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“...states it seemed that an awakening had taken place
The object lessons given the workers by Governor Peabody of
Colorado and Governor Steunenburg of Idaho, two represent-
atives of raw-boned capitalism, were indeed sufficient to war-
rant such an awakening.
The members of the Western Federation of Miners struck
to enforce the eight-hour law, a law the passage of which it
had secured through a constitutional amendment in the state
of Colorado after a long-drawn struggle. De Leons statement
that "the tiger will fight for the tips of his mustache with the
same ferocity with which he would defend his very life, was
illustrated in the bitter class war in Colorado in 1903-1904
The deportations of members of the Western Federation
of Miners, the violation of every law of decency by the ruling
powers, the erection of so-called bull-pens, where workers were
imprisoned without due process of law; the turning of the
mining districts of the state into military camps, with all that
such a condition implies...”
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