You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday September 5, 1903
Cripple Creek District, Colorado - State Troops Arriving in the Strike Zone
The Governor's "investigation" of conditions in the strike zone lasted from 9:30 p.m. Thursday night until early yesterday morning. The three commissioners met overnight with representatives of the Mine Owners and other "important" citizens. They consulted no miners nor any representatives of the Western Federation of Miners. They arrived back in Denver yesterday morning, gave their "report" to Governor Peabody, and by noon yesterday news was received in the strike zone that troops were being ordered into the Cripple Creek District.
Troops began arriving just before midnight and are still arriving at this time. We hear that about 1,000 troops, in all, will be stationed in the strike zone. They come heavily supplied with munitions.
It seems that Adjutant General Bell had his troops ready to go. Militiamen where seen already in uniform around Denver early yesterday morning as the commissioners were making their report to the Governor.
SOURCE
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma F Langdon
(Part I, 1st pub 1904)
NY, 1969
http://books.google.com/...
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Friday September 5, 1913
Binghamton, New York - L.M. Bowers Advises J.D. Rockefeller Jr.
We have reports that Lamont Montgomery Bowers is cross that the situation in the Southern Coalfields of Colorado may cut short his vacation in Binghamton, New York. Bowers is Rockefeller's man in Colorado. It is his opinion that the miners who work for Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel and Iron Company have two choices: accept the operators' terms or find work elsewhere.
We hear that he has reported to Mr. Rockefeller that "agitators" who have called for a strike will not be successful in getting the miners to walk out of the mines, and that state officials and prominent businessmen with their commercial associations will be able to quiet the situation in Colorado. He believes this in spite of the fact that national officers of the United Mine Workers of America are in the southern coalfields of Colorado. Perhaps, he is unaware of the recent arrival of Mother Jones in the city of Trinidad.
SOURCE
Buried Unsung
Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
-by Zeese Papanikolas
U of Utah Press, 1982
Note:
My books give various titles for Bower's position with Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. I have settled on the term "Rockefeller's man in Colorado" which pretty well sums up all descriptions of L.M. Bowers put together. That description (as well as his full name) comes from this interesting article by Scott Martelle in the April 20, 1910 edition of the Los Angeles Times:
In the eyes of the Rockefellers' man in Colorado, Lamont Montgomery Bowers, the miners had a simple choice: Work under the operators' terms or find another job, safety be damned.
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Thursday September 5, 2013
In 15 Cities Across the USA: Walmart Workers Are On Strike, Arrests in NYC
Here are a few tweets, will update as more come in:
(newer tweets are being added at the top of tweets)
Also sent my own tweet of support, please do the same!
Making Change at Walmart
http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/
OUR Walmart
https://www.google.com/...
Corporate Action Network
http://corporateactionnetwork.org/...
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The Great Bob Marley!
Don't give up the fight!