The Labor enquirer., 1883-09-01
olMEB0DIY ] J! =! |. HAS I | ! LIED ED
In the Article Published in "The
Tribune' Last Tuesday
Morning.
A Bogus Report Gotten Up for the
Purpose Of Robhing the
Workingmen

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Purpose Of Robhing the
Workingmen
Some attache of the Tribune, possibly
ander orders from headquarters, ground
out a column of lslnsh for last Tuesday
mornings issue. which for unadulterat-
ID, simon-pure falsehood beats anything
Eli Perkins or Sergeant O'Keefe offered
in support of their regulations. The
ENau1RER, as the only organ of the
tgorkingmen of Denver, and from a posi-
Ition that is unequaled for opportunities
TO be familiar with the subject of the
fribune's article, desires to pronounce it
llie, concocted either in aid of the en-
| lpfoyment offices and the scab bosses of
the city, or simply to enable the some
S10-a-week reporter to disfgure, his
usual allotment of copy paper. =.
The article contains what is ipurported
to be several interviews with men posted
on the condition and supply and demand
Tor labor in the city. 81
To properly handle the master
effort Of the western Gath" let lis agree
chat the interviews are correctly quoted
and that the Tribune dude was only the
victim of designing agents and bosses,
rather than that the article was the
production of his active brain and eager
smbition
The article opens with short dialogue
| between an employment agent and "a
bawny-looking specimen of manhood"
pho had got job when interrogated
b. the employment. man as to whether
b, wanted work. This little converse
tin is repeated-or imagined-in order
! to how, both that nearly every body has
"g,t Job" or don't want to. work. 1t is
sell-known fact that there are up
wall of 1000 idle men in the city TO-
dan who want work, and this paper can
pro y it, if anyone wants theproof badly
enotgh to pay for procuring that many
mans.
Th' insipuation that the idle men in
the tty d not want work is cold
bloodd aspersion on the part Of the
poor and wretched men who trod the
street all day in search of employment
and fl | to find it. EVENT. the man who
took hart in the conversation qpoted
was ot of work, there is nothing TO be
said assinst him for stunning the en-
ployns snt agent The country is full Of
men WHO have had experience enough
with desc employment. sharks To last
them through half dozen ordinary
lives. They have been robbed before
this bNthe kind-hearted; gentlemen of
their Iat one, two or three dollars reg
istering fee and never received penny
of ben4lt.
The assertion, that more men are
wanted In the railroad grades tkau can
be obtaA ed is another untruth. Every
day trails Of from three to six carloads
oflabnrfs ssarc shipped out Of this city to
90 to wolk on one of the various grades.
4 man h'ver goes out more than once
or twirpl The writer was for over six
months, bout two years ago, employed
in clerital capacity at the then termin,
us of ont of the Colorado railroads.
During rs stay there, he had ample
opportunly to become familiar with the
subject oi "shipping to work on the
grade" 1ain load, after train load of
laborers Suuld arrive at the station,
ready to 20 to work They would
scramble of fin search of the grading boss,
only to leah from he had the men he
wanted. When this was not the case,
there was s)me other character of de-
ception bv tie agent unveiled and more
than once tie writer has seen Mr.. Agent
make trackStO save his hide.
4 dozen kcenes could be related, if
desired, shok King the trickery practiced
by these deTish agents, and details of
suffering and hardships endured by
their poor anil penniless victims which
would make at honest mans blood run
cold, But whtre is the use of wasting
time on a sub bet that has been worn
tbreadbare l0nt ago, and the gastliness
of which is perfectly familiar to every
one but the nodlle-headed dude Of the
Tribune
Our great dhcoverer continues his
explorations and anon runs against a
contractor who cannot find men enough
to do his work. lie learns that stone
cutters, bricklayers and carpenters are
NOT 70 he had in sufficient numbers to
supply the dems ind 1t may be possible
that bricklavers are fairly employed, but
there are plenty to do the work, with a
LARGE number tb spare. But if he had
baan in compatv with THE ENQUIRER
man last Sunday he would have heard
stonecutters and carpenters-sober men
and good mechanics they would
have to leave town and go where there
were less men of their trades in proper
ton to the work to be done.
It's unnecessary to go into an argu-
ment on the number of buildings in
course of erection end what is being
planned by the architects. Suffice it to
say, that there isn't as much being done