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Show ECONOMIC CLUB ON J THE COLORADO STRIKE At the last meeting of the Economic Study ciub, Kate S. Hllliard, in a paper pa-per on ' American Industrial Evolu lion.-' gave the economic causes for the revolution. In the lively discussion discus-sion which followed it developed that John Hancock, smuggler, had been honored above all others in having a high price put on his head by the British. This lent additional significance signifi-cance to his assertion, "If we do not hang together we will hang separately separate-ly " "Little Mary's School History" was minus economics and therefore a . cloak for the atrocities that attended commercial and military conquest Mr Albert Coonley reviewed the I lolorado strike Faying "The miners today occupy a better position than the strikers at the close of any struggle In Colorado." This 1b due to their tactics of non resistance as against violence and law-lnsncss law-lnsncss on the pirt of the operators The strike in the southern COdl fields of Colorado was called on September Sep-tember 2.1. 1913. In the northern coal fields a strike had been in progress prog-ress about three years and a half. It Is interesting to nolo that tho "voluntary "vol-untary ' raise in wages made so much of by Mr. Welborn was given by the Colorado Fuel & Iron company to prevent the miners of th south go-ins go-ins to the north as strike breakers. "The employment of the Baldwin-Celts Baldwin-Celts detective agency of gunmen and strikebreakers and the terrible part they played alone should convict the operators. "These men, filling places vacated by the refusal of militia men to do the dirty work, shot down and burned the women and children at Ludlow. Ttiey acted under the direction of Llnderfelt whom the military report i calls 'an experienced officer and an Inexperienced sociologist. 1 "The futility of purel) political ac- 1 tion is evident as five of the strikers' demands were already guaranteed by 1 the laws of Colorado It was necessary neces-sary for the miners to organize and act in the industrial field before thej could get what political action had promised them "Publicity of the strike makes it impossible for the operators to return to the old feudalism. "Secretary Wilson virtually blamed the operators for the strike when he said, 'Had the operators accepted the miners' offer of arbitration they could in all probability have averted the strike ' "The people are with the strikers but the struggle Is not ended a6 Edward Ed-ward Doyle has said. 'Until Justice is fully established ' During the discussion the strikebreaking strike-breaking propensities of the southern miners was explained as a result of John Mitchells former treachery On j the eve of a coal famine and victory' for the strikers. John Mitchell, ac-. cording to the expose bj Robert Ran , dall. ordered the northern miners back to work and left the southern miners at the mercy of the operators Owing to the holidays, the next meeting ol the i lub will take place on the first Monday in January. oo- |