You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday November 27, 1903
Telluride, Colorado- President Guy Miller Arrested Without Warrant
Guy Miller
Brother Guy Miller, President of the Telluride Miners' Union, was arrested without warrant by the San Juan County Sheriff yesterday afternoon while attempting to visit the seven union miners who were arrested Wednesday evening. We have received no word as to why Brother Miller was arrested, and it appears that he will be held indefinitely.
Meanwhile, the mine owners owe the military a debt of gratitude, for, with military protection, they plan to begin the importation of scabs from Michigan.
The strike in Telluride does not get the reporting that these brave miners deserve as the news from the Cripple Creek District seems to overwhelm all other news regarding the Western Federation of Miners. Telluride lies about 285 miles south and east of Cripple Creek, and the strikers there, in the San Juan District, have suffered much the same as the strikers in the Cripple Creek District: military occupation, harassment and threats from the Citizens Alliance, mass arrests, and beatings.
SOURCE
Chicago Daily Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
-of Nov 27, 1903
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma F Langdon
(Part I, 1st pub 1904)
NY, 1969
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Thursday November 27, 1913
Ludlow Tent Colony - Military Surrounds Camp, Colonist Lined-up, Colony Searched
Tuesday evening, in response to the confession of Zancanelli to the killing of the gunthug Belcher, General Chase ordered Captain Van Cise to surround the Ludlow Tent Colony. No one was to come in or out. Striking miner Charlie Costa and his wife, Cedlina, were not allowed in as they returned home from town. They were heard cursing the militiamen who turned them back.
The striking miners within the camp began to gather, meetings were held, threats were made. It was the ever calm, Louie Tikas, who was able to quiet down the situation.
Wednesday morning at 10:30, the entire camp was lined-up, all 1200 men, women, and children, while the camp was searched for guns and ammunition. None were found.
Today, the camp will celebrate Thanksgiving together as best they can. Italians, Greeks, and several other nationalities will share a meal, dance, play their instruments, and sing.
SOURCE
Buried Unsung
Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
-by Zeese Papanikolas
U of Utah Press, 1982
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Wednesday November 27, 2013
More on social life within the Ludlow Tent Colony:
In the center of our tent colony was a public square where we gathered to read the bulletin board for latest reports on the strike issued by the union. We held formal gatherings here too, and an elevated platform had been erected for these meetings. For entertainment we had a large tent where frequent concerts by the miners and their families were given. John Lawson, our camp boss now in addition to his other union duties, called for volunteers to make this a happy, ideal clean camp, and hundreds offered their services for whatever he wanted them to do. He and Louie Tikas, who was Lawson's second in command when he had to be away on business, made long lists of different jobs for the approval or disapproval of all. It was agreed that whoever was elected for a certain job could pick his own helpers....
Tony Gorci was chosen as head of the musicians. Charley [Costa], Margo [Gorci] and Cedi [Costa] put me [Mary Thomas] up as greeter-singer. I was elected hands down which really pleased me and made me feel all the more at home amongst our numerous nationalities at Ludlow. Charley was to be peace maker and overseer. An American headed up the sports events and asked many of the immigrants to assist him.
SOURCE
Those Damn Foreigners
-by Mary T O'Neal
(Mary Thomas, resident
of the Ludlow Tent Colony)
Minerva Book, 1971
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TALIAN FESTIVAL Wildlife Lodge Park Lower Burrell Pa 1990
Quando la gente straniera
vede la bella romana
sente sbocciar primavera
sente che il cuore risana.
- G. Micheli and R. Micheli
When foreign people
see the beautiful Roman (woman?)
feel the spring bloom
feels that the heart heals.
-translated by Google