
Dear Sir and Brother:-All thru
Southern Colorado the greatest excite
ment since our coal strike of 1914 is
taking place, because of the fraudulent
count of the ballots of District Is,
United Mine Workers, and the count
ing out of John r. Lawson and Ed. L.
Doyle, after being elected by large
majority, as shown by the tally sheets
held by each local union of this Dis
trict.
"Charters are being taken down
from the walls of local union halls, the
streets of Walsenburg are crowded
with anxious miners, demanding that
a Western union be formed at once, to
take in every state west of the Mis-
sissippi and that all local funds bt
turned over to the Red Cross to help
the brothers at the front. AS soon as
possible, / am informed, new union
of coal miners will be formed indie
pendent of the United Mine Workers
of America. So much for the crooked
work practiced on the coal miners by
Moran, Pippin and McLennan.
Yours fraternally,
CIVILIAN JARDINE,
"a Dissatisfied Union Miner"
Mass Meeting In Frederick.
A letter from Ojo Local Union No.
3018 tells how Organizers Dick Robin
son and Mike Salvage came there and
endeavored to convince the local that
Lawson and Doyle deserved defeat,
and they were so severely repudiated
that return visit is not expected.
Tomorrow, Sunday, mass meeting
of miners employed in the Northern
Colorado fields will be held at Freder-
ick, for the purpose of protesting
against the frauds committed in the
recent referendum election of officers
of District 10 and to consider a plan
that will remove the disrupting ele-
ments and ballot stealers from the
state.
Unless international President
Frank J. Hayes takes prompt action
10 ulSdNOW ITauuS COinHlltleu ny MS
representatives in Colorado and guar
antees to the miners of this state the
right to choose their own officers, there
will undoubtedly be one less district
registered upon the books of the
United Mine Workers of America.
Tired of the Debauchery.
For over year the coal diggers
here have been patient, have over
looked crimes against unionism that
would not be tolerated in any other
section of the country, in the hope that
eventually these wrongs would be
righted They feel, however, that this
latest fraud and debauchery commit
ted by Moran, Pippin and McLennan,
and condoned by members of the In
ternational Executive Board on the
ground, is beyond the limit Of further
endurance and open revolt is the only
thing left for them by which sem
blance of democratic union govern
ment can be obtained.
The convention in Pueblo next Mon
day will no doubt write some new his
tory upon the pages of turbulent labor
disputes in Colorado.