The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-01
COIOradO--The State Steps in

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Martial law has not been declared in Colorado yet the
officers of the Colorado national guard in charge of the
Rockefeller interests just the
1t was no delegation of elected officials delivered
antpcketng umaum the strike leaders day before yeser
day but squad of military vested with the full of the
state.
Colonel Hart indeed could have echoed the saying
of the French tyrant he State It T. he told the
sntaes Of the Colorado miners that pcketng would be oer
ated no longer.
It is evident from the w. w press reports from the
strike that of the W. w leaders have been inclined
to look Governor Adams friend of labor at least
neutral the clash between the Rockefeller wing of
the American capitalist class and the Colorado miners
It believed to extent at least that the
enor was opsed to the use of roops and would permit picket
ing These illusions have been shattered The has
dered picketing under threat of martial law.
If picketng is stopped troops of will be used
They will not be The Rockefeller interests and the
smaller companies will be able to bring in skebeakers unham
pered
The struggle however, really between the Rockefeers and
the miners Rockefeller dominates the state of Colorado It
his and the state power his instrument the
ona is the instrument of the class to which Rookie
teller beongs-the capitalist class
There could be dangerous illusion created in the
minds of the miners who engaged life and death struggle
than that the state will be used in their in
terests that it will when
of Colorado capitalism menaced by revolt of exploited work.
What has happened?
The government itself makes miners The
Rockeers Individuals their mining companies and steel
their superintendent relieved of
responsibility.
Democratic government Officials elected by the people,"
american Institutions become for against the Col
orado workers.
Everything is quite legal Nothing is irregular National
guard officers and members clothed with full legal authority
about whose legal right to ride down. club byone shoot and
arrest there be question: take the places of the private
gunner of the coal and steel companies.
All is ship shape All in order The official documents
signed and sealed with the great seal of the state of
Colorado and countersigned by the governor
The state Of Colorado srkebeaker It's state apparatus
is gigantic rkebreakng machine It's armed forces
the disposal of the Colorado capitalist class They will try
drive the miners back to slavery
The Colorado miners will have resist the striebreakng
program of the state government-or surrender.
Openly and bruay the state power thrown against the
striking miners In Colorado takes the form of declaration
that pcketng Illegal orders to discontinue accompanied by
show of military forces
In West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio it takes the
of federal injunction against strikes and petng enforced by
the armed forces of the United States-marshals
The labor if the Colorado strike and the
the miners other states be base program
important struggles of the workers. the the
strument of the capitalist class.
Once this becomes clear the labor will no
time bemoanng the prostitution of American
institutions the of the empoyersthe avore compa
of labor offcialdom which supports capitalist partesbu
to organize mighty forces for decisive struggle whose
implications understood and not hidden
The Colorado miners must be given every possible aid in
fight against the state power of the Rockefeller dynasty