FROM LUDLOW TO COLUMBINE - THE TRAIL OF BLOOD
Stanley, Louis
FROM LUDLOW TO COLUMBINE — THE TRAIL OF BLOOD The Rule of Violence in the Rockefeller Domain By Louis Stanley rr WAS Easter Sunday, that April 19, 1914, at least for those of the...
...We want a kite of own own...
...We want for the workers the full value of the product of our labor...
...It is obvious from the wordlngjffbf Shis act that it opens the door to e#y kind of oppression...
...v At the same time negotiation* were opened with W. L. Mackenzie King, a former Minister of Labor for Canada...
...Then, the Federal troops appeared upon the scene and peace was restored...
...short of the highest genius could come nearer success...
...of each side and a third member to act as umpire, whenever necessary...
...It Is true that during this time there was one very short-lived regime of the new provinces and two Averescu governments...
...We can do nothing about it, because we do not have our own political party...
...They are still capable, thanks to their great following and their historic mission, to substitute for the oligarchic dictatorship development through the middleclass...
...So we nave leaders of two of the biggest groups in the A. F. of L. politically divided...
...Only the lack of relief will rob them of their victory...
...Unemployment is growing from Uto to day, and the bulk of urban jJsaPara have been thrown into serious jfjpety'by the suspension of the Rent E ijka from April 23rd 1828...
...It is characteristic that a One district cut timber may be found peeing whilst in other districts timber m Being imported from the nearest foreign cantor...
...How can any true member of organised labor object to a political party founded and controlled by organized labor...
...But when we lose a strike we often lose the union and we always lose a lot of members and enthusiasm...
...Political campaigns afford .a wonderful chance to educate public opinion on labor's demands...
...The striking- mines* at toe tent colony of Ludlow, Colorado, were Celebrating the holiday In usual style...
...The readers (recognised the semblance of another Ludlow and, indeed, nobody knows what the end will be...
...Nobody, however, will forget the Black Hole -of Ludlow...
...It depicts a miner, and his wife, and in her arms is a child, it is a perpetual reminder to the coal and iron masters of Colorado that their workmen will never cease revolting, so long as exploitation twists the lives of the miners and his beloved ones into an agonizing existence...
...If the men who founded America had gone back because the first few colonies here were small and t weak, where would America be now...
...If we lose a political campaign we are no worse off than before...
...Some troopers on horseback rode up, as If with the Intention of dispersing the crowd...
...but far less remarkable than the measure with which the attempt is rewarded...
...By the vicious yellow-dog contracts, which have been upheld by the courts, they try to prevent their workers from Joining a real union...
...For a week the civil war raged throughout the coal fields of Colorado...
...It is bard to imagine how any man...
...Therein a grave danger lies...
...Alba Julia became the...
...As a matter of fact we don't have to start a labor party as a small thing...
...The situation they admitted was "delicate...
...Since then most of the railroad men's leaders have been Democrats...
...But we can't do that unless our candidates talk about labor Issues...
...Wrote Welbora to his "boos" In toe incriminating correspondence which was made public later, during the hearing before the United States Commission on Industrial Relations: "I think it is very fortunate that we have been able to make reply direct from Denver, with the public fully informed as to my presence here...
...And as we grow we will scare even democrats and republicans into giving us more of our rights than they do now...
...Certainly the strikers have been heroic...
...At the moment when the act of renunciation of the throne took place it awakened hardly any stir...
...j A Party Controlled By Labor Some labor men have In the past opposed a labor party because they said they did not want to see the unioni controlled by a political party...
...A labor party would unite those who wanted to oppose the Republicans for good reasons with those who for equally good reasons wanted to oppose the Democrats, ss well the very large number, totalling SO per cent of all the voters, who have become so dlgusted with both the Democrats and Republicans that today they do not vote at an...
...Well have our roast tomorrow...
...The mas who pays the piper calls the tune in politics as In everything else...
...They may throw the workers and farmers an occasional crumb to keep us quiet...
...Office Holders Are Restive If the liberals have for a long time rested their power on the fact that they were able to interest the highest military and civil representatives in the maintenance of their dominance, now the whole mass of officers and officials are making themselves felt, all the more because their material situation Is far from being a cheerful one...
...The armed gunmen of the state moved forward, riddling with bullets every living thing before them...
...The favorable reception which President Wilson's offer met with m the press forced the coal operators upon the defensive...
...abroad they had assured themselves of the support of Italy, and at home made ah the preparations for a coup d'etat, when at the last moment Bratlanu gave Averescu his dismissal, whereby the latter was deprived of the possibility of undertaking anything...
...They brought about his renunciation of the throne, because they knew his publicly anti-liberal and Fascist attitude— though in 1919 indeed he still wished to join the Socialist Party—and had no mind to substitute Carol's fascism for their own dictatorship...
...John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the dominant stockholder, and the president, J. F. Welborn, sought to ward off the attack...
...In which the liberal oligarchy are apparently struggling against Fascism and Fascists walking hand in band with democrats...
...Lndlow is Repeated This sympathlc strike demonstrated to the miners their strength and they began to entertain prospeets of a walk— out for the tomnwesnaat of...
...A casual reader can actually get from this book a dear imDreaslon of what this business of human living on the globe called earth at all about...
...They would have stayed out longer than the two days they did bad the regular labor movement in the remainder of the country shown an equal enthusiasm...
...Crumbs are not enough...
...The strife, between Fascism and dictatorship cannot, hand us to the fact that economic necessities are beginning to impose themselves in Roumanla and that here also there is opening a new epoch, which will be substantially affected by the democratic progress made further to the west...
...Oh, that's all right...
...but Intended in reality to legalise the dictatorship of the liberals...
...The strike ended in December 1914...
...Woods Outline of Mans Knowledge" would seem to be THE book to read and know...
...Let us fool them for a change and form a labor party...
...Anti - Liberalism Grows Thus the following situation has shaped itself: The Averesus, a group of ad-, venturers, who for a long time had™ worked In the service of the liberals and pursued the policy, of the latter, desired shortly before King Ferdinand's death] to make themselves dominant...
...Workers who vote for democrats or republicans are voting for parties that get their campaign funds from the capitalists and plutocrats...
...women, and children who lost their lives in freedom's cause...
...Then even if they don't get elected at first at least they will have helped to educate public opinion to the Justice of labor's demands...
...So when they get elected the democrats or republicans serve the interests of the capitalists who pay their party's campaign funds and forget the interests of the workers...
...The mine operators began to (dtocfaarge leading "wobbUes" despite the no-discrimination law and the promise of the Industrial Commission to use its good offices to prevent the dismissal of Bacco-Vauxettl protestants...
...From that time on the strike crept over the Inside pages of the Eastern newspapers until the Columbine massacre, already reported in t'-e New Leader, thrust the walk-out into a first page position...
...Certainly the absentee capitalists of Colorado have no reason to forget the suffering of their workers...
...Some gave out that the violence of the liberals was thenceforth to be met with violence on their own...
...Indifference seemed to them the better part of duty and they wheeled their horses to return...
...Octols and the employers a-shuddes wtth fright The tow of Colorado reqrdrtnr that the State Industrial Octnmtasfcm be notified thirty days to advance of a strike had been violated—for Saceo and Vansettl could not wait...
...This work, "The Outline of Man's Knowledge", presents the whole story of civilization within the cover* of one monumental book...
...It is not uncommon to hear that the peasants are looking to Carol's return for a new land-reform...
...Tomorrow it may be too late and the National Zarsnists may have become the captives of their own campaigning methods...
...After calling for the enforcement of mining and labor laws and the re-employment of all strikers who had not been found guilty of law violations, the plan provided for the ultimate settlement of all disputes arising during the period of the truce by a commission appointed by the President, to be composed of a representative...
...Thenceforward (until his recent death) he saw that an electoral -victory alone meant no guarantee of power, and recognized that In this situation the dynastic question might become a danger to him...
...In it occurs the following passage "Whoever undertakes or attempts anything against the inviolability of the person of the King, against the established order of the succession to the throne or against the form of government laid down in the constitution: likewise anyone carrying on or attempting agitation which might result in danger to the safety of the State as embodied in the laws, can be punished by ImpfUonment for five years, by fine up to 100,000 Lei and by the loss of civic rights", similar penalties are held over those who spread tendencious news as to any alteration in the established succession to the throne or form of government...
...We ought to control both the government and industry...
...by using the funds of the national bank for the Improvement of their own institutions only...
...But the liberals not only had their spokesman in all those governments but, (according to the Roumanian popular saying) the liberals "govern when they are ministers and dictate when they are In opposition...
...but Carol's popularity grew In proportion to the growth of discontents/and hatred against the liberals...
...But the democrats and republicans for whom we usually vote are financed and controlled by the plutocrats of this country...
...The sooner we start the better...
...The imprisonment of Manoilescu for Carlist propaganda was thus but a move in the campaign of the liberals against National Zaranists...
...Even the men who do vote right on labor issues when elected, campaign during election on some such fool issue as being wet or dry, favoring a high or low tariff, loving Coolldge or loving Wilson, etc., and the whole educational value of a campaign run on labor issues is lost...
...Actually a strike was threatened in 1917 and was averted by the national officers of the Miners, whose President was then serving on the United States Fuel Administration...
...Shortly afterwards King arrived In Colorado to prescribe a cure for the industrial ills...
...Even though no single party seriously desires Carol's return and though the play they make with this claim is to them but a means to an end...
...In this economic situation it is of course not difficult to turn the prevailing discontent against the liberals...
...Clement Wood's New Book Wins Praise A furore of enthusiasm has been oocasioned by the latest contribution to contemporary literature by one of the contributing editors of "The New Leader", Clement Wood...
...In Roumanla the natural trend is towards a process of industrialisation, but the liberals do their utmost to frustrate it} with the object on the one hand of 'passanting any competition to their system of profiteering capitalism, and on the...
...a proletariat...
...so that today it to no longer uncommon to find landworkers returning to the pre-war form of villeinage—l eu robotism—, while others declare that they were better off betore toe land reform...
...Rockefeller was impressed with the panacea but when Welborn and his colleagues were sounded out they dissented vigorously on the ground that it would be an admission of weakness to speak of such remedial measures during the strike...
...Answer that...
...But those of us who favor a labor party want to have a political party controlled by organized labor (and the organized farmers too if possible) not to have labor controlled by a political party...
...The slaughter of the marching miners at Columbine in 1937 has but contributed another splurge of workmen's blood to the murderous tradition...
...A great part of the capitalist parties had no confidence in their own powers or in democratic methods, while they were not endowed with the courage to try other methods of attaining democracy...
...On the other band the two ton,-, Liiesatlrsi of work set the government of...
...Its summaries of history, religion and philosophy accomplish the miracle of readability...
...Advantage of Political Action Political action has another advantage...
...Labor Moves Ahead The liberals next stop wss to prohibit the Assembly of Alba Julia and to pass a law rri»tng Impossible any Carlist movement...
...Yet the injunction evil has grown worse Instead of better...
...If there was to be a state of Fascism, they felt themselves to be the ones fitted to lead It...
...We would not elect an employer as business agent of our union simply because be was a good fellow...
...Secretary of Labor Wilson, once himself an official of the Miners' Union, appointed a mediation commission of two, one an operator, the other an ex-officer of the U. M. W. of A. As a result of the efforts of these two investigators...
...Those of the min'' i who had arms took up the defense of their families and comrades...
...the union is still safe and the fighting spirit of the members may even be lncreasd...
...A remarkable claim...
...This means in practise that we often endorse a democrat or republican who is, from the point of view of labor, only the less of two rotten eggs...
...There is no doubt that the-' new aw passed against the Carllsts will soon be applied against the Socialists, But movements have never been checked by paragraphs and in Roumanla people are accustomed to persecutions...
...Since the bosses use political power against us, let us get political power and use it to defend the labor movement and even to reduce the swollen profits of the employers and bankers, the men who are the real masters of the country today...
...They were American enough to enjoy a baseball game In the afternoon...
...The state is furnishing us no protection and we must paptect ourselves, our wives and children from these murderous assassins...
...These causes smacked very much like those of 1913...
...The idea had already captured the masses...
...President Wilson's truce notions forced a premature commitment to some plan of representation...
...But even had the lattea, wished, It would then have been too late...
...The miners _ accepted President Wilson's proposals but the operators with polite firmness entered their objections...
...Our humble part of the tall of someone else's present policy thus makes us merely a political kite...
...If hitflirto one has been illegally thrashed,' new one will be legally put into prison...
...John D. Supplies a Union What President Welborn had in mind was the company union which has since become so notorious as the earliest and most sanctimonious of the employee representation frauds...
...President Wilson presented to each operator the tentative draft of a three year truce...
...This man was by no means Carol's only spokesman and agent...
...As a result John L. Lewis and most of the coal miners' leaders are Republicans...
...To get this we must have our own political party...
...Chaos in Roumania growing Fascist Movement Associates Itself With Return of Carol as King — Socialist Movement Wakes Steudy Gains By Jacob Pistiner "IfJOT even all Roumanian politicians •"-Tare clear as to what is now happening in Roumanla...
...semi-monthly pay, no increases for rent and light charges in company-owned houses, and abolition of physical examination, a practice which had been used to dispose of troublesome L W. W.'s...
...Wei born could not risk a hurried trip to New York to consult with his snparlec for fear of the sarcastic comments of the newspapers...
...The Industrial Workers of the World have been agitating among the Mexicans and other immigrants who constitute the bulk of the miners almost ever since the United Mine Workers abetted by internal dissension practically abandoned the field...
...Ever since the mining Industry invaded the state the cauldron of rebellion has been hissing...
...part, others played with the idea of autonomy and - many hinted at the return Of Carol.' The Assembly at Alba Julia gave the liberals serious grounds for anxiety, and they made every effort to dissuade the National Zaranists froth their plan...
...The miners walked out in true class-conscious style...
...Some forty perhaps were the sacrificial victims...
...Today there stands at Ludlow a monument by the United Mine Workers "to the memory of the men...
...grown more unendurable from day to day...
...King was asked to suggest some arrangement whereby the company might handle ; its men without intervention of the United Mine Workers of America...
...We ought to form our own political party, with the help wherever possible of the organized farmers, so that we can control that party from top to bottom, pick the candidates and the campaign committee and determine the platform...
...Later the time for the walk-out wss moved forward to October 18 in order to accommodate the northern Colorado miners who had decided to Join with their southern comrades...
...For the immediate future a series of political meetings and great propaganda activity Is bring planned...
...Politically it cripples the whole life of the country and commits one act of tyranny on the top of another...
...Even if we start small we will grow...
...Thus he - strived perpetually by means of alternate cajolery add threats to win over to his side the National Zaranists, the only considerable opposition party...
...Non-Partlsan Political Action Has Failed Organized labor of course has a political program...
...Right after the Ludlow slaughter Rockefeller borrowed Ivy Lee from the Pennsylvania Railroad and laid down a fierce barrage of vtlllocation...
...But the rich feast they will always serve up to bankers, capitalists and employers...
...Now in 1927 the Industrial Workers of the World replaced the United Mine Workers as the leaders of the men and staged another demonstration of the futility of the company union in bamboozling the workers...
...Thus the liberals (in their campaign against the Fascism of the Car lists have legalised their own dictatorship and are resolved to apply It ruthlessly...
...We know that from experience...
...What We Want After all, the workers and farmers of this country are the vast majority of the people...
...Hardly a single one of the candidates endorsed by labor in the last few years ever made an issue of the Injunction evil, yellow dog contracts, unemployment Insurance or old age pensions...
...When we nominate our own candidates in our own party we can see that they campaign <oo labor Issues...
...Between the elections of 1926 and 1927 it was already possible, despite all acts of violence and trickery at the polls to raise the Socialist vote by ten thousand, 1. e. 25 per eent, since that time all Socialist organisations have further grown...
...It was all in vain, for out of their experience they recoiled from any alliance with Bratlanu and moreover wefe beginning to realise that there was now an opportunity for them to climb Into power themselves...
...Generally the deinociaU and republicans who make us promises during election forget their promises after election...
...The rule of the liberals has...
...But Bratlanu still bad at that moment to reckon with the temper of the population and accordingly contented himself with a coalition cabinet in which National ZaranisU also had seats...
...In 1922 the railroad shop crafts struck while the Republicans had control of the Federal Government, and the Republican Attorney General Daugherty got an injunction against them...
...symbol, and on all sides preparations to go there were taken up...
...But we fall to carry out that program because we still use the outworn policy of nop-partisan political action...
...Some of the spectators laughed outright at this display of malicious ofnclousness...
...The export of nasal products is hindered by the comptely broken-down state of the transfat system...
...40 Are Sacrificed How many were shot that day or were burned upon the funeral pyre thus gratuitously supplied by the government will never be known exactly...
...The National Zaranists are still capable of shaking off the liberal dictatorship without helping thereby to erect another Fascism...
...And what of the workers...
...Democratic and Republican Parties Are Financed By Big Business When we endorse democrats or republicans we endorse the candidates ol parties both of which are financed by the employers and bankers of this country...
...In this state in 1926 both democrats and republicans favored old age pensions in their state platforms...
...The price of wheat is low while the patoadtt in consequence of the import Zes must buy at high prices manupured products...
...In 1919 the coal miners struck while the Democrats were In power in Washington and the Democratic Attorney General Palmer promptly slapped an Injunction on them through the Federal Courts...
...And thus the only middle-class party in Roumanla, that National Zaranists, have Joined the retinue of the Carllsts...
...Space permits me a few quotations: The "New York Sun", comments: " The Outline of Man's Knowledge' is, as the sub-title announces, six books in one...
...And for all the million* of Americans who hardly ever read a book, Mr...
...These latter have always considered the son of the late King as an unreliable element and have treated him accordingly...
...A district conference of the L W. W. wss held in September at Aguilar and October 8 was set as the date of the big strike...
...the consequences of defeat are not serious...
...and so they made use of Carol's personality to set him up as an idol and so to strengthen the antiliberal temper among the peasants...
...Shortly r 7*M ten o'clock these soldiers exploded...
...Mine after mine was captured by the infuriated strikers...
...Further they impose duties -which often increase threefold the market value of commodities In order to ensure to individual industrialists -enormous profits at the expense of insstrlal development, while In another , Nitron they deprive Industry of an< onportvr^y to evolve by maintaining" the rate of interest at 30 per cent add over and...
...When last summer the call went forth for a Sacco-Vanzetti general strike, the I. W. W. responded by ordering a three-day suspension of work...
...Instead "Poison" Ivy Lee, pubnetty man for Rockefeller Journeyed out to Colorado...
...Men, women and children 'I Jrried to shelter...
...the prisoner was acquitted and the trial has but helped to reinforce the Carlist movement...
...Deeaeeeati and Republicans Never Campaign On Labor Issues The democrats or republicans whom we endorse do not campaign on labor Issues...
...And thus- things came to the affair of Manoilescu, Averascu's under-Secretary...
...In 1918 and, 1923 the workers struck during the national walk-outs of those years and in 1931 they went on strike to resist unsuccessfully a wage reduction...
...Their regime Is marked by violence and bloodshed, while it impedes the economic development of the country...
...We "have already had a good start In the La Follette campaign in 1924 when the beginnings of a labor party started out and got a larger proportion of the total vote than the British labor party got when it first started...
...His actions and endeavours were forgotten and only his anti-liberal attitude remembered...
...Wood's outline in a manner that is a tribute to him and to this periodical on account of his connection with it...
...In September 1925 Frank Juricb came to southern Colorado as a Job delegate for Industrial Unions 210-220 of the L W. W. Wlthm a few months his achievements Justified bis being appointed organizer...
...Then the V ng began...
...This movement is by no means limited to officers and students, it has taken hold of wide elements among the peasantry...
...In consequence of the liberal system of elections they have, it is true, remained without parliamentary representation...
...Blood and iron, blood and coal and lead have been the history of industrial relations in Colorado...
...Before the 1913 outbreak the militia of the state had been called out upon several occasions, at Leadervllle in 1880 and 1897, at Cripple Creek in 1894 and 19034, at Lake City in 1899, at Telluride in 1903-4 and at Trinidad in 1903-4...
...Then, wtth brutal efficiency they set Are to the tents...
...Humanises knowledge without sentimental discussions...
...The Passaic strike and the1 SaccoVansettl protestations served as object lessons to the miners and recruits multiplied...
...Anyway the actual situation cannot long persist...
...They see clearly that the liberals must be overthrown, but they see also that the time is ripe for a democratic development During the last year the labor movement itself has grown considerably in strength...
...He then held the elections at which he won too complete a victory...
...Even the capitalistic press sickened at the., smell of singeing flesh and the sight- of lifeless babies...
...Only a few weeks later cud he take the government into hi* own hands...
...It is work that shy reader with a good background of general culture can read with real Interest and appreciation...
...Neither should we endorse a democrat or republican simply because he is a good fellow...
...The "Philadelphia Public Ledger", registers: "Sincere, sound and straightforward...
...Yet the old age pensions bill failed worse In 1927 than it did before...
...Those who are striking at present and tlelng up the operations of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and the smaller corporations that follow its lead were not pricked Into activity by some sudden and unusual Irritation...
...and the best brains among them apprehended that the means might become an end in itself...
...Upon these signals i A- oA, consisting entirely of company i ids, came up from the rear to aid ~J the impending carnage...
...r . The party membership is steadily rising, and s whole stream of Communist trade union groups have come back into the party...
...The demands called for 97.78 per day wages, six hours from bank to bank as a working day...
...They seem to think they can keep on fooling us forever because they have done it so often in the past...
...Every report, every' activity may be treated as met attempt upon the safety of the state.' Aa^effort to alter an existing law may be dfcniatjed and criticism against the Uberkkvgo^rrnment may be punished like a crime...
...before him many National Zaraalst leaders had been in touch wtth the prince, but in Manoilescu Jonel Bratlanu thought to give the National Assembly in Alba Julia, the historic spot which is not only associated with the revolutionary struggle-'of, the Roumanian against the Magyar oligarchy, but is also the place where the Union with OJd Roumanla was proclaimed and subsequently the coronation of the first King of Greater Roumanla took place...
...Later on A. S. Embree took the leading role...
...For years they have been promising us relief from the arbitrary injunctions Isafeed by the courts...
...For then they still bad a chance'of working on the great estates whereas now these estates have bean broken up without any division of their land having taken place...
...However, many of the Zaranists began to feel afraid of the extent of the Oarltst movement...
...we intend to exercise our lawful right as citizens, to defend our homes and our constitutional rights...
...Non-Partisan Political Action Divides The Workers Non partisan political action and the failure to form a labor party have brought political confusion and division Into the ranks of organized labor...
...Gory Ludlow shocked the sensibilities of the busy public...
...They brought Manoilescu before the court martial in Bucharest because they no longer trusted In the other courts-martial...
...There is an amazing store of Information packed into these 600 pages, and it is so arranged that the whole story seems to mean something...
...It was all ¦opposed to be a local matter...
...They are afraid our labor party will have to start small and weak...
...have your fun today...
...That is a coward's argument...
...That Is all the difference...
...In addition the agitation by the L W. W. among the sugar beet and potato harvesters bad caused increases in wage rates...
...but for this task resoluteness and a will to democracy are needed...
...such understanding cannot therefore be expected from foreign observers...
...The I. W. W, On the Scene "There must not be another strike,'* said John D. and the so-called Rockefeller Plan was supposed to ensure immunity...
...taunted one of the soldiers...
...Resistance was futile...
...there is in fact today a strong Car list movement in Roumanla, however its existence may be denied...
...It was given out in the Interviews that the Roumanian problem ¦ was not the dynastic question but the Bratlanu dictatorship...
...especially since they possessed more experience of dictatorship and of violent disregard for justice...
...Why Politics Matter The Workers Dissipate Their Power by Supporting the Two Old Parties — Why A Labor Party Is Needed By Alfred Baker Lewis rfTOE employers, capitalists, and bankers of America are trying bard to defeat Organized Labor through political power, control of the government and courts...
...The chief was won over by their protestations...
...their own . lot...
...The Coward's Argument Yet a few men do object...
...The Colored* Fuel and Iron Company, then as now, was the major factor In the situation...
...For both democratic and republican parties get their campaign funds from the hankers and capitalists who are opponents of organised labor...
...The press of the nation has acclaimed Mr...
...Particularly offensive was the illegal* refusal to recognise check - Welshmen, duly elected by the men...
...Not only, the National Zaranists, but almost the whole population of Siebenburgen and especially of the Banal wanted to despatch delegations and on'all sides people looked towards this Assembly for ' a decisive lead, in the struggle against the liberals...
...Consternation swept the colo/ >}Iwo other explosions followed in J y *'BSUtsBjlGii...
...The Call to Arms The Ludlow massacre was followed by a call to arms issued by irresponsible trade union officials, Including the representatives of the United Mine Workers of America, the secretary of the Colorado State Federation of Labor and the secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners: "Organize the men in your community In companies of volunteers to protect the workers of Colorado against the murder and cremation of men, women and children by armed assassins in the employ of coal corporations, serving under the guise of state mfUtis-men...
...Gather together for defensive purposes all arms and ammunition legally avtlable...
...Remember, the capitalists may have the money, but the workers have the votes, and in the long run It is the votes that count...
...But even this one proved untrustworthy for the liberals...
...They have falsified the land-reform and lot os3y made of it a national rather than a,social advance, but further they have pat no means of . production into the hands of the farmers...
...By the use of Injunctions issued by the state and federal courts, with the permission of Congress and the state legislatures, and enforced by the executive departments, the great corporate interests are bent on destroying organised labor In this country...
...It is In truth a state of utter chaos...
...FROM LUDLOW TO COLUMBINE — THE TRAIL OF BLOOD The Rule of Violence in the Rockefeller Domain By Louis Stanley rr WAS Easter Sunday, that April 19, 1914, at least for those of the Greek Orthodox persuasion...
...Then we will have a real labor party in America...
...Ever so often the lid would be shot off...
...There In one of the caves which the men had dug for the refuge of their wives and children were found cremated two mothers and eleven tots...
...but nevertheless their political influence persists, and they are striving to steer development of affairs in such a way that no new dictatorship shall arise out >f the fight against the liberals...
...other hand of preventing the birth of...
...This expert took enough time from his patriotic war duties to outline a workable scheme...
...The following morning a company of .militiamen took up positions on Water ^^Vj-jHiTJ overlooking the tents...
...Since the war the liberals have Indeed held power uninterruptedly...
...Just as the former law was directed against any attempt at international propaganda and Socialist activity, so the new law is aimed expressly against freedom of thought...
...Roumanla already possesses a Defence of the Realm Act...
...We seek no quarrel with the state and we expect to break no law...
...The permanent commission feature was counteracted by the announcement that the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was contemplating the installation of-a much more comprehensive scheme for dealing with the men than either unions or commissions could afford...
...An Industrial Representation Plan was conaoeted, In September and October Rockefeller httnaetf vtstted bis domains and stayed until the company union was voted into existence by the mens —'ing the favorable white ballots instead of the opposing red...
Vol. 4 • December 1927 • No. 25
