The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23


The of murder which has been in the Colorado
month been precptaed bloody rain Not quite
bloody but just brutal the Ludlow holocaust IS the
slaughter at the CoIumbne mine.
The class struggle Colorado sharp the crack Of the
rifles the hands police which sent their deadly missiles
into the bodies of unarmed workers-men and women
Who are the heroes hailed by the capitalist press?
Are they the men of the mining led by
w W. workers. who faced with their bare hands the forces OF
Rockeer state government armed with every device OF mod
warfare who their lives that company unonsm would
be smashed and the labor movement be stronger?
No. the the capitalist press the welarmed
thugs the orders of the capitalists of Colorado
Brave men these The capitalist press able report that
was hit by stone and one had finger slashed
Governor Adams praises Louis N scherf who the order
Ammon of the state at the time of the Ludlow
Ludlow had its Linderfeld Columbine has it's Scherf.
these individuals only instruments. They make
policy and give orders that have been given to them
Back of Lnderfed stood Rockefeller and his government
back of Scherf stands Rockefeller and his government
An Anmons becomes Adams a republican, the other
democrat but both representatives OF American capitalism
both the boodtaned ground Of Colorado with the
bodies of murdered miners and their wives.
Our heroes the and of the woringcass who
died that others of their class might breathe little of the
air of freedom Cynics will say it wise die such
small gains capitalsms apologsts
by the that the working class wades for long
while thru its blood before it wins power.
Then as throughout the capitalist world the Russian
revolution, wiseacres substitute waling for wisdom
Slowly but surely the American working class building the
traditions of struggle sacrifice which together with
and militant leadership will enable
bring crashing the ground the whole structure of capitalist
Imperialism.
The main task to allow specious pleas of official
leaders who the capitalist rulers of America
conceal the implications of the struggle in Colorado pic
ture incident isolated from the whole struggle Of the
American
The struggle Colorado differs only detail from the srug
gle of the miners in Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia
the struggle of the traction workers New York from that of
the needle trades workers from the struggle of the automobile
workers. from the struggle of textile workers. north and south
it is part of the America class struggle
Every time the armed forces of state appear
openly instruments Of the capitalist Colorado every
time injunction is granted by federal court which outlaws
unions and the efforts of workers organize every time the
capitalist aud the murderers of the striking workers.
time worker jailed for activity in the class struggle
the lie given to the uphoders of capitalist democracy and
out of the ranks Of the working class
The working and the Colorado coal fields have
proven their loyalty their class and the organized labor
ment.
To these heroic workers undyng gratitude and
answering support.
The maryred dead Colorado have become the SYM
oppression inspiration struggle
against it,
1t not true that the path glory leads but the grave
poets but that for the working class the those
who fall the class struggle the path victory