Miners
WESTERN FEDERATION OF, a labor organization of employees of mines, smelters, etc., founded in 1893, on the industrial union principle, and now covering over two dozen States, mostly in the Rocky Mountain region.
The Federation indorses socialism, its slogan being "labor produces all wealth; therefore all wealth belongs to those who produce it." It played a very prominent part in the Cripple Creek strikes, in 1894, when the militia was called into the field. It also backed the strike in the Coeur d'Alene Mines in Colorado, in 1899, when martial law was declared on account of the revolutionary violence of the strikers. The official organ of the organization is "The Miners' Magazine."