The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-02
Dstasta for The Use Of Militia in Industrial Disputes
in Colorado

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Pcketing suspended in Colorado fields
temporarily say the official reports of the W. w which
leading the strike,
was impressed upon the minds of the state officials says
the report that by this action did not renquh the right of
communications and conversations and that would
rights of free speech and free asebage guaranteed by the
constitution of the United States and the of COOradO that
also protested against the unWaaned actions OF the sherf
office of Los Anima county in using the picket law
to arrest any actively connected with the strike (Our
emphasis.)
fighting the might of the Rockefeller dynasty and its
ment in the Colorado coal fields for sitting in comparative
safety New York office say that spite of the proesta
tons which impressed upon the minds of the state Off
Gals greatly impressed by the in which the
whole question of the part played by the state in the
strike has been handled by the l. W. W. leaders
We stated yesterday that evidently there had
illusions relative Governor Adams and the state
orally.
W. w. committee than convinced that
considerable confusion still prevails.
On October 49, wire received from l. w w. leaders in
Walsenburg stated:
Governor Adams distaste for militia indus
trial disputes weknown and doubt very much that the
governor win send them in
In the message there following statement he
national guards arrival which predicted the brass check
failed to materaze Apanes however, observing
strikers activities during the day"
Further, in the official press report of l. w. W.
nttee today it stated in speaking Of the conference between
W. leaders and national guard officers that he colonel in
charge admitted that the W. W. leader good lawyer
for him and gave up good-naturedly."
But pckeng has been stopped threat of martial
by this military officer gave naturey"
and who speaks in the of the Colorado.
The state and the coal baron have given up nothing Arrests
still continue 1t the miners who have given up something
their picket line
We do blame the W. w. maneuvering to
prevent declaration of martial law and the occupation of the
strike by troops We urging,
office that the miners and their families bare their breasts to
the bullets and bayone of the military order give
tce human targets We do successful picket
ing may be possible under the circumstances
But this do know and this has to be said:
The Colorado strike be without picketing and
that sending stop pckeng the government
is breaking the strike.
The trouble here seems to be that the methods by which the
armed forces of the state being brought in to fight the battles
of Rockefeller interests of sfu kind than those
used in 1914
using the steel glave the velvet glove
The military officers laugh and chat with the W. W. leaders,
they admit that they Worsted III arguenbut picketng
stops Just the Behind the grns of the guardsen the
guns of the government
capitalist rarely open force when can get
the results by methods which leave the true relations be-
tween it and its state power hidden.
But to convey by word deed the impression Of
miners of Colorado the hundreds OF thousands other
who watching their struggle that the state government
Of Colorado anything else than eneuy of the miners
the miners expect do anything else but aid
barons, the greatest mistake that
made n this any other struggle of the kind
The miners Of Colorado should understand the
duty Of the W. W. leaders, whose anu devotion the
Of the working canot b questioned TO make clear
to them that the Colorado state government TIE of the
interests who fighting the miners inst it is
Governor Adams tnat counts but what ne does.
In way, shape for should the strike leaders
possible for the state stop pkeng
strike while at the time being able pose "a neutral
force" friendly to labor"
If the be won without picketing then the
strikers will have to pcket-or surrender.
But matter what the next development in the
strike is it must be given the answering support that such
struggle against the powerful ruthless section
of the capitalist class and its government all
tons of the labor and the working class.