Volume 16 , Issue 41

1914 - Probe Cause & Effect of Colorado Coal Strike

On page 25,The Day Book, Chicago, Illinois, dated 2 December 1914, we found this news item concerning "Probe Cause And Effect of Colorado Coal Strike."

Denver, Dec. 2 (1914) -- Gov. E. M. Ammons of Colorado was the first witness scheduled to testify when the United States commission on industrial relations began its investigation into the causes and effects of the coal strikes which had convulsed Southern Colorado for more than a year.

The conditions which induced the state's executive to send the state militia into the coal fields and the reasons which prompted him to call for the intervention of United States troops were to be recited by him in detail.

Following Ammons, John C. Osgood, president of the Victor-American Fuel Co., would be called and then Gov. elect George Carlson. Osgood would tell the operators' side of the story, and Carlson, who was district attorney in Northern Colorado, would describe the conditions there which led to his procuring the indictment of a number of miners' union members and officials.
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