learned nothing from them, and left them and went to town. There I met Dowse, Sanger and several others. They asked me how things were, and I said, all right. We then all went to the Alamo Club and had the treats together.
At 6.00 P. M. we all left for supper, after which at 6.4S P. M. I met Garrison, Henderson, and several union men. We talked together until about 7.15 P. M., when I went to my room and got my books, and at 7.30 P. M. I went to the meeting. There were about 150 or 200 in attendance, with all the new members. Fifteen were taken in the first time, and thirty-one the next time, so it made quite a few new members.
After we got them fixed out all right, Mangon made a little talk to the boys, and told them to work as they had
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the past two days, and then he did not think we would have to call out the Cripple Creek miners, but if we could not stop the Standard Mill, they surely would call out the miners. Mangon said he would leave us in the morning, and would visit each union at the camp, and tell them how we are fixed, but he did not need to tell them anything,- as it was all left to the District No. i. He then sat down.
Burr then made a little talk and asked the President to pick out a strike committee of five men. He picked out ♦A. H. Crane, H. L. Sanger, Tom Daniels, C. Lyons and J. H. Hill as the committee, and asked each and every member to do as the committee told them. Three men were picked out as captains to look after the different shifts of pickets.
The next thing taken up was about Mr. Western, tlie Superintendent of the Telluride Mill. The men want him removed from the works, and are going to present a bill against him at the Trades Council after the 25th, so as to have the trouble come all together, as several men consider him unfair to organized labor.