Trinidad CO

WE NEVER FORGET: The "Gallant Boy," Don MacGregor

Submitted by JayRaye on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 12:30pm
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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WE NEVER FORGET
Don MacGregor-28
Who lost his life in freedom's cause at
Miñaca, Chihuahua, México,
March 28, 1916
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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: Louis Zancanelli Released After More Than Two Years in Filthy Trinidad Jail

Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 12:30pm

Say, brave boys, say, the star that rose in Bethlehem has crossed the world,
it has risen here; see it slowly breaking through the clouds.
The star of Bethlehem will usher in the new day and new time and new philosophy
-and if you are only true you will be free.
-Mother Jones
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Monday March 27, 1916
From the United Mine Workers Journal: Springtime and Freedom for Louis Zancanelli

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.

Hellraisers Journal: Gunthug Walter Belk Acquitted of Murder of UMWA Organizer Gerald Lippiatt

Submitted by JayRaye on Fri, 02/05/2016 - 12:30pm
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones

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Saturday February 5, 1916
From the United Mine Workers Journal: Imported Gunthug Walter Belk Acquitted

From the Journal of February 3rd:

Justice Ravished
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Organizer Gerald Lippiatt, Center
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In our last issue, commenting on the action of the miners' convention in pledging moral and financial support to the miners whom the men in power in the State of Colorado are attempting to condemn to felons' cells for daring to resist the oppression of the economic masters and their henchmen, their hired armies, we remarked that the counties of that State where the coal mines are located "were not ruled, but terrorized."

In the last week we have had further proof of the truth of that statement.

Walter Belk, imported from West Virginia to Colorado and there employed because of his reputation as a mankiller who could be depended upon to use his ready gun any time in the service of those who would pay him his price, was acquitted, on the instruction of the judge on the bench to the jury, of the charge of killing Gerald Lippiatt, union organizer, on the streets of Trinidad just before the opening of the strike in Southern Colorado in the fall of 1913.