As tliis statement received the thunderous applause of his delighted listeners, the reader can decide whether the Citizens' Alliance was favorable to the cause of labor.
To further help the reader form a correct opinion, we will remark that J. C. Fraser, superintendent of the Pinkerton office at Denver, became a member of the Alliance, the Agency paying his annual dues.
All these great forces were primarily organized for the purpose of insuring victory in the effort to drive the Western Federation out of Colorado, although the leaders in this movement claimed to champion the
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cause of the people against a band of assassins who posed as trade unionists. They told the people that they were friendly toward every union outside of the Western Federation of Miners; but these statements could only mislead those who have eyes and see not.
For, when corporate wealth, intoxicated with victory over the Western Federation, beheld the coal miners in Southern Colorado striking for just conditions, they hurled themselves with overwhelming force on the Coal Miners' Union, the conservative United Mine Workers of America, and after a short reign of terror mercilessly suppressed the "Rebellion."
It was this remorseless campaign against the coal miners which showed the devil in his true colors. For, while it demonstrated that the Western Federation was particularly obnoxious on account of its Socialistic tendencies, it also proved that capital in the long run was ready at any time to cooperate with any movement that would crush labor.
The Pinkerton Agency, if possible, did even better work against the United Mine Workers of America than against the Federation, as will