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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday December 12, 1903
Trinidad, Colorado – Funeral Held for De Santos and Vilano, Mother Jones Attends
From The Denver Post of December 11, 1903:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/6
The Denver Post
(Denver, Colorado)
-Dec 11, 1903
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C7581AC4BD0728@GB3NEWS-133D9E5BEC1249A0@2416460-133D93DC006885D0@5-133D93DC006885D0
See also:
The Butte Inter Mountain
(Butte, Montana)
-Dec 8, 1903
“One Killed and Several Wounded in Battle at Segundo”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025294/1903-12-08/ed-1/seq-1/
More on the depredations of the gunthugs against the union miners:
The following report from the Secretary of District 15 of the United Mine Workers of America is included in the Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of Colorado for 1904.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES OF THE COAL MINERS OF
COLORADO, NEW MEXICO AND UTAH, THE THREE STATES
COMPRISING DISTRICT 15, U. M. W. OF A. BY THE SECRETARY.Trinidad, Colorado, June 18, 1904.
The trouble with the coal miners of District 15 dates back for many years. Many attempts were made to organize, but on every attempt the coal companies, through their spy systems, etc., succeeded in destroying organization. It was the oppression of the coal operators which gave rise to the necessity for organization for self-protection….
Then the thugs resorted to the beating system, law was laid aside and main force was established by the companies. Even where the courts would rule on evictions the companies would throw the men out of the houses, contrary to the decisions of the courts. November 24th seven men were arrested at South Canon for conspiracy and intimidation and held three weeks. On November 15, 1903, Organizers Kelliher, Coombs and Price were forbidden to drive over the public roads in Utah. November 18th Organizers Wardjon, Kennedy, Poggiani and William Campbell were arrested on the public highway at Hastings, Colo. Some hours after they were escorted out of camp. The union at once asked for an injunction, which was denied by the courts. November 19th C. Demolli and William Price, organizers, were going to Scofield, Utah, when, one mile from town, members of the Citizens’ Alliance boarded the train armed, and forced the train crew to take them back. November 25th C. Demolli, organizer, was arrested for breaking the peace and given thirty days in jail. On the same day forty-five strikers were arrested at the same place for vagrancy and thrown in jail. December 6th seven miners at South Canon acquitted. On December 7th Luciano De Santos and Joseph Vilano were killed by deputy sheriffs at Segundo, and two other brothers were wounded. They were accused of interfering with scabs between Segundo and Primero. December 30th thirty-two strikers were thrown into jail, for vagrancy, in Utah. January 24th William Maher and Henry Mitchell were beat up at Engleville, Colo., by the deputies, for having gone into the camp to attend to union business. December 17th the houses of five union committeemen were blown up at New Castle, Colo., presumably by the coal corporations’ hirelings. The names of the union men were John Lawson [per Beshoar, his wife and daughter were nearly killed], Evan Davis, William Isaac, William and Thomas Doyle; and the Hahn building was destroyed. James Doneky of Sopris, striker, was beat up by Deputy McPherson on the corner of Commercial and Main streets…
JOHN SIMPSON, Secretary District No. 15.
[Emphasis added.]
SOURCE
Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
of the State of Colorado, Volume 9
Colorado. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1904
-page 193-198, (long paragraph found on page 195)
https://books.google.com/books?id=it4ZAAAAYAAJ&dq=segundo+luciano+de+santos+joseph+vilano+1903&q=vilano#v=snippet&q=vilano&f=false
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