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Show RAPS CORPORATION FOR HIS EXPULSION KANSAS CITV. Aug 10. f By the Associated Press. ) A "collusion on the part of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company and the Lnlon Pacific railroad" rail-road" was blamed by W. Z. Foster, widely known labor organizer, here last night in a statement to tho Aa--ocla'ed Press, for his expulsion last Sunday from Colorado. Foster, who was charged as a " dangerous radical" by authorities was taken from a hotel in Denver, placed In an automobile und escorted by state rangers to a small town outside the state. Adjutant . General Hamrock was charged hy Foster as a puppet of thy railroad and the fuel company "Ho I,, r forme. 1." Foster paid, and t ho rangers threw me out of Colorado." At the time of the expulsion General Gen-eral Hamrock said that Foster was removed from the state "for the best Interests" of the commonwealth. Foster addressed a local labor meeting meet-ing last nlprht Chief justice of the United States ! William Howard Taft and the supreme su-preme court were termed "tools of Wall street" hv Foster In his address Foster denounced General HamroaK as a "slave of capital" and "minion of the Interests " He said Hamrock Kot his orders from the Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad and the Colorado Fu- I & Iron company. Foster jcend at the slogran "savins "sav-ins the world for democracy," used lurlnjf the late war with Gerinuny. He said that the laboring class had been "throttled" as a result of the; war. Footer was cheered enthusiastically. enthusias-tically. He devoted considerable time to, condemnation of the "capitalist press" which, ho declared, was untruthful and unfair to union labor He r-rals-fd the railroad strikers and the striking strik-ing coal miners. |