The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-25

Support the Colorado Miners
The class struggle is appearing in Colorado in its most naked
form.
The state industrial commission the local city county
the companies their squads of
finally the itself all out to smash the
coal miners strike and jail deport the "agitators
Striking miners jailed Women the picket
line and they too jailed.
Running true to type the officials United Mine Work
union whose failure organize the miners chiefly reson
be the l. w W. organizers and members
leading the present struggle have out against the strike
Frank Hayes president the United Mine Workers. and
apparently holding minor position in the union quoted
by the Rockefeller press of Colorado saying that:
"The United Mine Workers opposing the action of this
group We have definite program OF CANCELLATION AND
ARBITRATION not the action sponsored by the W.
W the present members organization combating
with at their command the efforts of the Wobbe
to make this strike a success.
The the Colorado capitalist press is vicious in the
extreme be compared only to the tone of the whole press
in the Rocky Mountain states the time Frank Little
drd and the Pacific coast at the time of the Centraa
raid
In Wasenburg Pueblo AguIar and Trinidad the business
interests up dictatorship The private police
the and Rio Grande railroad the of the
coal and iron companies the local shers forces the prohb
ton enforcement officials and business men have been modified
against the strikers.
In Walsenbmg, the strikers hall raded by detach
ment of business men and the records burned
known W. W. sympathizers among
the miners have been either dpoe from the cities and
towns have been given orders to leave.
The city council of Wasenburg authorized the posting the
following notice the strikers hall in that city,
RESOLUTION
WaIsenburg Colo, Oct. Is.
TO THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, WAL
SENBURG, COLO:
That a mass meeting of business and citizens of
Wasenburg Coo held at the county courthouse Oct.
1927 city council requested you with this
notice.
Totice hereby served that you hereby ordered
your headquarters and entirely yourself
organization from and out of the city of Walsenburg by
Sunday Oct 6, 1927, and person persons
necd with of your organization hereby further de-
cared nuisance and such ordered leave the said
city.
(Signed) JOHN ]. PRICHARD, Mayor.
Attest: c. Victor Mazzone City Clerk.
Similar action taken in Aguilar.
In spite of the suppression the Colorado press notably
Pueblo Chiefan admits that at least so of the
miners have struck.
against the interests The Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company Rockefeller subsidiary dominates
Colorado Their mines largest smaller own
forced to follow the Rockefeller policy.
Company unonsm the so-caed Rockefeller PLAN has been
combined with spy blacklist and gunman system similar to
that in West Virginia to prevent union organization any
other means of effective protest by the workers.
present the of reaction The
miners and their wives and families fighting the
eu capitalists in the United States section of the country
where the soil is soaked with the blood of members
ing class butchered in similar conflicts
again The working class of the
United States must not and will not leave the heroic
Colorado to fight alone The working class front
tended into local. workers fratena society
operative.
Defense and relief organized The Colorado miners
must be given unsinted support in their struggle
Rockefeller and his must be made understand
that the fight not confined Colorado behind the
and who face his other workers
numbers who likewise determined that if Ludlow
shall not end the defeat of the Colorado
1912-but in their victory.
The New Ynrk Rannrt of The Eirst American Trade on