You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday September 8, 1914
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World: President Demands End to Colorado Strike
From yesterday's edition of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World of Kansas:
President Wilson
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DEMANDS THAT STRIKE BE ENDED
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President Wilson Sent Message to Leaders of Miners's Union
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FEDERAL TROOPS STAND GUARD
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Are on Duty to Protect the Citizens From Atrocities
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Government Has Particular Interest
in This Strike
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Washington, D. C., Sept. 7.-President Wilson addressed letters to the heads of mining companies and officers of the United Mine Workers of America concerned in the Colorado coal strike, virtually demanding that the long strike be ended, because of federal troops on duty in the strike district, the president feels that the government has a peculiar interest.
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From today's Democratic Banner of Mount Vernon, Ohio:
WOULD END LABOR WAR IN COLORADO
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Wilson Submits a Proposition to Operators and Miners.
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Suggests Three-year Truce
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Appeals to Patriotism of Belligerents and at the Same Time Warns the Mine Owners That Federal Troops Should no Longer Remain Doing Police Duty in Strike Districts. Now Up to John D., Jr.
Washington, Sept. 8.-President Wilson submitted a plan for a three years' truce to all parties in the Colorado mining strike. The president urges the acceptance of this plan on patriotic grounds, alluding to the European war and the need that "all untoward and threatening circumstances be taken out of the life of the people of the United States." At the same time the president serves warning on operators and miners that the federal troops have remained about as long as they ought to remain doing police duty in the strike districts.
This action by the president will again necessitate a decision by the Rockefeller interests as to whether they will make any concessions in the vital principles involved in the strike. Thus far John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has indicated a purpose of fighting it out to the very end.
The president points out that there are important public interests involved in the existing controversy aside from those of the two contending parties. The plan he submits was evolved by two representatives of the government who have studied the issues in the strike for several months with a view to finding a solution.
The plan contemplates establishment of a truce for three years, during whence the state mining and labor laws shall be enforced, and the restoration to employment of all striking miners who have not been found guilty of violation of the laws. Intimidation of nonunion or union men is to be prohibited and wage scales are to be posted at each mine. A grievance committee is to be chosen by the employes of each mine which shall be entrusted with treating with the employer when trouble arises. A committee, to be appointed by the president, is to be the appeal body to which grievances that can not be otherwise settled are to be taken.
The president sent a letter outlining the government's plan to the presidents of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, the chairman of the Victor American Fuel company, the president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company and the officers of the United Mine Workers of America.
SOURCES
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
(Lawrence, Kansas)
-of Sept 7, 1914
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Democratic Banner
(Mount Vernon, Ohio)
-of Sept 8, 1914
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGE
Woodrow Wilson
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Hellraisers Journal is on vacation!
Hellraisers will be on a vacation of sorts until September 22nd, and will appear in abbreviated form until that date. A complete vacation is not possible since the ruling class never took a vacation from their suppression and oppression of the working class.
There are no limits to which powers of privilege
will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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