Colorado Industrial Distubances 1903 1904

Commemorating the centennial of the Cripple Creek Labor Wars, 1903-1904, this book recalls the causes and consequences of one of the eras violent labor strikes that spread throughout the Colorado mine fields. This publication contains papers contributed by the presenting authors during the June 5, 2004, symposium at Pikes Peak Library District and is intended to contribute to the scholarship regarding the events that occurred in the Cripple Creek District during the Colorado Labor Wars. Photographs include Western Federation of Miners (WFM) members who were arrested and held by the Colorado State Militia, then deported from the state as a consequence of their union affiliation. A "must read" for those interested in labor history, mining, and a time when the WFM asked, "Is Colorado in America?"

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: ... Saturday, June 18th.--Board of Inquiry moves its headquarters to county jail. Sunday, June 19th--Was quiet, nothing more than the regular sweating of prisoners occurred. Crump announced that he was continuing his work of sweating the members of the W. F M. in county jail and making good progress and hoped to be prepared to produce some startling evidence when the time for the inquiry into the Victor riot came. Thus ended the second week. It might be well to mention here that a county warrant for $2,000 payable to S. D. Crump had been ordered drawn by the county commissioners. This was the first of a series of five similar warrants which would have to be drawn to make up the $10,000 fee which Crump was to receive as remuneration for prosecuting the perpetrators of the Independence depot outrage, those who started the shooting and the persons who destroyed the Record plant. A. E. Carlton and II. L. Shepard, a prominent mining broker and operator, went on S. D. Crump's bond in the sum oi' $10,000 for the faithful performance of his duties. DEATH OF EMIL JOHNSON. June 23.--Breathing a curse against Governor Peabody, Adjutant General Bell and the state administration which, by exercise of its despotic militarism, had driven him from his wife and babies, Emil L. Johnson, one of the miners recently deported from Cripple Creek, ended his life in the morning by inhaling gas. For some time he had been despondent because the military refused to allow him to return to his family, and when he went to his room at 1646 Larimer street a short time after midnight he disrobed, turned on the gas and laid down on the bed to die. He was discovered about 9:30 by his brother, John T. Johnson, and Police Surgeon Holmquist was summoned. Despite the heroic...

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...