You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday August 2, 1904
Cripple Creek District, Colorado - Gov. Peabody Suspends Martial Law in Teller County
Hellraisers has received another report from Mrs. Emma F. Langdon of Victor, Colorado, a city within the Cripple Creek strike zone. Also we have learned that attorneys for the Western Federation of Miners are drafting papers and will be seeking ways and means to allow the deported miners to return to their homes in the Cripple Creek district. But first, we would like to present another fine piece of labor artwork from Ryan Walker, published in this week's edition of the Appeal to Reason:
REPORT FROM MRS. EMMA F. LANGDON
July 26, a mass meeting was held in Cripple Creek at the headquarters of the Mine Owners' Association for the purpose of considering the advisability of recommending suspension of martial law to Governor Peabody. So much pressure had been brought to bear by conservative citizens of the state against martial law and acts growing therefrom, being continued, and the campaign for the state election being about to open, and the maintenance of martial law in the district, it was feared, would weaken the chance of Republican success, it was deemed policy on the part of the powers in control to have martial law suspended.
In accordance with the desire of this mass meeting, on the 28th, Governor Peabody issued a proclamation suspending martial law in Teller county.
General Bell said that he looked for trouble to start as soon as the troops were withdrawn, intimating that the strikers would cause trouble, when the facts were that all the trouble and violation of law under the reign of martial law, was committed by the henchmen of the mine owners and Citizens' Alliance, ably assisted by the militia. The General further stated that the troops had been kept in the district to protect the union miners and their friends. The reader can judge as to how successful Bell and his "army" had been in protecting these people from the facts previously recorded...
At 9:15, p. m., of the same day martial law was suspended, John and Joseph Fisher, John Schmidt and John Miller were made victims of a mob.
July 29, the attorneys for the Western Federation of Miners won their first victory in their efforts to procure the release of the men incarcerated, charged with the Independence disaster and the street riot in Victor June 6, for whom bail had heretofore been refused. Bonds were fixed for forty-six men, charged with these crimes, bonds ranging from $1,500 to $10,000 each. Among the men for whom bonds were secured was Michael O'Connell, the deposed marshal of Victor.
July 31, under promise of protection, by Sheriff Bell and Adjutant General Bell, John Harper and T. H. Parfet, former managers of the co-operative stores in the district, made arrangements to re-open the stores.
[photograph added and paragraphs rearranged for chronological order]
From last evening's Fort Scott Daily Tribune and Fort Scott Daily Monitor:
WILL TRY TO GET BACK
Union Miners Evicted from Cripple Creek Go into Court to Secure Their Rights
Denver, Col., Aug. 1-Attorneys for the Western Federation of Miners are devising ways and means to enable the deported Cripple Creek miners to return to their homes. Application will be made to some court, possibly the federal court, for an injunction restraining the Citizens' alliance and mine owners from interfering with any deportees who return to the Cripple Creek district. The Western Federation officials are also making arrangements to reopen the union stores in Cripple Creek and Victor that were raided and looted by mobs on June 6 and 7.
Sheriff Edward Bell, of Teller county, has advised against the reopening of the stores or the return of deportees, fearing that such action will lead to violence.
From yesterday's Lawrence Daily Journal of Kansas:
TRYING TO GET BACK.
Lawyers Are Championing Cause of Exiled Miners
Denver, Aug. 1-Attorneys H. N. Hawkins and John H. Murphy, counsel for the Western Federation of Miners are devising ways and means to enable the deported Cripple Creek miners to return to their homes
Papers are being drawn and applications will be made to some court for an injunction restraining the Citizens' Alliance and mine owners from interfering with any deportees who return to the Cripple Creek district.
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SOURCES
The Cripple Creek Strike
A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5
-by Emma F Langdon
"Being a Complete and Concise
History of the Efforts of
Organized Capital
to Crush Unionism"
The Great Western Publishing Co.
Denver,Colorado, 1905.
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
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Fort Scott Daily Tribune and Fort Scott Daily Monitor
(Fort Scott Kansas)
-of Aug 1 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Lawrence Daily Journal
(Lawrence, Kansas)
-of Aug 1, 1904
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IMAGES
1 & 2). Ryan Walker Drawing & text
from Appeal to Reason of July 30, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
3). Emma F Langdon
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Battle Cry of Union!
We are fighting for our rights, boys,
We are fighting for our homes,
Shouting the battle cry of union;
Men have died to win the struggle;
They've died to set us free,
Shouting the battle cry of union.
The Union forever, hurrah, boys, hurrah.
Down with the gunthugs and up with the law.
For we're coming Colorado, we're coming all the way,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Union.
-Frank Hayes, 1913
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