UNITED LABOR BULLETIN Page Seven Operators Writhe Under Probe TAKE NOTICE Made by Federal Commission “ATreat Is in Store for You” A $7.00 pair of Pants made to order FREE with Suit or Overcoat made to order. Best lining every Governor Ammons and Attorney General Farrar Confess to JUST TRY Sold only in packages. and trimmings. Legal All wool materials. Fit guaranteed. Union label Commissioners That No Proclamation of Martial At all grocers. on every garment. Law Was Ever Issued; Acted Under Moyer Decision Madc in the c,eancst bakery Just think of it, men—a $25 Suit or Overcoat and ——— in America a pair of Pants made to your measure $7.00 (Continued from Page One.) ings l*i • _*lit against Judge Whitford of having a higher wage scale, Colora- and la’ -oppressed by the Legislature. Doyl - Ammons, do miner* are poorer paid than those ot - DENVER tional body had not given the miner* The witness a lengthy story of nor had he or told arms or ammunition, his ex |- nances in the strike zone when COLORDAO officers them to other national advised he bu*: le-en summoned, as he said, resort to violence. througi. false pretenses on General Open Saturday Evening of national or- Until 10 o’clock Average receipts the p.irt. to he Chase's appear before the mili- ganization are £2.4410.0*10 a year, tary* «"inmission and then, when he -aid. and miners are working under in*t to Major Bough ton de- would give the union agreements in 17 states. The i* *n -ought to Always SINCERITY bar- inforn and refused make First ¦UV TMB OLOIB EXPRIM COMPANY’* MONEY ORDER*. mand for the principle of collective admis- - desired by the general, had gaining is the main one made by the been thrown into jail and held incocm- MONEY ORDERS j strikers and by unions everywhere, he nmnic He freely criticised Chase-and gattii-wa stated. N#t Mtr t cento Oy*t ««0 to HI It 6mU j Uougl n for. their arbitrary assump- IHI further said fight would con- people generally it to «• *• He the tion ot mthority. He said lie later had ( county?” asked Commissioned Garret- * believed useless { SSS »;• »•; tinue until the right of every miner to been r> i- .i-ed on demand <>f . * bring such an action. Ot*r 111* to |SV cent* 0»«r to IT| SB mmntm i a commit- son. 10 cooto | join union was conceded. tee oi ”Jn six years during which Of or It# to |S» IS r*nia Over |.S to |l#t I# the . iners which was about to bola "Ves: many times.” replied Farr. the the ll# to 140 II rent* Ov»r »100 at abo»* rates Lawson’s Message to Wilson. a coin ation meeting in Denver. “Have you had men on criminal juries predecessor of the present district' judge declared, “a. John R. Lawson, national executive At th;- juncture Doyle explained to • who could not speak or understand occupied the bench,” lie board member for Colorado of the the commission that he had been cau- English ?” personal injury case against a coal com- United Mine Workers, was one of the tioned v his counsel to avoid wording “Many of them: many times.” pany was never allowed to go to a P>fc” M“* It was court. “•‘-‘-i- most dramatic witnesses of the two his rti-wer* in such way that they 1 Chairman Walsh produced a list of • . jury. dismissed by the SEE US So this occur that lav - inquiry. His statement waa in might misinterpreted or used against . names of 320 deputy sheriffs commis- frequently did week*’ vers form anad In* stood while him in the trial of a conspiracy charge between January 10, 1913. ano generally abandoned the bringing typewritten sioned of district reading it to the In one now .iding ami instigated he alleged, : Septemlier 1913, prior to the calling actions in the Third judicial commission. 1. and filed instance be said: by th. operator*. < of the strike. them either in Denver or n. Pueblo.” r "J have pending against ine in the **But I am not the least hit afraid to **\Ylp> paid these men?” he a;*ked “"'732-34.-36 Fifteenth St.--N.ar Stout St. know, do said The general unrest in the southern court* of Colorado 111 specific criminal , tell .-ill I and will so.” , Farr. the - Colorado coal declared, charges, ranging from conspiracy in re* Doyle But I would like to have “I ddn’t know. Huerfano eounty did fields. Hendrick

-- thought tr> straint of to murder in first <-omn> -a understand that 1 lielieve not pay them.” he principally attributable trade the as degn e. including arson t l»e orado opr-rat or* are powerful “Did the coal companies pay them?* . such methods this. and and assault i J “Is general feeling to and 1 am as of any enotigl send any man to the peniten- “I don’t know , hut irom what l have j there a that kill, innocent mnno WEINER SHOE CO. j crime against the laws of my state or tiary they so desire, whether that heard I am sati-fied they did.” courts of Muei county do not prop- JOE 1 erly perform 1016-1018 FIFTEENTH ST.-MINING EXCHANGE BLDG. nation as nuv individual sitting upon man guilty of crime or not.” “Did you furnish them with arms?” their function?” asked tins listening to me today.** Do; then the commission ! the companies , Coin mi—ioner Garretson. UNION bench here furnished “No: coal did.” Come in .nd 1.. u, fit KNEELAND SHOES with - gurcs of benefits paid. In the “Here i- a li>t of 73 men appointed “That has been generally charged.” 1 and you • pair our ALL COLORS ASTYLES deputies between September Oc- with of LEATHERS. the Mo-t of the arc impaneled mission, in which the supreme authority t qiieni in to .Ci7.'MMi a u.-ck. while tober 13; how much were these m**n juries benefit- tor la** Animas. Huerfano and from non-English speaking p«*ople an-1 Fretn counties had run between $21,- “I was told bv Mattison of the coal , Sometimes are two nr I would most respectfully direct votir com pan v that all tlie men got a J court-*. there A. J. O'BRIEN t three- by the attention. Mr. President, to the reront 4 >l, \..\ember 20. Doyle stated, tiic day and their board and lodging.” ; interpreters, and the time mitor . ! on -t« benefit rolls 7.917 Paid by Coal Companies. name to £3 % 1j vinced the jury doesn’t know anything The Capital industrial, relation* in (he city of llen- The benefit* amounted “Then the coal companies did pay ! we. k ; .r men. *1 a to the La Patrice \i r for undeniable proof of the fact that a the week l*eing response ; miner- and cents a week Deputies. there is hut on# human wive- 30 “1 was so informed.” Trial of Five hie the in CIGAR FACTORY • for deplorable condition?* the “But you said you did not know.” Hendrick described the trial of the City Shoe Colorado, Decision. ¦S BROADWAY coal iiklustrv of the state of Cht-e Relied on Moyer "No: I that at first, but then I ji five deputy sheriffs arrested in eonnee- 1). j Mr John Rockefeller. Sr. lieu John Chase, who ret used to refreshed it«y memory and remembered | lion with th.- Seventh -treet fight ” "Fortunately,! Adi i tbia assertion is not , tewtity before the congressional investt- what Mattison and so informed Walsciiburg. The hearing, in which Repairing based statement can said murder was charged, occupied, he La Patrice upon any tluit be gitin. ¦•uiniittee when here, appended you.” j n*- • m or the three out of the In All Sixes suit dieted denied, for evidence at com of Chairman Walsh. He told After turning to the other commis- !i serted. hours and 11 12 mand brought is found m the correspondence between the mu i.ui that lie had frequently i -iotiers. Chairman Walsh said: “None !; jurors were Mexicans. The jury Company 29 Broadway. New- York, and J. Wel- F. found iw-tc-sary to hold uicn in jail of the commissioners remember that i; in a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Rockefeller’s agent i over ; ' The Factory Cigar HKMtV WABNKCKE. Prop. Ikmti. in Colo- for 3.‘. days without turning them 1j r»*raark until in answer to the last “Wa- the community satisfied?” In All Sixes TKL. N.ll!« W7 rado. to th -ivi! authorities or preferring a question.” i asked Chairman Frank P. Walsh, •Rockefeller’s Hand Exposed. against them. He said “Did von examine j “No.” said Hendricw. “it was not.” submitted form il charge i these men?” “When you, Mr. President, had pursued this course in con- 1 TJic prosecution of mine guards, he • your suggestion of this tliat I satisfactory. SEWED for a settlement i towiu.y with the Moyer decision. “There was no e\a mination as to I | admitted, had never been i industrial conflict which has agitated The general testified that in the con- their characters or their qualification*? | “They are generally acquitted.” he HALF our *l*b* and has awakened the con- * j vei-atMMi with Prof. James H. Brewster Any of thedOl sworn in?” said. science of the nation, every citizen in ’ Trinidad he had told the professor 1 “No.” “How?” asked "Walsh. Colorado the land, Mr. alone, | ui that save Rockefeller ; that he talked on street as he was i you “Ou the theory they arc peace SOLES construed it if the i “Then turm*d them loose in tho as a command from the then talking to it would In* neces- , county to Jo as they Saw fit?” officers acting in the discharge of thefr of the nation. os- him j head The reply came sary to place him in jail. Chase said “No; they were not turned loose. The duty.” Hendrick replied. from Denver, but now i Sensibly ns fully later retracted the statement. companies took them ami gave them “See Chase,” Wires Ammons. Above exposed Is*fore was that he j this commission in of regarded the military district ! orders what to do and where to go.” t* e reality from 20 Broadway*. I Hendrick charged directly that c New York. as cotemperaneons with the “Did you give them any orders?” parti* 60 coal ipated iu the view of the fact that you have Colorado corporations e SHHI axdHß I "In state,” he said, “and 1 claimed the right “Ves. They were to keep the peace ; selection of juries. appointed Mr. Seth Low of New York 1 I Them to place anyone under arrest when and to report any trouble to me.” ! “11l capital cases.” he testified, “tl.e All at th' l head of a conciliation board, 1 oc- thought it necessary where military You did not examine them at all. regular venire always exhausted ai •: yon suggest is would respectfully ask to cii| ltion had taken place.” and so there might have been even a i to bv the that Mr. laiw call John I). Rocfcr- ; a s|H*cial| venire, be picked our mind it seems upon The general said that he had not red-handed murderer among them?” ; sheriff, is I never know?. felle r . Sr., m at the earliest ordered. have c i person op- tinned “Mother” Jones over to the civil “So far as I know, yes.” • judge to 75 a order a venire drawn r>that the world is go- portunity urge special and ac- upon him the autuoritie* because be did not feel that The ehairoiau then read the names regular as as T Repxirinf Done While You ceptance of your suggestion to from the jury box long ing through the greatest bring they were competent to deal with the of some of the deputies and Farr said • have Wait. Work Called for and industrial • practiced in those courts.” known, about peace in Colorado. they had made no rcjiorts to him. When 1 said he had attempted —n crisis it has ever Story. Hendrick Delivered. Is He Higher Than Law? Wanted to Suppress one name was read he -aid: “I know 'i whether we three occasions to find out mar- and regret that this "In common with the countless mil- Maj. K. H. Bought.m of the Colorado I him. but I didn’t know he was carry- [; tial law had l**cn declared in the south-* Champa lions of my -citizens I recognize Vat onal Guard told the commission he : ing a deputy's papers around.” em fields, -o as to know crisis is not past. It may 1511 St. I fellow of j coal whether the fact that |M*rhaps no other President ha.i attempt.**! to suppress the story In answer to questions Farr said he 1 he iiad a right to proceed with the reg- perhaps be the dark- the had records of ! that Denver, Colo. in the history* of our country has been tin Ludlow disaster from newspa- no where men were sta- j nlar conduct of the affairs of his of- est days are yet to come; called upon to intervene in so many dif- pers until General Cha-e could make ar» tioned. nor when they left the employ- j flee. case, he asserted, he had his nor sur- In each ficult and delicate through- inv. -tigation and report finding*. ; of the companies, whether they : governor to Adju- we can see with situation?* telegram been referred bv the however out this country and the world looking > l'.mghton. who produced a ] rendered their commissions and their tant General Chase. tront Chase at Lud- aI"ms and ammunition to the optimistic eye the hazy toward the happiucss and welfare ot himself to General companies. Got Five Men Released. suggestion is ac- low . dated April 23. said that he had en- | since all that was the companies* busi- sun mankind. If your not Tie that had mist breaking and the eepted bv when countered Cant. Philip v Van t'ise in ness and not his. declared he been instru- j Mr. Rockefeller present- mental in securing v.- behind the silvery by Mr. law, master of IK-i ver two days after the tent colony Bribery Open. the release of t shining ed this millions Election Is men on l*oml-. Two of these men. > lie the person the w.t- destroyed and that Van Cise had lining. keep on boost- will but second iu Robert Young, former mine superin- testified, had re-arrcsted by the Just lift* of your who has to public the story *»t been administration threatened make tendent, foreman and pit boss for the militia at the instance of E. V • ing for this great nation spurned kindly in cause . -..’lie attributed to the James your offices the of tb«* atrocitie- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, testi- Glaughlin. a gov- of and justice, the one be- militia. Bought on declared that he pre- brother-in-law of the and in a few months we peace other fied the Seventh street riot was delib- ernor. wa-» also the r.T ing < Jett. no Huerta, 4':-.- not to make the who superintend* Victoria late dicta vailed upon Van erate murder on the |iart of the militia a enjoy greatest pros- tor Mexico, present un- st.*: y public and telegraphed Chase iui- of mine. will the fo whereabout* officers. He said the use of money in he known. m. iiately. “In my absence from Trinidad.” perity the world has ever elections in Huerfano county was gen- called niv son over tel- Mai. by tbs C.Mjb.n-Sdl Bsbteg Ca. given before com- . ' l-.mghton directed Chase, his st»- said. “Chase the “The testimony this then eral. For several years an understand- ephone. and Why not, the U. la*t l»v pci or to appoint a committee cursed and abused him. told known. Mission week Mr. Wtibornplsce* . officer. ing had existed between diaries Beu- he would throw issue of to investigate the him him in jail if he comes first, Colorado ! the squarely before the world, militia officers chat. general* of th» S. A. committee con- 'superintendent ever allowed such a thing to happen j “la John D. Rockefeller greater than i Ludlow tragedy*. This Union Coal and Coke Company; William again.” second, and when we the government? -i-t.*dof Houghton. Van Cis** and l>anks. Liquor Gordon, superintendent’of the Midway- The district attorney testifinl that Closing Out Our “Is he higher than the law?” “Brutes.” and speak of prosperity we Calls Soldiers mino. himself whereby both 4-onion the citizens of Las Animas county rc- mean labor first and then Department Secretary Doyle Give* Figures. 4 institutional rights were abolished ami he received $33 each for Use -it elec- mained quiet when the militia was Edward a tensurer - jby the Colorado militia when it went tion time. in field, were State-wide L Doyle, secret rv-t f the because they a fra hi capital. They are insep- prohi- the zone, said ?.i» # of District Union No. 13, United Mine « , into strike declared l*rof. He he had received instruct! . if they expressed their opinions that bition foca into cf- University of spend booze for one cannot exist January Workers of America, occupied the wit- James H. Brewster of the to This money for so that j i they would be imprisoned and held in- arable f«pt 1916. ness during good part member of the committee Jeff Farr will get the benefit of it” communicado. we must clone stand a of Sat- Colorado and without the other. We and urday Monday. appointed by the Federation of through his wholesale liquor «*stahli>h- (“Montie”* out ourentireatock and He reviewed Ills i State Lieut W. E. Limierfelt of iu Lilor to investigate conduct of the mi- i nient. have many things in the by work coal mines from the time he , the state militia described the battle of that time. In was 12 in, in coin- “We were Young declared, “to ' 200 years old. He Went to school i lit his testimony before the told.” Ludlow and told the commission he had future to hope for and al- order to sell in tell the bins to go mr j J #5 gal. between the ages of tl and 12 years. The i—ion. 'down the iin** i struck Louie Tikas. leader of the Lud- gone barrel# of a state troops gang. all the though the state his Old Richland, we first actual digging of coal commenced The entire conduct of the the Jeff Farr and n*st.’” low Greeks, over the head with his gur.- when he was 17 years old. All his time wa- a course of outrage and brutality. Young said that because of the closing stock because Tikas had him a into the hands of untried will sacrifice at M> of the nine called The finest hand prior to coming to CnTtmulo in 1907 was iV fessor Brewster a--«*rtod. Not only precincts during the last . vile name. policies and experimental spent at Spring Valley*. 111. had Adjutant General Chase wiped election the lVmoeratio party had been “Do you think an officer is justified made Burbon had the whiskey on Doyle t old* a lion t his experience ns a con-titutioiml rights but the miners unable to select election judges it iu striking a prisoner?” Chair- experiments in this state, the the asked market. Made in , check weighmau at the Vulcan mine, been robins! by the state trtops. wished to protect its interests and that | man Walsh. let us still hold up the Kentucky ai nee near Lafay*ette, when he first cauu* here. ranks of the militia had been swelled the eleeion had accordingly l»een left to “I think any man i- justified in -trik- said during by of the | [ the hottnl of county hands of the men elected 1665. Eapccially He the first two or three the enlistment scoundrels and commissioners, ing another when he is called -itch a recommended for days when he com|iarcd weights be- j right to search had been exercised by dominated by Farr. name as Tikas applied to me,” Linder* by the choice of the peo- family and medical f tween the company and the railroad the state troops while the courts were j Other charges made by Young were* , felt declared. That Reno, ' uae. Our aame • scales lie found the miners were losing j open. R. 11. head of the Colorado He said he had saved Tikas’ life ple with dignity and honor. old and when apccial offer. I seven to fourteen tons jier dav. He I‘rofessor Brewster ilwlami that Fuel Iron Company's detective de- members of his command wished to We are proud of our boys then Imlanced the scales and the coin* , j Lieut. K. E. Limierfelt. in charge of the lta rtnient. held an official position with hang him. girls, 56 in number in 4 Full Quhrts 2 tinny weighiuun made up the difference ; m.u hine gun at the Ludlow massacre of the Spanish lVaks Mercantile Company. Announced Martial Law. and by false weights to the I 14 women and children, was a “brute dominated hy Farr. Whiskey giving buyers 1 ! “Who announced the our laundry, who from Star of the coal. unfit to associate with anybody,” and That Farr compelled saloonkeepers, martial law first Express I prevailed the honest 13.20 On Strike in 1910. that because of his brutality a congtvs- before they obtained a license, to con in Ludlow district?”asked choice labor for an Charges be to • Commissioner Walsh. Prepaid Doyle said was on j sional committee had asked tliat he tract purchase their supplies from not ser- that he strikn in 1 suspended 1914. “I did.” replied Limierfelt. dollar. They are fall 1910 except Hie on January 30. ; his company. Writ*for mammoth catakar of all kind* of the of for time he | “A* a special deputy sheriff?'* kings mail was in jail for alleged contempt I “Had he been suspended then.” he de- That mine superintendents and their vants or slaves, but mwchandia*. juatout. Th* lanroat ardor of clared, ”No; as an officer of the National would never hap- employers were punished * Houm **st ofth* Missouri. court. Two months were spent in jail ‘*l.lldlow have for failure I queens, particularly in produce proper ' Guard. had held that positiou for and RAN 1 lAAK *°