The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-07

larity. We fortunate also in securing the w FN
of John H. Murphy, who at that time at IA ~
Omey for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen 81
He continued to hold that position as well as doing CN
In anticipation of the expense that would
any be involved in vigorous fight eight
hour day. issued circular letter describing the life of the smeer
having eghthour legislature different
that Colorado it had been defeated by stroke of the
told the constitutional had been ignored
adopted later Colorado Now that had fight
for the day. would involve strike after another some
twenty-five thousand dollars in reply to this letter.
Telluride is an important silver and gold mining camp the San
Colorado The Smugg Union of the big
Arthur Collins the for this
introduced the piece system mining would give
tract to break so much per fathom
the boarding house They provided with tools and pow
der by the At the termination of the contract the
work-boad POWDER candles toohapnng,
The price per fathm continually
increased In the beginning miners were required only to
~ th W I'M dared strie on tho Union nroner
May abolition the contract system
Though union offered the without
the company the reply Manager oGn
Collins and the union when the contract system changed
employed could terminate the contract
time This settlement not arrived at until pitched battle had
deputies other scab
Charles Becker the superintendent the mn was shot, two abs
the mountain John Barhe union MINER killed
outright during the fight.
The Telluride Journal carried bitter campaign against the
union until close I n the hsng gsa Gh tins
This became later the Citizens Alliance directing
Miners Some later
a load of buckshot into him as he stood window.
commission Telluride composed of
then of the state Senator Buckley
John Murphy attorney for the Western Federation of Miners
the effect that
thing quiet
Mines This report created commoton the employing
Colorado The capitalist especially the Denver Re
publican, carried editorials bitterly dnounng the miners
day First National Bank where the WIN. did
business Moffatt vice president of the bank said
this that from Telluride about the miners
being possession of the mines If that the what
ertes?"
tell where the invest in the mines
better right to be in peaceful possession than the miners
On the tragedies
maerous mines occurred at the Bullion tunnel of the
carload of baed hay had been unloade the mouth
the tunnel The burning hay lumber and timber caused dense
chimney Edgar Collins relative Of the and
Then gave removing rifles
munitn from nearby warehouse Munitions of war were more i'm
Roadway before attempt made
to danger When messenger
had gone All followed his lead lost their lives
fire was still raging when group Of Tomboy NINE
headed by the foreman Billy Hutchinson arrived at the He
evident that the fire could be
all lives would have been saved The first party was
but they finally found twenty-five who
had been to death.
down and delegations the surrounding mining
about three thousand in line when their sixteen
buried at one time Each miner carried sprg OF evergreen
which lie tossed into an open grave
the following February terrible snowsde at
Of the Liberty Bell bunkhouse killing
terrific rush of had swept everything be-
fore it, rock umps brush and had left path behind
happened frequently where the slopes and the
They be caused by single drop OF
water from an hanging branch Of far the
tain birds wing might dslodge particle of
mighty slide story appeared in Denver
Auant General Gardner credited with the state
ent that evidence the wrath of God
against unuy of San Miguel This foolish
insult the and ranked deep
in minds already sungs the strike the fire. and
the avalanche.
Haywood writes of the struggles against
the strike of the Grant smclter
hot; something about
Moye president the w. r. NJ vhich forecasts his
later t,cacherv