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NOTICE, <br />BIGSTR/HE •M/CH/Oi/f .0 LORADO <br />+FINES 30.000 ARE OUT FOR AM 3 HOUR <br />OAY AND BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS <br />100 000 CHILDREN CRY/NO FOR BREAD <br />HELP THEM DON)' BE A TRAITOR <br />7e0 YOUR CLASS. <br />StayAway. Dorit Be A Scab, <br />BYORDER Df W.F.OfIta U.MW.OFA. <br />STRI t1611141 <br />My /AVM <br />Romeo kept a notebook in 1912 and 1913 that documented his work on behalf of <br />miners. As noted in the notebook, he traveled in 1913 to the upper Midwest, the <br />location of a copper mining strike. This photo shows Romeo during this trip. <br />CAR, c <br />In April 1914, violence erupted at the Hecla Mine in Louisville following the Ludlow <br />Massacre in southern Colorado. Gunfire between strikers and the Hecla reportedly <br />continued for fourteen hours. A strikebreaker in the boardinghouse at the Hecla, Pete <br />Stanoff, was hit by a bullet and died. Not long after, a number of striking miners and <br />local union leaders were arrested on the charge of first degree murder. According to a <br />newspaper account from May 1914, Tony Romeo was one of those arrested. Charges <br />were eventually dropped because it was not possible to determine exactly who had <br />killed Stanoff. It also appeared that men had been arrested without a consideration of <br />8 <br />