Hellraisers Journal: The Price Paid by Striking Colorado Coal Miners to Secure Enforcement of State Mining Laws

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Quote Mother Jones Babes of Ludlow, Speech at Trinidad CO UMW District 15 Special Convention, ES1 p154 (176 of 360)—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday September 19, 1914
List of Martyrs of Colorado Coalfield Strike by U. M. W. of A.

From the Denver United Labor Bulletin of September 12, 1914:

Martyrs of Colorado Coalfield Strike, ULB p7, Sept 12, 1914

“Blanket Arrest of Union Miners”

HdLn Blanket Arrest of Union Miners Trinidad CO, ULB p5, Sept 12, 1914

From the Trinidad Chronicle News of September 2, 1914:

List of Union Men in Las Animas County Jail, Trinidad Chrnc Ns p1, Sept 2, 1914

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones Babes of Ludlow, Speech at Trinidad CO
UMW District 15 Special Convention, Sept 15, 1914, ES1 p154 (176 of 360)
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735035254105/viewer#page/176/mode/2up

United Labor Bulletin
(Denver, Colorado)
-Sept 12, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-09-12/ed-1/seq-7/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-09-12/ed-1/seq-5/

The Chronicle News
(Trinidad, Colorado)
-Sept 2, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1914-09-02/ed-1/seq-1/

See also:

Trinidad CO Jail 1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/trinidad-co-jail-1914/

Tag: Gerald Lippiatt
https://weneverforget.org/tag/gerald-lippiatt/

Tag: Mack Powell
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mack-powell/

Tag: Forbes Tent Colony CO
https://weneverforget.org/tag/forbes-tent-colony-co/

Tag: Walsenburg Massacre of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/walsenburg-massacre-of-1913/

Tag: Kostas Marcos
https://weneverforget.org/tag/kostas-marcos/

Tag: Ludlow Massacre
https://weneverforget.org/tag/ludlow-massacre/

Tag: Colorado Coalfield War of 1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-war-of-1914/

Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/

Hellraisers Journal – Friday September 19, 1913
Trinidad, Colorado – U. M. W. District 15 Convention Issues Strike Call
-Strike to begin Tuesday September 23rd. Demands put forth.

The Demands of District 15
United Mine Workers of America

The demands agreed upon during the Special Convention which voted to strike on Tuesday, September 16th, are seven in number:

1. Union recognition
2. A wage scale for various types of mine work
3. The eight-hour work day
4. Pay for all narrow work and dead work
(The coal companies have historically expected the men to work without pay when brushing, timbering, removing falls, handling impurities, etc.)
5. A checkweighman at every mine, elected by the miners
6. The right of the miners to shop where they please, board where they please, and to choose their own doctors.
7. Enforcement of the Colorado Mining Laws and:
abolition of the the notorious and criminal guard system which has prevailed in the mining camps of Colorado for many years.

As the convention ended, Vice President Hayes told the cheering delegates that most of the demands were simply a demand for compliance by the coal companies with mining laws which were on the law books of the state of Colorado, and had been for many years.

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The Union Forever – Colorado Strike Song
(ερμηνεία: μουσικό σχήμα “Ρωμιοσύνη”) / Χαλυβουργία Ελλάδος