You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday January 10, 1904
Governor Wells of Utah Joins Colorado Governor in Call for Deportation of Striking Miners
From The Labor World:
Governor Wells, of Utah, after holding a conference with the president of the Utah Fuel company, gave out the following remarkable statement:
"The only way I see for the strike to be settled is either for the strikers to give up the union and surrender their certificates, go back to work or else leave the country." This official announcement is accompanied by the statement that the militia will remain in the mining region for an indefinite period. Wells declared it to be his purpose to "protect" every citizen of Utah. This is the full measure of capitalistic protection to the working class. We must accept their terms or get off the earth.
SOURCE
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-of Jan 9, 1904
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Saturday January 10, 1914
From The Fort Wayne Sentinel: Labor Dept. Report on Copper Strike Made Public
Secretary of Labor
William B Wilson
Washington, Jan. 10-Report of the department of labor's investigation of the Michigan copper strike made public here today, declares that strike breakers were imported into the copper region by misrepresentations that some were taken to the mines at the point of pistols; that strikers were wounded by fire arms in the hands of armed guards, but that no evidence was found of officers being injured by the strikers.
It was pointed out that while many of the smaller copper mining companies in the region were operating at a loss, the Calumet and Hecla company which employs more than fifty per cent of the men in the region had paid "extremely large profits."....
The report was made upon the investigations of Walter B. Palmer, a special agent of the department of labor; John A. Moffitt and John B. Densmore, solicitor for the department, who were sent out to the copper region as conciliators.
Secretary Wilson making public a summary of the report today, declined to say what his next step would be, but intimated that the findings of his investigators might be made the basis of a proposed congressional investigation.
SOURCE
The Fort Wayne Sentinel
(Fort Wayne, Indiana)
-of Jan 10, 1914
Photo: William B Wilson
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Friday January 10, 2014
More on the United Mine Worker's strike in Carbon County Utah:
A strike in Colorado began in September 1903, and within a matter of days coal miners in Utah's Carbon County joined the strike when they were recruited by UMWA organizers sent from Colorado...
In the end, the strike attempt failed as Utah coal companies stood firm against the demands for union recognition. They were aided by Mormon Church officials, who encouraged their members to go to the mines as strikebreakers, and also by state government officials who sent in the National Guard to "protect" company property and those who did not support the strike.
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SOURCE
Utah History Encyclopedia
http://www.uen.org/...
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Hold the Fort-Billy Bragg
See our numbers still increasing.
Hear the bugles blow.
By our union, we shall triumph
Over every foe.