The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-12

ffeller institution and violated openly
the laws that seemed detrimental to
them in order to stop picketing and
imprisoned the most active workers.
More Pressure.
The systematic campaign of the C.
F. and l. was forcing the HUMANE
tarians" from their pedestal. With
wholesale arrest of leaders, wholesale
invasion by stool-pigeons, with the C..
F. and l. and the yellow press clamor-
ing for blood, their moment came. On
the twenty-first, in the northern field,
at the Columbine, the State Police
under Scherf met the strikers at day
break at the mines and riddled their
ranks with bullets, resulting in the
murder of six and injury of scores of
others. Annear of the State Indus
trial Commission and Adj.-Gen. New
len happened" to be on the scene
and praised Scherf for his splendid
job of directing the murder. A cor
oner's jury of business men and rich
farmers whitewashed the work of the
State Police.
Estate of Insurrection."
A state of insurrection was pro-
claimed by the Governor, and the
National Guards under Adjt.-Gen.
Newton rushed to the north field at
once. Newton is a Republican and
his force. with the exception of Major
Audrelin, is largely composed of the
same party elements. With more
power to the c. F. and l., and the
Democratic Governors own State Po-
lice doing their bit in the southern
field, in the G. T. and I. field things
were moving along fine for the CAPT
talists. Although martial law was
not declared in Weld and Boulder
counties the Adjutant General arrest
cd strikers and had many held as
prisoners.
By the 26th the Governor and the
Adjutant General were in a battle
over marital law. Newton insisted
on martial law and the Governor in
sisted on leaving things as they were
While this was in full swing publicly
the battle between the Governor and
the Attorney General, Boatright, who
would like to be the next Governor,
was at its height over financial mat
ters.
A little later shake-up in the
State Penitentiary was also worry
ing the Governo~
The politicians motto is to take
advantage of the situation and this
| is the status of the group that rides
on the backs of the workers of Colo
RADIO.
The X. X. X.
In Fremont County, where the Khan
has weekly publication and influ-
ence of Importance, their position
was in support of the striking min
ers and the I. w. w. Not that they
loved the l. w. w. or it's principles,
nor the Mexicans, but because the
! Democrats and Republicans had both
fought them in election campaigns.
| The attitude of the miners, their
wholehearted support of the strike,
was force the Khan could not ignore
US local body even though the I. W.
w. were at the helm.
The Protestant Church.
The church, like the other capital
lst institutions, has been divided from
the first on the Colorado strike. The
Denver Ministerial Alliance and the
Weld County Ministerial Alliance
with committees working for a solu-
ton and a settlement, favored the
miners. The Weld County group
were bitter against the /. w. w. lead.
crship, as though in practice you car
separate the two. All the churches
the liberals, with few exceptions, be-
gan their Investigations and arrived
at the conclusions that the miners
deserved more wages weeks after the
strike started.
Most of them denounced the leader