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. Hoodlums on Horseback Flee as 300 I. W. W. Cars Approach "OVER THE HILLS Conference Where Women Close Up Mines MINERS CLAMOR FOR MEMBERSHIP AND FAR AWAY," CARDS IN I. W. W.; CALL SENT OUT IS MINE GUARDS Called at FOR ACTIVE WOBS TO AID WORKERS SLOGAN AT IDEAL, State House Strike Now Going on in Colorado Mine Fields is Unparalelled i In History of State, in Spirit and Wide-Spread Solidarity; Three Thousand Pickets Close Mine Walsenburg, Colo., November, Meetings of 3,000 and 4,000 People are ComrtTon Occurrences; Where Fifty Armed Guards on 1.—(By Special Wire)—Compa- More Help Needed. Horseback Trampled <»irl and Beat nies desperate, ready to sign up; up Men and Women. conference being held at Denver By BYRON C. KITTO at the State House. Picketing i By BYRON KITTO WALSENBURG, Cola—We arrived in Frederick Friday mornin* WALSENBJJRG. Colo., Oct. 30 discontinued in order to allow' about 9 a. m„ and by following the crowd we found the I. W. W. head* The Northern 'delegation of I. W. W. delegates to work unhampered; quarters. miners from the Boulder liirnite field by any technicality. As a whole j There were about 150 workers parked in the entrance ,all trying to of the north which swept through excellent situation with plenty get into the office at once. We figured they must be after their mail Fremont county, closing down mine* more trump cards in the sleeves or information about the strike. that have heretofore been immune lo Alter pushing our way through, we discovered Embree at his desk organization, arrived in WalsenhuiK of striking I. YV. W. who will, writing out cards. at 1.15 p. m. Friday. carry on this fight until the "Taking in some members?" we inquired. The caravan of 112-automobiles right to organize is being re-i "Taking in members? Well, 111 say so. I have been writing out carrying nearly 800 woHcers, was cognized by the coal barons. cards for the last three hours. Instead of us looking for workers and met at the city limits by the Walsen- .Governor Adam# requesting I. asking them to join, the worker* are looking for us and asking to be- ' burg, Ludlow and Trinidad fellow come members," he replied. mJft\ leaders to co-operate with M workers. A mammoth procession "You bet! We want I. W. Wn remarked a big, stalwart mine worker. followed through the streets (^f Wal trie S(*te in the enforcement of "Sure we ido!" chirped in many other workers, representing various senburg. The cars had large banners the picket law, which was ac- nationalities and tongues. on each side:. ceded to by Francezon on the interviewed many miners, especially "Join the I. W. W. and be a man." >ld timers." who have been through "An Injury to one is an injury to ground that the law never had WOMEN FIGHT FOR THE countless struggles, most of them being all." been violated and proof of it was, fought here on the blood drenched hills of "Miners of Colorado, do not scab the acquittal of 10 men against RIGHT TO LIVE DECENT Colorado. They all stated that this strike on you# fellow workers." | the conviction of two. staged by the I. W W is unparalelled in These were some of the banners, o°f | Violation of the law commit- AND MEN SPURN LIQUORColorad o strike history. which there were manv. J ted by the C. F. & I. in trying to • can never forget this," was a state- A* the fellow worker> dro lh IN COLORADO WALK-OUT i by i Th«| evict forcibly striking miners Then < 12 whu sidewalks w+re lined with j without due process of the law; I arrest by the sheriff of Byron i<,.-thern district n y *f Kitto on 5 trumped up charges •h a | in order to raise the bail of this * in jail, hall larpe . and Fellow Worker in an exorbitant fighting ipeakf-r way. Young girl Wobbly leader Milka Sablich arrested on the step of the Court house in com-

plete disregard of constitutional an* and bread," said another womaJ guarantee; intimidation of all tr who wore a knitted stocking fo kinds by authorities failing to "I'd like a piece of meat and sonv break the solidarity of the work- , once in a while." v, ers who are decided to fight this1 like chicken." declared another ii i English. "How I do like it!" I battle to the final victory. 'ourth woman, of the number im ed on a charge of picketing, said: " VALSENRIRG. n| Noi much, and if Above, A Colorado mine "hell-hole," now deserted by all but kno< one loneh watchman. ith I offic t the Klein Hotel Below, left, Mrs. Sera Salazar; right Mrs. Jennie Adams t English and bits of her 17-year-old of Spanish phra ish. Fellow Workei Embree ir K. Hart, Colonel P Net Kavich, who were jailed at Aguilar on charges of picketing. g to get silk hose daughter who w > Industrial Commiss >n which r R. F. Trinsted, Capt. Re of the When released they attended a great meeting at Ludlow and af- and pretty dres loing all in its pow i to break nal Guard, and George M. Taylor o: f ter talking to the mammoth crowd they asked for volunteer pick- all an "illegal stri the State Industrial Commission. A dele ets: every man, woman and child raised their hands. ft from the 1. W. W. composed of A R. Franceion, J. B. Childs and B Of the impossibility left immediately to confer with th< ovemor* representatives. Speaking on behalf of t MASTERS GROWING DESPERATE IN over three hundred car* stron* »sued an ultin j pic tit for the Ideal mine where th< ;after. ? fightini had the previous day clubbed Fello* After considerable controversy over var- COLORADO: ONE FIRES DRIDGE TO their chi r Child* and trampled Milka Sablich us technicalities it was agreed that the to share in the good things f life enjoyed ig girl, under horse* hoofs. The Car I. W. W. be given two hours to consider BLAME I, W. W„ DDT GETS ARRESTEby other Dpeople' s children. speeded onto the scab mine at for 1 arrival at the hall the ith bet- fellow workers Jacobs, Orr lent than beans and bread, > the r they i About The have been conducting meet- By BYRON C. KITTO liich for breakfast, dinner and supper he- foreign J and Aguilar and immed- these mes exceedingly tiresome nasters. That being the case, the workers i conference. After consid- WALSENBURG. Colo. Oct. 30.—Arrived (See leading arti n front f the world, which, of course, means black, eitbl* discussion it was decided to request in Walsenburg Tuesday IPD< i:n^ at 3:45 ist think of it, Fel rs; i.f the Liquor Noted by its Absence k-hite. yellow, and those In between, should that thirty hours stay* be granted until a. m. On arriving at the 1. W. W. hall we stronghold Despite the fact that liquor is easily ob irganise as a class to fight the one ene- and master tacticians who, when referring such time as the matter coald be placed found things humming. In all directions of the C. F A I., there are only two mines tained in Walsenburg, Colorado, it is con- rty, their capitalistic masters. The other to the I. W. W , shrug their shoulders ant before the rank and file. workers were emerging from their homes making an attempt to operate. While among the striker* by its absence. fellow workers, Neito, Herrajon, Dragneff. with a sardonic grin calmly say, "Oh, well At 11:30 p. m. the committor met the «*nd making their way to th» hall to an- writing this article, word comes to the Only two or three men have been arrested Parkoff. Clemmons and Kitto, all handled the I. W. W. is all right; it has done verj governors representatives. United Press swer the picket roll call. There were Rus- headquarters that the C. F. ft l's largest strike was called lubject in like manner—showing the good work; but, you know, it has servet and Associated press were granted permi sians, Slavs, Greeks. Mexicans. Finns and mine, the Morley, in Laa Animas county Authorities claim, of course, that this is advantage to the Colorado coal miner* of its purpose," etc., that the 1. W. W. ii sion to attend. Roger Franceion speaking Americans, in fact all nationalities that one has been pulled clean. This means that iponsible for the peaceful conduct of the belonging to the I. W. W. here to stay; that the I. W. W. organitw as chairman stated that the committee would expect to find in a mining setUe- the C.J\ A I. has been hit In the solar strike, but there never was a strike that While the meeting was in progress, a what ia commonly known as the impossibli not in power to make any final decli ment. Racial animosities do no', enter into plexus And Is hanging onto the rope*. One wasn't peaceful aa long as the strikers committee from the Black Dimmond mine in labor circles; that the 1. W. W. has the as the I. W. W. is a rank and file oi tbe minds of Colorado coal slaves. In all or two more food blown from the I. W. W. were left alone In their rights. Whenei arrived and stated that its operator wanted methods and tactics; that the I. W. W. niiation; that sufficient time must be giv- activities such as relief committees, strike will have the octopua down for th.» coant. violence has occurred in any strike it 1 p with the I. W. W. The miners, goes there and It gets there! en for the rank and file b committees, picket squadrons and organi- (Again see front page leading article.) been started from some other source th paid little attention to the report Will you help? matter. Colonel Hart said, xaUon work, the various nationalities are The general manager of the Walsen the strikers themselves. Especially ia peacefulness exhorted and and notified the committee that if the op- time do you need." Bell interjected, "It all represented "Worker* i»f the world, mine, W. E. Weitsen, made a frantic ap- encouraged in I. W. W. strikes. Strike di- willing to grant the demands would take me at least a day unite; you have nothing to lose bat your peal for the miners to return to work. He rectors in Colorado warn the Wobbliea made by the I. W. W., for him to come Seattle Meetings reach the Northern miner*." At this junc- chains; you have a world to gain," ia not aen( notice by C. F. * I. gunmen to all leave liquor alone, cautioning them that it around to the I. W. W. hall. The meeting ture O. M. Taylor beckoned Colonel Hart a mere slogan with the I. W. W. coal min- workera who were, previous to the •trike, 612V4 Second Ave. ~ and useless trouble. lasted for three hours, after which Fellow outside into the hallway for a secret confer- er*. It la a reality. employed at the Walsen mine to come to Each morning, aa the plcketors gather at Worker Embree, as usual was busily en- ence. Upon their return colonel Hart stated At 4 a. m. the pickets le't in machines a meeting to be held at 6:30 a. ni on the headquarters, at 4.30 o'clock before going gaged in writing out I. W. W. membership Thursday, November 8, 8 p. m., Bert that thirty hours stay was all right with for the C. F. A I. mints the Lester and the company's property. Ho said, "The com- picket operating mines, they Walton will speak on the subject of "Fear them. The L W. W. delegation stated that Idea), which are th» only roes operating in pany w*nta to be fair; come back to work, carefully searched by the strike directors and Capital Punishment" should the rank and file decide to continue the Walsenburg district. Thev mines have and If you think that you have any griev- Saturday evening, November 6, regular picketing they would do ao despite all ulti- only a few "loyal" scabs working. Opera- for firearms. ances let us talk it ever; you are new weekly entertaniment. matums. The I. W. W. ia built on a rank tions In these mines are maintained mere- Strikers, with their wives and children, getting hungry, think of your families; Sunday, November 6, 8 p. m., J. I and file basis and there ia no dictatorship ly for a bluff, carried on br the intimida- are assigned to an automobile In which Thompson will speak on "Strike Tactic*." (Oontiiraod on Psge 4) - tion by gunmen. However, by the time this • Paget) The Industrial Worker MINERS^STRIKE

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. - , —r picket* Women beaten ^ in Las Avian* county. Girt by tht mam U Mflka Sabtick leading our pickets on tke H«U mine had1 her arm broken up by company gunmen en hornefanck. Two women fainted in struggle tn rescue her. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Embree with five hundred man from tke Nortkarn field complete tie-up of Fremont county. Embree and bin m in Walsenburg after haying enanbed Weal L W. W. at I urgently request yon tn form s Colorado Minera ~ Committee. Svantun and SeiiBer still in jaiL I will Tr*"^ Orer $300 tied up in pentof fiee, tins to cannot be delivered to ndtfranMe*. gu h ExM „ a|1 money to A. K. Pavnj^ Secretary Trensver Protem, Baa 542. 2?;*' Montana, to be wired to LW.W. ksniqtmrten, WaJnenborg, Mend by Mills, win he 4*cide—^d bf *nambw* i - of to individuals who may be in jnfl. T**?* ior dollar nheHM. The, . A committee known an "The Colorado Minera Relief and Defense wfl! be unnmmtmf hi oar next tone. Committer " with J.B. Chflda, card number 7828W as chairman, has been *• a«k the rapport of tke member- organizdi at Walsenburg for the relief and defense of the minera. Their Jhlp forbock. -Th, Blood^nrf T™fl- MM o( Jlr«t thb ^ address is P. O. Box 87, Walsenburg, Colorado. WALSENBURG, Colo., October 28.—-Figures compiled here reveal pri«o campaign. It ii up to tu to fiaonee trial Worker exists through its own effort* THEIR VICTORY IS YOUR VICTORY the Iaduxtrial Worker and keep it going, 10.00C of the 12j000 miners normally employed in Colorado eoal mines are and on its own merits alone. It receives no now on stnke. Pickets are expected to pull out the remaining 2,000 within and for tfeia purpoM wo' persuaded Ed Del- On the blood drenched ground of Colorado—ground hallowed by the subsidy nor financial support from a*y the next few hours. aney to write as a book along a line map- Other source. Wp depend on oar own ef- blood of the working class, spilled in many a battle of the class war—the pod oat by the Editor. This is "The Blood- WALSENBURG, Colo,, October 27^(By wire)—Five hundred men forts alone. Many 6f you responded quite coal miners are out on strike against the most deplorable working and stained Trail." It is a good book; one that arr ved in Morence, traveling in automobile* from the Northern fields. liberally in the campaign just closed and living conditions. Their wages are far below the scale paid to mint you will want to road, and one that will Enthusiastic meetings held at various mining camps. Local miners voted •ome of you worked lik« Trojans to put it the east, and in the neighboring states. unanimously in favor of walkout. advertise the organisation widely. It will be For live years they have been subjected to every insult that the over. For which we thank you all. WALSENBURG, CVo., October 28.—Milka Sablich, 19-year-old off the press November 15th. ter class has seen fit to inflict; and for five years they have been deserted Joan of Arc of the Coal Fields," seriously injured today when she was Oar Christmas campaign will be con- by trade unions. trampled by horxes as a brutal mine guard rode her down. She was rushed ducted the same as the Defenae Campaign They have been forced to sign illegal contracts with the companies, - hispital. Just before Labor Day; the agreeing to move from company owned houses within three days if the The prttty "girl-ln red," who fought her way through the guards to Work Peoples College campaign i at the companies notified them to do so. Active union men have been blacklisted the Delagua mine and closed it yesterday, was leading a group of pickets present time. All branches will be uked and driven from the state; pit committees elected by the workers under "" *he .mlnf• They were halted by a band of heavUv armed guards to sell as many tickets as poesible in this a Colorado state law have been discharged or forced to cease functioning; horsetack. An American flag carried by the picketers was knocked lawfully elected checkweighmen have been driven from the tipples and re- from the hands of a miner by a guard on horseback, and the miner clubbed placed by professional scabs whenever they protested against the miners over the head with a pistol. Two other women and several men were hurt being robbed of their coal at the scales. / '"l?,th* cr<^d- clubbing and scattering tear bombs. AGRICULTURAL WORKERS CONVENTION Lives of the mine workers have been endangered and lost through WALSENBURG, Colk, October 28.—Five hundred striking miners the companies' flagrant violation of every safety law in the state of Colo- from the Northern fields airived today. They were joined by strikers from By James Heney rado, whenever these companies thought it would add to their profiU to the loca! field and again advanced on the Ideal mine. do so Every vestige of unionism on the part of the workers, has hereto- PUEBLO, Colo., October 29.—The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company an- fore been ruthlessly attacked and destroyed. nounced that one third of their plant at Pueblo will shut down on account Now, they have organized in the I. W. W., the One Big Union of all of lack of coal; 2.000 men will be laid off temporarily. This is predicted workers whose motto is "An injury to one one is an injury to all." and as the beginning of a complete industrial tie-up throughout the state, due whoso slogan is "Solidiu-ity Forever." They have come out on a strike which to the strike. illustrates the SOLIDARITY which the I. W. W. teaches, tieing up the DENVER, Colo., October 29.—The Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, coal mining industry in the State of Colorado a* it was never tied up be- operating in the Northern coal fields, has submitted a proposition to the fore. industrial commission offering a wage increase and an adjustment of con- rom. Frank Thorpe These miners are demanding that th^re be a readjustment of condi- ditions if the strikers will grant them a meeting. The Northern strikers, Oeneral Organizatior ho tions in the mines-qf Colorado, and they are putting up ari admirable bat- who are out 100 percent strong, have declared they will remain out until accept: J. E. M.t t«Hing, Chas tle. They are fighting the most vicious anti-union corporations in the all the strikers in all districts win their demands. There is to be no se- rk, John K. Peterson Louis Gracey. led by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, whose officers parate settlements in this strike; it is all together or none. instigated the Ludlow massacre of 1914. where the wives and children of I> l HLO C ,orado ThAse that ( Jack Kinney, Jo* striking miners were . ,.^ ' ® « October 29.—Governor Adams still refuses to call re mercilessly shot or burned to death in "The Black nillitia. He has, however, oHiered three national guard airplane to Jf, in a nan sir ovic, Adbc Orr, H B Hole of Ludlow,' „ ., ^ cellar under the cook house of the Ludlow tenv tv colony. patrol the strike zone on the lookout for disorder. These planes will have . Joe Clohessey. Joe Kauch, Thoma* oloiado militia, under command of Colonel Patrick Hamrock, at Pueb!o and wiU not 180(1 ln the strike area. They ingham. Goo Brehm, I). Simpson. mi t tedI 1Uii s foul deed, the memory of which is still vivid in the minds of 1 ~ lookouts for "violence from both employers and workers from; R. E. Copelan.i, many of the mine workers now on strike. like. The Colorado Fuel and Iron company has not changed its tactics KRI>0. Colorado, October 29.— The Rockv Mountain Fuel Compa- since 1914. Two nights before the present strike was called the I. VV. YV negotiate with the strikers, is the largest in the headquarters in \\ alsenburg was raided by C. F. & I. gunmen and mem L,-J * i the state. bers of the so-called vigilance committee, presumably under the orders o f Clohesa* the same men who ordered Hamrock to murder the women and children >rt*,g, Joe Jordi ot Ludlow. Armed men in the mob shot out the windows, and simply the le, Jack Kenney mere fact that only one man was«in the hall and that he had presi mind to get away, prevented another bloody outrage All l>ookj rature, rtroids and furniture in the headquarters was destroyed by •iw -jays |atel. 80 men unfl 2(> women pickets were arrested * and thrown indiscriminately into a "bull pen." Among them women with babies in their arms, and a 14-year old girl. The* arrests re also done at the orders of the C. F. & I But while the <\ F & I. has —* changed its tactics, they have new working class tactics t< Her. Gudvangen, Brehm, face; and diff. conditions. Mine workers have learned SOLIDARITY Childs, Hollis. Summon and the preser ke is more widespread, covering a wider area than eve ot present: R. E. Copelai eason. this strike is harder to cope with by the use o E Anderson, Ira Pope. J militia much territory that it is practically beyond the "con trol" of militia. The v condition that the C. F. & I. faces is that th- governor of Colorado. the present instance, has steadfastly refused t< even think in terms of military intervention. Therefore, the miners have the bosses licked at last. Forcing ther 4t. J"* th,inK- Th* bosses would rather do anything els n the world than admit defeat at the hands of the I W. W. But if w working jn ot^er industries give the Colorado strikers the FEAThey (,eSerVt,• TUEY WILI;F6RC^THE ¥OSSES TO'ADMIT DK-

'VpiU\£f aI1 .Persecutions the strike is growing to larger proportion! every day. The miners have come out at Oak Creek. in Routt county, and the miners of Boulder county have marched into Fremont county and called " ?e Wh0le 8tat? is now 100 Pe^ent on strike with , dec.. Mortrig. the exception of one or two mines in the Walsenburg district, where pick- cc.. Childs, dec. ets are concentrating every effort to pull out the last mine. It is here Doyle, acc.. where the brave Milka Sablich, the "girl in red," was injured Friday by trampling horses of mine guards while she was heroically leading the pick- ets against the guards. Accounts of this wonderful girl, dressed in red, marching behind the American flag with songs of the I. W. W. upon her ups, remind one of the accounts of the wonderful communards of Paris. If these miners get the support that their splendid spirit deserves, they will come out of this strike organized, to stay organized. If they are not supported by workers in other parts of the country, the open shop plan t i . continue to be a menace to organized workers here It I* reported and elsewhere. Their fight is our fight; a victory for the Colorado ers is a victory for the working class. These miners are facing eviction from company owned houses if they do not win a speedy victory. It may become necessary for the I. W W 6 t C ,0nieS ke are of 0 v, ? ° £i.4 5 them. They have just pulled through a hard summer with hardly any work. This works to their ad- vantage, for there is no coal surplus on hand; but their pockets are empty. They are fighting against odds. They need our help. What is your an- Zr^t° be- Send it to A. K% Payne, secretary-treasurer protem of affices D.fhi Mln e1^ Industrial Union 210-220 of the I. W. W. Box 542, J t proc«-f

ried a new scheme. Jim Cam< AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL perintendent of the big Turner t iown to the bridge which lies bet' D ,T° C?al M,',"er? of Utah- Wyoming, and other states; and to the the big and little Turner mines, and > Railroad Workers We Appeal: Do not dirty your hands mioing coal to be he thought no one was looking he ca *et fire to the bridge. This he thought shipped to Colorado, or hauling coal by train into Colorado. Victory for L W. W. PREAMBLE the striking miners in Colorado means likewise a victory for YOU Don't would surely give the governor good pr scab on them. In these days when worekrs strike it is a class battle, the vocation to call out the national guar The workinp class and the employma class hare nothing in common. Thert eon working class against the employing capitalist class; the wage workers Also he would see the headlines in tl 6* no peace SO long as hu.na*r ana want are found among millions of working people everywhere are all of one class, the working class. Don't go back on your papers "I. W W. Bums Bridge." Th< FOR BENEFIT OF THE and the few who make up the employing class have all the good t fun pi of Hf*. too the organizers could be arrested and Between these two Masses a struggle must go on until the workers of the world class Railroaders, we ask you to refuse to haul scab coal; and mine work- organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and ers elsewhere we plead with you to refuse to dig scab coal. charged with arson, sabotage and all th< COLORADO COAL MINERabelihS the wage system. charges that the masters could trump uj We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer against our active members. Then he fig An entertainment and dance will hands makes the trade unions tenable to cope with the ever growing power of the rm- tual interest," "Co-operation," and all other ured the strike would be disorganised and be held in the Finnish hall, 13th and ptoying class. The trade Mnums fostsr a stnfs of affairs which allow* on* set of work- sugar phrases which have been correctly MASTERS GROWING the workers drift back to the hell holea Washington Streets, Seattle, Wash- ers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping placed by the I. W. W. under the heading defeat one another m wage wars. Uorever, the trade MM ton* aid the employing class with the promise of a "fair sys wage." ington, Wednesday night, November of slavery, had no effect on the minera to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common While all this was going through hi* 9, at 8 o'clock, for the benefit of the with their employers. whatsoever. Colorado coal miners. It will be given head a big dumbbell of a gunmaiman spoiled Them conditions eon be chanced and the interest of the working class upheld only The Treal masters are now getting ready under the auspices of the Seattle by em ergamseation formed m such a way that all its members tn any one industry, or the whole thing by arresting thes superin- for action. They have tried to set the Joint Branches of the L W. W. Be- m aU industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or tsoheut is on in any department thereof, thus makmg an injury to one an injury to att. workers back through the old, old worn cause of the length of the program 1 Instead of thf conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair Aetfs work," we flag waving stont.' The placing of "Old the entertainment will start prompt- must inscribe on *ur banner tAe revolutionary watchword, *Abolition of the wage eye- Glory** on the tipples and the announce- ly at 8 o'clock; dancing win start a- t0M ment from all state executive* that the bout 10; music by the Original Wm. ^lt is the hmtoris miesien sf the working olase to do MM with capitalism. The army ef production must be ergemised, net only for the ivtryiay struggle with oapi- strike Is Illegal and un-American is laughed Haga Orchestra; refreshments. Ad- hrh'tft. but else to oerryon production when empitahem shall hmv4 boon overthrows*. at by the strtfuw;. (rem Ik* viewpoint of mission 35 cents, all proceeds to goto the Colorado miners. ! *.'•, - PIPf

THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER

IN COiORADOiMORE WNES OUT Conditions at America's Longest Tunnel Shows Wage Slaves Are Slumbering; Active Delegates Can Do Good Work.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif— Saturday Let's grab an arm full of box cars and go evening, October 22, a mass meeting was to the eight mile tunnel under construction "We fought like heO to get there, and we 4M!" held in 8an Francisco in behalf of the by A Guthrie and company at S4fenic, Wn. That's the way pretty 19-year-old Milka Sablieh, daughter of a miner, striking coal miners of Colorado, at the On arriving we will go to the office and described the hand to hand encounter with mine guards in the Delagua constructive convention," Pres. Labor College, 1264 Market Street, under r«pply for a chance to risk our lives in the Canyon Thursday. October 27. Wm. Green of the American Federation of the auspices of the Industrial Workers of tunnel. We will be asked the following She was handcuffed, with three miners who were charged with pick- Labor as be brought itk 47th annual con- the. World. questions by the timekeeper or clerk: Have eting; bat later the girl was released. clave to a close in Los Angeles Oct 14th The crowd, though not great in numbers, you boots? Can you tend chuck (or what- Milka had ldi a cheering group of pickets, who advanced behind an St soon. Certainly it was a remarkably displayed their sincerity by giving the ever they need men for)? Your age? Wher«» American flag and succeeded in reaching and dosing the Delagua mine, cause he was innocent of the San fran- smooth-running, harmonics gathering. The speakers their closest attention and donat- were you born? Are you married? Who one of the largest of the Victor-American properties, and one of the very cieco preparedness parade explosion noth- only serious fight was on a predominantly ing liberally of their funds. The chairman, few that still were in operation. ing less could possibly be considered. A California issue, that of Mexican immigra- Fellow Worker George Holmes, after an- More than a dozen knockouts and knock-downs are reverted to have parole was also offered to Warren Billings tion. A jurisdictional dispute aroused nouncing the purpose of the meeting in- occurred when guards sought to prevent the women reaching their ob- convicted with Mooney, it is mid. more sympathy for the underdog than pas- troduced the first speaker of the evening. se satisfactorily jective. The following day the girl was injured, as described elsewhere. Mooney has been in priaoe over 11 years John Loheit xchange for our That was Thursday at Trinidad. On Wednesday, striking miners in on perjured testimony pieced together by Yet the silent industrial and social revo- Loheit delivered one of the most dyna- the Boulder lignite field went into Freiqont county to line op the mine the San Francisco employing interests who lution, moving on resistiesaly toward social mic twenty minute speeches ever heard on workers in that district A. S. Embree wires from Lafayette: wanted to put an efficient and successful operation of production and social leveling the platform of the Labor College. Fellow bedding and tell union organiser out of the way. He was of distribution, left many marks on the "100 cars, 450 men. going to Fremont* ' Worker Loheit. himself an old time miner, sentenced to hang, but the worldwide dem- convention proceedings. Again and again county to hold mas* meetings and stimu- The yellow press however, is using every the bunkhi onstrations against the sentence resulted in the anxious note of perplexity and some- late organization in that county." ruse possible to stir up sufficient alarm miners in their every day life. He reviewed 1 highland a commutation to life imprisonment times despair was sounded as the inroads This action fallowed a meeting in the over the "safety of life and property" and 08 the class conflicts in the Colorado coal The recent A. F. of L. convention in L of automatic machinery and mass produc Lafayette ball park at which more than the "grave situation"#and "bloodshed fear- fields during the past fifteen years, in- Angeles went on record once more as con-, tion upon the old order were felt. Over and 3.000 mine workers voted unanimously to ed in the strike rone" to induce the bring- cluding the Ludlow massacre, and closed iround to find the yinced of Ifcfeney and Billing's innocence,! .over the labor spokesmen demanded higher continue thwr strike The meeting was ad- ing in of troops. Perhaps they want to see with a stirring appeal to his auditors to leaving to the executive council the adop- wages for the workers as a means of level- dressed by twenty speakers, among them another Ludlow massacre of harmless work- render all possible aid to the striking coal tion of the best means of obtaining their ing purchasing power, tempering overpro- Frank L. Tobin. a [>enver real estate man, ing men and their women and children by •miners of Colorado. complete freedom. duction and preserving trade unionism. who told the strikers U> "keep your heads, drunken militia. It would give them some- Chairman Holmes then called upon the l.sed by home guards Government welfare legislation was Invok- organize a committer and go confer wit)) thing more to write about in their papers next speaker, Fellow Worker George Speed. ed to reduce the pressure on trade union Governor Adams." a°d increase their circulation, temporarily. AUSTRALIANS BOYCOTT Insurance and relief fund treasuries and U. S. GOODS IN SACCO as a counteroffenaive to company union and company welfare innovations. The pofftoffice must be run for service, not for AND VANZETTI PROTESTprofi t it was enunciated. chology; No progress could be reported on the SYDNEY. Australia—

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with our n rilef crew and we wi arriving ai t camp about 4 4.r> we will g«? t a supper at 5 15 which we about the Of court * .'that™ tl^es and servili t lot and that they , and when you stari will find that this of them have beer 1 that some of thei breakers f rom all the job* wh< tried to better conditions. som< and others find only ED MOORE, SPEAKER On goin;K to bed we win fir AND EDUCATOR, DIES MINERS CLAMOR fair until it starts to rain; liable to h ave to get up and clothes on. (Continued from Page 1) thing we will lear are compelled to pay one dol of the years of strugg

anu he will look at it I knew of one man who got an arm broke and they only set it; they did not even offer to help him to take off his hip boots or other work clothes. There is only one way to remedy this, and that is to get some delegates on this job anfl wake these slaves from their slum- m the New York of ThHf •r Good work can be done by a live wire the American Civil Liberties Un .legate. Let's join I. U. 310 of the In- was held s i been received by Roger Frarce- istrial Workers of the World. \ piober 23, on the spot where in : ing that the organisation is be- CARD NO. 762691. tent colony of striking miners was hind the strike movement. It further state.l |y burned by "militia," and the mil the Union's legal counsel in Colorado est* of all. They all act together in "soli- Important Notice wives and children brutally massacred Id investigate the condition in South- darity forever r and they strike in the fall Colorado and determine what action to when coal is nexyled, miners in demand and The G. R. U. annual referendum ballot ders" have been isi .udloi • over the violation of civil liberties by will be returnablethia year on January 20. closed by pickets not to re-open sitisen's mob that raided the Walsen- The fight of the I. W. W. coal miners 1928. Therefore, in order that it will be until Huerfano county has provided ade- burg hall. in Northern and Southern Colorado is not in the field 45 days, it will be necessary to quate protection. It is understood that port, "predict that before another week has f 150,000 damages has been only the concern of the workers here, but put it out not later than December 6th. Utah Coal company's two mines at passed every coal mij* in Southern Colo- brought against the city of Walsenburg it is the concern of the working class the 1927. To allow time for compiling and Delcarbon, 12 miles north of here, are in- rado will be shut down and victory will be number of men by Roger Francexon, world over. A victory for the miners here printing, all resolutions and nomination* cluded in the properties that will be closed. theirs." chairman of the General Executive Board, is a victory for the working class. If the must be in the main office not later than concern is Huerfano county's second Sera Salaxar and Jennie Adams Kavich, and Kris ten Svanum, general organiser I. W. W. in Colorado is able to get the November 25, 1927. largest coal producer." (see their pictures elsewhere in this edi- the I. W. W. The suit was prepared by support 'needed we will win. Each branch shall nominate a first and tion) two women picketers who were ar- W. Penn Collins, Denver attorney, and Put in a call for good, active Wobs to cecond choice of all G. R. U. officials for Sure; If the miner's won't work in the rested at Delagua Thursday and confined states that on the night of October lbth, come here and help us. We need them 1028, the term beginning March 1. G. R- mines, then the mines will be closed. That in the Trinidad jail until Sunday, were en- the defendants, Luke Sanchez, Joe Watson, badly. Svanum, Francexon, and all the Fel- U. membership meetings of seven or more sounds reasonable! thusiastically received by the great throng. Tom Young, James Fish, Dr. Lam me, J. low Workers are doing wonderful work, member* in good standing, where no Huerfano county commissioners have They led in the singing of "Solidarity W. Mc.Nally, J. 8. Windsor, Dr. G. M. assistance would be welcome. The branch exists, can also send in nominations. wired Governor William H. Adams that Forever," and other L W. W. songa. Then Noonan, Clarence Williams and Joe Car- and very few men to do These meeting* should have the members neither troops nor money are necessary for they urged the women and children to dinal raided the I. W. W. hall and wrecked times like this w© must have present sign their name and card number protecting the mines of the county, and establish picket lines, and when the meet- the place, seising and destroying office Concentrate all effocta on the minutes. the Governor still stands pat on his state- ing closed and a request for volunteer records. The suit asks for |106,000 actual Colorado strike. Send as both Claudt End*, StutKuy-Trwutr, that he is "not even thinking in mili- pickets was mads, every man, woman and damages and $46,000 exemplary. 8833 Belmont Ave., Chicago, HL tary terms."

8** 1. A group of picketers awested at the Ideal mine, looking out of, said his force of three were sufficient to handle the peaceful Wobblies. 8. More pickets, gazing out through the jail bars. * windows in the court room where they were -held because of Lack of jail 4. Picketers in jail, some them gazing out through the bars. LOWER STRIP; Northern Colorado mass meetings. space. 5. Strike leaders and I. W. W. organizers searching I. W. W. pickets 2. Volunteer women and men pickets in front of the I. W. W. head- as they leave I. W. W. headquarters for theWnes, to make sure none of A. Oragneff, a Bulgarian, talking to an enormous outdoor crowd. quarters in Walsenburg, Colorado; the women joined the men in persuad- them are armed and to insure there will be no violence on the part of the B. Ritto, asking all the miners at the Erie mass meeting: "All those ing additional miners to join the walk-out. strikers. who will stick with the I. W. W. and fight to a finish, raise your hands;" 3. Left to right. Sheriff Harry Capps of Huerfano county, "Shorty" 6. A miner's baby, wondering if "dadiy" will get an increase in you can see how the hands went up. Martinez and Deputy Hart, Capps* two "assistants"; citizen "business wages so he may fill the empty plate. C. llerrajon, speaking in Spanish to a Northern Colorado crowd. men" clamored for a hundrdi or so extra deputies, county commissioners 7. A miner getting acquainted vith his children; he has seldom had D. Clemmons, chairman of the Northern strike committee addres- authorized Capps to name 10 additional deputies, Capps at last reports had | time to do so before. sing one of the enormous crowds that run between 3,000 and 4,000 people. GOVERNOR FORBIDS Convention Postponed Just off the press!!! Speed Points Out a Falsehood Portland Meetings San Francisco Meetings Mr. Henry C. Peterson, the eminent com- 227 Yamhill Street, Chicago, I1U Oct. 24, 1927. poser of Seattle, has Just written a new SAN FRANCISCO. —In the issue of the Saturday evening, Nov. 5, at 8 p. m. 84 Embarcsdero, - (Continued from 1) We, the undersigned ballot committae, song on the class war. It is dedicated to E. P. psper dated October 22nd, on the .there will be a dance in the hall; admis- SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. have tabulated the general referendum bal- the Centralis defendants now languishing front page appears a two column article sion 25 cents. Sunday. Nov. 6, 2 p. m, W. H. Canfield with u*; with that conference adjourned. lot on the question "Are you in favor of behind the bars at Walla Walla prison. wherein my name is used as sponsor for Sunday evening, Nov. 6, at 8 p. m., there will speak on "British Anti-Labor Laws." Use question will be put to all striking postponing the general convention for one Proceeds from the sale of the "Centralis a get-together conference; also there is an will be a special lecture in the hall; sub- Sunday. Nov. 13., D. C. Webb will speak miners of Colorado. The committee im- year?" and find the following result: Horror" will be used to help provide relief editorial dealing with the ^bjeet matter ject, The Everett Massacre; Bloody Sun- on "The Historical Basis for Industrial Un- for the families of the imprisoned men. It of the article. The whole thing is a tissue day, Nov. 5, 1916." The speaker will be ionism." There will also be dances, ^ongs, mediately left for different points to place In favor pf postponing the eonvention_366 Opposed to postponing the conventional65 sells for ten cents per copy and is complete of lies made out of whole cloth, made for C. R. Griffin; he will use a blsckboard in s one act play and a boxing match. the matter before the membership. Kit- with words and music. Get your copy to- the purpose of discrediting me in the eyes his talk and will give the full details of Sunday. Nov. 20. John Fields will speak to left for Ludlow. Jacobs for Aguilar, Total votes cast 621! day from: *'• 7^ »• of my fellow workers as to my position, the mobbing and murdering of the work- on "Pre and Post War Socialism." Bell for the north, Childs, Harris and Orr One ballot from the field was void. Wathinpton Branch of Uu General Deferse ot to use my name for the purpose of play- ers in Everett by the Lumber Trust gun- Sunday, Nov. 27, Lena Morrow Lewis BOX 1878 SEATTLE, WASH. v ing upon those who do not know the facta. the matter before the membership. Kit- John Edenstrom, Card No. 128988 men. The history of the L W. W. organi- will speak on "The Failure of the Profit Branches! Order a bundle of them now. It Is a cheap political trick in an effort to sation in the lamber industry will be told district. (Signed) Joe Cooper » " 249579 Motive." Kitto sad Orr. Get them Out and lefa make the "Centralis bring on discussion. In full, and of th* forces arrayed against Every Sunday at 2 p. m.; admission George Roeschlau " " 194430 Horror" the sqpg of the • George Speed. them. Admission free. - free; questions invited.