You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday September 24, 1915
Denver, Colorado - Colorado Federation of Labor Meets in Convention
Evidence compiled by the United Miner Workers against John D. Rockefeller Jr. was presented to the delegates of the Colorado State Federation of Labor, according to The Wichita Daily Eagle of September 22nd:
John D. Rockefeller Said To Be Implicated
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Mine Worker Says Oil Magnate Has
Been Mixed Up In Strike.
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John R Lawson with Mother Jones
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Denver, Sept. 21.-In an address today to the delegates of the convention of the State Federation of Labor, William Diamond, representing President White of the United Mine Workers of America, said evidence against John D. Rockefeller Jr., and against men in the employ of the Rockefeller interests soon would be placed before the attorney general Farrar of Colorado or before the federal department of justice.
The alleged evidence, he said, would have to do with occurrences during the recent coal strike and would be placed before the authorities on the arrival of Mr. A. H. Belcher, attorney for the United Mine Workers of America. Mr. Belcher is reported enroute to Denver from West Virginia.
The military court of inquiry, Diamond declared, was correct in the assumption that a mass of evidence had been gathered at the direction of the miners' union, adding that much of it had been turned over to international officials at Indianapolis. This court, the speaker said, was named by the governor primarily to determine what the miners' union had learned and the investigation of charges against national guard officers was merely a blind.
In his annual report, President John McLennan, characterized the conviction of John R. Lawson, miners, union leader, recently sentenced to life imprisonment on a charge of murder, growing out of strike disorders as "the most outrageous instance of injustice that the history of labor records."
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[Paragraph breaks and photograph added.]
John McLennan under Arrest Shortly after Ludlow Massacre
John McLennan, president of the Colorado Federation of Labor as well as president of District 15 of the United Mine Workers, knows full well the heavy hammer of Colorado Justice has practiced against members of the mine workers' union. He was taken into custody shortly after the Ludlow Massacre while attempting to retrieve the bodies of the dead from the burnt out colony.
From The Pittsburg (Kansas) Daily Headlight of September 22, 1915:
REFUSES TO INVITE JOHN D. TO SPEAK
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COLORADO FEDERATION OF LABOR TABLED
A RESOLUTION EXTENDING FLOOR.
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Magnate Spent Last Night in "Spare Room" of
Mine Superintendent and Slept in
Borrowed Night Shirt-
Camp Breakfast.
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Now We Will Talk by R. K. Chamberlain, from The Masses of March 1915
Denver, Sept. 22.-A resolution extending to John D. Rockefeller, jr., an invitation to address the delegates to the annual convention of the Colorado State Federation of Labor, in session here, was tabled at today's session when several delegates vigorously protested against the plan.
The presentation of the resolution by Frank Spegel of the musician's union, threw the convention into disorder. "If he comes up here we'll throw him out of the window," one delegate shouted.
Rockefeller's name again figured in the proceedings when Mrs. Lee Campion [Champion], president of the Justice League addressing the convention, announced that a telegram had been sent to the oil magnate by the league, asking him to confer with John R. Lawson in jail at Trinidad, and also to grant an audience to a delegation of members of the league.
Mrs. Champion accompanied Ludlow survivors on Eastern tour after the Massacre.
Left to right: Mrs. Lee Champion, Mrs. Mary Thomas, Mrs. Mary Petrucci, Mrs. Pearl Jolly, Mrs. Lindsey,
Children of Mrs. Thomas: Olga and Rachael
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Primero, Colo., Sept. 22.-John D. Rockefeller, jr., after breakfasting today in a miners' boarding house with an assembly of coal diggers resumed his tour of inspection of the properties of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. He first talked with John Pannich and Harry Schoupel, grievance representatives of the miners, and then conferred with Dr. A. S. Gregg, camp physician, regarding sanitary conditions. Later he visited the public school and spoke briefly to the children.
The a party then started for Sopris.
The Rockefeller party of four was distributed last night in miner's homes that afforded a spare room, Mr. Rockefeller himself being quartered in the home of Joseph Haske, superintendent of Primero mine. The stay here over night was a departure from today's schedule and a night shirt had to be supplied the visitor.
Refreshed by a long night's sleep Mr. Rockefeller resumed his inspection. At breakfast he sat with an assembly of coal diggers and attacked a typical mining camp breakfast. It was expected several camps would be visited during the day.
Rockefeller today contributed money with which to build a band stand for the Primero miners' band which serenaded him last night to his expressed delight. The amount was not disclosed. The band is composed of coal diggers of divers nationalities.
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[Photographs added.]
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SOURCES
The Wichita Daily Eagle
(Wichita, Kansas)
-Sept 22, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Pittsburg Daily Headlight
(Pittsburg, Kansas)
-Sept 22, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
John Lawson & Mother Jones,
Wichita Beacon, Kansas, Apr 22, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
John McLennan, prisoner of Maj Hamrock
after Ludlow Massacre
https://archive.org/...
Now We Will Talk by R. K. Chamberlain,
from The Masses of March 1915
http://dlib.nyu.edu/...
Judge Lindsey and Women of Ludlow:
Thomas, Petrucci, Jolly
http://www.loc.gov/...
Ludlow Massacre, Crucified
http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/...
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Which Side Are You On - Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
Across this great old nation
Tell me whatca gonna do
When there's one law for the rulers
And one law for the ruled?
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