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Show fViOYER KflAKES STATEMENT. President Western Federation of Miners Mi-ners Wants Members Protected. DENVER. Colo, July 29. The News today prints the following from an interview in-terview with President Charles H. Mover of the Western Federation of Miners, who Is here to confer with oill-clala oill-clala of that organization: "It Is time to call out the troops again to protect our men In. the Cripple Creek district. There Is no legal authority there now. Tho Sheriff's officers cannot can-not control things. A mob controls and our men are being subjected to whlte-capplngs, whlte-capplngs, whippings and every sort of brutal treatment," said Mr. Mover. "If the Governor had wanted to be fair he would have ended martial law, V withdrawn, with-drawn, the troops and left, say, fifty soldiers sol-diers there to deal impartially with all violators of the law. Instead of that he withdrew all the troops and left the commission and mob In control, leaving our helpless men to the mercy of that mob. He simply Indorses the mob, asks us to call off the strike, and will not allow our men to go back. To call the strike off would be to acknowledce that we were wrong; that the treatment we had received was right, and that we got what was due us. "The Governor Ignores the real issue. He asks that Ave call off the strike because be-cause he has called off the military, and then let the people decide who Is right. If the people were to decide that the Governor's military' policy was right that would not settle a single question at Issue. Let the Governor, the mine-owners mine-owners and the Citizens' alliance submit sub-mit the questions that caused us to strike the eight-hour day and the right to organize. If he had asked for a decision de-cision on these questions I might have called off the strike. "We have not yet taken up tho matter of calling off the strike, but I do not see why it should be called off. If It was just In the beginning It Is just now and Its continuance Is just. The Governor and his Adjutant-General convict themselves. them-selves. They have been saying that the strike was over, yet they ask us to call off tho strike, which they say does not exist. "But' I believe that our men will go back anyhow. If they do go back, unarmed un-armed and peaceable, as they would go, the Governor will have a chuuee to show the people whether he Is fair or not." |
