Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-04 | Page 1 | Citizens' Alliance Issues Statement

Citizens5 Alliance Issues Statement DENVER. Colo., July 3. President J. Craig of tho State Citizens' Alllanco ha3 Issued a statement on tho labor troubles In this State. An attack Is mado on President Samuel Gompcrs of the American Federation of Labor because be-cause of his appeal to tho labor unions of the country for financial aid for tho miners In their light beforo tho Federal court. Tho reputation of the Western Federation Federa-tion of Miners, says Mr. Craig in his ar-tlclo,' ar-tlclo,' Is an unbroken chain of violence Denial is made that the habeas corpus has been suspended or that a fair trial has been refused prisoner. Tho military nuthor"Jis. President Craig says, have been used to nrslst the civil authorities In restoring order, and tho Governor has never dcciarod martial law. Peaco would have oeen restored long ngo, President Craig declares. If tho Eastern East-ern press had not encouraged the miners. No pretense ls mado, he says, that jho deportation de-portation of miners ls a legal act, but It ls done through necessity. Tho history of the strikes nnd the failure fail-ure of tho Legislature to pass an eight-hour eight-hour law are exhaustively reviewed. He denies hat tho Citizens' Alliance ls maklns war on the unions. William Staplclon, editor of the Denver Den-ver Republican, has received a letter from John Brlsben Walker, editor nnd proprietor proprie-tor of the Cosmopolitan magazino of New York, n former resident of Denver, and still ono of tho heaviest taxpayers in tho State, offering his services as arbitrator In the Colorado labor troubles.