You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Monday September 19, 1904
Cripple Creek District, Colorado - U.S. Court Grants Protection for Union Stores
The prayed for injunction protecting union stores run by the Interstate Mercantile Company was granted on September 7th by Judge Marshall of the U. S. Circuit Court of Denver. The next day, Deputy U. S. Marshal Francks made an appearance in the city of Cripple Creek to serve notice of writ of injunction upon the leaders of the mob who had deported union miners and wrecked the union stores upon which the families left behind depend. (See below for the text of the writ.)
Mrs. Emma F. Langdon reports from Victor, Colorado, that the injunction has "put a stop to further interference with the union store," that the mob does not dare to disobey the court's order for fear that they will then have to face Federal troops who will surely arrive prepared to enforce the order of the court's. These troops are unlikely to be as friendly to the citizens' mob as are the brave "warriors" of Governor Peabody.
From the Appeal to Reason of September 17, 1904:
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TEXT OF WRIT OF INJUNCTION
United States of America, District of Colorado, ss.:
IN THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE
DISTRICT OF COLORADO.
The President of the United States of America:
To Ernest A. Colburn, Clarence C. Hamlin, Gail S. Hoag, Thomas E. McClelland, Albert E. Carlton, E. C. Newcomb, Edward Bell, Nelson Franklin, R. P. Russell, John Sharp, John Dalzdell, Henry P. Dahl, William N. Bainbridge, Samuel D. Crump, H. L. Shepherd, Julius Kirby, Z. E. Funk, A. B. Shilling, F. M. Reardon, W. E. Dingman, S. A. Phipps, Clarence Fitch, K. C. Sterling, Daniel McCarthy, A. T. Holman, Frank M. Woods, J. B. Cunningham, Thomas Scanlon, Frank Beagle, Charles Huggins, William Carruthers, W. E. Driscoll, Frank May, Henry Waters, H. McGarry, L. E. Smith, Harry Moore, Frank D. French, Edward Coplin, Philip De Wild, and all others associating with you, and to your attorneys, solicitors, agents, employes, and servants and to each and every one of you, Greeting:
Whereas, It has been represented to the Honorable, The United States Circuit Court for the District of Colorado, on the part of the Interstate Mercantile Company, complainant, in its certain bill of complaint exhibited before said judges, and filed in said court against you, the said Ernest A. Colburn and others, respondents, to be relieved, touching the matters and things therein complained of.
In which said bill it is stated, among other things, that you are combining and confederating with others to injure the complainant touching the matters set forth in said bill, and that your actions and doings in the premises are contrary to equity and good conscience.
In consideration thereof, and of the particular matters in said bill set forth, you are hereby strictly commanded that you, the said persons before mentioned, and each and every one of you, do absolutely desist and refrain from in any wise or manner interfering with the said The Interstate Mercantile Company, complainant aforesaid, or with its employes or agents, in and about their prosecution of its business affairs in taking possession of its said premises and of its said goods, wares and merchandise or in or about the purchase of other supplies and the delivery to it thereof in or about the sale and disposition thereof, and wholly to desist and refrain from in any wise or manner banishing or deporting from the said county any of the employes of said complainant or from in any wise or manner apprehending, arresting, or imprisoning or proceeding against its or any of its said employes or agents, save by due process of law, as provided and required by the statutes and the constitution, and wholly to desist and refrain from denying it the equal protection of the laws of the land. And also to wholly desist and refrain from seizing, interfering with, injuring, destroying or taking the property, goods, wares and merchandise of said complainant, The Interstate Mercantile Company, or from preventing its carrying on and conducting its business in said county and state, until this Honorable Court, in Chancery sitting, or a judge thereof at Chambers, shall make other order to the contrary: Hereof fail not under penalty of what the law directs.
To the Marshal of said District, to execute and return in due form of law.
Witness, the Honorable Melville W. Fuller, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, and the seal of the said United States Circuit Court, at the city of Denver, in said district, this seventh day of September, A. D. 1904, and of the Independence of the United States the 129th year.
A true copy.
ROBERT BAILEY, Clerk..
(Seal U. S. Circuit Court.)
Attested: ROBERT BAILEY, Clerk
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SOURCE
The Cripple Creek Strike
A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5
-by Emma F Langdon
"Being a Complete and Concise
History of the Efforts of
Organized Capital
to Crush Unionism"
The Great Western Publishing Co.
Denver,Colorado, 1905.
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
IMAGES
Deportations of Union Miners from Cripple Creek District
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Deported Miner by Ryan Walker
fromAppeal to Reason, Sept 17, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
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Hellraisers Journal is on vacation!
Hellraisers will be on a vacation of sorts until September 22nd, and will appear in abbreviated form until that date. A complete vacation is not possible since the ruling class never took a vacation from their suppression and oppression of the working class.
There are no limits to which powers of privilege
will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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