Hellraisers Journal: Western Federation of Miners Issues Official Strike Call for the Miners of the Cripple Creek District

Official Strike Call from the Western Federation of Miners 

This is a copy of the official strike notice issued by the Western Federation of Miners which called the miners out on strike beginning Monday morning August 10th.

The Call

All members of the Western Federation of Miners and all employees in and about the mines of the Cripple Creek district are hereby requested not to report for wok Monday morning, August 10, 1903, except on properties shipping ore to the Economic mill, the Dorcas mill at Florence and the Cyanide mills of the district.
                                                          BY ORDER OF DISTRICT UNION NO. 1.

The W.F. of M. issued the following statement regarding the necessity of calling the miners out on strike:

Manger MacNeil’s refusal to treat with us left us nothing to do but to order a strike and in so doing we adopted the only plan which promises certain success. In our proposals to him no mention was made of his failure to re-employ men who went out in the former strike, as he had agreed. we confined ourselves strictly to the question as to whether he was willing to pay the union wages demanded by his striking employees, and when he absolutely refused to do so or to recognize us in any way, our mission was ended.

From the Tucson Citizen of August 11, 1903: