The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-25

CROPPED my way back to where Big Barney Quig %t@s ~
he walked with to the doctors ~ sEY
office We about three thousand feet in the ~ 81
"first aid" ban V>.s-~S5M
dages, it just question of getting there some WaS
how and keeping the bleeding hand from knocking
against the wall we went out remember that
this the walked through cuts where
the than six feet Deep
got DOCTOR said that part of hand would
putated told him that did want to through
He said:
the afraid that he would take off the
fingers while was After some days the hand showed
carried it in sling long time.
Ny wife and girl had then just come Sa vsr C City ~ W Tdsh
unable work because of broken hand the
this emergency very we'll bought tworoom
from miner named schng who leaving camp paying
the nsamens We moved into home
early part following August Edward Boyce pres
dent the Western Federation of Miners Silver City for the
both tbu did not know then that would ever be able
go work in the mines still CARRYING arm in
the sling But greatly interested in what Boye had to say Here
TALL slender had head with thin hair His features
good but his teeth were prominent This was due to @ con-
caiona disease met with quite often among mill men,
With than thousand other miners he had been arrested by
request of Governor shoup bulpen was built in which the pi
high sanitation provided
the above dpped through the cracks in the
plank floor on the men below slhy became and
diseased and some of them died.
mill had been blown A story aelward
assembly Knights of
He already well known the miners The story related in
fume hundreds of feet the mounansde The boxes
slid down the fume at tremendous velocity and exploded when they
the mill; it long The unreiabily of the story
the mpe Pettbone by asserting that he
badly injured his Petit
hurt his feelings badly embttered by the conditions Of
dAene before the strike 49, He
could forget the maggots the meat the wahy
Association organized by John Hays Hammond
Western Federation of Miners had been
Boise Hawley attorney
suggested them that all Of the miners the West should come to-
the miners unions then existence scattered
released convention called May 49, 1893 Butte Montana,
and the Western Federation of Miners organized.
big
of the WIN This in Cripple Creek Colorado 1894 Every
the district had strike to reduction of
district then be monares themselves into
organization called the Mine Owners Association They knew that
elected the Poput ticket but they that they could
county officers the instgation
Association hired and equipped small army Of deputies thirteen
horses gaing and other uptodate instruments of
Previous to this the governor had sent the militia to the district
but investigation found that there occasion for the
of the soldiers and withdrew them The sheriff modified his
presence
tachmen of against There shooting
killed on each side.
personal Investigations
the miners their hall Altman He called the militia
them Cripple with themselves
between the hired The barraded
the of Bull HILL had
posed fight protection
and their rights workngmen.
commanding officer Brooks
deputies that did dispense would fire them.
left the the next day for Colorado Springs They
failure Cripple they
Taney the adan general the state who the
soldiers at Cripple Creek.
In the instalnaen Haywood first Cripple
Greek strike told By Boy then president the W. f. Nj
organizes the SLIDER City miners takes first
office; invting stray reaam join beat it; notifying tho