the union that the only hope he has for the men at Colorado City to win out, is, for the smelter trusts and the Mine Owners' Association to hitch on the treatment and handling of ore. He (Sullivan) further said that if the miners of this district should be called out, that they will stand as a unit in behalf of the strikers at Colorado City. He said, too, that the present legislature will pass no law which will better the condition of the working people, and that all trusts and combines are against organized Labor, and especially the Western Federation of Miners. At 11.20 P. M. lodge adjourned to meet next Saturday evening at 7.30 P. M.
Charley Stuart and I took a drink at the Monarch, and I discontinued.
Yours respectfully,
The reader will note that the operative's report of the regular meeting of Victor Miners' Union No. 32 W. F. M. does not contain one word about secretly killing any one, or blowing up any property. Yet this is the kind of business the union should have transacted, if they wished to live up to the reputation Mr. James McParland has assiduously tried to give them both. As a matter of fact, if the files of the Pinkerton Agency were examined to-day, not a report would be found showing a single item of actual incriminating evidence against the miners, unless it is a crime of itself for workingmen to come together and transact ordinary lodge business. But of this later.
After the state troops had been in Colorado City for about two weeks, the governor, fearing they might die of ennui there, recalled them to Denver, and appointed an advisory board to try and settle the trouble by arbitration.
The board succeeded, after considerable work, in patching up a truce between the Federation and Manager MacNeill, and Mr. MacNeill was given until May 18th, 1903, to carry out the articles of agreement. The terms of settlement were, recognition of the union, an eight-hour day, a small increase in wages and reinstatement of all old employees.