Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tonnage produced each year: U. S. Steel 23,046,000 Bethlehem 7,900,000 Youngstown-Inland (if merged) 5,040,000 Jones & Laughlin 3,000,000 Republic-Trumbull (when merged).. 1,950,000 American Rolling Mill 1,750,000 Central Alloy 1,400,000 Wheeling Steel 1,273,000 Colorado Fuel & Iron 1,138,000 Corrigan-McKinney...
...departing from fealty; missionaries are retiring in fear before savage Chinese warlords; Europeans look with greed on American wealth. Luxury is creeping in; laborers in linen collars sprawl in scented cinema palaces and forget about capitalism. In the Capitol, Caligula Heflin rails against religion, and tortures the Senators. In Colorado the Praetorian Guards are shooting workers. The barbarians have already seized Newburyport and Chicago. Dominated by Cults, races, fearers of liquid voodoos, the country writhes with the torture of electing a new emperor. The hour is at hand...
Conclusions: 1) the I. W. W. in Colorado are callow, emotional, obstinate, primitive; 2) so are the blood-shedding Colorado operators, police, government...
...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...
Walsenburg is Colorado's "Wobbly" (I. W. W.) capital. The Industrial Commission, from the "Wobbly" point of view, was certain to whitewash the mine operators for refusing to honor "Wobbly" demands or to admit "Wobblies" to a pay-raise lately given to company-union men. A horrid scene ensued...