Show STRIKES ARE AEE COSTLY LABOR TROUBLES IN COLORADO COST ENORMOUS SUM sixteen months month of strikes strike results in fearful lose lo 10 to men in wages wage while the states expense account reaches high figure it la in estimated that the cost of the cont hect strikes in colorado during the past sixteen months under tho the a administration d min istra ot of governor james 11 peabody will aggregate an itemized statement Is given es As follows colorado city strike states expense loss to men in wages cripple creek strike states expense loss 1098 in ID wages to union men loss I 1 oss in a wages to other labor denver and pueblo smelter strike loss to smelt ermen and miners loss to dependent labor telluride strike states expense loss one to union minors miners 1 loss to dependent denen de dent labor I 1 a bar coal miners strike states expense loss in wages to miners minera loss to steel works employers 1000 loss to men in allied trades loss loes to employers laic capital interest profits etc elc total the strike originated early in 1903 in aej an attempt on tho the part ol of the federation to force orce the introduction of 0 an eight hour day in tile the mills and amel of colorado city denver and pueblo the cripple creek minors miners strike began ten months ago the men were earning on the average 3 25 tor for eight hours work they had no DO complaints ol of their own but went on strike in obedience to aia an order of 0 their executive off leers for the purpose 00 of shutting oo oft tho the ore supply ol of the be 1 mills and smelters shelters sm elters at which an eight hour bour day was not granted the western federation ot of minche admit the loss to the cripple crecli unions through the strike has been and the total loss in that district the loss through the suspension of work in the telluride district which was also a sympathetic strike Is estimated at president campbell ot of the colorado wiep operators association said that while while the cost ot of the state militia be ing in the field would possibly reach 1 the loss ot of the me ol 01 ous I 1 s miners who stopped work and others ot h ers forced to quit would bo be five times that amount |