Mass Meeting off all who Oppose Continued Anarchy in will be held on the State Cap- itol Grounds Tomorrow-Sunday—Afternoon at 3 o'Clock. The time for Investigations and Reso- lutions has passed. “Action”is to be the Watchword. Let’s all Stand and Strike for LIBERTY!

UNITEDOFFICIAL COLORADO STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR TRADES AND LABOR ASSEMBLY PAPER LABORAND * BULLETIN

VOL VIII DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914 No. 38 Rockefeller’s Thug Gunmen Massacre Women and Children at Ludlow, Set Flaming Torch to Homes WANTON CARNAGE OF STATE MILITIA Known Victims of the Ludlow Carnage MONSTER MASS MEETING SUNDAY BRINGS REPRISAL BY MAD STRIKERS The following is the revised list of the dead and wounded in ON GROUNDS OF THE STATE CAPITOL the battle between the strikers and militia at the Ludlow camp: THE DEAD. ClardiUo Pedrifon, 4, daughter of Mrs. private Marcel.no Pedrigon. After Slaughter at Ludlow, Troop Officers Refuse to Permit Albert Martin, Co. A, Denver.! Sogerio Pedrigon, 6. Colorado Must Be Redeemed and Taken From Control of Cor- Bodies; Nurses, Louis Tikas, leader of Greek strikers., Lucy Petrucci, 3. porations Removal of Red Cross Physicians James Fyler, financial secretary of the Joe Petrucci, 4. in Order That Industrial Justice May Ludlow Frank Petrucci, 6. | - Union. and Undertakers Turned Back by Fiends Frank Sebino, striker, Ludlow. Unidentified striker, body lying on Be Established and Peace Reign Premo Larsie, 18, brewery worker, mesa ne*r Ludlow. Trinidad. Bin Vigil, striker, Aguillar. i Iffo: Sumach, strike*, Aguilsr. hirty-fivc known to l>c dead, a score more probably fatally Frank Snyder, 12, son of William w«.imdcd and missing estimated at fifty, is the record up to Thurs- Snydefr, Ludlow. THE MISSING. day "h h>n of the movement inaugurated by the Rockefeller inter- Steven Donovan, Victor-American min? Fel l Gonzales, Victor-American mine guard. Delagua. Ludlow! A Call to i—t- and coal companies to exterminate the striking coal miners, guard, Dels gua. Action! mine Jo< Chavez, Victor-American guard, their families and sympathizers in Las county, or the Trini- Carl Johnson, Victor-American Animas guard, Dels gua Delayua. d. ‘ c*»al district in southern Colorado. Imported gunmen, few of Fred Dougherty, Victor-American mine THE INJURED A mass meeting will be held Sunday afternoon on the State them «»f the hut enlisted the soldier, citizens state into , Delague. Frank Purcelle, private Colo- House grounds at 3 o’clock to take action upon the Ludlow guard, and 11111“ clothed with authority to commit crimes in the Charles Costa, 31, union organiser at rado Springs; shot in left shoulder. Aguilar. Harry McCauley, private Co. H. La massacre. All those to whom patriotism means name of law . a* it is construed by Governor Ammons and his mili- more than Mrs. Elalino Costa, 27. Hunts; shot in foot. profits, and in whom humanity iary officers, were the direct agents who have written the blackest in- still burns, are urged to attend Lucy Costa, 4. Tv strikers, identity withheld; and chapter recorded in all industrial history. Onafno Costa, 6. jured :n battle at Delagua. breathe their passion into the dead body of murdered jus- \\ Harvey Phillips, engineer at Tobasco; itH machine guns provided by the coal operators these thugs, Mrs. Chaves. tice. Betrayed by those elected to protect, and Two daughters of Mrs. Chavez, 4 and 6. shot through shoulder and lungs. butchered by from the slums of large cities, mowed down mercenaries, recruited Eastern de- Baby Chavez, 6 months old. Ed Johnson, striker; shot through the brutal the only hope of the toiling class men, and children, and Hpm-ahng for outside aid. now lies JetisrleM women | idiom- Nephew of Mrs. Chaves, 9. groin in hospital at Pueblo. in common counsel and linn t< add to the carnage and massacre “Hell Hound*’ Linderfelt. who wa* concerted action. Desperate is the applied to tent* which j brought guns The money the torch the | to Colorado with machine need! masters, realizing that we will not surren- li.i'r I•een the home* of I.ZUO citizen* from West Virginia and commissioned er as as Mince the strike inaugurated on Sep- by General Chase as a lieutenant in the '°”ff life lasts, are resolved upon a campaign of utter 1013. and often that he Ready tember Z3, Women babe*. • J state troops, had asserted Be to Defend Your Homes annihilation. Of all those who labor, whether in mine. mill, komr the women alout to become would "get” Louie Tikas, who was “too of ¦ shop or store, not one mother*, were watonly »la ughtriad until i { influential*’ with the strikers—and he is safe from capitalism's savage menace. tin* Ludlow camp became a horrible I 1 did. Denver. Colo.. April 22. 1914 It is the turn of the miners today. Oh. brothers in other call- ahaiuble that caused strong men to reel ; Torch Applied to the Tents. Organize the men in vour community in companies of volun- j ings. it may be yours tomorrow! It is a and faint with the sickening eight. In many of the tenia underground cel- not handful of coal wen* ¦ leers to protect the people of Colorad* against the murder and cre- diggers •Sunday afternoon baaeball game* [ | Isrs had been dug, into which the that have been marked dawn for slaughter: it is the played and happy crowd* looked on. j children, to mation of men. women and children by armed assassins in the em-j j women and unable escape, J right of the worker to better his that thev «h«*«-nng the participant* A group of retreated to be out of range of the mer- ploy of coal corporations serving un er the guise of state condition mean to with militia-1 destroy. If militiamen appeared fear* and ciless fire of the machine guns. All day men. Ludlow shall go unanswered it will be the death taunt*, the miner* to be in* ; but refuaed they lay huddled, frightened almost out Gather all and knell of human hope and human tended into a broil. of tbeir senses, together for defensive purposes arm- ammuni- aspiration. Let the blood of without food or water, and Lame Tikaa the Pirut Mu Shot. knowing not what fate had befallen tion legally available. Semi name of leader of your company those martyred men. women and babes wash awav all lines of number of wire, Kail) Monday morning a company of their fathers, brothers and husband*. actual men enlisted at once by phone or mail, to I difference and division, permitting brotherhood h Maj. Patrick J. llamrock. in supreme to\stand forth ’ troop* under Captain Linderfelt ap- \V. T. Hickey, secretary of State Federation of Labor. free ‘ militia, on again and whole. Come! jm .urd iu front of the tent colony. Louie command of the appeared the Hold companies subject to order. Greek,” in Men* early m the day and directed the all iika*. known a* “Louie the People having arms to spare for these defensive measure are charge of the striker** camp, went out massacre. He conduct* a saloon in Den- WORKERS DEFENSE LEAGUE. was in and where com- to a certain the occasion for the early ier and an active participant the requested to furnish same to local companies, no The captain, who on a pre- Cripple Creek war. It is asserted upon pany exists send them to State federation of Labor. intiu*ion. he the the \\ vious occasion had proclaimed himself reliable authority that gave or- j state is furnishing us .no protection and we must protect orking people of Denver and throughout Colorado have been torch to be applied to The a* • .le*us llirist,** told Ixmic to “Get i der for the the 1 aroused to the fighting pitch by the massacre at 1 tents, the “We will extermi- ourselves, our wives and children from these murderous assassins. Ludlow. In order to lie!) out of here.** A* he turned to re- with cry: to give public expression to their enter nate every man, woman and child of the . We seek no quarrel with the state and we expect to break no law. sentiments and protest against hi* tent a fusilade of bullets of law luought him to the ground. When his damned red necks!” We intend to exercise our lawful right as citizens to defend our non-enforcement by Governor Ammons a mass meeting of to in body «»* finally recovered Wednesday Word# fail describe the awful homes and our constitutional rights. all who believe justice and human rights has been called for the iiUirnoon there were 51 bullet holes in scenes that followed. Trapped human R. LAWSON, M T. HICKEY, State Capitol grounds Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. No permis- it and the striker had literally been being* were suffocated and burned, their JOHN was asked any charred .remains being exposed to view M’LENNAN, 1 R. HOAGE, sion of state'authority for the use of the people’s shot to pieces. James Kyler and Charles TOHN ground, as supplication Ajosta. two other miner* who came out Tuesday morning. It was a scene to E. L. DOYLE. T W. TAYLOR. the time for is’considered as passed. Should to ascertain the trouble, met a similar startle’the entire civilised world. Pas- an effort be made to prevent the meeting the State grounds on trains see and even TOHN RAMSEY, CLARENCE MOORHOUSE. House late. From that moment all was con* senger* could ERNEST MILLS. w ill he taken bv force. However, no opposition of this character is fusion. The machine guns stationed in count the bodies. anticipated. udvantageous were As if this unthinkable crime did not : position* brought A of into play and the carnage was oil. It satiate the fiends. Major Hamrock and j meeting representatives from1 more than fifty Denver labor was evidently a of the as- Captain Linderfelt refused to |*ermit j organizations was held at culmination doctor* TROOPS MUTINY IN DENVER State Federation1 of Labor headquarters sertion. often made by the gunmen, that Red Cross nurses, or undertakers 1 in German-American building to enter ruins to to the Resolutions—Ed L. Doyle, John Wach- in soon as the regular militia w-aa with- the give aid any Wednesday evening, who might ret of or and sub-commit- ter. Jesse Vetter. Charles Moyer. Clar- drawn they would make quick work of in the breath life, i When Troop tiati ml guard, assembled Thursday tees to mass bodies. was C. Colorado chosen arrange for the ence Cox. Walter Fowler. tin- striking and their colonies carry off the charred It at on meeting. be no miners afternoon, I morning the armory Broadwa> in Denver in response to Gen- There will parade, but in la* Animas. not until Wednesday when ! a quiet, peaceable Publicity—W. H. Marker, Clint C. fighting grown fierce eral Chase’s call for further strike duty, eighty of the eighty-two assemblage of at least Women and children who attempted to the had at Dels* 75.000 determined men Houston. Frank J. Pulver. Ben Blumen- gua, that the bodies could be carried to Only twenty- and women to flee from the carnage were shot down. members mutinied and refused to lto Trinidad. declare that Colorado must and shall be borg. Ernest Mills. S. P. Oplinger. the meantime many had been Mi» I’earl Jolly, a Red Cross nurse, out. In three members of Troop B fell in line and were denounced as “scabs” redeemed from the rule and ruin of cor- Regular and special meetings of Den- «»« hidden away and others destroyed by who assisting the sick there, was by the striking militia. Capt. Harry E. Insley was in command, porations and complacent tools in offi- ver labor unions have been held this shot in the shoulder while at a tele- (Continued on Page Two.) week to and the two troops were combined, with less than thirty men. when cial position. denounce the atrocious mur- they departed for amid jeers. Speakers will address the huge assem- ders. committed at I.udlow and other Trinidad at 10:30 o'clock bly from the Capitol steps and the ter- sections of Las Animas county by thugs Thirty men. women and children, who took refuge in the Empire races leading up from Broadway. and hired killers under the guise of MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS mine at Aguilar Wednesday, are reported to have suffocated from At a meeting of the Publicity Com- state militiamen. In nearly every in- foul gas. W. Siplc of Denver, president of the mine, was among mittee Wednesday night The call print- stance substantial sums have been voted J. at top of this column was issued. Rep- to relieve the distress of those who es- (Editorial in Rocky Mountain News.) the number. resentatives of labor from every indus- caped with their lives. trial of The horror of the shamble* at Ludlow is overwhelming. Not since the days section the state will be pres- Xo action has been taken either bv when pitiless red men wreaked vengeance upon intruding frontiersmen and upon ent. the state or county authorities of La’s women and children has this Western country been stained with so foul a deed. The sub-committees having this meet- Animas to bring the murderers to jus- The details of the massacre are horrible. Mexico offers no barbarity so base ing in charge are as follows: tice. This matter will be handled with hx that of the murder of defenceless women and children by the mine guards in Speakers—Earl R. Hoage. R. Y. Har- emphasis at the mass meeting Sunday. . Lacher, soldiers’ clothing. Like whitened sepulchres we boast of American civilisation John A Martin Will Be a rison. Martin Harvey E. Car- Among those so far chosen as speak- with this infamous thing at our very doors. Huerta murdered Madero, but even man. Jesse Vetter. ors on the Capitol grounds are John M. Huerta did not shoot an innocent little boy seeking water for his mother who Arrangements—Fred Wessel, Pete • o*Xeill. Ed L. Doyle. George Creel. Clint lav ill. Villa is a barbarian, but in his maddest excess Villa has not turned ma* Candidate for Governorship Johns. T. W. Taylor, C. A. Ahlstrom. S. C. Houston. Herman Ross. John Wach- chine guns on imprisoned women and children. Where is the outlaw so far beyond P. Oplinger. ter and C. A. Ahlstrom. the pale of human kind ns to burn the tent over the bonds of nursing mothers and helpless little babiesT tint of this infamy one fait stands clear. Machine guns did the murder. The (BY HARVEY E. GARMAN.) machine guns were in the hands of mine guards, most of whom were also mem* Stories liers of the state militia. It was private war, with the wealth of the richest man For some weeks there has been talk that ex-Congressman of Colorado’s Awful Disgrace in the world behind the mine guards. A. of the advisability of must John Martin Pueblo was conaidering Once and for all time the right to employ armed guards be taken away gov- Offer left Walsenburg Sunday. Both sides individuals the state, and to the state alone, announcing himself as a candidate for the nomination for Gunmen $5 Per Day from private and corporations. To said that an attempt would be made to belongs the right to maintain peace Anything else is anarchy. Private warfare ernor of the state of Colorado, subject to the wishes of the Sunday the gunmen, dressed in k&hki by the union colonies out of business. is the only sort of anarchy the world has ever known, and armed forces employed voters affiliated with the party to be expressed in ' uniforms furnished the state mili- was told that I Democratic tary board and paid for fut was fortunate in hav- by private interests have introduced the only private wars of modern times. This the primary. has repeatedly urged that his by the people, ing visited the tent colonies when must are enough, then the The Bulletin paraded the streets of Trinidad, after I practice be stopped. If the state laws not strong the race, the did, as they would probably not be there government must step At any cost, private warfare be destroyed. friends should insist upon Mr. Martin making to which they went in automobiles to Lud- federal in. muat low. ‘ any longer. Who are these mine guards to whom is entrusted the sovereign right to mas* end that Colorado could place a man in the executive chair that Agents of the coal companies went through ' “ Company offi- sncreT Four of the fraternity were electrocuted recently in New York. They are had backbone, grit, intelligence, and would give a square and the crowds in the city offering admitted to me that cities, offscourings a $5 per day to all those who would join¦ the militia the gunmen of the great the of humanity, whom bitter heri* fair deal to each and every interest of this great state, that is | was filled with their men. They did tage has made the wastrels of the world. Warped by the wrongs of their own the “citizens’ national guard.” These are ! not see anything no justice are being slowly strangled to death by enemies dressed in the garb tho peace officers sanctioned by Gover- wrong in having the upbringing, tbev know and they care not for mercy. They hardly company pay these men. state as of friends. nor Ammons and given and the human in intelligence and not high in the acale of kindness as domestic animals. military author- 100. There aiV» no other kinds of men they not tho guilty ones. The blood of the innocent women and ity by Adjutant General Chase'after the Yet are I want to say that A. Martin, in full health and fight- troops were in the militia down there now. The rests on the hands of those who for the greed of dollars employed such John withdrawn last week. men children ing spirit, is practically in mind to be a candidate for the Demo- pood have left; have been relieved men and bought such machines of murder. The world hss not been hard upon and their places have been filled with a human cratic nomination for ami while no formal announce- I these; theirs has been gentle upbringing. Yet they reck not of life governor Prearranged Plant Carried i company gunmen from West Virginia, * when pecuniary interests arc involved. ment of candidacy may ensue, his name will be presented to Out Oklahoma. Texas or children, his King any other place. The blood of tho women and burned and shot like rats, cries aloud the high State Senator Helen Robinson, * “I hope a special ses- groat has the Democratic assembly and he will be man there. who has been in southern and trust that from the ground. The state of Colorado has failed them. It betrayed Colorado ’ *>o» of Legislature militia, been protectors legion; they gathering data for articles, the will be called them. Her which should have the impartial of the peace, The friends of this man are embrace men and magazine de- so that I can tell the Legislature some is tho Ludlow was have acted as murderous gunmen. The machine guns which played in the dark- women in all ranks and walks of life. From this on there clare* outrage deliber- of the real truths about how the state ness the homes of humble men and women, whose crime was an effort and ately planned by tho mine operators. and upon only but one thing for those who want John A. Martin to do. story government the state militia hare to earn an honest living, were bought and paid for by agents of the mine owners. She told this startling to The 1 been on that is to get out and booet for him. used in this strike. Explosive bullets have been used children. Does the bloodiest page in the Bulletin: “One minister alone told me that he French revolution approach thla hldtoutnets? “I knew this was going to occur. 1 (Continued on Page Two.)