Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September, 198 delegates from Colorado mines met at Aguilar, Colo., under I. W. W. auspices. The delegates had been elected by mass-meetings at many a mine. They unanimously endorsed demands drawn up by the I. W. W. including: a) restoration of the Jacksonville minimum wage; b) recognition of the miners' state committee; c) recognition of the miners' agents at mine tripples to check coal weighing (to ensure fair pay for digging done...
...Aguilar conference filed notice of a strike with the Colorado Industrial Commission, as required by law. The Commission investigated the conference and pronounced it unrepresentative of all the coal miners of Colorado. The conference offered to submit its demands to a referendum of all the miners at mass meetings. Then the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.'s company union, and other local labor bodies, discharged from their ranks all I. W. W. sympathizers. The Industrial Commission pronounced the I. W. W. an outlaw organization and its proposed strike illegal...
Handsome, young, fearless, scornful, "Flaming Milka" marched to one mine after another in the southern Colorado district, day after day adding to her following. "Don't work, men!" she cried. "A strike is on. Stand by your comrades." Pointing at mine-guards with fixed bayonets, she would cry: "They can't dig coal with bayonets...
...prior to an advance on the Columbine mine, one of the few properties in the northern part of the state which had been able to continue operations. Mr. Scherf took a squad of 20 state police and hurried upstate to the Columbine. Adjutant General Paul P. Newlon of the Colorado National Guard, Chairman Thomas Annear of the Industrial Commission, and other representatives of Governor Adams, went too. There was many a witness of the next dawn's happenings at the Columbine...
...Palmer was harking back to 1914, when the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. properties were the scene of bloodshed. Mr. Rockefeller has no interest in the Columbine property (Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.). Nevertheless, Wobbly Palmer's cry echoed in far Manhattan, where Communists appeared with accusing placards* to picket the Standard Oil Building at No. 26 Broadway. Clerks, steel workers from a new skyscraper, pugnacious office boys fell upon and manhandled the demonstrators...