Hellraisers Journal: Not a Crime to Murder a Union Organizer under Colorado's "Justice" System
Submitted by JayRaye on Sat, 02/06/2016 - 12:30pmPray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
-Mother Jones
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Sunday February 6, 1916
From the United Mine Workers Journal: John M. O'Neil on Colorado Justice
From the Journal of February 3rd:
The Triumph of Law and Order"
-----IT WAS NO CRIME TO KILL AN ORGANIZER.
(By John M. O'Neil.)
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Gerald Lippiatt (Center), Union Organizer & Martyr
``````````Nearly all the daily journals of the State of Colorado have frequently attempted to defend the fair name of the State and have declared that it was only the pen of the muck-raker that has traduced the reputation of a commonwealth whose people believed in the majesty of the law. The "kept press" has howled with indignation when men, permeated with the spirit of justice, have raised their voice in denunciation of wrong garbed in the veneer of law and order.