Word: colo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fomenters of the strike in Colorado, sued State police officers and Mayor John J. Pritchard of Walsenburg, Colo., for raiding the I. W. W. hall and State headquarters in Walsenburg. Damages of $100,500 were asked-$100,000 "exemplary," $500 actual damage. While this litigation pended, unlikely to succeed, a Walsenburg court fined Emil Rozansky. a Wobbly leader, $400 for disorderly conduct, fighting, disturbing the peace, resisting arrest...
...Lafayette, Colo., State Troopers defended Wobblies from attack by an angry crowd of nonstriking miners assembled in the ballpark...
...Denver, Colo...
...back of their mine strike broken, the I. W. W.'s in Colorado resented it last fortnight when Louis N. Scherf, "hero" of the Columbine Mine "massacre" (TIME, Dec. 5), was posted in Walsenburg, Colo., with his squad of sharpshooting State Police, to watch over the town while the State Industrial Commission parleyed there on the strike. The State Police were in town at the request of Mayor John J. Pritchard, whom the Walsenburg city council declared a virtual dictator during the disturbances. Mayor Pritchard cried: "Bolshevism shall not prosper in Walsenburg as long as I am mayor...
Speaking at Erie, Colo., Frank Palmer, Wobbly leader, cried out: "No one less than John D. Rockefeller is responsible for the deaths of our comrades...