Show COLORADOS WEALTH t IS REDUCED MANY llllONS 8 1 j Strikes and Lockouts Print 1 cipal Cause FIGHT HAS RFFM I RITTPR i 1 I 1 Production V Will Be Away Below Be-low That of Last Year f l I I Inll4 In Consequence of Labor Troubles a Thousand Soldiers Are Doing Police Po-lice Duty in Cripple Creek Denver Colo Oct 3Strikes find l4 r lockouts fit the mines in Cripple Creek and other Boldmining districts In Colorado have already reduced the i 1 I mineral production or > the State this I r year at least 52500000 and If the present pres-ent conditions obtain until the end of tip the year the production will fall more I 1 than SC000000 below what it would have r been under normal conditions l In consequence con-sequence of the strike 1000 soldiers of i the Colorado National Guard have been 111 doing police duty In Cripple Creek for I four weeks and as yet neither the il I mineowners nor the strikers how any Y evidence 01 weaKen mg The cost to the the military force I I State of maintaining rd In the field is estimated l at 550000 a month LACK OF LEGISLATION 1 The unsettled conditions in the mining N min-ing industry are due to the failure of I I the Legislature I to enact an eighthour law applying tomines mills and smelt era after the voters of the State had adopted a Constltutlona amendment authorizing such an enactment An eighthour day had been generally r l granted at the mines and the Western West-ern Federation of Minors determined II to enforce the same condition in mills IIl and smelters IIi l STRIKES BEGAN LAST JUNE I Strikes were inaugurated last June i + I hat h-at the smellers In this city and the lt mills In Colorado City and eight weeks ago 1000 miners in tho Cripple Clock district were ordered by the executive officers of the federation to go on trill I I in support of the demand for an eight hour day for mill and smelter employees II I ployees which had been refused by tl l the American Smelting and Refining company and the United States Reduction Reduc-tion 11 nd Refining company The miners min-ers oheYed the order 1 but reluctantly as they had no grievance an to their + P own hours of labor or wages and with few exceptions they have since continued + I con-tinued on strike y J II DOWN ON FEDERATION The mineowners association has announced + an-nounced that no further employment = IJ i I will be given to any members of tho 0 Western Federation of Miners Thc A Portland company which own and operates 1 iI crates a mill for the treatment of Its ores made ttrinfi with the union and 1 r i1 reopened its mines giving employment V 1 Ito I-to about nOO men 111 GOLD COIN OUTPUT The Woods Investment company nIsI II continued to operate the Gold Coin and h other mines shipping the ore produced pro-duced to its own mill but yielding I finally to pressure from the mineown hit I ers association this company has now I1 locked out all Its union miners and Joined in the associations light against I the Western federation II I SEVERAL MINES WORKED 1 I t Several companies are operating their i i mines with nonunion men of whom r I It is claimed by the mineowners association as-sociation there are now several hundred hun-dred working In the district Officers a of the miners union assert that tin number at work Is much smaller lull that t most of those employed 1 are t laborers II it la-borers and not experleiuvil miners l MURDEROUSLY ATTACKED i ill Throe weeks after the Inauguration 1 I IIi the strike two men were murderously j j murderous-ly assaulted by unknown men Gov i II hI Peobndy then Kent troops to the camp illr I In espouse to a request from the mine d fi I owners association which represented 1 i I that many of the strikers would return I t ito i-to work if guaranteed protection No I t I violence has occurred since the I soldiers 1 JII I I I took the Held but theio have been many t sensational I incidents I resulting from the Il jll actions of the military in making arrests l ar-rests and disregarding the civil author l ties Although martial law has not 11 i been declared more than a dosscti miners I min-ers including all the members of the rex r-ex cutle committee In charge of the r1 j strike have been arrested and Incarcerated I 111i Incar-cerated In the guardhouse otherwise I 1 cnown as the bullpen nome of them I I being held there more than two weeks rl t tl JSXCKKDRD ATTIIOfUTY rr1t 1I I In habeas corpus proceedings DIntrict t S1 I Judge W P Seeds decided that tho nni I military oftlcers had exceeded theh au t I j thorny and severely censured them I n t for taking possession of his courtroom j rtl I wIth an armed force during this hear 11 InK of the cases After his decision wan i I Given the prisoners whom he ordered i i II released were taken back to the guard 1 t Hi r Contlnuoo on Pago 70 J It r 11 t I I 1 1I |