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Show Iij ' , Nine Workers : Appeal to Roosevelt ji "Urgo President to Have an Investigo- jj j tion of Affairs in Colorado ' , Camps, ju ! , f PR1NOF1ELD. III., Juno 15. Tho fol- 3 lowing addresses wuro sent to Presl- ij ' dent Roosevelt und to President jl fl Gompers of th6 American Fodora- isC tibn of I&bor tonight by officers of tho Ml , Illinois Mine-Workers' union: Aiil "To Hon. Theodore Rooscvolt: Ih bohalf I' 1 of fifty thotmand union coal .minors, com- i4j prising the United Mine-Workers of 3111- l J , nols, embracing all, minors engaged in tho ) production of that Important commodity f J which constitutes a l?rge sharo of the V t commercial Intorcsta of the Stnto of I1U- 1,1 H nols. we, their executive orcicers. nppum ftMU to you as President of tho United States, I asking that a thorough and searching in- hi , vostlgatlon be mado at once and that Im- V mediate steps be taken topunlsh the par- 1 I- ties gulltv of Innumerable crimes com- i 3 mlttcd in Colorado under pretext of mlll- 1 rj tary necessity," 'law and order,' etc-, and 1 1 that nil men bo protected In their lna ) Hcnahlo rights as guaranteed by the laws and. constitution of our country. . Wo feel that, tho parties In power are , going beyound the limits of human ondur- ' ance in closing the mines and exiling tho men from Colorado, from their homes and from their wives and families, for no other reason than their membership In a labor union. Rospectfuly yours, . "H. C. PERRY. President fi r ' "W E. SMITH. Vice-President. ( - "W. D. RYAN. Secretary." l' i?'Samuol Gompers, president A. F, of ) IJ., .Washington, D. C. Wc arc Instructed i! by the. executive board of the United Mlne- ' i jWorks of Illinois, representing 50,000 toll- , ;r3,- to request you to call a convention of i all labor organizations affiliated with the M American Federation of Labor for tho purpose of considering the Colorado situation sit-uation and taking such steps as may bo I deemed necessary to curb the murderous, lj despotic. un-Amcrlcan and unconstitutlon- ,11 111 .acts of the Tnllltao'-Tnad officials of that " unfortunate Western commonwealth.' - |