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
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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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.