You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday November 7, 1914
From the Appeal to Reason: Robert Uhlich Returned to Las Animas County Jail
The persecution of Robert Uhlich continues. From today's
Appeal:
UHLICH JAILED AGAIN
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Colorado Crisis Becomes More Acute Daily While President Wilson Is Considering the Closing of the Mines---Ammons Defends Militia Gunmen.
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By telegraph to Appeal to Reason.
Trinidad, Colo.-Bob Uhlich, the man most feared in the strike zone by the coal barons, has been today thrust back into the foul Las Animas county ail. He had just finished drilling a squad of unarmed miners in the trades assembly hall when Sheriff Grisham arrested him on the ground that Uhlich's bondsman had refused to go further surety.
Hundreds of strikers are daily in the various camps near Trinidad and as they are as yet unarmed Colonel Lockett, in command of the federal troops, sees no way to stop them. A Mexican officer fresh from Villa's army is in charge of the Mexican miners' battalion at Segundo and the Slavs and Italians each have ex-soldiers in command of their companies.
This open military preparation to resist incoming gunmen militia on the part of the strikers is believed by the coal operators to be mainly due to the influence of Uhlich and so these agents of Rockefeller applied terrorist tactics to the bondsman and jail doors clanged again on the strike leader.
JOHN MURRAY.
Today's Appeal further reports:
Lies and the Truth
The Colorado mine owners say that for the year ending June 30, 1913, employes of the three large fuel companies earned the following daily wage; Victor American, $4.01; Colorado Fuel & Iron company, $4.02; Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, $4.36.
The Colorado coal miners are striking for a day wage of $3.45. Do you think they would live for a year on $3 a week and suffer 34 of their number to be murdered and cremated for the extreme pleasure of having their wages reduce from 57 to 91 cents a day?
The mine owners say that an experienced miner can earn $5 per day. Isn't it peculiar then, if thy wish their men to earn this amount per day and do pay them that amount, that they refuse to pay them $3.45 per day?
The operators disprove their statements by their own figures. They say that in August, 1913, there were 12,059 men at work in the mines of Colorado and that 40 per cent of these were employed as outside and company men. Any experienced coal miner will tell you that never more than 10 percent of the men working in and around a mine are company men, but granting that 20 per cent of their employes were not engaged in digging coal, there were approximately 10,000 coal diggers in the state at the time the strike was called. These men mined 11,000,000 tons of coal. It is common knowledge that Colorado coal miners have never been robbed of less than 25 per cent of their total tonnage which would leave 8,800,000 tons for which they were paid. For this they received 55 cents a ton or $3,630,000. This gives each employe a yearly income of $363. The miners of the three large companies worked 238 days that year. In other words the coal miners of Colorado in the year ending June 30, 1913, earned $1.58 a day instead of $4.13.
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SOURCE
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Nov 7, 1914
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They'll Never Keep Us Down-Hazel Dickens
Well we've been shot and we've been jailed, Lord, it’s a sin
Women and little children stood right by the men
But we got that union contract that keeps the worker free
And they’ll never shoot that union out of me
They’ll never shoot that union out of me, oh no
They’ll never shoot that union out of me
Got a contract in our hand signed by the blood of honest men
And they'll never shoot that union out of me
-Hazel Dickens
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