Month: June 2016

Hellraisers Journal: Mine Owners of Cripple Creek Prepare to Replace Scabs with Imported Labor

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You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday June 10, 1906
From The Labor World: George Shoaf on the Cripple Creek Situation

' Alliance Terror in Cripple Creek Strike

From the Duluth Labor World of June 9, 1906:

MINE COMPANY STORES
AND IMPORTED LABOR
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Mine Owners Association of Cripple Creek
Now Preparing to Discharge Scabs
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Fellows Who Helped to Deport Union Men
to Be Dismissed By Mine Bosses.
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BY GEORGE H. SHOAF.
Staff Correspondent Appeal to Reason.
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Colorado Mine Owners Ass by Ryan Walker, AtR, Jul 30, 1904

Denver, Colo., June 7.-I just returned from my trip to the Cripple Creek district this morning. Conditions commercially in that community are really worse than were pictured in this week’s Appeal. The howls from the business men are loud and long. On every street corner groups of men gather and discuss the situation and outlook. In the restaurant conversationalists openly threw off the mask and spoke their mind. They cannot sell their possessions and they have no place to which they can go. They are barred from all other western mining camps-and they dislike to return east and take chances with the unemployed. Where I stayed at night-and I changed rooming houses every night-the men about the stove talked hard times, cursed their luck and admitted their folly in helping the Mine Owners’ association drive the Western Federation from the district.

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Hellraisers Journal: American Miners Fleeing Mexico, Arriving in Bisbee, W. F. of M. Blamed for Unrest

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We are free, truly free, when
we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody
in order to be able to lift
a piece of bread to our mouths.
-Ricardo Flores Magón
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 9, 1906
Report from Bisbee, Arizona: “Agitators” Threatened with Arrest

Cananea Copper Strike of 1906, Strikers confront Am

From today’s Salt Lake Tribune:

AMERICAN MINERS FLEE
FROM MEXICO
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Mexican Authorities Threaten Agitators
of the Strike With Arrest.
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WESTERN FEDERATION OF MINERS IS BLAMED
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Those Killed in Recent Riots Have Been
Buried Without identification.
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BISBEE, Ariz., June 8.-As a result of the strike at Cananea, Mexico, mines of Colonel W. C. Greene, last week, the American miners in the camp will be very few in number in the future, it is believed. They are crossing the line in droves, and several hundred have arrived in Bisbee during the last forty-eight hours.

Threatened With Arrest.

On Thursday the Mexican authorities sent a man through the mines notifying all American miners that those who were under suspicion of having agitated the trouble at Cananea and had openly sympathized with the striking Mexicans would on the following day be placed under arrest. The result was a general exodus of Americans.

Western Federation Blamed.

It can be reliably stated that the American authorities believe that members of the Western Federation of Miners at Cananea secretly encouraged and abetted the strike and members of this organization were the first to receive the notice to leave.

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Hellraisers Journal: Miners Strike at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, Leads to Fierce Fighting, Many Killed

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Quote Mother Jones, Powers of Privilege, Ab Chp III—–

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday June 3, 1906
Tucson, Arizona – Reports on Cananea Copper Strike

From the Arizona Daily Star of June 2, 1906:

Cananea Copper Strike, Arizona Dly Star, June 2, 1906

(Special to the Star.)

Naco, June 1.-There is a great riot at Cananea. All of the Mexicans at the mines of Colonel W. C. Greene are on the strike.

George Metcalf, the purchasing agent of the mines, and his brother, Will Metcalf, have been murdered by the strikers.

Between thirty and forty of the Mexicans have been killed, and about a hundred wounded.

It is reported that two days ago some Mexican police shot an American saloonkeeper wounding him. No arrests were made at the time, but later Colonel Greene had the perpetrators of the deed imprisoned. This precipitated the disturbance. A number of the miners dynamited a large pawnshop, taking all of the arms and ammunition. The company’s lumber yard was then burned, a property valued at a quarter of a million dollars.

Three carloads of refugees have just arrived from Cananea including Col. Greene. They bring the information that all of the Americans are trying to leave Cananea. The Mexicans are trying to dynamite all of the American houses. A reign of terror exists.

Governor Yzabel is said to be enroute with a division of Federal troops, and is expected to arrive at Naco late tonight or tomorrow morning. The situation is very serious, the lives of hundreds of Americans being threatened.

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