A Report on Labor Disturbances in the State of Colorado; From 1880 to 1904, Inclusive, with Correspondence Relating Thereto Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII. CHAEGES AGAINST THE WESTERN FEDERATION OF MINERS AND COUNTERCHARGES AGAINST THE MINE OWNERS' ASSOCIATION AND THE CITIZENS' ALLIANCE. On August 2,190-1, the Colorado Mine Operators' Association, with headquarters at Colorado Springs, issued a pamphlet of 32 pages, entitled: " Criminal Record of the Western Federation of Miners-- Coeur d'Alene to Cripple Creek--1894--1904." This pamphlet charged sundry crimes against the Federation and its members. The first edition of the pamphlet was bound in red paper. On August 27 the Western Federation of Miners, with headquarters at Denver, issued a pamphlet of 32 pages, entitled: " Reply of the Western Federation of Miners to the ' Red Book ' of the Mine Operators' Association." The pamphlet of the Mine Operators' Association contains an indictment of the Western Federation of Miners in six counts. The pamphlet of the Western Federation of Miners reprints this indictment and also prints an indictment of the Mine Operators' Association and Citizens' Alliance, with an equal number of counts, presenting the two indictments in parallel columns, as follows: Western Federation Of Miners r. The Citizens' Alliance And Thk Colorado Mine Operators' AsSociation. (1) That a large number of exconvicts, gamblers, desperadoes and other criminals have been, and now are. knowingly employed and paid by the Colorado Mine Owners' Association and the Citizens' Alliance in Cripple Creek. Telluride and elsewhere in the State as deputy sheriffs, guards, detect ives, etc. (2) That the officers of these organizations and a large number of their members have not only committed crimes themselves, for which they could and should be prosecuted and punished, but the organizations as such iiave directly and openly...