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Hellraisers Journal: Will Colorado Taxpayers Finally Revolt Against Continued Persecution of Miners?

Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 12:54pm
There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Friday March 31, 1916
From the United Mine Workers Journal: The High Cost of "Colorado Justice"

Hellraisers Journal: Not a Crime to Murder a Union Organizer under Colorado's "Justice" System

Submitted by JayRaye on Sat, 02/06/2016 - 12:30pm
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-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"
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IT WAS NO CRIME TO KILL AN ORGANIZER.
(By John M. O'Neil.)
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Gerald Lippiatt (Center), Union Organizer & Martyr
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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.