The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

ton and other smelling and milling interests in Den
yer, in connection with the working hours of smeter
1t had taken than two years of perss- 49,
tent agitation get sufficiently organized to
piled with This be first step. We &C. Nv
been hoping and working for the strength to strike M
A general meeting of smelter men who were &cA 81
working the day shift held in Globevlle vs.
hall on the night of July third, 1903 This meeting sT
was to be the deciding factor and to give the def
in Butte Montana egraphed him about the growing
the of the smelter for strike and the meeting
to be held. To surprise he postpone
turn Poponemen seemed to inadvsable if impossible
Meyers telegram workers. the program
However Meyer jus
in time to take duloy part in the meeting The
earnest and enthusiastic be with delay
They ready to strike and wanted do it There
much rough and ready discourse about the ndgn upo
nem the injustice OF the long hours OF work. the enormiy of tn
long change shift in which worked twenur hours through
when changing shift at the end of each two weeks
Some of the workers assumed the high moral of
ing the sme companies to comply with the law and constitution
the state which made mandatory that all employed
designated hazardous unhealthfu occupations including smee
should not labor than eight hours One commended that The
working get
quaned with their families Their children asleep when
left home for work the morning. and ready for bed they
returned night The general spirit of the meeting showed
awakening through
while the strike
midnight resolution declaring the strike adopted unanimously
Outside doomed anvils exploded, whistles blew Fire
popping july
bedlam the beginning of the celebration of the Declaration
Independence
What hollow mokery! What miserable sham seemed In
making their preparations
bitter struggle, for independence but woray
The fourth July other holiday little the smee
The fires melted
like the fires Of hell must never cool There We're no rest days nc
be fought They wanted relief from vicious of
Guggenheim
terrible these
striking fighting the bettermen their families
little thought to the terrible nusces imposed the
corporations bankers politicians
might republic
shambles Certain it that these strikers would face pon
imprisonment They scab
ves perhaps soldiers they would have insults and
dgn heaped them njunOn would be issued against them
and of them would hurrah for the fourth of July!
to begin once
notified that be foewarned fore
knowledge that they should
est and then the Globe tbe Grant smeter men last It was in
calling the strike should be the
three big smeers There to be parys Qut work Quit
furry keep fires! will
ze" But their orders Obeyed The strikers shouted
is on! Strike while the iron is ho?
the city. time
the with the Denver police arrived the
when they there there little they could do The had
quit work. the strike the battle had begun.
At the Globe and smee the bosses office staff
officials they could call telephone managed to keep
the fires going somehow but at the Grant smeer the furnaces @
fires cooled the metal and Stag CONCEALED These furnaces
highest July, 1oS has
curd from its top stands let dedicate it, to the
egour day for which the Western Federation Of Miners val
iantly fought.
At the meeting in
assembly
IN
strikers home with the palace of Ex-Governor Grant,
of the smeter There had
the Grant home and of the
said that single piece of Grants
furniture the strikers
the rung silk of the wives of the smelter owners
babies skulls; the infant mortality of the smter
higher than other of the state After
with running down his
cheeks willing complied with the
constitution the would have tried to make the conditions
better they but that the
company prevented him from taking individual action
finished talking with Grant, when Manager Guterman
Smelling Refining Company Guggenheim in
terests, and said to
Haywood taken by surprise when the strike
smeler Mr. Meyer had told that there would
be without notification to the company"
this did think possible that Meyer
traitor the organization He knew that he
his position president Of the WIN to make
promisb else He further
would notice if the workers could
possibly the strike effective did
seriously it seemed untenable and
SANDER
nsdnent Hay,oood writes of the fight of the W. r.
NJ make the cighhour a effective the orenls and mines Of
Telluride Colorado 1905 the lockout Buckley Wells leader OF
the Citizens Alliance Gopernor Peabody ships IN militia martial
law as it works IN Colorado