And  thus  while  the  Governor  avoided  collision  with  a
Federal  court  which  did  not  appear  to  be  under  monopoly
influence,  he  had,  as  Supreme  Court  Judge  Steele  implied,
been  restraining  men  of  their  liberty  without  preferring
charges  against  them.  More  than  this,  he  had  been
deporting  men  on  the  mere  ipse  dixit  that  he  intended


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to  get  rid  of  labor  unionists,  socialists,  agitators  and  the
like.1

He  even  closed  up  the  Portland  mine  in  the  Cripple
Creek  district  because  that  mine,  continuing  to  run,  em-
ployed union  as  well  as  non-union  men,  and  the  union  men
were  suspected  of  contributing  part  of  their  earnings  to
the  strike  fund.  It  was  announced  that  the  Portland
mine  would  be  allowed  to  reopen  only  with  men  "holding
cards  issued  by  the  Mine  Owners'  Association  "  —  a  new
kind  of  a  labor  union,  but  one  not  organized  by  and  for  the
mass  of  laborers,  but  by  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  Mine
Owners'  Association.
