The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-07
CHAIRMAN LAUDS
COLUMbINE MINE
FOR ITS MURDERS
By HUGO OEHLER.

DENVER, Jan. 6. - After the
1914 strike of the Colorado min
ers and after Ludlow, the general
assembly passed the Colorado Indus
trial Law of 1915, creating body to
deal with all struggles between the
workers and the capitalist, COM
mission that was to prevent indus
trial conflict, stop strikes and outlaw
picketing. The commission with its
three members, one for the employer,
one for the workers, and one for the
public, was the best arrangement with
the best laws for the interest of the
bosses that could be devised at that
period.
The Laws Provisions.
To begin with it is we'll to review
a few of the clauses of the law and
see how this body functions, ''fmpar-
TALLY" for the good of all concerned
or involved in any industrial controv-
ersy.
Each member of the commission
is elected for period of six years
and receives salary of four thous-
and per. With this goes the import
ant item of expenses necessarily in
Cured. In the present strike, led by
the Nv. W., the miners ask for the
Jacksonville scale of $7.75 per day.
At present the miners receive the
enormous average amount of 100000
a year in wages. A commissioner re-
ceiving $4,000 and expenses deals
with the living problems of miners
receiving 5000 year, with TECHNICAL
ties of the laws, with the status quo,
pushing to the background the item
of present standard of wages and
moving to the front the important"
issues of technicalities.
Frankly, the commission serves its
masters well so why shouldn't they
be paid more than the miners?
The Sacco-Vanzetti Strike.
In section 29, paragraph 2, we find
that, employers and employees shall
give the Industrial Commission and
the one to the other at least thirty
days prior written notice of ar in
tended change effecting conditions of
employment or with respect to wages
and hours"
When the l. w. w. called the Sacco-
Vanzetti two-day strike and over
three thousand miners answered in
the Southern field, the Industrial
Commission rushed to the field and
declared that it was unlawful as no
thirty day notice was given.
The strike was the longest in the
country for Sacco and Vanzetti, and
the miners informed the commission
that there was no change contem-
plated in working conditions, wages
or hours involved. The workers then
went back to work to wait for the
call to strike for wages, ETC., as
planned before. The demonstration.
led by Embree and Seidler was
success, the commission was on the
war path and the strike of two DAYS
was prelude to the coal strike OF
Colorado.
Drastic Rulings.
Section 20, paragraph / says, sun
interrupted relations shall continue
between the employer and employe
until settlement by commission.
Prior to and during an investigation
it shall be unlawful to cause lockout
or strike" We are informed by Sec
ton 80, paragraph I, "Employe who
goes on strike contrary TO provision
of law shall be guilty of misdemeanor
and fined not more than $50 and 6
months in Jail and each day or part
of day that the worker is on strike
shall constitute separate offense."
Section 33, paragraph 2, and para
graph 3, inform US that persons in
citing, or who encourages, or aids
in any manner any employer to de-
clare or continue a lockout, or en-
ploye to go or continue a strike, shall