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LABOR VINDICATED.
Colorado Pays For Damage Inflicted
on Union Property. .
Eight years ago there was a great
strike in the mining districts of Col
orado that resulted in the destruction
of considerable property and violent
abuse of many miners. Numbers of
them were taken to an open prairie in
an adjoining state and there turned
loose to shift feu themselves as best
they could. The Miners' union hall in
Victor, near Cripple Creek, was de
stroyed by state troops, whose reck
less commander, General Sherman
Bell, violently declared that he was
subject to no authority but that of
God Almighty and the governor of the
state and that instead of giving the
strikers habeas corpus he would give
them postmortems. His unbridled
power ran riot for a time, individual
liberty was overthrown, the courts
were ignored, and a veritable reign of
terror prevailed.
Now the state of Colorado has to
pay for the destruction of property
and after a careful investigation of
what was done by the troops during
the suspension of law and order has
appropriated $60,000 to settle the bills.
In this sum the amount of $4,280 is
included for damage done to the hall
of the Miners' union at Victor. In
agreeing to make the appropriation the
state legislature stipulated that the
auditing board of the State Federation
of Labor must prove to the state au
diting board the justness of all its
claims. The State federation auditing
board had but little difficulty in prov
ing Its claims, and the state has paid
the money.
The officers of the State Federation
of Labor have a great deal of satis
faction in getting the money, but they
have a great deal more in having their
own and all other labor organizations
vindicated from the charge of having
done the rioting and destroying the
property, showing conclusively that all
the trouble of this kind was made by
the state itself.
This is no new experience to organ
ized labor. In all great industrial
strikes in this country an honest in
vestigation has shown that rioting,
bloodshed and destruction of property
have come from the hired thugs of the
employers or from the state troops.
These forces are employed from time
to time to break the strikes of wage
workers who are struggling for better
conditions, and frequently they find it
necessary to turn public sentiment
against workingmen by acts of rioting
and violence. Usually all police pow
ers are on the side of the employers,
and there is no chance to catch the
culprits while the trouble lasts. But
when a dispassionate and careful in
vestigation is made the strikers are
absolved from blame, as they have
been in the present case, wherein
gross injustice has until now been
done to the Western Federation of
Miners. Minnesota Union Advocate.
CHURCH AND LABOR.
Methodists Favor Short Workday and
Oppose Child Labor.
The following recommendation was
unanimously adopted by the Puget
Sound annual conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church:
"We recommend that this conference
place itself on record as seeking for
all classes of workingmen in the state
of Washington a half day holiday in
each week.
"Also that the hours of work, for
women in stores, factories, etc., shall
not exceed eight hourshi each twenty
four, and we urge the enforcement of
the child labor law, and if this law is
not sufficient to protect the child we
urge legislation to that effect.
"And we ask that a copy of this rec
ommendation be sent to the various
kibor organizations for their co opera
tion and" that fne Trade unions" of this
state be invited to send delegates to
our conference sessions and that we
do all in our power to enforce the
laws now on record."
Join the Label Ranks.
The new catalogue of the Denver
Dry Goods company, one of the largest
department stores in the country, bears
the union label, and the management
announces that in the future every
piece of printing for the firm will car
ry the label.
Trade Union Notes.
Uruguay's labor bureau is preparing
a workmen's pension bill.
The United Mine Workers donated
$500 to aid the Chicago garment work
ers. Laundry wagon drivers of New York
city are being organized by the Broth
erhood of Teamsters.
The strike of the tobacco workers of
Tampa after continuing six months
has ended. The strikers failed to win
recognition of the union.
London compositors demand a re
duction in the hours of labor to a total
of fifty hours a week, while the em
ployers have offered to reduce the
week's work to fifty-two hours.
The New York Building Trades
council decided to disobey an order of
the building trades department of the
American Federation of Labor to un
seat the locals of the carpenters and
steamfitters.
Boston Bricklayers' union, No. 3, has
voted against the proposition that it
establish a minimum wage rate of 65
cents an hour on July 1. The present
rate, which will continue, is 60 cents
an hour.
The Sailors' Union of the Pacific,
which during 1910 contributed $50,000
in aid of the striking sailors on the
great lakes, has submitted to the vari
ous branches on the Pacific coast a
proposition to contribute $20,000 addi
tional for the same purpose.
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COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.
There is only one worse thing
than war measures in settling
Industrial disputes. It is to set
tle in the wrong way Issues over
human rights. The one per
manent issue at stake in the
Chicago garment workers' strike
Is the right to bargain collective
ly for the rate of wages, the
conditions of work and the re
dress of grievances. The em
ployers have and exercise this
right. Their claim to it is un-
J disputed by their employees or
Dy any one eise. wageworis.-
ers demand the same right in
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collectively powerful employers.
They justify this demand by
the plea that they have no other
way to exercise their right to
"the freedom of contract," for
singly and alone the individual
employee is not and cannot be
free to contract on equal terms
with the collective, personal and
financial resources of strong
f firms and great corporations.
Combination 1! nof: more essen
tial to business economy, safety
and success than collective bar
gaining is an economic necessity
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Honor Above All.
Believe it to be the greatest of all
infamies to prefer your existence to
your honor, and for the sake of life
to lose every inducement to live.
Juvenal.
