Show UTAH T GET MB Oe Organizer Frank n on a Tou Tour of the Camps S SECRET CRET WORK IN COLORADO CAUTION HAS TO BE EXER EXERCISED IN CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT Fr Frank president of the verton COb Miners union anti and m nt her ber of the executive board board of the West Vo em rn Federation ton ot of Minors was In this city the geater greater part of last week as part of his mission of organizing the miner miners through the state Mrs sa says s that he Is very much encouraged oV r the con ot of the Western Federation ot in III Utah and lie he report reports tt the of mIlitant organizations in Park Cl City Murray Bingham and the smelter die dis district The Thc conditions In Bingham were e pleasing to him He Hc will visit al all the camps in Utah with th the possible ex eption of Kimberley and wil will to ol lado in about two What was the effect of the recent strike on the Western Vestern Federation of he was asked I It strengthened the organization e outsIde of the strike dis districts ls he replied and continuing he said We were destroyed completely in inthe Inthe the Cripple Creek distrct district but managed to keep a secret organizatIon In Telluride where we are again becoming strong and will soon control the siua situa ton Lion In the Cripple Creek distrIcts sInce the strike we have managed to organize a secret union wih wIth headquarters tern in one of the camps We Ve have members scattered throughout the en entire tire Ure and our organization is rapIdly growing in strength Thee There is no doubt but that we wi will be organized thoroughly in ill three 01 or four months and Cripple Creek is bound to again become a unionized district Employers Detest Scabs The Citizens Aliance Alliance is sti still iu Iii con control control and we are obliged to feel our way wih with cauton caution The employers secretly detest the scabs as much as we do and It Is the experience everywhere that as SOOn SCon as they have made Ute ue a or them the they wI will set them We Ve have de d d to make no efort effort to unionize these men but will gradually crowd th thOrn m out with union workers We cannot organize openly as the bul bull bullpen pen is still in tul full operation What effect did the strike have on the miners politically I It Is turning them ver decidedly to toward toward ward Socialism Many of the deportees have COme back and from the seeds ot of the bitter class Struggle we will emerge in time a solid soUd political workIng cas class movement The Western estern Federation ot of s will never go back to old pure and aim pIe unionism |