-mills of Paterson, the cotton-mills of North
Carolina, the woolen-mills of Massachusetts, the lumber-camps of
Louisiana, the copper-mines of Michigan, the sweat-shops of New York.

In a lonely part of the Rocky Mountains lies a group of enormously
valuable coal-mines owned by the Rockefellers and other Protestant
exploiters. The men who work these mines, some twelve or fifteen
thousand in number, come from all the nations of Europe and Asia, and
their fate is that of the average wage-slave. I do not ask anyone to
take my word, but present sworn testimony, taken by the United States
Commission on Industrial Relations in 1914. Here is the way the
Italian miners live, as described in a doctor's report:

Houses up the canyon, so-called, of which eight are
habitable, and forty-six simply awful; they are disreputably
disgraceful. I have had to remove a mother in labor from one
part of the shack to another to keep dry.

And here is the testimony of the Rev. Eugene S. Gaddis, former
superintendent of the Sociological Department of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company:

The C.F. & I. Company now own and rent hovels, shacks and
dug-outs that are unfit for the habitation of human beings
and are little removed from the pig-sty make of dwellings.
And the people in them live on the very level of a pig-sty.
Frequently the population is so congested that whole
families are crowded into one room; eight persons in one
small room was reported during the year.

And here is what this same clergyman has to say about the bosses whom
the Rockefellers employ:

The camp superintendents as a whole impressed me as most
uncouth, ignorant, immoral, and in many instances, the most
brutal set of men that I have ever met. Blasphemous bullies.

Sometimes the miner grows tired of being robbed of his weights, and
applies for the protection which the law of the state allows him. What
happens then?

"When a man asked for a checkweighman, in the language of
the super he was getting too smart." "And he got what?" "He
got it in the neck, generally."

And when these wage-slaves, goaded beyond endurance, went on strike,
in the words of the Commission's report:

Five strikers, one boy, and thirteen women and children in
the strikers' tent colony were shot to death by militiamen
and guards employed by the coal companies, or suffocated and
burned to