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Show PEABODY ISSUES 8TATEMENT. Colorado Governor Declares He la Not Waging War on Labor Unlone. Governor James H. Peabody ol Colorado has Issued an address ox plaining nnd vindicating his acts In dealing with tho labor troubles In Colorado. Colo-rado. Ho refutes tho contention thai tho strlko Inaugurated by tho Western Foderatioc of Minors nt tho oro reduc tlon works In Colorado City was calleJ because of tho failure of tho legislature legisla-ture to enact an eight-hour law, pointing out that It was called on th 14th of February, somo flvo or sli weeks beforo the adjournment of th loglslnturo which then hnd under con. sldoratlon an eight-hour law. Later t sympathetic strlko was declared by tho Federation In Crlpplo Creek to cul off tho oro supply of tho mills. Governor Peabody then goes Into tho history of the Western Federation of Miners, which, ho declares, has boon reploto with assaults, dynamlti outrages and murder, In affording protection to men who desired to la. hor, the governor explains, "It becamt necessary, In my Judgment, to confine certain mon In military guard houses as one of the safest and most expeditious expedi-tious methods of restoring order." Governor Peabody denies the charg that he Is waging war on labor unloni gonerally. |