addressed the meeting. Mangon was in Colorado City in charge of the striking mill men, I believe, from Sunday last until Wednesday last, at which time he was relieved by a Leadville man named, I believe, Burr or Berg. I could not exactly understand the name, but think it is Burr. Mangon stated that since the men went on strike at the mill, there has been something like 150 men who have joined the millmen's union at Colorado City. He said that he, Mangon, and Charles Moyer^ President of the Western Federation, held a consultation with Mr. Fullerton, of the Telluride Mill, and that Fullerton made more concessions to them than they thought he would make. Fullerton told them (so Mangon said), that he will not discriminate against any man, let him be union or non-union, and that he (Fullerton) will not pay his men less than $2.00 per day. Mangon said that MacNeill is a S. O. B., and that he (MacNeill) may wish before this trouble is settled that he had not started anything.
Mangon said that he talked with an engineer who switches the ore to the mill where the men are on strike, and the engineer told him that the railroad men are ready to quit pulling ore to this mill at any time that their union (the railroad men's union) says 'stop.'
Mangon said that the Federation will not call the miners of this district out except as a last resort, but if the trouble cannot be adjusted in any other way, that the men of some of the mines here will be called upon to stop work. He named as the principal contributors of ore to the United States Mill, the Strong, Independence and Hull City* Mines. He also said the coal miners are ready to make a stand for the mill men whenever they are called upon to do so.
Sullivan made (luite a lengthy speech, but confined his talk mostly to bills which are now before the legislative body, the eight-hour bill being the principal one. He told
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