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Volume XXIII]
POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY
THE PRELIMINARIES TO THE LABOR WAR IN
COLORADO
THOSE who have occasion to examine the labor press of
the United States are aware that the recent industrial
difficulties in the mining regions of the Far West are
regarded as the most important in the history of economic con-
flicts in America. Though most of these papers are obscure
and their opinions lightly esteemed by the great dailies and
magazines of the country, their combined circulation mounts
into the millions, and they reach the most active and highly
organized workingmen in the nation. Their general unanimity
in unsparing criticism of the capitalists and government officials
involved in the conflict over labor legislation and bargaining
disputes in Colorado and Idaho must be recognized, therefore,
as a matter of high social significance, whatever may be one's
opinion as to the merits of the case. How serious this conflict
BibliographicalNote: The lfiner's Magazine (official organ of the Western Federa-
tion of Miners); B. M. Rastall, The Cripple Creek Strike of 1893; Turner, The Signifi-
cance of the Frontier in American History, Report of the American Historical Asso-
ciation, 1893, pp. 199-227; Contributions of the West to American Democracy,
in the Atlantic Monthly, January, 1903; Biennial Reports of the Colorado Bureau of
Labor Statistics; Report on the Labor Unions of the Coeur d'Alene Country, (Ward-
ner, Idaho, 1899), Senate Document, number 142, 56th Congress, ist Session; Sen-
ate Document, number 122, 58th Congress, 3rd Session; Senate Documents numbers
25 and 42, 56th Congress, Ist Session; Warne, The Miners Union, in Annals of
the American Academy of Political Science, vol. xxv, pp. 67-86; Constitution and
By-Laws of the Western Federation of Miners, 1906; Proceedings of the Annual
Conventions of the Western Federation of Miners; Reports of the Industrial Commis-
sion, vol. xii; House Report, number 1999, 56th Congress, ist Session; Senate
Document, number 209, 57th Congress, 2d Session; Mills, Economic Struggle in
Colorado, in Arena, October, 1906; Friedman, The Pinkerton Labor Spy.
March, 1po8
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