ATDDTA (6) 177

[bekah]

Nice picture of Denver ca. 1900?

177:3
Lew has lots of business investigating  "anarchists, professional and 
amateur, labor organizers, bombers,  potential bombers, hired guns" 
and so on  and he has so many files he can't keep track of them. 
Who is doing what to whom?
Who and what is Lew hunting?

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177:8  " ... - girls he kept hiring to help him out with the 
typewriting and office-tending lasted on average a month before they 
ran off, exasperated, to the comforting simplicities of marriage, a 
parlor house on The Row,* schoolteaching, or..."

"The Row"
Denver's red light district developed along McGaa Street 
(subsequently renamed Holladay and then Market Street)
<http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_177>
** <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200010/ai_n8908963>
** the women:  <http://www.womenof.com/Articles/d011899.asp>


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177:12   "...what he could begin to see was that both sides in this 
were organized, it wasn't just unconnected skirmishing,  a dynamite 
blast here and there, a few shots from ambush - it was a war between 
two full-scale armies, each with its chain of command and long-term 
strategic aims - civil war again, ..."

THE NEW CIVIL WAR?

** This site pretty much covers it all in general fashion, including 
missing railroad spikes and dynamite: 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Labor_Wars>  (good picture - 
good references - no links)

**  "Articles in the anarchist newspapers explained how to make bombs 
with dynamite, and editorials supported the assassination of public 
officials in Europe." 
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/e_haymarket.html> 
(this is a bit earlier but with Pynchon time is not strictly linear - 
it's all "in the air."

THE SIDES:

The general organization and leaders of the UNIONIST MINERS AND ANARCHISTS:

**  "The Alarm"  an anarchist newspaper out of Chicago had publicized 
the use of dynamite for the struggle.  "The whole method of warfare 
has been revolutionized by the latter-day discoveries of science, and 
the American people will avail themselves of its advantages in the 
conflict with the upstarts and contemptible braggarts who expect to 
continue their rascality under the plea of preserving "law and 
order." 
<http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/transcript/exhibits/X000-050/X0210.htm>


**  Colorado Labor Wars - 1902-1904: 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Labor_Wars>
The Western Federation of Miners (WFM)  was a radical labor union 
that gained a reputation for militancy in the mine fields of the 
western United States. 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Federation_of_Miners>

**  Anarchist and Radical Unionist Leaders of the American West: 
1893 - 1910  (so not including Cripple Creek)
(most of these were radicalized by the McCormick strike/ Haymarket Riots)

Voltairine De Cleyre (1866-1912) Chicago  (on bombing the railroad tracks)

"Now everybody knows that a strike of any size means violence. No 
matter what any one's ethical preference for peace may be, he knows 
it will not be peaceful. If it's a telegraph strike, it means cutting 
wires and poles, and getting fake scabs in to spoil the instruments. 
If it is a steel rolling mill strike, it means beating up the scabs, 
breaking the windows, setting the gauges wrong, and ruining the 
expensive rollers together with tons and tons of material. IF it's a 
miners' strike, it means destroying tracks and bridges, and blowing 
up mills. If it is a garment workers' strike, it means having an 
unaccountable fire, getting a volley of stones through an apparently 
inaccessible window, or possibly a brickbat on the manufacturer's own 
head. If it's a street-car strike, it means tracks torn up or 
barricaded with the contents of ash-carts and slop-carts, with 
overturned wagons or stolen fences, it means smashed or incinerated 
cars and turned switches. If it is a system federation strike, it 
means "dead" engines, wild engines, derailed freights, and stalled 
trains. If it is a building trades strike, it means dynamited 
structures. And always, everywhere, all the time, fights between 
strike-breakers and scabs against strikers and strike-sympathizers, 
between People and Police."
<http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/decleyre/sp001334.html>


"Big Bill"  Haywood (1869-1928)  American West 
<http://members.tripod.com/~RedRobin2/index-46.html> and 
<http://www.fondation-besnard.org/article.php3?id_article=345>

Mother Jones  (1837 -1930)   "Colorado authorities accuse Mary Harris 
"Mother" Jones, now 74, of stirring up striking coal miners and order 
her out of the state March 27 (see Jones, 1903). Mine owners who 
include oil magnate John D. Rockefeller have asked for her 
deportation (see 1925; IWW, 1905). A battle June 8 pits the Colorado 
militia against striking miners at Dunnville and ends only after six 
union members have been killed and 15 taken into custody; 79 strikers 
are deported to Kansas June 10." <http://www.answers.com/topic/1904>

Joe Hill (1879-1915)    <http://www.kued.org/joehill/story/index.html>

Thomas Mooney (1882-1942) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mooney>

Warren Billings (1893-1972) 
<http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbillingsW.htm>

Harry Orchard (1867 - 1954) 
<http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/HAY_BORC.HTM>

Samuel Gompers (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5651> Stratton 
Independence mine



**  A very interesting photo of a UNION CARD although the site is a 
bit difficult.  Scroll down: 
<http://www.mtgothictomes.com/labor_wars.htm>  "THE MINERS' 
PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION card, No. 322.  Membership Card issued April 
5, 1912 to Gust Matts Anderson, of Finnish nationality."  (Click on 
the card)


** The general organization and leaders of the MINE OWNERS:

**  Mine Owners' Statement     <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5653/>
** James Hamilton Peabody 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hamilton_Peabody>
** essay   <http://members.tripod.com/~mr_sedivy/colorado21.html> 
(Pro-Owners!)
(the author of this article says this strike was about socialism vs  
the free market system because the other issues had already been 
settled.  (Furthermore,   "The W.F.M. wanted to gain control of the 
legislature and government of the state through political action. 
They were in support of the doctrine of socialism.")


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177: 16   "...with the difference now being the railroads which ran 
out over all the old boundaries, redefining the nation into exactly 
the shape and size of their rail network, wherever it might run to."

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 but filling the 
West in took some time. <http://tinyurl.com/3xz2dk>  Union Pacific 
and branches railroad map -  1888

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177: 27  "... and what was he supposed to be doing, stuck out here in 
Colorado, between the invisible forces, half the time not knowing who 
hired him or who might be fixing to do him up..."


which invisible forces?  both sides have invisibles?

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And Playing both sides:

177: 33  "The really odd thing he began to notice was that the names 
of owners' operatives were also turning up among the file on the mine 
workers.  Some were wanted by authorities in distant states for 
crimes against owners, and not always trivial offenses either, union 
outlaws, even Anarchist bombers, yet here they were at the same time 
on the payroll of the Owners Association."

Probably refers to Harry Orchard  - 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Labor_Wars>
and
Pinkerton infiltrator McParland <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McParland>

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A different view: 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton's_Independence_Mine_and_Mill> 
but only claiming one source,  "All That Glitters." 
<http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s98/jameson.html>


Bekah