Abstract

Solidarity in Colorado

The article discusses the industrial crises in Colorado. Fighting their wholesale arrests by State police and militia, broken-up meetings, padlocked halls, teasing little wage increases, and insufficient relief, the coal miners of Colorado have won signal victories during the second and third months of their strike. When ministers, newspapers, and college professors joined the miners in demanding that the Governor appoint an impartial commission to investigate wages and conditions in the mines and law-breaking by operators, the Industrial Commission suddenly executed an about-face and recognized the strike they had declared illegal, even going so far as to guarantee Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) "foreign" leaders against arrest.