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 25, 1903
Cripple Creek, Colorado - Judge Seeds Orders Military Prisoners Released
Yesterday afternoon, Judge Seeds made his long awaited decision in the habeas corpus case filed on behalf of James Lafferty, C. H. McKinney , Charles Campbell, and Sherman Parker, members of the Western Federation of Miners who were being held without charge by the Colorado military. The Judge ordered the four miners turned over to the civil authorities.
U.S. Senator Patterson
As the decision was read, General Chase rose from his seat and stated his refusal to follow the order. He commanded his soldiers to take the miners back to the military camp. However, at about 8 o'clock last evening the prisoners were suddenly released without explanation. Perhaps General Chase was instructed by Governor Peabody to comply with the order of Judge Seeds.
Perhaps the Governor heard from Senator Patterson who was a witness to the Judge's order. It was the Senator who admonished the soldiers as they grabbed Sherman Parker from his screaming wife. The Senator might well be left to wonder if his beloved state of Colorado is still a part of the United States of America.
SOURCE
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma F Langdon
(Part I, 1st pub 1904)
NY, 1969
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Thursday September 25, 1913
Segundo, Colorado - Company Gunman, Bob Lee, Shot and Killed by Greek Miners
Bob Lee, a gunman brought in to work as a coalfield marshal, was shot and killed by Greek miners near Segundo yesterday. Lee was found on the ground where he had fallen from his horse. His rifle was on the ground beside him still cocked.
The trouble started when the miners were not allowed to send a wagon to the mining camp in order to retrieve their belongs. Bob Lee heard that the Greek miners were taking their anger out on a company footbridge that crossed Las Animas Creek. At about noon, Lee road up on the bridge to confront the miners. Tempers flared as Lee used his horse to push the miners back, and they resisted. As Lee reached for his rifle, shots rang out, and Lee was killed.
The suspects are Tom Larius and four other Greek miners. Word has it that they have fled to New Mexico. A mounted posse has been unable to apprehend them.
SOURCE
Buried Unsung
Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
-by Zeese Papanikolas
U of Utah Press, 1982
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Wednesday September 25, 2013
From Think Progress: Walmart Can't Run Stores on Temps Alone
Aviva Shen describes the price that Walmart has paid for its cost-cutting policies:
After cutting employees’ hours so deeply that stores could not keep their shelves stocked, Walmart is adding more full-time workers in time for the holiday shopping season. The retail giant has been shedding customers recently due to disorganized stores and empty shelves.
Walmart started aggressively cutting staff during the recession. Over the past five years, its total American workforce dropped by 120,000, even as the company opened more than 500 new U.S. stores. The result is longer check-out lines, backlogged inventory, and poor customer service — not to mention employee protests all over the country. Now, amid plunging sales and massive strikes, even Walmart has conceded it can’t run a business on a skeleton crew.
Read full article here:
http://thinkprogress.org/...
The same story as reported by Bloomberg Businessweek:
Now, as Wal-Mart’s Kory Lundberg told Bloomberg, workers are “getting the consistent full-time hours they’re looking for.” He didn’t mention OUR Walmart, the union-backed group leading the protests, of course. Organizers have already announced plans to stage walkouts and protests on the Friday after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year.
OUR Walmart
http://forrespect.org/
Making Change at Walmart
http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/
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Nine to Five-Dolly Parton & Melissa Etheridge
Nine to Five, yeah, they got you where they want you
There's a better life and you think about it, don't you?
It's a rich man's game, no matter what they call it
And you spend your life putting money in his wallet
-Dolly Parton