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Show MINERS ISSUE STATEMENT. j Oealare Responsibility for Lawless-, ness In Colorado Lies on Shoulders of Citizens' Alliance. The executive board of the Western Federation of Minors haa Is' in-d j tntemeut rounding tho situation In Cripple Cre.-k lu reply to tho stale meets made by (leneral Hle rnian M Brfll and Sei retnty C. C. ilamlln of the Cripple Clock Mluo Owni-ra' association. asso-ciation. Tho itnieuieiit I made that "the rosponsibl.lly for the lawlessness lawless-ness connected wllh the contest rest entirely on the shoulders of the mine operators, the Citizens' Alliance and their allies, backed up by tho ready power of the state government." "Concerning the explosion which wrecked tho depot at Independence and killed sixteen unfortunate nonunion non-union miners, It need only bo said that the self confessed train wrerkor, MrKlnm y. In tho employ of tho Mine Owners' association, hnd a fuw dayc previous boon released from custody at tho behi st of tho attorney for the association and that this same Mi Kln-nejr Kln-nejr was observed going down Potts canyon In the Immciliato vicinity ol thn wreckage only a short tlino after thu dlsnster. und that the hluc.dlmi.nd used (., fo low Iho trail of the rrli iii alj went illreeily to a house iiecmilcl by a deleillve In the employ of Iho Mine Owners' nssoi latlon, und w-n pn Hint-ly Hint-ly culled iff. MoKlliney Muted tin tier crois examination during tho trial of the union miners who were accused f Ihe altenipted train wrecking that ho and other drle-tlvcs did. that for t ivohi v ci esldeiatlon. he would P'lll m!l;c mid wreck n train." The statement state-ment Is .undo that the pholograiih of ni isl.ed minora referred to by C.enernl lie!!, were thice of Ktrll.e breaker, nnd ' were kept for the pun" so of publishing n scab list with tho pic-ture pic-ture of the nen accompanying their description, so that eieinlier of organized organ-ized lnhor all over the country would become thoroughly ncnualnted with these men who hnvn commit led Iron son to themsuivos and to tholr classes." |
