You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday July 17, 1915
From the Chicago Day Book: Congressman Buchanan Declares John D. Jr. a Criminal
From The Day Book of July 13, 1915:
Congressman Frank Buchanan
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr., denounced as the master-mind in the Colorado mining situation which resulted in the murder of men, women and children, may be forced to answer the questions of the federal industrial relations commission or be sent to jail for contempt. Rep. Frank Buchanan of Illinois declared he will gladly introduce such a resolution at the next session of congress and bitterly denounced the young oil king and the sentencing of John R. Lawson to life imprisonment at Denver for a murder committed while he was eight miles away.
[Said Buchanan:]
Mark John D. Rockefeller, Jr., with the stamp of the criminal...He has violated many statutes. Other violators are in the penitentiaries. Why should we let the money lords go free and do as they please?
We need more men like Walsh, the chairman of the industrial relations commission. He is fearless and is doing much to bring the moneyed highbinders and pirates to the level of the masses.
I am certainly in favor of bringing John D. Rockefeller, Jr., before the bar of congress, and I hope I am selected to introduce a resolution that will either force him to answer Chairman Walsh's questions or send him to jail for contempt.
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[Continued from above.]
Attorney Hawkins
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Despite the fact that the supreme court of Colorado is reviewing the conduct of Judge Granby Hillyer in the district court of Denver [of Trinidad], Hillyer yesterday denied John R. Lawson, labor leader convicted of murder in connection with strike disorders, a new trial and sentenced him to spend the remainder of his life at hard labor in the state penitentiary. He also denied Lawson's plea that he be permitted to go on bond pending action in the appeal by the supreme court...
The state supreme court of Denver took under advisement application of Horace N. Hawkins and A. M. Belcher, attorneys for United Mine Workers America, for writ barring Judge Granby Hillyer from presiding at trial of three former coal mine strikers at Walsenburg.
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COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL DEFENDS
ROCKEFELLER JUDGE
Denver, Colo., July 13.-Judge Granby Hillyer, to whom Frank P. Walsh referred as the "corrupt court," was defended by Att'y Gen. Fred Farrar before the supreme court. A writ of prohibition was sought by coal strikers' attorney to prevent Hillyer presiding at future trials of miners indicted for murder in connection with fatal riots during the recent labor war in Colorado. Farrar denied the allegation that previous employment by the coal employers unfitted Hillyer to trial former strikers.
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[Photograph added.]
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SOURCE
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-July 13, 1915, First Edition
(Also source for headline.)
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Frank Buchanan, 1915,
Congressman of Illinois
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Horace N Hawkins, UMWA Attorney
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Which Side Are You On - Natalie Merchant
Don't scab for the bosses
Don't listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven't got a chance
Unless we organize
Florence Reese
Which Side Are You On, updated for these modern times
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