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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday March 15, 1903
Colorado City, Colorado – Managers Refuse Arbitration with Smeltermen
From The Butte Miner of March 13, 1903:
GOV. ASKS FOR ARBITRATION
———-PEABODY CONFERRED WITH MILL MANAGERS AND STRIKERS
AT COLORADO ON SETTLEMENT OF DIFFERENCES
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MANAGERS DECLARE THERE IS NOTHING TO ARBITRATE AND
8,000 CRIPPLE CREEK MINERS MAY GO CUT.
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Denver, Colo., March 12.-Governor Peabody returned at noon today from his visit to Colorado City, where he went to make a personal investigation of the strike situation to enable him better to take action looking to a settlement of the trouble.
This evening the governor issued a statement in which he related the incidents of his trip and announced the belief that the militia should be for the present maintained at Colorado City on account of alleged threats which have been made against the nonunion men in their boycotted mills, though he says he could not find, upon the most rigid inquiry, that the threats came from members of the Smeltermen’s union. He testified that he had asked the representatives of both sides of the controversy with their counsel to meet him in conference at the state house Saturday afternoon at two o clock.
The strike leaders have renewed their declaration of willingness to submit all questions in controversy to a proper tribunal. If they are not met half way, they will call out 8,000 Cripple Creek miners on next Monday.
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The officers of the Western Federation of Miners decided today to invoke the law to punish officers of the national guard who, it is alleged, have perpetuated outrages upon the Colorado City strikers and an injunction will be applied for to prevent any repetition of such acts.
[Said W. D. Haywood, of the federation:]
Action will be begun against officers of the militia and others for confiscation of property, invading private houses, arresting men without warrant and holding them without a charge and other illegal acts. In some cases the proceedings may be in the nature of civil suits, while in others criminal action may be instituted.
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
From the Butte Labor World of March 13, 1903:
President Moyer and Secretary-Treasurer Haywood
of the Western Federation of Miners
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Ed Boyce re Socialism f Workingman,
WFMC 1902, Btt Lbr Wld p1, June 9, 1902
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=eGJUmgNLeWAC&dat=19020609&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
The Butte Miner
(Butte, Montana)
-Mar 13, 1903,
https://www.newspapers.com/image/348392587/
The Labor World
(Butte, Montana)
-Mar 13, 1903, page 2
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=eGJUmgNLeWAC&dat=19030313&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
IMAGES
Pres Moyer WFM, Btt Iner Mt p1, July 3, 1902
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025294/1902-07-03/ed-1/seq-1/
Big Bill Haywood, Sec Tre, WFMC 1902, Btt Lbr Wld p4, June 9, 1902
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=eGJUmgNLeWAC&dat=19020609&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
See also:
Search: 1903, Colorado City, Strike Western Federation
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=Colorado&dateFilterType=range&date1=03%2F01%2F1903&date2=03%2F14%2F1903&language=&ortext=&andtext=strike+western+federation+&phrasetext=colorado+city&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=20&searchType=advanced&sort=date#tab=tab_advanced_search
The Cripple Creek Strike, 1903-1904
-by Emma F Langdon
Press of Victor Daily Record, Victor, Colorado, 1904
https://archive.org/details/cripplecreekstri00lang
-a history of industrial wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5;
being a complete and concise history of the efforts
of organized capital to crush unionism.
https://weneverforget.org/tag/cripple-creek-strike-of-1903-04/
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